In this powerful episode of Factory Forward, Prasad Satyavolu—Americas Lead for Industry X at Accenture and board member of CESMII—dives deep into the convergence of AI, IoT, and manufacturing operations. With over 30 years of experience driving industrial transformation at Accenture, Cognizant, Cummins, and TCS, Prasad unpacks the real-world challenges and opportunities of building agile, digitally enabled manufacturing ecosystems.
From scaling AI across complex plant networks to designing more resilient supply chains, this episode offers a compelling look at how manufacturers can drive lasting value—not just through automation, but through purpose-driven leadership and innovation. Prasad’s insights are especially timely for industry leaders navigating disruption, digitization, and rising consumer expectations in what he calls the “TikTok Fulfillment Era.”
Whether you’re a plant manager, innovation strategist, or digital transformation enthusiast, this episode offers a roadmap for aligning technology, people, and processes to thrive in the next wave of industrial evolution.
Key Takeaways:
Tune in to discover how forward-thinking manufacturers can unite supply chain, engineering, and operations around a common purpose—serving the customer with speed, intelligence, and resilience.
Brandin and his team help our customers with setting up the Pathfinder platform and getting up-to-speed on all the features and functionalities, in addition to assisting them with standardizing their processes where needed.
Brandin is a seasoned manufacturing leader, who has spent more than a decade designing and setting up assembly lines in both the US and China, optimizing them, and working with human operators to maximize productivity and quality.
Jesse works closely with our marquis customers to understand their needs, and figures out the best solution that immediately adds dollars to their bottom line.
Jesse has two decades of enterprise sales experience. He has held sales leadership roles at pioneering technology startups.
Andrey takes inventions and converts them into innovations. He leads our product engineering team to turn our scientific prototypes into robust customer-facing products.
Andrey co-founded and successfully exited a startup to immigrate to the US. He spent his next eight years building the core data science infrastructure for Amazon’s supply chain planning team, and the CV/ML infrastructure for Microsoft’s HoloLens organization.
Zeeshan focuses on delighting our customers by understanding their needs and defining product and strategy to meet and exceed these needs. He works closely with our sales leadership to grow our customer base.
Zeeshan was a scientific leader at Microsoft’s HoloLens division, where he invented AI technologies to assist frontline workers across industries. Earlier, he shipped IoT platforms and visual defect detection software for manufacturers at Siemens and MVTec GmbH.
Huy takes our product roadmap and figures out what’s achievable with today’s AI advances, and what we need to invent to solve our customers’ pain points.
Huy led teams of scientists and engineers at NEC and invented technologies for driver assistance systems that are part of 500,000+ Honda cars. He is an inventor on more than 20 US patents, and his research papers are cited by every lab from MIT, Stanford, and CMU to Apple, Google, and Baidu.
