State of the Market 2026: How Industrial DataOps and AI-Ready Data are Reshaping Manufacturing
This webinar was originally broadcast on August 6, 2026.
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Summary
A significant number of industrial organizations are deploying AI across multiple sites to increase productivity and drive better decision-making. However, new research shows that many of these facilities continue to struggle with data management basics, including data quality, data governance, data security, IT/OT collaboration, all of which can limit the ability to scale AI initiatives across facilities.
Join HighByte Chief Product Officer John Harrington for an exclusive look into new research findings from more than 150 industrial leaders on how successful organizations are using DataOps to overcome these hurdles.
Attendees will learn:
- How digital transformation maturity has shifted since 2023, driving confidence and among many organizations who now see themselves as ahead of their industry.
- Where organizations continue to get stuck, from skilled talent shortages to data governance.
- How DataOps as a data management discipline can help organizations get high-quality data more quickly into the hands of decision-makers and AI applications.
Join us for this look into how manufacturers are preparing for the next phase of industrial data and AI readiness by building more mature data foundations.
Speakers
John Harrington
Chief Product Officer
HighByte
John Harrington is the Chief Product Officer at HighByte, where he is responsible for the company’s product and business strategy. His areas of responsibility include product management, customer success, partner success, and go-to-market strategy. John is passionate about delivering technology that improves productivity and safety across manufacturing and industrial environments.
John holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Business Administration from Babson College.
Brian Zakrajsek
Specialist Leader - Smart Manufacturing & Operations
Deloitte
With 20 years of experience in manufacturing and heavy industry across various roles: engineering design/build, project and program management, sales, marketing and GTM, leadership, and consulting, Brian is focused on delivering Smart Manufacturing solutions to his clients.
Finding ways to collaborate with both his internal and external teams and clients, he strongly emphasizes looking to the future while respecting the past to create transformative value through technology and sustainable change.
Moderator
Jeff Miller
Principal
Jeff Miller Marketing Communications
With over 40 years in marketing communications and writing, most of that in the manufacturing and energy industries, Jeff Miller has worked for some of the most recognized companies in the world. He held upper-level management positions at Global Industries, Akzo Nobel, and Cudd Pressure Control, as well as doing writing and consulting work for PennWell, Newpark Drilling Fluids, Samsung, Emerson, Panasonic, and scores of others.
Jeff is also certified by the Department of Homeland Security and Michigan State University in Incident Management and Crisis Communications. His writing has won numerous awards over the years, and in addition to writing about manufacturing and energy, he is also a playwright and author as well as a director/actor for community theatre.
His first book, “An Oil Rig Is Not A Ficus Tree” made it into Amazon’s Top 100 Business/Humor books out of over one million books.
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