Session Abstract:
Industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms—built on legacy protocols, siloed data, and reactive analytics—are struggling to deliver the real-time autonomy manufacturing demands in 2025 and beyond. Agentic AI changes everything: autonomous agents that perceive, reason, plan, act, and learn can transform rigid IIoT architectures into self-optimizing systems that predict failures, dynamically reconfigure production, and reducing factory downtimes. Drawing from KMS Technology’s experience modernizing enterprise workflows and building agentic AI systems, Guy Merritt, CTO of KMS, will reveal a practical roadmap for evolving legacy IIoT (SCADA, PLCs, historians) into agentic architectures using Agentic AI design patterns, edge-based reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration. Attendees will leave with a modernization framework, real-world case studies from manufacturing, and actionable strategies to modernize your IIoT systems while maintaining safety, governance, and OT/IT convergence in an agentic era.
Speaker:
Guy Merritt is an experienced C-suite executive, Guy has 35 years engineering leadership advising and developing IoT solutions, native cloud-based systems, products and engineering & manufacturing test solutions for a wide variety of industries. He is an author of the award-winning book “Proactive Risk Management: Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development.” • Spearhead technology strategy and thought leadership across multiple industry verticals, enhancing client engagement and satisfaction. • Collaborate with KMS senior leaders and delivery teams to align strategic direction with tactical actions in technology practice areas and solutions. • Drive innovation initiatives to improve service offerings for client revenue growth and retention.
