Contributors AcknowledgementsLead authors Swati Daphal Project Fellow, World Economic Forum; Manager, Accenture Simran Dharmapuram Management Consulting Analyst, Accenture Amol Ghuge Project Fellow, World Economic Forum; Management Consulting Principal Director, AccentureDevendra Jain Lead, Frontier Technologies for Operations, World Economic Forum Jérome Mulin Project Fellow, World Economic Forum; Strategy Senior Manager, Accenture Federico Torti Head of Technology and Innovation, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains, World Economic Forum Pooja Vaidya Management Consulting Analyst, Accenture World Economic Forum Memia Fendri Content Curation and Operational Excellence Lead, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Van Nguyen Regional Agenda Lead, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply ChainsBenjamin Schönfuß Initiatives and Community Lead, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Xiaoming Zhong Initiatives and Community Lead, Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains Expert group Abdulaziz Al-Ali Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Qatar Basmah AlBuhairan Managing Director, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Amer Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Claryo Pierluigi Astorino Chief Operating Officer, Ariston Group James Atkin Chief Strategy Officer, Gecko Robotics Thomas Bierwirth Senior Vice President, IT Production & Logistics, VolkswagenBerk Birand Chief Executive Officer, Fero Labs Frank Bleisteiner Vice President, Production Engineering, Siemens Michelangelo Canzoneri Global Head, Group Smart Manufacturing, Merck Shanoj Chandroth Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, Jubilant Bhartia Group Maher Chebbo Managing Director Europe, Univers Aleksander Ciszek Chief Executive Officer, 3YOURMIND Jason Clark Global Vice President, Manufacturing and Energy, Exiger Intelligent Industrial Operations Outlook 2026 55