Kick off the day by picking up your event credentials and enjoying a hearty breakfast. Settle in and connect with fellow peers over freshly brewed coffee, herbal tea, and your choice of our signature "Aristocrat" or "French Connection" breakfast sandwiches.

Join our MC, Bill Hendricks, as we officially kick off the Houston stop of the Impact World Tour! Bill will cover a few quick housekeeping items to ensure you have a seamless experience before setting the stage for an incredible day of programming.

Industrial change has been constant since last year’s Impact 2025 in Houston; manufacturing continues to reshore, demand for affordable energy is increasing, and data sovereignty is even more pressing. All these factors continue to test the limits of today’s legacy industrial processes and the front-line industrial heroes tasked with keeping operations running. The good news? The technology landscape is rising to the occasion. In this keynote, Cognite CEO Girish Rishi will lay out the major milestones in Industrial AI that are closing the value gap on the carpeted and uncarpeted floors while accelerating the delivery of Cognite’s MoonShot mission of $100B in value to customers by 2035. Join for the executive perspective and to hear directly from new Cognite customers who are innovating at the speed of their operations.

Industrial AI is in uncharted territory, with new technology and model upgrades, constant change management, and a widening gap between hype and reality. So, where should industrial organizations focus for the highest impact? What are the consistent keys to success among all the noise? In this session, Dr. Paul Miller,  Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester, will discuss the ongoing change, key use cases, and share case studies on Industrial AI success using trends and anecdotes from Forrester’s own research. Get practical takeaways for navigating the technological change more effectively and drive faster success with your own program.

Realizing business impact at scale with an industrial data foundation ultimately hinges on how industrial teams realize value every day. This panel session brings together industry leaders from Exxon, International Paper, and Chevron to share their real-world journeys of scaling value with the Cognite Industrial AI and Data platform across multiple sites and assets. Attendees will gain first-hand insights into balancing technical implementation with responsible user adoption, scaling initial site success, and building an adaptable, AI-ready foundation that empowers frontline workers.

Take a short pause to stretch your legs, grab a cup of coffee or water, and recharge. Use this brief intermission to use the facilities or chat with peers before we resume our upcoming sessions.

Manufacturers don’t have a pilot problem—they have a value realization problem. As pressure mounts to deliver measurable outcomes, the challenge is turning fragmented, manual processes into connected, data-driven operations.
Join leaders from Becton Dickinson, Radix, and Cognite as they share how they’re modernizing production planning, scheduling, and logistics—moving beyond Excel-driven workflows to AI-powered sequencing, finite-capacity scheduling, and real-time execution. Learn how leading organizations are building integrated supply chains and predictive command centers to improve schedule adherence, optimize inventory, and minimize disruptions—unlocking real, measurable industrial value at scale.

Take a midday break to enjoy a delicious buffet-style lunch while connecting with industry peers. We encourage you to use this time to walk the room, meet with our incredible local sponsors and partners, and discover new solutions while you eat.

In this session, Chief Product Officer Chirayu Shah will share how the Cognite industrial AI and data platform is pushing the boundaries of what's possible with industrial AI. Powered by the industry's leading industrial knowledge graph that contextualizes real-time data across all data types, Cognite Flows and Atlas AI deliver the next generation of industrial user experiences and intelligence, purpose-built to turn industrial data into action. From the plant floor to the supply chain, Chirayu will lay out Cognite's bold product strategy and direction, and show how Cognite is helping customers scale industrial AI into measurable business impact.

A practitioner field report on building AI-ready industrial data foundations — and what becomes possible with Cognite Flows.

Everyone talks about building an AI-ready data foundation. Fewer people talk about what comes next.
Former offshore operator digital practitioners share what it took to build a mature industrial data foundation with Cognite.  This session will go beyond the usual foundation story and show how contextualized data was already being used to support real operational workflows: InField operator rounds tied directly to equipment, custom applications showing the financial health of offshore assets, condition monitoring data transposed on 3D visualizations of equipment, standardized RCA workflows in Industrial Canvas, and early GenAI work querying SAP and other enterprise data to support troubleshooting and decision-making.

The question is not simply, “What comes after a data foundation?” It is: once teams are already building applications, visual workflows, RCA processes, and decision-support tools above that foundation, how much faster could they move with a dedicated action layer?

Through practical examples and operator workflow build, the team will explore how Flows should accelerate the next stage of industrial AI — moving from visibility and insight to action, execution, and better operational decisions.

Take a short pause to stretch your legs, grab a cup of coffee or water, and recharge. Use this brief intermission to use the facilities or chat with peers before we resume our upcoming sessions.

Most industrial organizations are data-rich but insight-poor, constrained by fragmented infrastructures that require heavy, bespoke engineering for every new application. To shift from siloed proofs of concept to enterprise-wide scaling, organizations need an architectural paradigm shift rooted in openness, interoperability, and trust.
This session brings together Microsoft and Cognite, moderated by a leading industry analyst, to explore how Microsoft’s enterprise data capabilities and Cognite’s Industrial Knowledge Graph work together seamlessly to deliver compounding value: all ecosystem solutions consume real-time, trusted data, and feed insights back to make the foundation smarter over time. With a focus on energy and power & utilities, discover how this scalable, open approach enables operators, partners, and developers to plug into a common data foundation—accelerating innovation, reducing time-to-value, and maximizing technology ROI.

Join MC Bill Hendricks as we officially close out the Houston leg of the Impact World Tour. Bill will summarize the day's key takeaways, thank our speakers and sponsors, and leave you with some final thoughts before we conclude our programming.

Cap off an inspiring day at our closing networking reception. Enjoy drinks and light snacks while taking this final opportunity to connect with industry peers, our valued sponsors and partners, and local Cogniters before heading out.