TRANSFORM 2026 Houston: Emerson in Conversation

In this fireside chat, Claudio Fayad (CTO, Aspen Technology, Emerson) and Said Ouissal (CEO and Founder, ZEDEDA) sit down to discuss how industrial AI is moving operations from proprietary control hardware to software-defined edge architectures that run real-time, legacy and AI workloads on the same compute. They cover Emerson's Project Beyond and why industrial AI must pair generative models with deterministic physics-based models, running on-prem for security, data sovereignty and predictable cost. The conversation ends with advice for leaders: put OT at the center of your AI strategy from day one.