Driving Bold Innovation: How manufacturing leaders are engaging the workforce and disproportionately impacting cross-industry innovations through collaborative leadership.  

Leading Change with Confidence: Proven principles and strategies from 1,000+ award-winning organizations to fuel personal and professional growth and impact. 

Going for Extraordinary: Practical ways to lead collaboration, excellence, innovation, and cultural transformation, especially in times of uncertainty and disruption. 

In the age of accelerating technology disruption, manufacturing success is no longer defined by tools and systems alone, it’s defined by people. While digital transformation dominates headlines, the real competitive advantage lies in building a purpose, driven, resilient workforce empowered to collaboratively lead, adapt, and innovate. 

 In this energizing keynote, José Pires shares practical lessons from decades of cross-industry transformation, spanning semiconductors, consumer goods, energy, and infrastructure, and informed by insights from over 1,000 award-winning organizations. With compelling stories and tested frameworks, he challenges conventional thinking and demonstrates how collaborative leadership, disciplined innovation, and workforce engagement turn uncertainty into value creation. You’ll leave inspired and equipped to lead your teams through disruption—not just with technology, but with people at the center of scalable and sustainable transformation.