BUILD BETTER 2026 OPENING KEYNOTE
The Frontier of Electronics
Manufacturing
Anna Shedletsky • CEO & Founder, Instrumental • 25 min
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AI infrastructure is overtaking consumer electronics as the largest category of electronics manufacturing. And the hardware behind it is so complex that human engineering is becoming the limiting factor.
The industry has hit this wall once before.
Instrumental’s CEO shares what happened then, what’s shaping this moment, and what it means for the leaders building at the edge of what’s possible.
IN THIS KEYNOTE
Building at scale when process margin has been designed out
How backlog and material scarcity are changing the value of every unit
What it takes to build manufacturing that improves itself
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