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Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

WBA Publishes Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Intelligent Wi-Fi

WBA released a report outlining how AI/ML is becoming foundational to intelligent, self-optimizing Wi-Fi network operations.

Feb
20
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

Securing the Chain: Data Integrity and Confidentiality in a Shared Ecosystem

Supply chain resilience increasingly depends on ensuring data integrity and confidentiality, as tampered, exposed, or unreliable data can cascade across interconnected partners, systems, and mission-critical logistics operations.

Feb
20
2026

Marianne D’Aquila — Acquisition or Partnership

HD Hyundai Selects Siemens Xcelerator: Integrated Digital Platform for Future Shipyard Initiative

Siemens Xcelerator will serve as the digital backbone of HD Hyundai’s Future of Shipyard initiative, enabling a unified digital thread across ship design and production.

Feb
20
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

The Jabil Playbook: How an Industrial AI Pacesetter Engineers Extreme Agility and the Rise of the Synapse Worker

Jabil’s ARC Forum keynote demonstrates how Industrial AI Pacesetters in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing are scaling agentic AI, data fabrics, and Synapse Worker models to escape pilot purgatory and operationalize intelligence at enterprise scale.

Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

IO-Link Performance Increases

Advancements in IO-Link performance, security guidelines, and certified IO-Link Safety specifications are enhancing intelligent sensor integration and secure industrial automation.

Feb
20
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

Building the Foundation: Data Harmonization and Infrastructure for AI-Driven Supply Chains—Part 6

AI-driven supply chains require harmonized and governed data foundations, as fragmented, inconsistent, and siloed datasets undermine the effectiveness of A2A agents, MCP memory layers, RAG systems, and graph-based reasoning across complex logistics networks.

Feb
20
2026

Craig Resnick — Podcasts/Videos

Software-Defined Automation: Foxboro SDA and the Shift Toward Open Control Architectures

Schneider Electric’s Foxboro Software-Defined Automation builds on EcoStruxure Automation Expert to enable hardware abstraction, open interoperability, phased DCS modernization, and IT/OT convergence in process industries.

Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

PI Publishes MTP Specification 2.0

PI released MTP Specification 2.0 to advance interoperability and modular automation across process and industrial systems.

Feb
20
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

The PepsiCo Blueprint: What an Industrial AI Pacesetter Looks Like in 2026

PepsiCo’s keynote at the ARC Industry Leadership Forum 2026 illustrates how Pacesetter organizations are operationalizing Industrial AI at scale through unified data, agentic autonomy, digital twins, and hybrid human–AI workforces.

Feb
17
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

U.S. NSF Launches $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Research Infrastructure Program

The NSF is launching the NQNI program with up to $100 million in funding to build a national network of open-access quantum and nanotechnology research infrastructure.

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