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ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder's Chris Burchett on the AI reality in supply chain - and why customers need an honest conversation This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Blue Yonder SVP of Generative AI Chris Burchett makes the engineering case for owned intelligence - and doesn't shy away from telling customers what the road to the autonomous supply chain actually involves.

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ICON 2026 - Conagra's Blue Yonder transformation delivers 'near-dark-room' production planning. And agents are next. This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Conagra's supply chain transformation with Blue Yonder has taken the food giant from planners manually overriding the system 50-60% of the time to a 95% no-touch production plan, delivering 98% service levels and a 13% inventory reduction - with micro-agents next on the roadmap.

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ICON 2026 — Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove isn't nervous to say ‘the agent is the app’ (or that the SI industry is about to become a product feature) This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove is being more honest than most enterprise software vendor CEOs out there - an approach that will likely resonate well with customers.

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ICON 2026 - Knauf's 80% touchless order management goal - and the Blue Yonder foundation being built to reach it This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Knauf's Chief Supply Chain Officer Dr. Martin Brown explains how the building materials giant is using Blue Yonder's cognitive planning solutions to work towards an ambitious target of 80 per cent touchless order management - and why getting the data and the people right matters more than the technology itself.

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ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder's agentic-enabled platform keeps taking shape, and customers are starting to see results This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Blue Yonder's ICON 2026 day two delivered a raft of product announcements - including cognitive solutions for category management and production planning - but the more compelling story was the customers on stage starting to show real results from the platform investment.

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ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder bets everything on Cognitive. The agent is the app and the new operating model is the product. This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove used ICON 2026 to announce a manifesto commitment to automating the software implementation lifecycle itself - signaling that Blue Yonder's ambition goes beyond selling customers new technology and extends to changing how they operate entirely.

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ICON 2026 - Blue Yonder partners with NVIDIA for its model factory, as it targets owned - not rented - intelligence This article is sponsored by: Blue Yonder ICON 2026 logo


Blue Yonder has partnered with NVIDIA to build a Model Training Factory on Nemotron open-source models, as CEO Duncan Angove makes the case that supply chain AI demands owned, domain-trained intelligence rather than dependency on costly and imprecise frontier models.

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Atlassian Team '26 – why Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian thinks the more AI advances, the more human imperfection matters This article is sponsored by: Atlassian Team 26 event logo © Atlassian


Alexis Ohanian built the front page of the internet – and he thinks AI is about to make it unreadable. The Reddit co-founder and Seven Seven Six investor argues that as generated content floods every platform, provably human networks become the scarce and valuable thing. Oh, and space eyeballs.

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Alexis Ohanian at Team '26 © Atlassian

Atlassian Team ’26 – Champions, clean data and exec buy‑in fuel the Rovo‑lution This article is sponsored by: Atlassian Team 26 event logo © Atlassian


User panelists from Rover, LL Bean, LVT and Pythian shared how they’re rolling out Atlassian’s AI tools, stressing the need for clean, connected data, visible champions and curated executive experiences to make Rovo stick as part of everyday work – not just another shiny tool.

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Atlassian Team '26 - new tooling for product teams, same structural pressures This article is sponsored by: Atlassian Team 26 event logo © Atlassian


Jira Product Discovery Enterprise reached general availability and a new Feedback capability entered early access at Team '26 - the products that read as Atlassian's answer to last year's State of Product diagnosis. I sat down with Tanguy Crusson to discuss what tooling fixes, and what it leaves alone.

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ServiceNow Knowledge 2026 - the whole darn thing This article is sponsored by: ServiceNow Knowledge 26 logo © ServiceNow


At ServiceNow Knowledge in Las Vegas, the company made a number of product and ecosystem announcements with a common underlying theme: control over chaos. Here's my take on last week's event.

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