iAPSCC® AI & Industry Summit
The Horizon Report: AI, Heavy Industry, and the Future of Planning, Scheduling & Controls
Three hours. No vendor keynotes. No corporate transformation talking points. Practitioners, researchers, and strategic thinkers speaking directly to the people who plan, schedule, and control heavy industrial work for a living.
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What This Event Was
AI is already inside the fence line. It’s showing up in planning software, in owner-company pilots, and in job postings that didn’t look like that eighteen months ago. What was missing wasn’t information about AI — it was an honest conversation from people who are actually doing the work.
The audience was planners, schedulers, project controls professionals, turnaround coordinators, and the supervisors and project managers responsible for them — across oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, power generation, mining, and capital construction. No theory. Just what’s real.
iAPSCC® AI Impact Research Program
A tri-directional study running three simultaneous surveys targeting practitioners, management and leadership, and AI developers as distinct audiences. The complete findings were presented live at this summit.
Summit Agenda
Three hours, three parallel tracks, no pre-recorded sessions. Every session was delivered live.
Opening Block
10:00 – 10:25 AM · 25 min
Welcome & Introduction
10:25 – 10:45 AM · 20 min
The Horizon Report
Original iAPSCC® research capturing three independent perspectives across the industry — practitioners, management, and AI developers. Reveals where AI adoption actually stands today, highlighting readiness gaps, real-world use cases, and where efforts are falling short.
Parallel Track Sessions
Three tracks run simultaneously — attendees select one.
Track 1
AI in the Field
How AI is being applied in real industrial environments — turnarounds, capital projects, and maintenance planning. Schedule optimization, scope alignment, risk identification, and resource forecasting.
Track 2
The Workforce Reality
How AI is reshaping roles, expectations, and career paths across planning, scheduling, and project controls — which skills matter more and where gaps in readiness remain.
Track 3
The Strategic View
Governance frameworks, risk ownership, change management, and the unresolved commercial questions between owners and contractors as AI enters planning and controls environments.
Closing Block
12:30 – 12:45 PM · 15 min
The Horizon Award
Four awards presented live: the Horizon Award, Impact Award, Rising Voice Award, and Vanguard Award — each recognizing meaningful contributions, measurable impact, and forward-thinking leadership in the field.
12:45 – 1:00 PM · 15 min
Summit Close
Key insights, takeaways, and where the industry is heading as AI adoption continues to accelerate.
Three Tracks. Three Perspectives.
Each track ran 90 minutes with three 25-minute sessions. All sessions are now available as recordings.
AI in the Field, Real Applications
The most technically detailed track. Demos encouraged. For professionals who want to see exactly what’s working and how.
- Agentic planning & AI-assisted scheduling in turnaround and capital projects
- AI integration with CMMS platforms (SAP, Maximo)
- Predictive maintenance scheduling
- Owner-company AI pilots — what’s actually running
- Where human judgment still outperforms AI
The Workforce Reality
For practitioners and early-to-mid-career planners and schedulers navigating what AI adoption means for their roles.
- Workforce restructuring in planning & scheduling functions
- AI literacy programs with measurable outcomes
- Career pivot and reskilling case studies
- Generational divides in AI adoption
- What “AI collaborator” means as a job requirement
The Strategic View
For supervisors, project controls managers, and decision-makers who own the implementation decisions.
- AI governance frameworks for project controls
- Contractual risk and liability in AI-generated schedule scenarios
- Change management for AI adoption in field-heavy environments
- Owner vs. contractor perspectives on AI
- Ethics of AI in planning and scheduling
Summit Awards
Four awards were presented at the closing ceremony. Summit presenters were automatically eligible for the Horizon Award and Impact Award.
The Horizon Award
Recognizing the most forward-thinking contribution to the summit’s body of knowledge.
The Impact Award
For the session that delivers the most immediately actionable insight for practitioners.
The Rising Voice Award
For practitioners under 10 years in the profession bringing fresh perspective to the field.
The Vanguard Award
Company-level recognition for industry-leading AI implementation in planning, scheduling, controls, or coordination.
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Summit Session Recordings
Full Summit Recording
Keynote Speakers
Track 2 — The Workforce Reality
Track 3 — The Strategic View
Track 1 recordings are not available due to a rendering issue during the event.
About iAPSCC®
iAPSCC® is the professional association for planning, scheduling, and controls practitioners in heavy industry. Members work across turnaround, capital project, and reliability operations in oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, power generation, mining, and construction.
The association’s AI & Career Sustainability Research initiative studied how artificial intelligence is reshaping these roles across all levels of the profession — from practitioners to management to the developers building the tools. The summit is where that research went public.
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