The Enterprise Digital Twin Conference for Practitioners, Not Pitches
Digital twins are no longer a concept confined to R&D labs. They are reshaping how enterprises manage infrastructure, optimize operations, and make decisions at scale. At the 2026 Augmented Enterprise Summit, enterprise practitioners from energy, aerospace, automotive, pharma, retail, utilities, and more will share how they are building and deploying digital twins to solve real problems today. If you are evaluating, piloting, or scaling digital twin initiatives, this is where your peers will be October 13 through 15 in Atlanta, Georgia.
What Enterprise Digital Twins Actually Look Like in Production
The term “digital twin” means different things in different industries. In energy, it might be a real-time model of a refinery process. In aerospace and defense, it could be a simulation environment for complex systems engineering. In water infrastructure, it might be a predictive model that prevents service failures before they happen.
What these use cases share is a common set of challenges: Integrating IT and OT data, justifying ROI to leadership, choosing the right platform architecture, and scaling from a single-site proof of concept to an enterprise-wide deployment. The Augmented Enterprise Summit brings together the people who have navigated these challenges firsthand.
Unlike vendor-led conferences that showcase idealized demos, the Summit’s program is built around enterprise end-user case studies. Over 85% of attendees are enterprise practitioners, not vendors. That means the conversations in sessions and in the hallways are grounded in operational reality.
Why IT and OT Convergence Is the Real Digital Twin Challenge
Most digital twin initiatives stall at the same point: Getting IT and OT systems to work together. Operational technology generates the real-time data that makes digital twins valuable, but that data lives in systems and networks that were never designed to integrate with enterprise IT platforms.
The organizations presenting at the Summit have solved this problem in different ways, across very different industries. Their approaches offer practical models for teams that are still working through integration challenges, data governance questions, and organizational alignment between IT and OT stakeholders.
Sessions You Will Not Want to Miss
Combining IT and OT: Creating and Deploying Digital Twins to Solve Real-World ProblemsThis panel brings together digital twin leaders from multiple industries to discuss how they bridge IT and OT systems in production environments. Panelists include Jim Cooper, Global Director of Water at Arcadis and Inaugural Chair of the AWWA Digital Twins Committee; Ed Moore, Distinguished Engineer at Chevron with over 30 years in the energy industry; Darin Bolthouse, Senior Manager of the Collaborative Human Immersive Lab at Lockheed Martin; and representatives from Walmart. They will cover architecture decisions, data integration strategies, and lessons learned from deploying digital twins at enterprise scale.
Who Attends the Augmented Enterprise Summit
The Summit draws 1,250 or more attendees, with over 85% coming from enterprise end-user organizations. You will find innovation leads, operations managers, IT architects, engineering directors, digital transformation strategists, and more from Fortune 500 companies and large government agencies.
These are the people responsible for understanding emerging technologies like digital twins, AI, and XR, and for finding solutions that work within their organizations. They come to the Summit because the program is built for practitioners, with real case studies from companies that are implementing and scaling these technologies today.
Past and confirmed participating companies include CVS Health, Airbus, Coca-Cola, Dow, Volvo, AstraZeneca, ExxonMobil, and dozens more across industries.
Join Us in Atlanta, October 13-15, 2026
The Augmented Enterprise Summit is the only conference that brings together enterprise AI, XR, and digital twin practitioners under one roof. With 90 or more speakers, 75 or more sponsors, and a program designed by and for enterprise end users, this is where the digital twin/emerging tech community comes to learn, compare notes, and move projects forward.