A Global Trade Federation Est. 2021
Industry leaders, distinguished researchers, and expert engineers — alongside the leading companies accelerating AI adoption across the industries that run the physical economy.
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Members
Manufacturers, fabs, equipment and materials suppliers, systems integrators, banks, research bodies, and the open consortia that connect them.
Full member directory coming soon. Inquire about membership.
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Mission & Point of View
Industrial AI is the intelligence that runs a fab, a grid, a supply chain, a factory line. It lives in process recipes honed over decades, in the heads of retiring engineers, in the defect-class logs of every part ever inspected.
The firms that own the intelligence layer of their factories will own the next industrial era. Those that lease it back from a vendor-held cloud will pay forever, at a price that only goes one way. Sovereignty over that intelligence — owning the models, the data, and the deployment, on your own terms — is the question of the decade for every industrial firm.
No single firm can answer it alone. The standards, the shared research agenda, the talent pipeline, the interoperability between equipment and models, the policy conversation — these are pre-competitive. They are exactly what a federation exists to do: what no member can do alone, done once, for all members.
That is the federation's point of view, and the reason industrial organizations join.
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Membership
Concrete, member-driven value — not "join the community." Five reasons industrial firms join IAF, and what to expect at each.
Member-led working groups on the pre-competitive problems no single firm should solve twice — interoperability, evaluation, deployment patterns, safety.
Working groups forming now
A credible, vendor-neutral place to shape the standards and benchmarks industrial AI will be measured against — alongside the firms that will adopt them.
Priority access to IAF's convenings — including the International Industrial AI Conference (IIAC) and the AI-Semiconductor Conference (AISC) — and the room they create.
A federated research agenda that pools member priorities with leading university and lab partners, so members help steer the work that matters to their roadmaps.
Direct, working-level relationships with the chairs, CTOs, and heads of AI at peer firms, suppliers, and customers across the industrial economy.
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Programs & Initiatives
The federation convenes, builds, and partners. Three flagship programs today — and the structure to take on more as members direct.
Flagship Conference
The convening of the industrial-AI establishment, since 2021. The first editions were held at Stanford, 2021 through 2024; the fourth — IIAC 2026 — moves to Tokyo.
Visit iiac.eventsConference
Where the leaders of semiconductors and AI convene to explore the convergence of the two — driving innovation and strategic partnerships across the global ecosystem.
Visit aisc.eventsShared Initiative
A shared initiative between IAF and the AI Alliance — the world's largest open AI consortium — to build a collaborative foundation for open and sovereign AI.
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Convening
2021–24
United States · 37.42°N / 122.16°W
IIAC · First Editions
The International Industrial AI Conference convened at Stanford University from 2021 through 2024.
2025
Viet Nam · March 2025
AISC · AI-Semiconductor Conference
Leaders of semiconductors and AI convened on the convergence of the two technologies.
2026
Japan · 35.68°N / 139.77°E
IIAC 2026 · Fourth Edition · October
The flagship convening of the industrial-AI establishment, in the industrial capital of the world.
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Film
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News & Resources
2025
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Join the Federation
Membership is open to industrial organizations — manufacturers, fabs, equipment and materials suppliers, systems integrators, and the institutions that serve them. Inquiries are reviewed by the federation.
Prefer email? membership@iaf.foundation
Membership inquiries are reviewed by the federation. There is no public self-serve signup.