How Manufacturers Turn AI Opportunities into Business Outcomes

Most companies are holding a handful of isolated wins from AI, whether that's individual productivity gains or a pilot program. The next phase of AI evolution is transformation: AI becomes how you create outcomes across the business.

Outcomes, Not Just Opportunities

AI, or more precisely agents, holds the promise to transform the business by creating outcomes, whether that's revenue opportunities that move too slowly to capture, order and fulfillment handoffs that create delay and cost instead of speed, or skilled people spending hours on transactional work that needs almost no judgment at all. Solving for outcomes, not just proving value, is the shift agentic enterprises are undertaking now, and it's what's moving them toward becoming a frontier firm: processes designed around AI from the outset, not AI bolted onto processes that already existed.

What You'll Learn in This Session

You've seen the opportunity AI provides. The next phase is turning one AI win into a scaled, repeatable pattern around business outcomes.

Know which AI opportunity to prioritize and scale first, and not just where AI could help, but where scaling it moves the business
Move beyond one-off pilots to measurable, outcome-driven business impact
See real patterns pulled from production deployments. Learn how manufacturers turned a single AI win into a repeatable model.
Leave with a way to apply that same pattern to your own AI roadmap

Meet the Speaker

Speaker- Emilie Toll

US Marketing Director

Emilie Toll works at the intersection of business and technology, helping organizations connect Microsoft business applications, data, automation, and AI solutions to real-world business outcomes. Her passion is helping business and IT leaders cut through complexity and make more informed technology decisions.

As the moderator for this session, Emilie will guide the discussion around how proactive, AI-driven performance monitoring is reshaping Dynamics 365 operations. She will help connect the technical concepts to the broader business impact, ensuring attendees gain practical insights that matter to both IT and business stakeholders.

Reasons to attend this session

You're Seeing Productivity Gains, Not Business Impact

AI is already making your people faster individually, but you're not sure how to turn that into impact the business actually feels.

You Know the Outcome, Not the Path to It

You understand what AI could unlock for your business — what you need is help turning that into the process changes that actually get you there.

You Want to See What Other Manufacturers Are Doing

You're less interested in theory than in what your peers are actually building with AI right now, and what's moving the needle for them.

You're Stuck At Any Stage of AI Adoption and Need a Starting Point

Whether it's blank-page syndrome or just not knowing where to begin, you want a real example of technology and people working together to get you unstuck.