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National Sovereignty
Industrial AI as statecraft. Compute, models, and manufacturing capacity as the new instruments of national power — and the alliances that decide who builds, who depends, and who decides.
A state banquet of minds — not a tech expo. One day, one room, the leaders of the twenty-five-trillion-dollar industrial and semiconductor economy.
Hosted by the Industrial AI Federation
It would be an honor to welcome you to Tokyo — to consider, among equals, what sovereignty over industrial intelligence will mean for the next generation.
The Industrial AI Federation Convening since 2022
For three years, IIAC has gathered the heads of nations, fabs, and faculties who shape how intelligence is built into the physical world. The fourth edition moves to the industrial capital of the world — Tokyo — for a single, deliberate day on the question beneath every other question: who governs the intelligence that runs the factory, the grid, and the supply chain?
Attendance is limited. The room is the point.
Each thread runs through every session — in the keynotes, the panels, and the private dinners that follow.
Industrial AI as statecraft. Compute, models, and manufacturing capacity as the new instruments of national power — and the alliances that decide who builds, who depends, and who decides.
The values embedded in industrial intelligence. Whose norms shape the autonomous factory? Whose labor, whose aesthetics, whose ethics train the systems that train the next systems?
The sovereignty of the firm and the line. Proprietary data, process knowledge, and the foundry floor — the quiet intelligence that decides whether a nation can make what it designs.
This year's theme is anchored by Project Tapestry — the AI Alliance's open consortium for co-training a shared frontier model, from which nations and institutions build sovereign systems they own and control.
Tapestry is the through-line of the program: the technical substrate beneath national capacity, the cultural values embedded in the weights, and the industrial data that shapes them. Few subjects are more urgent, or more global, today.
A single track, no parallel sessions. The program is curated, not called — there is no call for papers. The Program Committee selects the leading-edge work worth highlighting, sharing, and learning from at the frontiers of Industrial AI. Detailed sessions to be announced.
Arrival, accreditation, and a quiet first hour.
Industrial AI as statecraft: compute, capacity, and alliance.
Heads of the world’s leading semiconductor and industrial firms.
Whose values train the autonomous factory?
Seated by table theme. Limited seating.
The AI Alliance's open consortium: co-training a shared frontier model that nations and institutions build on, own, and control.
Process data, process knowledge, and the intelligence of the foundry floor.
A statement of direction, drafted in the room.
An intimate gathering of the conference's speakers, chairs, and partners. For invited guests.
A curated program, not an open call. Below, the keynote we have invited and the committee whose networks shape the rest of the day. The full roster is published as confirmations close.
President & CTO · Honeywell Invited Keynote
Leads one of the world's foremost industrial enterprises at the frontier where AI meets the physical systems that run aviation, energy, and the factory floor. On what industrial AI sovereignty means in practice.
Founder · Semiconductor
Chair or CEO of a leading foundry, on the fab as the sovereign territory of the AI era.
Government · National Sovereignty
A minister or cabinet-level official on compute, capacity, and industrial policy.
Academic · Socio-Cultural
A senior academic on the values and labor embedded in autonomous industrial systems.
Chair · Industrial firm
Leader of a heavy-industry or energy major, on process intelligence and the line.
Practitioner · Industrial AI
A builder of the models that run the factory floor, on Project Tapestry in production.
Full speaker roster published upon confirmation. Request an invitation to be notified.
A curated program is only as strong as the committee that shapes it. This year's committee draws from the semiconductor, systems, and research institutions building sovereign industrial AI — anchored in Project Tapestry.
The committee selects the program by curation rather than call for papers. To suggest work the committee should consider, write to pc26@iiac.events.
The Federation has convened IIAC annually since the first edition at Stanford in 2022 — bringing government, industry, and academia into the same room on the future of industrial intelligence. The fourth edition is the first held outside the United States, and is convened with the AI Alliance around Project Tapestry.
The industrial capital of the world. Precise venue and accommodations announced with confirmations.
A city that has spent a century proving that prestige and precision are the same word.
The fourth edition moves from Stanford to Tokyo — to the source of the industrial discipline this conference is about. Sessions, meals, and the closing dinner will be held within walking distance of one another, in a venue chosen for conversation rather than spectacle.
IIAC is intentionally small and intentionally senior. A limited number of patronages put your firm in front of the people who decide — not in a trade-show hall, but at the table. Tiers and benefits below are draft, to be tailored with each patron.
IIAC is by invitation. Approved requests are confirmed within five business days, with travel guidance and the venue address. The tiers below are indicative; final pricing ships with the invitation.
Full-day plenary, hosted luncheon, and reception. For practicing industry attendees.
RequestEverything in Standard, plus the private closing dinner. Reserved for chair, CEO, and cabinet-level attendees.
RequestSubsidized rate for verified faculty, researchers, and government officials. Limited places.
RequestAttendance is capped to preserve the character of the room. If your firm is sending more than one attendee, please request a patronage — see tiers.