Three days where the energy, automation, and process engineering leaders running the world's most demanding facilities come together — to share what's working, debate what's next, and chart what comes after.
Working sessions with the operators, engineers, and leaders running today's most demanding facilities. Get into specifics, swap approaches, and leave with ideas you can act on Monday morning.
Skip the surface networking. Curated dinners, peer roundtables, and unstructured time with the people running cold storage, processing, packaging, and beyond.
See where industrial controls are headed, weigh in on the priorities that matter to facilities like yours, and help shape what comes next for the platforms running heavy industry.
Operators from the frontlines, engineers from the trenches, and leaders reshaping how heavy industry works. More to be announced through Q3.
Two and a half days, beachfront. A tight program of keynotes, industry stories, hands-on workshops and product sessions — bracketed by the parties that make the rest of it stick.
Bring a challenge from your operation and learn how to translate it into a practical AI routine. Explore where agentic AI can help, what context and guardrails it requires, and how to prioritize use cases that teams will trust, adopt, and scale.
Reach out directly if you're interested — this is a small-group workshop and space is limited.
The Summit opens at a classic Santa Barbara brewery and beer garden. Drinks, light bites, and a soft landing into three days of conversation.
CrossnoKaye co-founders Jesse Crossno and Bryan Kaye open this year's Innovation Summit with their point of view on why heavy industry must unlock trapped performance within the assets, systems, and expertise it already has—and why the next era of operations belongs to the adaptive industrial enterprise. Explore how CrossnoKaye is helping industry unlock that potential through intelligence, advanced process control, and modern control foundations.
Jesse Crossno & Bryan Kaye — Co-Founders, CrossnoKaye
Following the founders' vision for the adaptable industrial enterprise, Mason Weems shares how CrossnoKaye's product team is bringing it to life. Explore the roadmap across intelligence, advanced process control, and modern controls—and the principles behind it: AI embedded in real workflows, connected to the plant, and built to deliver trusted results that operators and support teams will use.
Mason Weems — VP of Product, CrossnoKaye
Improving plant performance can feel risky when a batch, shift, or audit is on the line. Hear operators and process leaders share how they partnered with CrossnoKaye to turn process intuition and fragmented data into a working application, what they learned along the way, and how they built confidence to close the loop—improving yield, throughput, and day-to-day performance.
Energy is now a fast-moving operational variable. Using industrial refrigeration as an example, Jesse will show how Advanced Process Control (APC) turns changing prices, grid signals, and equipment conditions into coordinated, real-time action. Explore how adaptive control helps cold-storage operators manage energy costs—and why increasingly dynamic operations need systems that extend beyond manual monitoring and tribal knowledge.
AI is the most powerful tool we've ever built for expanding human potential and human flourishing. But that outcome isn't guaranteed. Rather than painting a utopian or dystopian future, Zack draws on 15+ years at the frontier of AI to demonstrate how technology expands what's possible, but human choice determines where it leads.
Zack Kass — Global AI Advisor & Former Head of Go-To-Market, OpenAI
Wind down with drinks on the oceanfront terrace, then sit down to a long-table dinner with the people who run the industry alongside you.
A successful pilot doesn't automatically become a program. Hear CrossnoKaye customers at different stages of adoption discuss what it takes to scale: choosing the right site, aligning operations and leadership on value, preparing teams for change, measuring results, and building the internal case for expansion. Expect an honest conversation about what worked, what stalled, and what they'd do differently.
Join us to celebrate the industrial refrigeration leaders redefining what it means to be a good citizen of the grid. Through CrossnoKaye's closed-loop control and APC suite, these customers are turning operational flexibility into lower costs, stronger performance, and meaningful grid impact. Hear their success stories, see the results, and recognize the organizations proving that smarter refrigeration can benefit both the business and the energy system.
AI is moving beyond chatbots and experiments into the systems that power real-world operations. In this closing keynote, CrossnoKaye CTO Raph explores physical AI: intelligence built to work within the constraints of equipment, people, safety, and compliance. Learn why successful AI adoption requires trust, context, and human collaboration—and how industrial leaders can turn AI ambition into meaningful operational outcomes.
Raphael Simon — Chief Technology Officer, CrossnoKaye
Sunset over the Pacific. The last toast. The conversations that always seem to start right as we leave.
Six things you'll walk away with after the Summit — not slides, but working approaches and real relationships.
Two minutes of last year's three days — keynotes, breakouts, the late-night corridor conversations. Plus three featured talks worth your time.
Voices from the 2025 Summit — operators and leaders reflecting on what they took home.
When I look at where we've come from in just the last couple years and what we saw this year at the summit, I'm just shocked at how quickly it's progressing, how quickly it's changing, and I'm excited.
Everybody's catching this revolution of sustainability, of energy efficiency, of operational efficiency. It's like we're marching down the street and people are coming out of their houses to march with us in this pursuit of greatness.
Three days on the Pacific, steps from the sand. The Hilton Beachfront pairs the easy pace of the California coast with the room you need for a working summit — ocean-view sessions by day, sunset receptions by night, and a discounted room block to make staying simple.
Prefer to book by phone? Call the hotel directly at 805-564-4333 and reference group code 901 to access our discounted rate.
Innovation Summit 2027 is invitation-only. Use the form below to claim your seat.