Beyond Physical Limits: Building 10x Faster as One Global Manufacturer

AI is expanding the frontier of intelligence faster than ever, yet the physical world has barely changed. It took four years to develop a car 30 years ago, and it still takes four years today. The gap between what we can imagine and what we can build is becoming the real bottleneck.

In this session, Riku Goto, Global VP at CADDi, shares CADDi’s vision to accelerate physical innovation by 10x by 2035, and how an AI data platform built for manufacturing makes that possible. He will also discuss why global manufacturers cannot reach 10x by optimizing one site at a time, and how connecting headquarters and every overseas operation on a single foundation turns scattered knowledge into a competitive advantage.

What you will learn

• Why “materialization,” not intelligence, is the next bottleneck for manufacturing
• Why manufacturing still cannot reuse knowledge the way software reuses code, and what changes when it can
• How global manufacturers can connect HQ and overseas sites to compound knowledge across borders

Speaker
Riku Goto, Global VP, CADDi

CADDi is a global manufacturing technology company driven by the vision to accelerate physical innovation tenfold. Headquartered in Chicago and Tokyo, the company was founded in 2017 by industry veterans Yushiro Kato and Aki Kobashi, formerly of McKinsey and Apple, respectively. CADDi currently serves manufacturing businesses in more than 20 countries, including many of the largest publicly traded companies in Japan and the United States. Total funding stands at $234 million, valuing the company at $1.2 billion.

CADDi’s Manufacturing AI Data Platform analyzes, structures, contextualizes, and connects data that has historically been fragmented across the manufacturing value chain. With a proprietary AI model, CADDi offers domain-specific Workflow Products spanning the manufacturing value chain, enhancing decision-making and execution to drive business-critical impact. To learn more, visit caddi.com.