CoreShift 2026: Empowering Industries with Agentic AI, GenAI, and Data Innovation venumadhav January 7, 2026
CoreShift 2026

Why CoreShift 2026 Matters Most (& Why Now)

2026 is the year Data + AI stops being a lab experiment — and becomes a business expectation.

Organizations face a fundamental shift: AI is no longer confined to analytics or isolated tools it increasingly operates across data, systems, and business processes. This requires new thinking around architecture, data readiness, governance, runtime execution, and business integration. 

CoreShift 2026 presents a clear, end-to-end perspective on how enterprises design, deploy, and operate Agentic AI at scale. The summit focuses on system-level capabilities, real production architectures, and practical frameworks grounded in live demonstrations and real-world use cases. 

This is a thought-leadership summit for leaders defining standards, shaping strategy, and influencing direction across AI, data, and business transformation. 

Mckinsey

88% of organizations already use AI in at least one core business function today

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By 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will embed task-specific AI agent capabilities

Venture Beat

Over 70% of Fortune 500 companies using Microsoft Fabric as their data platform

Limited-Time Opportunity

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The first 100 registrants receive a personalized 1:1 Strategy Session with our Agentic AI and Data experts—ideal for accelerating Agentic AI or data modernization.

Key Notes Speakers

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we’re curating a stellar lineup of speakers

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Jackie Link Speaker
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Poonam Chug-V8
Hemanth Kumar-V8
Pavan Kulkarni Speaker-V1
Satheesh Speaker
Vishal Sharma-V8

Agenda Overview

DAY - 1

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Explore end-to-end Agentic AI architectures, deployment models, low‑code/no‑code acceleration with Live demos and best practices that help enterprises successfully scale AI initiatives from pilot projects to production-ready solutions.

As Agentic-AI (near) real-time decision making becomes the norm, we show how MS Fabric RTI, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Operations, and Acuvate RTDIP/SSIP make this possible across all your business processes, including OT environments. From sensor selection to high-speed time-series streaming, we cover the full scope of your (near) real-time needs with Live demo.

Data Quality is a key pillar of any successful Agentic-AI deployment. Using our AcuTrust accelerator, we walk you through how to establish robust Data & AI Governance — covering data ownership, data stewardship, data access, single source of truth, and more. While our focus is on Data Governance, we also connect the dots to Application and AI Governance with a Live demos.

Ontologies help organizations connect business concepts, processes, data, assets, and relationships into a common business context that both users and AI can understand. This session demonstrates the best approach through a real manufacturing, production, and logistics use case, including delivery of products to shops. Attendees will see how ontologies support dashboards, Microsoft Copilot, and what-if analysis, enabling business users to ask questions and access insights without relying on IT.

DAY - 2

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With energy costs rising, optimizing electricity usage has never been more critical. This session highlights the business challenge of understanding where and why energy is consumed across facilities, using data from engines, compressors, turbines, conveyor belts, bottling lines, and other assets. We have built AI models to predict future energy usage, identify opportunities to reduce consumption, and deliver actionable insights through dashboards and Copilot-powered energy Q&A

This session presents a connected approach to modern asset management, starting with sensors and devices that capture critical operational data from industrial assets. This data is then streamed into an Enterprise Data & AI Platform, where it is contextualized, governed, and made ready for analysis. From there, 2D and 3D Digital Twins provide a visual layer to monitor assets and processes, while DiagramIQ and the Acuvate Tag Registry help maintain accurate, enterprise-wide asset and tag information. Together, these capabilities create the foundation for Ontologies and Agentic AI solutions that improve asset visibility, maintenance efficiency, operational performance, and audit readiness.

Learn how manufacturing, CPG, and logistics processes can become more efficient through low-cost Digital Twin solutions that combine AcuPrism, connected OT data sources, and PNID.IO’s 2D Digital Twin into an end-to-end solution. This session preserves the “no need for laser scans” approach and helps organizations overcome digital twin hesitation by using existing P&ID diagrams as smart, interactive interfaces that can deliver similar capabilities to a 3D environment. Through live demos, attendees will see firsthand what is possible with a practical and cost-effective Digital Twin approach.

In this closing roundtable, executives and clients from across industries come together to share real experiences and tackle the big questions on governance, ROI, operational challenges, and what industrial transformation looks like in practice.

Why Register Early?

CoreShift 2026 is a focused two-day summit and early registration gives you access to everything that gets announced before we go live.

