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Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit dives deep into key topics to help supply chain planning 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. 

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Tuesday, December 02, 2025

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM MST

Gartner Opening Keynote: Be Fearless: Craft Your Transformative Value
Marko Pukkila, 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

10:30 AM - 10:50 AM MST

Kinaxis: The Plan Is Dead. Long Live Adaptability.
Trent Bowman, VP, BUSINESS CONSULTING NORTH AMERICA, Kinaxis
Your forecast is wrong. Your factory’s behind. That marketing campaign? It wrecked lead times. Kinaxis Maestro helps you catch the impact before it hits revenue, margin, or customer promises. When demand spikes or plans collide, agentic AI flags what matters and surfaces trade-offs—fast. No brittle forecasts. No disconnected decisions. Just a system built to flex, with you in control. Because if your plans can’t adapt, your business pays for it ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MST

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 - 11:30 AM MST

Pre-Executive S&OP – The Missed Meeting Behind Your Bad Decisions
Tessa Mahon, Director Analyst, Gartner
Pre-executive S&OP is often an overlooked piece of the S&OP puzzle, but if you do not have one yet; you are likely to be missing out! Join this session to discover how to ensure your pre-S&OP bridges the gaps in your planning processes. Learn how to drive informed decision making, and elevate the S&OP process into a robust framework for achieving your business goals. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MST

Workshop: Designing a Planning Hub Organization
Alan O'Keeffe, VP Analyst, Gartner
Shari Diaz, Executive Partner, Domains, Gartner
Many companies set up 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 design of their planning hub using Gartner frameworks, and learn from peer experiences of running planning hubs. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:20 AM MST

2025 Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning
Eva Dawkins, Director Analyst, Gartner
Learn how to leverage Gartner's hype cycles and sort through the hype to determine which capabilities your organization should invest in and which might be too hyped. This session showcases advanced practices and explores high maturity content. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MST

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 - 11:45 AM MST

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 - 11:45 AM MST

Roundtable: Collaborative Solutions—How Planning and Procurement Leaders Can Address Materials Risks
Miguel Cossio, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this interactive roundtable to explore how planning leaders can work with procurement to tackle materials risks. Share your experiences, challenges, and ideas for effective escalation, communication, and accountability. Come prepared to participate—this session is all about open discussion and learning from your peers. ... Show More Show Less

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