UNS Roundtable Frankfurt

Your Unified Namespace gave you a single source of truth for operational state — so why do enterprise workflows still feel brittle?

As Unified Namespace and Industrial DataOps mature across manufacturing, leaders are hitting the same wall: visibility into real-time operational data isn't the same as coordinated, enterprise-scale behavior. MQTT-centric architectures excel at distributing state — but they were never built to carry the transactional, multi-system workflows that enterprise scale demands. This roundtable brings together industrial and IT leaders navigating that exact inflection point: how to evolve UNS into a truly composable, event-driven architecture that scales meaning and behavior together — turning connected data into connected operations.

Agenda
11:00 – Arrival & Networking
11:45 – Welcome & Participant Introductions
12:00 – Connect Everything and Operate in Real Time: Why Unified Namespace Matters
Ali Pourshahid - Chief Product Officer, Solace
12:45 – Networking Lunch
13:45 – Industrial Transformation at Scale: Knauf's Connected Manufacturing Journey
Knauf, speaker TBC
14:30 – Executive Roundtable Discussion – Part 1
The barriers to real-time operations, data interoperability, and AI readiness
15:30 – Coffee Break
16:00 – Preparing for Industrial AI: Building a Real-Time Operational Data Foundation
Gaurav Suman, Director AI & Industry Solutions, Solace
Dan Prudhoe, Solution Engineering, Solace
16:45 – Executive Roundtable Discussion – Part 2
From connected factories to autonomous operations: what comes next?
17:45 – Closing Remarks & Key Takeaways
18:00 – Networking Drinks, Dinner and Wine Making
20:00 - Close