Industry Leader Conference

Innovation Summit 2027

Spring 2027
Santa Barbara, California
3Days 2Parties 1Summit Invite-Only Hilton Beachfront 3Days 2Parties 1Summit Invite-Only Hilton Beachfront
Why Attend

Where Industry Meets Innovation

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.

01 / Learn

Hands-on with Industry Leaders

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.

02 / Connect

Innovators worth knowing

Skip the surface networking. Curated dinners, peer roundtables, and unstructured time with the people running cold storage, processing, packaging, and beyond.

03 / Build

The road ahead, unfiltered

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.

Featured Voices

Speakers & Panelists

Operators from the frontlines, engineers from the trenches, and leaders reshaping how heavy industry works. More to be announced through Q3.

Three Days

The Program

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.

12:00 — 4:00 PM

AI Workshop: Hands-On Industrial AI Workshop

Get hands-on with agentic AI and explore how it can be applied across industrial operations and teams. Participants will test practical use cases, learn how to evaluate AI architecture and accuracy, and identify the right questions to ask technology vendors. You'll leave with a clearer understanding of how AI works—and a practical framework for applying it responsibly within your organization.

5:00 — 7:00 PM

Kickoff Party

The Summit opens beachfront at the Hilton. Drinks, light bites, and a soft landing into three days of conversation.

Summit Session

From Optimized Opportunity to Operational Reality

Every process engineer has a list of changes they would make if they knew it would not cost them a batch, a shift, or a customer audit. Operators from food processing and adjacent process industries share how they turned those opportunities into running systems—where yield and throughput gains came from, what they chose not to automate, and how they built enough confidence to close the loop.

Summit Session

The Facility as a Grid Asset: What Changed When Refrigeration Could Answer the Market

Cold storage operators who have put energy strategy under software control talk about what actually happened: what they changed first, what it saved, who inside their organization pushed back, and what they realized when they went from one site to ten. Includes an energy market partner on what the grid is paying for that most businesses don't realize is available to them.

Summit Session

Proving the Hunch: Turning What Your Best Operators Know into a Running Application

Yield, throughput, and the opportunity nobody was looking for. Full description coming soon.

Summit Session

From Pilot to Portfolio: An Honest Conversation About What Separates Them

Most pilots do not stall because the technology fails. Two operators at different points in the journey—one still evaluating a pilot and one deep into a portfolio rollout—share what builds confidence, what slows decisions, and what ultimately turns a promising test into a scalable program. CrossnoKaye will also share patterns from across the pilots it has supported.

After 5:00 PM

Happy Hour & Dinner at Convivo

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.

Summit Session

Industrial AI and Operational Intelligence in the Wild: Three Facilities, a Year of AURA, and What Actually Held Up

Most industrial AI is described. This session is about what happened when three facilities actually ran it. Three customers on what they used AURA for day to day — troubleshooting, energy and cost decisions, keeping teams informed — what they debated, what it got wrong early, and what changed. CrossnoKaye closes with where it goes next, and what it has been deliberately built not to do.

4:00 — 6:00 PM

Closing Party

Sunset over the Pacific. The last toast. The conversations that always seem to start right as we leave.

What You'll Take Back

Leave with more than you brought

Six things you'll walk away with after the Summit — not slides, but working approaches and real relationships.

01
Strategies for applying advanced process controls.
02
Strategies for reducing energy consumption.
03
Frameworks for evaluating AI in industrial environments.
04
Approaches for improving operator adoption.
05
Examples of enterprise-scale control system modernization.
06
Peer insights from industry leaders managing hundreds of facilities.
Watch

Summit 2025 in Frames

Two minutes of last year's three days — keynotes, breakouts, the late-night corridor conversations. Plus three featured talks worth your time.

Recap · 2 min 14 sec
Three Days. One Platform.
ATLAS Customer Story
Watch
Lineage · 20–30% Energy Savings with ATLAS
2:10
US Foods · 75% Alarm Reduction with ATLAS
1:34
From Last Year

What attendees said

Voices from the 2025 Summit — operators and leaders reflecting on what they took home.

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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.
Joe Guevel Certified Industrial Partners
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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.
Matt Jones Innovative Cold Storage
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The Venue

Hilton Beachfront
Santa Barbara

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.

Setting
Beachfront · Ocean View
Room Block
Details to come
Travel
SBA · LAX
Weather
72° & clear
Questions

Things You Might Ask

The Innovation Summit is for operators, engineers, and leaders running industrial facilities — current ATLAS customers, teams evaluating the platform, and the people reshaping how heavy industry runs. The Summit is invitation-only and built for senior decision-makers and the practitioners they work alongside.
Two days of keynotes, customer stories, panels, and product deep-dives across operations excellence, predictive maintenance, energy optimization, compliance, sustainability, and the unfiltered roadmap for ATLAS Platform. Expect content from the operators on stage and the engineers shipping the platform.
All Innovation Summit sessions across both days, the Kickoff Party, Happy Hour and Dinner, and the Closing Party. Plus all meals, coffee, and on-site programming throughout the event.
Your travel to and from Santa Barbara, CA and lodging during the event are not included. There are discounted rooms available via our room block in the Hilton Beachfront Santa Barbara.
Innovation Summit 2027 is invitation-only, but we would love to help you bring your team! Please email innovationsummit@crossnokaye.com directly to request additional invitations, and ask about our group discount.
CrossnoKaye can refund the full price of purchased tickets until 30 days from the event. After 30 days, a 50% refund will be offered.
Please email innovationsummit@crossnokaye.com directly with any additional questions.