Agentic AI Operating Models

Defining how enterprises design, deploy, and run Agentic AI systems at scale across teams and functions.

Data & Semantic Readiness

Preparing enterprise data, ontologies, and context layers required for reliable Agentic AI execution.

Production-Grade AI Systems

Designing AI solutions that move beyond pilots into resilient, monitored, and scalable production environments.

Enterprise Architecture Patterns

Reference architectures covering data, semantics, AI runtime, integration, and operational systems.

Governance, Trust & Controls

Frameworks for responsible AI, model oversight, auditability,
and enterprise risk management.

Manufacturing Use Cases

Real-world applications across plants, supply chains, maintenance, quality, and operational decision-making.

Early access to partner announcements and featured showcases

Customer transformation spotlights (real experiences from across the globe)

Demo previews + agenda updates as they unlock

The option to free consultation with Acuvate experts on your Data + AI roadmap

Stay tuned — partner and customer speaker announcements are
coming soon

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CoreShift 2025 — The Momentum Is Real

CoreShift 2025 set the benchmark for practical Data + AI transformation — bringing together leaders and practitioners from across industries.

In 2025, we delivered:

  • 1-day global virtual summit
  • 8 expert-led sessions
  • 300+ attendees
  • Live demos, industry use cases, and actionable takeaways

Watch CoreShift 2025 On-Demand

What You’ll Learn (In Two Focused Tracks)

Data + AI outcomes for operations and manufacturing

  • Improve asset operations using contextualized data (tags, drawings, P&IDs)
  • Accelerate manufacturing excellence through optimization, predictive maintenance, OEE, quality, HSSE, and automation.
  • Scale confidently with Data, Application & AI governance
  • Drive value using Acuvate accelerators: AcuPrism, DiagramIQ, AcuNow, AcuTrust

Technology enablement with Microsoft Fabric & real-time intelligence

  • Ontologies for smarter asset intelligence
  • Microsoft Fabric RTI + Azure IoT Edge + Azure IoT Operations
  • High-speed streaming and time series architectures
  • Latest AI developments — and where they actually create business value
  • How to implement and exploit agentic AI safely and effectively

FAQs for CoreShift 2026

CoreShift 2026 is a free, global virtual summit on Data, AI, and Digital Transformation, taking place 15–16 September 2026 (14:00–17:45 CET). Registration is completely free and provides access to the full two-day program, including live demos, real-world architectures, and practical playbooks. For those seeking a more guided approach, registrants can also book a free 30-minute consultation to discuss their Data + AI roadmap.

CoreShift 2026 focuses on how enterprises are building Data + AI foundations that deliver measurable outcomes, particularly across manufacturing, asset operations, and digital transformation initiatives. The timing is critical; 88% of organizations now report regular AI use in at least one business function, yet many remain stuck in pilots rather than achieving scaled impact. CoreShift exists to help teams transition from adoption to execution, especially as AI agents accelerate. Gartner warns that over 40% of agentic AI projects may be canceled by the end of 2027 if value is not clearly demonstrated.

CoreShift 2026 is structured as a focused two-day summit with two practical tracks:

  • Day 1 (Functional Track): Manufacturing and asset operations outcomes; business solutions for manufacturing excellence (including predictive maintenance, OEE, quality, HSSE, and automation); governance using accelerators; and enterprise agentic process automation, all supported by live demos.
  • Day 2 (Technical Track): Microsoft Fabric ontology solutions, real-time intelligence architectures (Fabric RTI, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Operations, and time-series streaming), and guidance on how to implement agentic AI safely and effectively, with demonstrations.

This structure aligns with Gartner’s expectation that 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, making real architectures, governance, and execution essential.

CoreShift 2026 is designed for business and technology leaders responsible for scaling real outcomes from data and AI, particularly in manufacturing excellence, asset performance, and enterprise transformation. It is especially relevant for leaders addressing common blockers such as disconnected data, low trust, governance gaps, and solutions that fail to scale the same issues that cause many AI initiatives to stall despite widespread adoption. The summit is also highly practical for teams building modern platforms (e.g., Fabric, real-time intelligence, IoT, and ontologies) and operationalizing agentic AI responsibly.

Early registration is the easiest way to stay ahead of everything announced before the summit goes live. Early registrants receive advance access to partner announcements, customer transformation spotlights, demo previews and agenda updates, and the option to book a free 30-minute consultation. This helps de-risk planning, especially as Gartner highlights both the rapid rise of AI agents and the high cancellation risk for agentic AI initiatives without clear value and controls.