The useful AI projects at BIP looked less like chatbots and more like maintenance and logistics tools.
- 2025
- AI
BIP’s AI track opened with a rule: no demos without a named industrial use case. That filter changed the energy of the room immediately.
Operators from manufacturing and energy shared downtime costs, inspection bottlenecks, and inventory blind spots that software can actually touch.
Vendors who survived the filter focused on integration, data quality, and change management — the unsexy work that decides whether a pilot becomes a plant standard.
Two proof-of-concept scopes were drafted before the summit closed, with BIP facilitating the first technical workshops the following month.
