Keynotes, panels, and conversations with the hardware, manufacturing, operations, and
quality leaders building what comes next.
Only once before in the history of electronics have the products outgrown the people building them. Anna-Katrina Shedletsky on the three trends defining this moment and where they lead next.
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, CEO and cofounder, Instrumental · 25 min
Keynotes and panels from the annual Build Better Summit.
Only once before in the history of electronics have the products outgrown the people building them. Anna-Katrina Shedletsky on the three trends defining this moment and where they lead next.
What are the limiting factors in your production system — and how can you systemically eliminate them to achieve “speed-of-light production”? Leaders share their systems behind rapid production ramps and continuous yield and throughput optimization.
From how we work to how we build, AI is already transforming the factory floor. Join this discussion on what leaders are implementing today, the real results they are getting, and what they believe “AI Native Manufacturing” looks like from NPI to scale.
From Pebble and Apple Watch to AI-native wearables and the next wave of ambient computing, the builders behind defining eras of wearable intelligence unpack what each generation taught us about technology, design, and human behavior. What happens next as intelligence moves beyond the screen and becomes something we wear, carry, and increasingly live with?
As factories evolve from computer vision to multimodal intelligence, agents, and physical AI, the frontier is shifting toward systems that can understand, learn, and act. Explore what this means for electronics brands managing intelligence across a distributed manufacturing network—from deciding what lives with the product, at the edge, or with the factory, to using simulation and synthetic data to learn from failures before they happen.
AI trays and racks are the most complex electronics being built at scale today. Designing, testing, and repairing these systems are a herculean task. Learn how engineering teams are reducing escapes, accelerating debug, and scaling test for increasingly complex systems.
As hardware becomes more valuable, complex, and resource-intensive, its second life is becoming part of the engineering problem. Leaders across AI infrastructure and high-volume electronics explore how products are being recovered, rebuilt, redeployed, and designed for a world where the end of one product lifecycle can be the beginning of another.
