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Because the real challenge is no longer strategy, it is implementation.
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Jonathan Spitz
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Martin Heinz
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Why is the Industrial AI landscape poised for exponential growth?
Growth Potential of the Industrial Hybrid AI Landscape
- Leverage Hybrid AI to reshape business processes and applications.
- Explore growth potential across mining and industrial manufacturing.
- Integrate Hybrid AI to improve application flexibility and scalability.
Key Growth Avenues Impacting the Industrial AI Ecosystem
- How is AI transforming pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing?
- Address data infrastructure gaps to accelerate Industrial AI adoption.
- Align with Edge AI-enabled manufacturing orchestration for growth.
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Frost & Sullivan welcomed more than 2,000 business leaders, policymakers, investors, academics and innovators to the 20th Growth, Innovation and Leadership (GIL) Summit in China, held August 4–5 at the Jing An Shangri-La in Shanghai.
Coinciding with Frost & Sullivan’s 65th anniversary, the summit featured more than 300 speakers and 150 keynote presentations and panel discussions. Topics included artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, life sciences, consumer markets and investment - highlighting the forces reshaping global competitiveness and transformational growth.
The event combined a flagship plenary programme with 10 parallel forums and the fifth edition of Frost & Sullivan’s New Investment Event, fostering collaboration across business, finance, government, academia and research.
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Growth Opportunities in Automated Optical Inspection and Dimensional Metrology: Strengthening Yield, Traceability, and Supplier Value
Quality control in manufacturing is becoming a strategic driver of yield, throughput, and operational resilience as manufacturers respond to miniaturization, product complexity, reshoring, and zero-defect requirements across electronics, automotive, aerospace, medical devices, and advanced manufacturing. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled automated optical inspection (AOI), three-dimensional (3D) metrology, digital twins, in-line measurement, and multimodal inspection are improving defect detection, traceability, and real-time process control.
Industrial Connectivity: Benchmarking Growth and Innovation Leaders in OT Data Infrastructure
Industrial connectivity now plays a larger role in how manufacturers modernize operations and scale Operational Technology (OT) data across enterprise environments. Modern connectivity architectures improve data access, consistency, and security, providing a stronger foundation for analytics and AI. Demand is expanding across brownfield modernization, multisite standardization, and enterprise data programs.
Growth Opportunities in Integrated Photonics
Integrated photonics is gaining momentum as artificial intelligence (AI) workloads increase demand for higher bandwidth, lower-latency data movement, and improved energy efficiency. Advances in optical input/output (I/O), co-packaged optics (CPO), photonic integrated circuits (PICs), advanced packaging, and intelligent sensing are bringing photonics technologies closer to compute while expanding their applications across data centers, mobility, healthcare, manufacturing, and autonomous systems.
Congratulations to Threedy on This Year’s European 3D Data Access and Collaboration Infrastructure Customer Value Leadership Recognition
German software company Threedy has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 European Customer Value Leadership Recognition in the three-dimensional (3D) data access and collaboration infrastructure industry for its outstanding achievements in commercial execution, workflow integration, customer success, and scalable enterprise innovation.
Frost & Sullivan: 65 Years of Advancing Industrial Growth Intelligence
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The 20th Frost & Sullivan Global Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Summit and the 5th New Investment Event
Dates: 4-5 August 2026
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On August 4-5, 2026, the 20th Frost & Sullivan Global Growth, Innovation and Leadership Summit and the 5th New Investment Event will have its grand opening at the Shangri La Hotel in Jing'an, Shanghai. This will also mark the 20th year milestone for Frost & Sullivan China to continue building on an international high-end communication platform for enterprises across China as well as the rest of the world.
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