Programme time: 14-Oct | 11:15 | 75 min
Room: D. Maria Room (Trust-to-market)

Moderator: TBC
Speakers
•  TBC

Full description and objectives

As industrial AI evolves from predictive models and copilots toward increasingly autonomous agents, the decisive question becomes trust: can agentic systems be validated, audited and governed well enough to act on the shop floor and across the value chain? This workshop focuses on the foundations for trustworthy, scalable and sovereign industrial agentic AI. Pitches from academia, industry and technology providers will address cognitive digital twins as the interface between agents and the physical world, deterministic and verifiable execution through knowledge graphs and behaviour trees, open standards for interoperable data such as the Asset Administration Shell and the Model Context Protocol, and lifecycle validation, auditability and accountability. An interactive panel and live polling will examine human oversight, secure data-sharing among agents, assets and humans, and Europe’s path to sovereign, industrial-grade agentic-AI capability.

Learning goal

Participants will leave able to map the validation and governance pathway that takes an industrial agent from prototype to trustworthy, standards-based deployment.

Predefined discussion questions

• What trust, validation and human-oversight mechanisms must be in place before autonomous agents act on the shop floor or the value chain?

• What 'assurance' means in this context, and what steps are necessary for adoption?

• How can data be shared securely among AI agents, assets and humans (standards, compliance,…)?

• How should agent behaviour be audited and governed across its lifecycle?

• What must Europe do in skills, suppliers, infrastructure and reference architectures to build sovereign, industrial-grade agentic-AI capability?

Why you want to join?

This workshop addresses the trust, validation, governance and open-standards foundations that allow AI-Data-Robotics convergence to scale safely in industry, placing it at the core of ADR Forum's vision of a resilient, strategically autonomous Europe. Its themes align directly with the Forum's emphasis on regulatory frameworks and technological independence, and with EU instruments such as the AI Act and the Data Governance Act. The selection brings together universities, research and technology centres, and industry across several Member States advancing academia-industry collaboration and the move from pilots to trustworthy, sovereign deployment.

Running agenda