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Executive RoundtableBy Invitation

Turn your frontline into a strategic growth lever

Close the execution gap. Every shift. Every site. Every team.

Date29 Jun 2026
VenueHilton Riyadh Hotel & Residences, Saudi Arabia
In this roundtable

In this roundtable, you’ll learn

Why continuous-improvement programmes plateau

The systems gap behind stalled CI initiatives: fragmented work, inconsistency across shifts and sites, and tribal knowledge that never scales.

Connected work, scaled enterprise-wide

How a connected work strategy turns fragmented improvement into enterprise-wide performance.

AI at the point of work

How AI augments frontline execution: knowledge, troubleshooting and decision support at the moment value is created.

A KPI framework that moves the needle

Time-to-competency, downtime, first-pass yield, rework and changeover. The metrics that separate intent from execution.

ROI levers, not slideware

How execution translates directly into margin, capacity and resilience, plus the levers operations leaders should pull first.

Why attend

Why
Attend

Frontline productivity is now a board-level priority, not just an operational KPI.

Margin pressure is rising faster than productivity can keep up.

Continuous-improvement programmes are plateauing without systems to scale best practices.

AI is reshaping point-of-work performance, but only with connected execution in place.

Tribal knowledge is walking out the door faster than it's being captured.

The companies pulling ahead won't just have stronger strategies; they'll execute them consistently, every shift, every site, every team.

Agenda

Event Agenda

10:00 — 10:15

Welcome

10:15 — 10:30

What Is Connected Work Technology — and Why Now?

10:30 — 10:50

From Experience to Excellence: Retaining What Your Best Workers Know

10:50 — 11:10

Coffee Break

11:10 — 11:30

How Leading Manufacturers Are Standardising the Daily Management Routine

11:30 — 11:45

The Operator's Edge: How Industrial AI Is Changing What's Possible on the Shop Floor

11:45 — 12:15

Open Q&A

12:15

Lunch

Speakers

Event Speakers

Mohammed Sa'Adeh

Mohammed Sa'Adeh

Country Leader — Saudi Arabia, IFS

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Aïchatou Abdou

Aïchatou Abdou

Global Strategic Alliances Director, Poka

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Keerthie Maruthapillai

Keerthie Maruthapillai

Presales Solution Architect, IFS

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Designed for

Operations leaders accountable for execution at scale

A curated table of senior leaders responsible for turning operational intent into measurable, repeatable execution across plants and shifts.

  • Operations & Production

    VPs / Directors / Heads of Operations

  • Manufacturing Excellence & Continuous Improvement

    CI, lean and TPM leaders

  • Plant & Site Leadership

    Plant managers and site directors

  • Digital & Operational Transformation

    Digital, IT/OT and Industry 4.0 leaders

  • Learning, Training & Workforce Development

    HR, training and operational learning leaders

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FormatExecutive Roundtable29 Jun 2026 · Chatham House Rule
AudienceOperations & manufacturing leadersCurated · invitation only