Realize LIVE Americas 2026 Call for Speakers

Why speak at Realize LIVE Americas?

Share your insights, elevate your voice, impact all our futures

Showcase your expertise: position yourself as a technical innovator or thought leader to an audience of over 3,000 attendees.
Contribute to Siemens' success: play a vital role in promoting community learning.
Influence & inspire: directly impact the skills, strategies and success of your colleagues.
Unlock new opportunities: empower your peers, expand your network, boost your professional profile and gain inspiration through direct feedback.
Complimentary access: gain full access to hundreds of sessions, hands-on training and invaluable networking opportunities — at no cost to you.

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Topics at Realize LIVE Americas

At Realize LIVE Americas 2026 we will be continuing to explore and showcase our customers’ digital transformation journey with a focus on these topics.

We want to hear your success stories, tips and tricks and how you are progressing your own digital transformation.

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Topic 1

The integrated Digital Thread: the strategic backbone

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Topic 2

AI & Digital Twin: driving autonomous innovation and predictive operations

Topic 3

Cloud-native agility: scaling digital transformation with speed and resilience

What motivated me to tell my story was the opportunity to be among some of the highest-class individuals when it comes to engineering and design. Speaking is a great opportunity to really learn the material—but also to share your point of view and what you've learned from it, and to rub shoulders with some of the world's best in the industry.

Corey Brown, Applied CAx

My personal benefit of speaking was getting over stage fright, getting in front of a crowd. But, just personally, like, it helped me grow as an engineer, as an innovator, just to learn how to share ideas and drive a community around technical innovation.

James Howard, Boeing

Speaking at Realize LIVE puts your expertise and your name out there as an expert in the field and in the industry. That will bring more folks and others to you to collaborate and share their ideas. I think we grow faster when we share ideas and learn from others.

Sibo Chou, Northrop Grumman

What motivated me to share my story at Realize LIVE was more about showing the demo of the product, getting more reviews and feedback, and collecting people's opinions on what mattered.

Jahnavi Shah, Electro Source Inc.

Help shape the conversation: deep-dive into our topics

We are seeking dynamic presentations, case studies, and tips and tricks style sessions that align with the overall topics. We encourage proposals that offer practical insights, innovative solutions, and real-world applications for both strategic leaders and hands-on practitioners.

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The Integrated Digital Thread: the strategic backbone

Data governance & integrity
Cross-functional collaboration
Requirements & change management
Product lifecycle management (PLM) in action
Systems engineering with a digital thread
Traceability and compliance
Breaking down silos (process/culture transformation)
Customer case studies: end-to-end digital thread in practice

Strategic perspectives (for leaders and managers): sessions on implementing Digital Thread strategies, measuring ROI, fostering cross-functional collaboration, data governance, and change management.

Practical applications (for managers and hands-on users): sessions on navigating connected data, best practices for data contribution, effective change management workflows, data traceability, quality & compliance, and integrating specific tools.

Case studies on successful Digital Thread implementations, lessons learned from integration projects, tips for maximizing portfolio solutions.

How to submit your proposal

Ready to inspire? Submit your speaker proposal

Review the content

Ensure your proposal aligns with one of our topics or sub-topics.

Speaker bio

A concise professional biography (100-150 words) highlighting your expertise.

Session title

Catchy and informative, ensure if matches the proposal content and to secure a bigger audience mentions success / metrics.

Session abstract

A summary (150-200 words) of what attendees will learn and why it's relevant.

Target audience

Specify if your session is technical of strategic.

Key takeaways

Three bullet points outlining what attendees will learn in your session.

Metrics

Sessions that contain tangible metrics see bigger audiences, you don’t need to share sensitive data, but it might include indicators such as:

We documented all our workflows and reduced admin effort by ½ day each week.

What's next?

Review process: We expect to receive many submissions and therefore adopt a rigorous set of criteria to select our final agenda. To ensure your submission has the best chance of acceptance we encourage you to ensure you follow the format in the speaker portal and ensure that for case studies we have a real-use case with a customer.

All confirmed speakers will be required to complete a speaker agreement which is available at time of submission. Please ensure that you can sign this in a timely fashion to avoid delays to the agenda process.

JUNE 1-4, 2026 | DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Speak at Realize LIVE Americas