Kushagra Thakur

Kushagra Thakur

Senior Product Manager Honeywell

Kushagra Thakur is a Senior Product Manager at Honeywell specializing in industrial AI, predictive maintenance, and asset performance management. With more than 15 years of experience, he leads the development of AI-powered solutions that help energy and industrial organizations improve reliability and optimize critical operations. His expertise spans agentic AI, anomaly detection, machine learning, and intelligent asset management across refineries, power plants, and manufacturing facilities. Passionate about the convergence of AI and industrial systems, Kushagra focuses on helping organizations transition from reactive maintenance to autonomous operations and the next generation of intelligent enterprises.

Conference Day 1 - Wednesday September 23

8:40 AM Agentic AI: The Next Evolution in Asset Reliability

  • Move beyond predictive maintenance to AI agents that can investigate, reason, coordinate and act on emerging asset conditions.
  • Transform weak and disconnected industrial signals into actionable reliability decisions using operational and maintenance context.
  • Connect IoT, APM, EAM/CMMS and ERP to enable end-to-end agentic reliability workflows.
  • Illustrate agentic AI through a real-world industrial reliability scenario, from early detection through diagnosis and recommended action.
  • Strengthen asset reliability, safety, workforce productivity and operational decision-making through faster, context-aware workflows.
  • Enable continuous improvement through feedback and learning loops, allowing agents and workflows to refine recommendations based on operational outcomes.
  • Advance toward trusted industrial autonomy with human oversight, explainability, cybersecurity, auditability and operational guardrails.

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