iShruti
iShruti
Operators from the plant floor and the supply network. Real prices upfront, shortlist in 24 hours.
Manufacturing and supply chain are where AI stops being a slide and starts moving atoms — on the factory floor, in the warehouse, and across the logistics network. They are badly underserved by an AI keynote circuit oriented toward software and knowledge work. We curate speakers who pair real operations experience with AI fluency.
These are industries with long asset lives, thin margins, demanding safety and quality requirements, and workforces built around skilled trades rather than software. A cloud-software-only speaker will not connect with a room of plant managers. Ours have stood on the floor and know where AI helps, breaks, or is hype.
We serve manufacturing leadership teams, supply-chain and operations organizations, industry associations, and conferences that need AI intelligence grounded in the realities of production, logistics, and the physical world. If it ships, stamps, welds, or forecasts, we have a speaker who has run it.
Someone who has stood on the floor.
Not a cloud-software voice. These speakers pair real operations experience with AI fluency — they know where it helps, where it breaks, and where it's hype. Priced upfront, shortlisted in 24 hours.
Industry 4.0 finally has the AI to deliver on a decade of promises — predictive maintenance, vision inspection, and digital twins in real deployment.
A decade of shocks made AI forecasting and network visibility a resilience imperative, not a nice-to-have.
The skilled-labor shortage makes AI augmentation urgent — capture tribal knowledge before it retires.
Physical-world AI has failure modes software people miss: latency, safety, harsh environments, OT/IT.
The AI-enabled factory: predictive maintenance, quality, and throughput
Computer vision on the line: automated inspection and defect detection
AI for supply chain resilience: forecasting, optimization, and real-time visibility
Digital twins and generative design in manufacturing
Collaborative robots and the augmented plant-floor workforce
OT/IT convergence: connecting and securing the AI-enabled factory
Demand forecasting in a volatile world: what machine learning changes
Capturing tribal knowledge before the skilled workforce retires
Sustainable manufacturing and AI: energy, waste, and carbon optimization
Escaping pilot purgatory: scaling AI from one line to the whole plant
Agentic AI in operations: autonomous planning with humans in command
The AI-ready plant: data, sensors, and where to actually start
Need a different angle? Every talk is customized to your audience.
Hire a speakerIn-person, on your main stage.
Remote keynote or fireside.
Multi-voice sessions.
One price, our 17.5% printed inside it. Travel at cost, capped. No surprise line-items — ask any bureau to show you theirs. Working sessions on your production or network challenges are a favorite ops format — ask us.
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Five questions every organizer asks — tap one.
For a plant and operations audience, a speaker with real production or supply-chain leadership experience will earn credibility that a pure technologist cannot. For a more technical or engineering audience, deeper AI and data-science expertise may matter more. The best manufacturing AI speakers combine floor experience with technical fluency — they exist and they are worth seeking out.
Yes. Supply-chain AI centers on forecasting, network optimization, logistics, and visibility across partners. Factory or plant AI centers on production — maintenance, quality, throughput, and the physical line. Some speakers span both; many specialize. Tell us where your audience sits so we can match appropriately.
It can. The AI use cases and constraints in discrete manufacturing — assembly, automotive, electronics — differ from process industries like chemicals, food, or pharmaceuticals. A speaker who understands your production model will use examples that land. We can filter for the relevant background.
These audiences value concrete, operational content over abstraction. A keynote rich with real deployment examples — including honest discussion of what failed — works well, and pairing it with a working session on your specific operations challenges often delivers the most value.
Fees vary by profile and format, and speakers with genuine senior operating experience command a premium because they are scarce in the AI speaker market. Our platform shows each speaker's fee range transparently, with a flat 17.5% platform fee and no hidden markups.
Rather we just figure it out for you?
Get a shortlist$10K–$30K for most events; virtual from $2,500. Speakers with senior operating experience command a premium because they're scarce on the AI circuit. The price you see is the whole price — our 17.5% is printed inside it.
We individually check identity, real work, and stage skill. Every speaker. No exceptions.
We source for speakers who understand the OT/IT convergence and the security implications of connecting factory equipment, because AI deployment on the plant floor cannot be separated from those concerns. Let us know if this is a priority.
Yes. Warehouse robotics, autonomous material handling, and AI-driven logistics are a distinct specialization within supply chain, and we vet for speakers with direct experience there.
Absolutely. Many manufacturing and supply-chain speakers prefer smaller, high-context sessions with operations leadership, where they can engage with your specific production and network challenges.
Yes. Most of our speakers offer virtual and hybrid formats, which work well for multi-site manufacturing organizations and distributed supply-chain teams.