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Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit dives deep into key topics to help leaders uncover effective strategies and solutions for their organization’s mission-critical challenges.

2025 Conference Theme

Innovate to Elevate Performance: Defining the Future

Amid geopolitical tensions, rising costs and heightened uncertainty, supply chain planning leaders must embrace innovative strategies to realize growth ambitions, make the right decisions and intensify alignment across the E2E supply chain. Elevate your performance by embracing these processes and technology innovations, while investing in talent and improving cross-functional collaboration. 

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Monday, 03 November, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT

Gartner Opening Keynote: Be Fearless: Craft Your Transformative Value
Ingrid Gonzalez McCarthy, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Persistent complexity, silos, and constant change keep supply chain planning teams in a cycle of firefighting, with challenges like cross-functional collaboration and forecast accuracy stubbornly unresolved. As demands accelerate, AI and advanced planning tools are fundamentally reshaping what’s possible – enabling agility, deeper integration, and breakthrough outcomes. This keynote calls you to fearlessly move beyond mere optimization and craft the transformative value you and your teams can deliver. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Peer Meetup: Heads of Planning: How Are You Upskilling Talent?
The need to close planner talent gaps, particularly in emerging technology areas like GenAI, is more urgent than ever. Join other Heads of Planning to discuss your challenges and success stories. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving challenges together. Please make every effort to attend as other attendees will be looking forward to meeting with you. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Autonomous Planning: Separating Hype from Reality
Pia Orup Lund, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session delves into the idea of automation within planning, and specifically what is feasible, or achievable, and what isn't really possible using modern technologies and methods. Emerging and established methods, leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence and extended planning data sets can create near-term opportunities to improve planning productivity, but how much can truly be automated? Join this session to understand the state of the art, alongside emerging opportunities to improve planning decision making through automation. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Peer Meetup: How Are You Inspiring Your Teams to Innovate?
Planning leaders have increased pressure to demonstrate innovation that embraces disruption and new ideas to generate high value for the enterprise. How are you inspiring your team to tackle challenges with curiosity and a growth mindset? Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving challenges together. Please make every effort to attend as other attendees will be looking forward to meeting with you. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Peer Meetup: How Are You Improving Data Quality?
Data is critical for accurate planning, but inaccurate or incomplete data can lead to poor forecasts, stockouts, or excess inventory. Join other planning leaders for an interactive discussion sharing ideas and best practices to ensure data quality and integrity. Meetups are networking sessions that allow you to connect with a small group of peers, without Gartner facilitation, in the spirit of solving challenges together. Please make every effort to attend as other attendees will be looking forward to meeting with you. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

The Far Future According to Maverick
Frank Buytendijk, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
A new presentation format, but an instant classic. What are Gartner's most Maverick and controversial predictions? Things that at first make you raise your eyebrows, but also make you think, "There might be something to it ..." Join this entertaining, energetic and 100% interactive session. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Ask the Expert: Managing Risk Through Planning Excellence
Suzie Petrusic, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Supply chain planning is a key process for effective risk management, but how much resilience should be embedded in plans is often left ambiguously for the planning team to determine. Attend this session to ask the expert how to best guide decisions on risk appetite in key processes throughout the planning process. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Supply Chain Planning Leaders: Get Future-Ready
Brenda Westbrook, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI, access to data, geopolitical issues and talent scarcity will all impact the planning function, requiring more in terms of agility, resilience, and end-to-end visibility and collaboration. These drivers have significant implications for how we plan, as well as the roles and skills that will be required to deliver better outcomes. This session will focus on these requirements and how to achieve readiness. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT

Workshop: Redesigning Your Planning Hub Organization
Alan O'Keeffe, VP Analyst, Gartner
Many companies operate with planning hub teams, but face challenges with positioning the hub in the wider organization and orchestrating planning activities across a complex operational landscape. At this workshop, planning leaders can assess the current design of their planning hub against future business requirements, and learn from peer experiences of running planning hubs. ... Show More Show Less

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“Really great and engaging experience. The keynote speakers brought a lot of energy. First time attending and will return soon.”

Emma Tatam
Head of Inventory, Logistics, Warehousing and Planning, Babcock

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