Host
Vlad Larichev
Industrial AI lead @ Accenture IX
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Monthly Industrial AI Call
A practical forum for people building Industrial AI in the real world—not another hype webinar.
For more than three years this format grew inside Accenture Industry X into a global network of practitioners, account leaders, researchers, and enthusiasts. Now, as AI² – Association Industrial AI, we are opening it to the world—same rigour, wider stage.
Every last Friday · Online · 60 minutes · Europe/Berlin
1,000+
Practitioners in the network
3+ years
Monthly expert sessions
2023
Started as a closed expert circle
Global
Speakers and members worldwide
Leadership
Hosted each month by
Three practitioners lead and curate the series—ecosystem framing, speaker outreach, and follow-up with the community.
Host
Jule Klapdor
Agentic & Generative AI in Engineering & Manufacturing @ Accenture Industry X
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Host
Yannick Deepen
Data Science Analyst @ Accenture
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Our story
From an internal expert network to an open industrial AI community
What began in 2023 as a closed circle for Industrial AI and generative AI inside Accenture Industry X was never just a newsletter or a chat channel. It became a recurring expert forum: monthly sessions, curated speakers, and honest conversation about what ships—and what breaks—in engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
Hundreds of members became more than a thousand. Account leads, architects, data scientists, product owners, researchers, and startup founders joined because the room stayed practical: client and internal project stories, technology deep dives, ecosystem signal, and space for hard questions about scale, data, and governance.
Today AI² hosts the same format for a wider audience. We are expanding while keeping the bar high—real implementation experience, not slide-deck theatre.
Not a standard community call
You are not booking a vendor slot or a generic “AI trends” webinar. You are joining one of the most active recurring Industrial AI forums in the field—a room where people compare notes on pilots, production constraints, integration, and what it takes to move from proof of concept to operational impact.
- 01Senior practitioners, experts, and technology leaders from industry and research
- 02Regular contributions from startups, hyperscalers, vendors, and industrial end users
- 03Sessions anchored in projects, architectures, and lessons from the field
- 04Open discussion—audience questions are part of the format, not an afterthought
The format
What happens each month
One focused hour on the last Friday of the month. The agenda flexes with the market; the structure stays predictable for hosts and guests.
Ecosystem & market signal
Policy, partnerships, and themes that matter for industrial AI in Europe and globally—translated for practitioners, not analysts only.
Technology & platforms
What is shipping in products, open stacks, and industrial platforms—integration patterns, copilots, agents, digital threads, and governance.
Startups & builders
Teams worth watching—short spotlights and honest fit for pilots, partnerships, or community follow-up.
Real-world use cases
Operator- and engineer-led stories: what scaled, what stalled, and why—maintenance, quality, PLM, automation, simulation, and shopfloor reality.
Topics we explore
Typical themes on the agenda
We welcome proposals that fit industrial practice. Recent and recurring themes include:
- Generative AI in engineering and manufacturing
- Agentic AI for industrial workflows
- AI copilots for engineers and operators
- Digital twins and AI-driven simulation
- AI in testing, quality, and maintenance
- Industrial knowledge management and retrieval
- Human-in-the-loop decision-making
- Scalable AI architectures in legacy OT/IT landscapes
- Data, systems integration, and sovereignty
- Lessons from deployments—not benchmark leaderboards
Who is in the room
A global community joined by interest in Industrial AI
Members and guests span engineering, manufacturing, energy, automation, PLM, operations, and industrial transformation—across Europe and beyond.
You will find account leaders, domain experts, architects, data scientists, product owners, researchers, and founders. What they share is curiosity about applied AI: how it connects to domain knowledge, existing systems, and measurable outcomes on the line.
For speakers & guests
Why present at the Monthly Industrial AI Call
You reach a large, senior practitioner audience that already self-selects for Industrial AI—without cold outreach to a generic mailing list.
The format respects your time: one hour, clear segments, and moderation that keeps the conversation on implementation, scale, and lessons learned.
We promote sessions to the full network and handle coordination with hosts. You bring substance; we bring the room.
Calendar
Next edition
Last Friday of each month—ecosystem signals, what is shipping in products, startup spotlights, and real-world operator use cases.
Friday, 29 May 2026 · 17:00–18:00 (CEST)
Members: the Zoom join link is published on the event page when the edition is confirmed.
View edition details →Industrial AI needs rooms that scale with the work
Many organisations have run pilots. The next challenge is workflows, legacy systems, engineering tools, and operating models. That requires exchange between people who understand both AI and industry. AI² exists to build that infrastructure—including this monthly call.
AI² – Association Industrial AI