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      This year’s conference theme is Insight-Driven Supply Chains: Navigate With Clarity. Act With Precision. As visibility expands, AI turns complexity into insight, helping leaders anticipate shifts, align partners and act with precision. Explore our tracks all developed with this theme in mind.

      Track A: Leadership and Influence

      CSCOs must build influence, lead through transformation, and cultivate adaptive, innovative cultures. Discover actionable strategies to elevate supply chain’s role, empower teams, strengthen executive and cross-functional relationships, and lead resilience, growth and AI transformation for lasting impact.

      Track B: Strategy

      Supply chain leaders face geopolitical disruption, rapid AI advances, resource constraints, sovereignty requirements, and diverging regulations. Explore frameworks to align strategy with enterprise goals, partner needs and external realities, enabling proactive responses to emerging risks and opportunities.

      Track C: Organization and Talent

      AI is reshaping work, leadership, and organizational design while enabling more connected, responsive supply chains. This track provides actionable guidance to build AI-ready organizations, transform the workforce, improve decisions, and sustain performance and growth.
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      Many conference sessions were presented each day at Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ 2026. While we work to develop this year’s agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.

       

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      Monday, 18 May, 2026

      11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CEST

      Roundtable: How to Build Readiness for Successful Inventory Stock Modeling
      Marko Pukkila, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
      Many organizations struggle to achieve inventory reduction goals because they aren’t fully prepared for the changes required in inventory modelling. This session will prompt discussion around a key question: What practical steps can supply chain planning leaders take to close readiness gaps and enable sustainable inventory improvement through effective inventory modeling? ... Show More Show Less

      12:30 PM - 01:15 PM CEST

      CSCO Circle Roundtable: Leading Supply Chain Into the Autonomous Business Era
      Alan O'Keeffe, VP Analyst, Gartner
      Join this session to explore key themes from the 2026 Supply Chain Symposium and Xpo’s opening keynote on how CSCOs can embrace their pivotal role in shaping the autonomous supply chain of the future — by defining the partnership between humans and machines, reimagining workflows and physical assets, and bringing ecosystem partners along on the journey. ... Show More Show Less

      12:30 PM - 01:15 PM CEST

      Roundtable: Reviving Silent S&OPs: Recode Your Meetings Into Dynamic Decision Hubs
      Cristina Carvallo, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
      Today’s S&OPs drown leaders in data yet starve them of decisions, leaving nonsupply chain peers bored, defensive and disengaged. In this session, supply chain leaders will get peer insights to renew their process design. Learn how to streamline reports into decision triggers, rethink escalation criteria, and recode the meeting culture so every executive contributes, commits and drives next-gen supply chain agility. ... Show More Show Less

      04:15 PM - 05:00 PM CEST

      CSCO Circle Roundtable: Driving C-Suite Value by Delivering Frictionless Performance
      Wade Mcdaniel, VP Distinguished Analyst, Gartner
      Working effectively across the C-suite to advance enterprise-wide goals is one of the strongest predictors of CSCO success. This lightly facilitated roundtable brings leaders together to share practical strategies, challenges, and wins—offering a candid, peer-driven look at how CSCOs are paving the way for enterprise growth. ... Show More Show Less

      04:15 PM - 05:00 PM CEST

      Roundtable: Gain Competitive Advantage Through Manufacturing Make-Versus-Buy Decisions
      Simon Jacobson, VP Analyst, Gartner
      CSCOs often discount the strategic power of manufacturing make-versus-buy decisions. To achieve a competitive advantage, CSCOs must elevate these decisions beyond mere tactics. CSCOs should use this discussion to align make-versus-buy decisions with core enterprise goals. ... Show More Show Less
      Tuesday, 19 May, 2026

      10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CEST

      CSCO Circle Roundtable: Supply Chain Resilience Made Real
      Isabelle Conrot, Executive Supply Chain Partner, Gartner
      Resilience can mean many different things in practical application and varies by industry segment. During this lightly facilitated discussion, we'll find common ground and exchange best practices to help shape a future-ready supply chain. ... Show More Show Less

      10:15 AM - 11:00 AM CEST

      Roundtable: Building COE Credibility Is a Marketing Exercise
      Alan O'Keeffe, VP Analyst, Gartner
      COEs are under constant scrutiny to show the value they bring to the organization. Leaders want results, while operations are unwilling to support initiatives, and nobody seems to see the progress made. For this lightly facilitated discussion, come prepared to share challenges and solutions for building COE credibility, communicating outcomes with stakeholder segments and changing perceptions. ... Show More Show Less

      11:45 AM - 12:30 PM CEST

      Roundtable: Getting Started With AI Talent and Skills for Procurement
      Fareen Mehrzai, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
      AI skills are the latest hot commodity on the talent market, but many CPOs are left wondering what skills they need first, how they can develop those skills, if they can develop these with their current people or if they need to buy externally, and more. Come to this session to explore with your procurement peers the approaches to building crucial AI skills on your procurement team. ... Show More Show Less

      01:45 PM - 02:30 PM CEST

      Roundtable: Supply Chain Design for the Future of Life Sciences
      Maria Nieradka, VP Analyst, Gartner
      Life science supply chains need to be designed for new modalities and product lines in addition to the current portfolio of products. Learn from peer best practices on how to build new capability for the supply chain of the future, while ensuring customer service for existing therapies. ... Show More Show Less

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