October 20, 2026 · WATCH ON-DEMAND Bootcamp

Making industrial connectivity work.

Manufacturing. Warehouses. Ports.

Why standard wireless fails in these environments and where private 5G actually earns its place, straight from the people building and running these networks.

Monday, October 20
11:00 AM – 12:05 PM ET
Online — 65 minutes
Wireless Innovations 2026
Edge AI Architecture
IT/OT Convergence
Industrial Connectivity
AIoT Infrastructure
Wi-Fi + Private 5G
Wi-Fi Halo
Wireless Innovations 2027

$1.4T

lost per year

Unplanned downtime across the world’s 500 largest manufacturers.

Siemens, 2024 benchmark

50,000+

warehouse sites

Running robots by 2025 - up from under 4,000 in 2018.

ABI Research

183.2M

TEU

Global container traffic in 2024, still climbing through 2025.

Container Trades Statistics

One problem, three environments

Same pressure. Different networks.

A plant floor, a distribution center with 100-foot racking, and a container yard moving thousands of boxes a day don’t share a connectivity problem and they don’t need the same fix.

Manufacturing

Plant floor · automation cells

Metal everywhere, motors and drives throwing RF noise, and control loops that can’t tolerate a dropped packet or a millisecond of jitter.

Warehouses

Distribution · fulfillment

Signal has to reach the top of 100-foot racking and hand off cleanly to robots moving fast down every aisle – with no dead zones between them.

Ports

Container yards · terminals

Outdoor scale measured in acres, weather, moving cranes and vehicles, and stacks of steel containers that block signal at every turn.

Who should attend

IT & OT operations and digital transformation leaders
At manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution centers, and ports.

Systems integrators & MSPs
Supporting industrial and logistics clients on connectivity and automation.

What you’ll get

A real deployment story
What private 5G solved and what it didn’t – across all three environments.

Operators and SIs on the record
How they vetted solutions and got past internal approvals.

Direct access in open Q&A
Bring your questions for every speaker on the panel.

Agenda · 11:00 AM – 12:05 PM ET

11:00 5 min

Introduction

Quick welcome.

11:05 10 min

Why industrial wireless demands rethinking

Industrial sites weren't built with wireless in mind. RF interference, mobile equipment, safety requirements, and sheer physical scale push these environments past what standard enterprise wireless was designed to handle.

11:15 20 min

Private 5G in the field: manufacturing, warehouses, and ports

Real deployment examples from the plant floor to the port yard - what changed for the customer, and where private 5G earned its place against interference, mobile assets, tall racking, and outdoor scale.

11:35 20 min

Panel — from pilot to payoff

Enterprise operators and SIs on what they built, what went wrong, and what they'd change - plus how they vetted solutions and navigated internal approvals.

11:55 10 min

Open discussion and Q&A

Bring your questions for all speakers.

Speakers

Operators and integrators who’ve done it.

Host & Speaker

Ashish Jain

Ashish Jain

Co-Founder, PrivateLTEand5G

Speaker

Mario Schwarz​

Operations Manager, Lufthansa Cargo

Watch the Bootcamp On-Demand

Explore 65 minutes of practical insights on where private 5G makes sense in industrial connectivity, where it doesn’t, and what matters most in real-world deployments.