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Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

AI Skills can preserve and scale human expertise, but industrial enterprises must maintain mentorship, workforce development, and deterministic governance for autonomous agents.

Sep
25
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Exploring Software-Defined Applications in O-PAS Architectures

SMAR’s O-PAS work explores containerized flow computing and user-defined function blocks for more flexible industrial automation applications.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Bounding the Brain—The 4 Levels of Industrial Autonomy and Why Domain Expertise Reigns Supreme

Industrial AI requires deterministic runtime controls, clear autonomy limits, and domain expertise before autonomous agents can safely act across physical and enterprise operations.

Sep
25
2026

Mark Sen Gupta — Industry Trends

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Plants can build justified reliance on automation by treating operator distrust as evidence for better design, validation, training, and operating controls.

Sep
25
2026

Naoki Ura — Technology Trends

Industrial AI Moves Beyond PoC into the Era of Operationalization

User examples from Cognite Impact Tokyo showed how contextualized data and industrial AI applications can support enterprise-scale operational deployment.

Sep
24
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends