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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

      09:30 AM - 10:15 AM CEST

      Gartner Opening Keynote: Leading Supply Chain Into the Autonomous Era
      Alan O'Keeffe, VP Analyst, Gartner
      While supply chains face new waves of cost pressures and shifting geopolitics, the promise of AI has CEOs pushing for the next wave of growth. In this moment, success demands reimagining how, where and by whom supply chains are operated. Join Gartner’s Opening Keynote to discover how CSCOs and supply chain executives can boldly build tomorrow’s supply chains and lead their companies into the autonomous era. ... Show More Show Less

      10:30 AM - 10:50 AM CEST

      OpenText: How IT Helps to Augment the Supply Chain Business at L’Oréal
      Vesna Soraic, Director, Product Marketing, Business Network, Opentext
      Nabil Sid, It Europe Operations & Finance Director, L'Oreal
      See how L’Oréal is evolving its multi-brand operating model into an AI-enabled, always-on supply chain. As product lifecycles shrink and volatility increases, L’Oréal is building the capabilities to onboard brands and partners faster, synchronize planning and execution in real time, and respond to demand at trend speed. The session highlights the role of supply chain orchestration and partner ecosystems in scaling this transformation. ... Show More Show Less

      10:30 AM - 10:50 AM CEST

      Treefera: Food Security Is a Financial Systems Risk. First-Mile Intelligence Is the Advantage
      Jonathan Horn, Founder and CEO, Treefera
      Three of the five worst harvests across Northern Europe occurred this decade. Supply chain leaders are pricing procurement risk on crop data built for a stable agricultural era that no longer exists - yet satellite intelligence and AI nowcasting have already given the best-resourced trading desks a significant information advantage. Attendees will learn how first-mile agricultural intelligence is reaching institutional scale and what that means for procurement strategy and supply chain resilience.
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      11:00 AM - 11:45 AM CEST

      CSCO Circle Ask the Analyst: Everything You Want to Know About Cost to Serve
      Marco Sandrone, VP Analyst, Gartner
      Many organizations are unaware of the true profitability of their customers and products. Join this session to ask questions about cost-to-serve use cases, identification of cost drivers, data gathering and cost-to-serve modelling. ... Show More Show Less

      11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CEST

      CSCO Circle Workshop: Succeeding as a New-to-Role CSCO
      Simon O'Neill, Executive Supply Chain Partner, Gartner
      Successful leaders have one thing in common: credibility. Whether making the transition to a new company, a new industry or being newly promoted to the CSCO role, establishing credibility is critical to a successful transition. This workshop will introduce new-to-role supply chain leaders to methodologies and tools designed to accelerate their success in the new organization. ... Show More Show Less

      11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST

      Crack the Code: The Era of Human- Machine Collaboration to drive Supply Chain Planning Value
      Ingrid Gonzalez McCarthy, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
      In the era of rapid technological advancements, the collaboration between humans and machines is transforming supply chain planning. Join us to explore what to consider when designing your strategy to unlock the full potential of an effective Human Machine collaboration in supply chain Planning. ... Show More Show Less

      11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST

      Elevate Your Leadership by Illustrating Supply Chain Value
      Lorraine Gavin, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
      Driving value with the C-suite is the primary trait of effective CSCOs. But what if your C-suite doesn't see value of the supply chain? CSCOs must be intentional about demonstrating supply chain value to CxOs in order to improve their brand and leadership within the organization, especially if they want to drive value alongside their C-suite peers. ... Show More Show Less

      11:00 AM - 11:30 AM CEST

      Executive Story: Product Led. Customer Focused. Bayer’s Supply Chain Reinvention
      Peter Jurecka, VP, Product Supply Lead Radiology and Radiopharmaceuticals, Bayer
      Bayer Pharma transformed its formerly siloed, function-based supply chains into a globally integrated, product centric model—deploying over 12,000 employees into agile product, customer, and technical teams aligned to shared goals. This shift eliminated bureaucracy, accelerated decision making, improved productivity, and delivered better inventory and cost performance while maintaining high quality and service. Join this session to learn how Bayer turned a bold idea into measurable supply performance gains in under two years. ... Show More Show Less

      11:00 AM - 11:20 AM CEST

      Magic Quadrant Insights and Trends for Warehouse Management Systems 2026
      Simon Tunstall, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
      As emerging technologies are driving adaptation, there is renewed pressure on logistics and warehouse operations to reduce costs, improve efficiency and manage change. This session provides insights on the latest impacts, trends, technologies and leading vendors in the warehouse management systems (WMS) market. ... Show More Show Less

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