Outthink Industrial Risk: How Decision Intelligence Prevents Operational Loss

Industrial organizations generate enormous volumes of asset, maintenance, inspection, and operational data. Yet executives still struggle to answer the questions that matter most: Where is exposure building? Which assets or facilities pose the greatest threat to revenue, customer commitments, EBITDA, and business continuity? And where should capital, maintenance capacity, and management attention be directed first?

The problem is no longer a lack of data. It is the intelligence gap between detecting a physical signal and understanding its consequence, priority, and required action.

Join Andy Pruett, Founder and CEO of Lumicent, and Joe Blow, VP of Supply Chain at USA Rare Earth, for the introduction of Lumicent Decision Intelligence for Physical Operations.

The session will show how Lumicent combines continuous asset data, advanced analytics, Physical AI, and agentic workflows to turn changing real-world conditions into decision-ready risk intelligence. Physical AI learns what normal looks like, detects meaningful deviations, and helps interpret what those changes could mean for operations and the business. Agentic workflows then help trigger, coordinate, and track the right response across people, systems, and operating processes.

Attendees will see how Lumicent's Asset Risk Management capabilities deliver measurable value today through 24/7 monitoring of critical equipment and single points of failure – helping organizations reduce unplanned downtime by up to 50%, reduce manual inspections by up to 90%, and direct scarce resources toward the risks with the greatest potential consequence.

Lumicent's FM Approved Class II Asset Condition Monitoring System also provides continuous, defensible evidence of resilience for executives, boards, FM risk engineers, insurers, and underwriters. One avoided claim can pay for the system.

Attendees will learn how to:

• Turn real-world asset data into prioritized operational and financial risk intelligence
• Use Physical AI to identify meaningful changes in complex operating environments
• Connect emerging asset conditions to business consequence and enterprise exposure
• Use agentic workflows to accelerate and coordinate action across teams and systems
• Reduce downtime and manual inspection requirements through continuous monitoring
• Strengthen FM and insurance discussions with measurable evidence of risk improvement
  

Speakers

Andy Pruett
CEO & Co-Founder
Lumicent

Andy Pruett is the founder and CEO of Lumicent, the company bringing Decision Intelligence to Physical Operations. 

Lumicent combines continuous operational data, advanced analytics, Physical AI, and agentic workflows to reveal emerging risk, prioritize what matters most, and drive action before exposure becomes downtime, damage, or loss. Before founding Lumicent, Andy served as Vice President of Technology at a leading agricultural manufacturing company and led enterprise-wide digital transformation as Director of Business Transformation at a major softwood lumber organization.

His experience spans mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, asset management, and industrial technology. Throughout his career, Andy has focused on building scalable and resilient solutions that bridge the gap between physical operations, enterprise technology, and better business decisions. Andy holds a B.Sc. in Management Information Systems from Middlesex University in the United Kingdom and Arcadia University in the United States. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT.