The newest sites added to the Global Lighthouse Network, a World Economic Forum initiative cofounded with McKinsey, have embraced enterprise-wide AI deployment. The Lighthouse Network, which is in its seventh year of celebrating advances in industrial transformation, has expanded to more than 220 sites across 35 countries and over 30 industries, spanning manufacturing and end-to-end supply chains. Rather than focusing on isolated use cases, the newest Lighthouses embed analytical AI, gen AI, and agentic AI across end-to-end operations—supporting core decisions, workflows, and frontline execution, according to McKinsey’s Dinu de Kroon, Rahul Shahani, Ruth Heuss, and coauthors. Click through the interactive to read more.
To read the article, see “The continuing evolution of the Global Lighthouse Network,” January 20, 2026.