Executive Summit Europe

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• Beurs van Berlage

  Damrak 243, 1012 ZJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Session Details

• 09:00-9:45 General Session
  

  EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

  History moves in waves. The Agricultural Revolution. The Industrial Revolution. And now, the Intelligence Revolution is a fundamental rewiring of how the global supply chain operates. Today, that intelligence is no longer just predictive. It sees, analyses, decides, and acts, and can transform your business to move at machine speed.

  • Duncan Angove
    Chief Executive Officer, Blue Yonder

  • Join Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove as he opens this day-long Executive Summit and shares what this moment means for supply chain leaders. We’ll look at how AI and machine learning have crossed a threshold and what that means for your business.

• 10:00-10:45 General Session
  

  EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

  • Darren Saumur, President, Customer Experience and Cloud, Blue Yonder
    

  • As a continuation of our opening session, Duncan Angove will introduce some exciting advancements for Blue Yonder customers. Darren Saumur, Blue Yonder’s President of Cloud and Customer Experience, will tackle what keeps executives up at night; system reliability, customer service excellence, and how frictionless outcomes actually drive competitive advantage.

• 10:45-15:30 Innovation Hub
  

  GRAANBEURSZAAL

  Experience the future of supply chain operations. The Innovation Hub showcases hands-on product demos, customer success stories, and the Cognitive Journey—a framework for how companies evolve from reactive to autonomous supply chain operations.

  Explore solutions by industry and use case, engage with product specialists, and connect with fellow supply chain leaders. The hub is open throughout the Executive Summit for continuous discovery and learning.

• 11:00-11:45 Breakout Sessions
  

  • EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

    One Plan, One Response: Connecting Planning and Execution in Volatile Markets

    Organisations across retail, CPG, life sciences and manufacturing face demand volatility, supply constraints, capacity pressures and disruption simultaneously. Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning connects planning across the value chain and supports rapid scenario modelling, but the real challenge is turning a revised plan into coordinated action. In this decision lab, attendees respond to a disruption, compare service, margin, cash and risk trade-offs, and trace how planning decisions incorporate execution constraints and real-world network signals. The session makes the connected planning story tangible—from demand and supply decisions through inventory, fulfillment, production and transportation execution—showing how connected data, decision intelligence and clear hand-offs enable one plan to become one coordinated response.

  • KEURZAAL

    Modernise Without Disruption: Your Journey to a Cognitive Supply Chain

    Many organisations want the benefits of a cognitive supply chain but cannot replace critical systems, operating processes and integrations all at once. This session presents a workflow-first approach to modernisation: identify a high-value decision, connect the required data and capabilities, prove value and expand in controlled phases. Participants will map a current workflow, identify delays and design a credible transition that preserves business continuity. Blue Yonder experts will explain how organisations can move from legacy environments toward cognitive applications without relying on a single big-bang programme.

  • TOOROPZAAL

    Every Order Profitable: Connecting Inventory, Fulfilment and Returns

    Customers expect accurate availability, reliable promises and convenient fulfilment, while rising delivery and returns costs put pressure on margin. This workshop connects real-time inventory visibility, order promising, fulfilment sourcing and returns disposition in one decision journey. Attendees evaluate a constrained order, compare service and cost-to-serve options, and determine the best recovery path for a returned item. The session demonstrates how connected commerce and execution decisions can protect conversion, reduce split shipments, improve inventory productivity and recover value—without treating order management, logistics and returns as separate processes.

• 12:00-12:45 Breakout Sessions
  

  • EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

    From Plan to Shelf: Connecting Retail Decisions, Inventory and Execution
    

    Retailers are under pressure to deliver a consistent customer proposition across stores and digital channels while improving margin, inventory productivity and operational execution. This workshop brings together retail planning, merchandising, category, space, commerce and supply chain decisions in one connected journey—from financial and assortment plans through demand, inventory, allocation and replenishment to fulfilment and store execution. Participants adapt an offer to a specific store and channel context, then follow the decisions through to the customer and the associate on the shop floor. Across grocery, fashion, hardlines, general merchandise and specialty retail, the exercise demonstrates how connected data, predictive intelligence and orchestration can turn enterprise plans into localised actions—ensuring the right product, in the right place, at the right time, with the right task for the right associate.

  • KEURZAAL

    AI-Powered Agility for CPG & Life Sciences: From Planning to Compliant Execution

    CPG and Life Sciences supply chains both need to connect demand, supply, production, inventory and distribution, but they do so under very different operating constraints. This decision lab uses a common closed-loop planning and execution model, then applies it to two clearly separated European scenarios: a CPG demand and margin shock, and a Life Sciences cold-chain or compliance disruption. Participants identify the signals that matter, determine when to replan or intervene, and trace how governed data, multi-tier network visibility and execution work together to protect availability, product integrity, service and profitability. The session is deliberately factual: it distinguishes capabilities available today from roadmap direction and uses approved proof points rather than vision-only claims. .

  • TOOROPZAAL

    Manufacturing Planning for Discrete Manufacturers: Connecting Demand, Materials, Capacity, and Production

    Discrete Manufacturers must continuously balance customer demand, material availability, production capacity, labour, tooling and supplier constraints while delivering on customer commitments. This session will explore how connected planning, execution and AI-enabled decision-making help manufacturers move from reactive firefighting to orchestrated operations. Through industry use cases and demonstrations, discover how interoperability across planning, production, suppliers and logistics enables faster, smarter and more resilient manufacturing decisions.

• 13:45-14:30 Breakout Sessions
  

  • EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

    AI That Delivers: From Insight to Governed Action

    Supply-chain leaders have heard the AI vision; they now want to understand where it creates measurable value and what can be trusted today. This executive decision lab follows one European supply-chain exception from signal to recommendation, approval and action. Participants decide where an AI agent should monitor, recommend, request approval or act, then define the evidence, controls and business metrics required at each stage. Blue Yonder experts will clearly label what is available now, what is emerging and what remains future direction. The outcome is a practical, governed path to reduce decision latency without overstating autonomy or removing human accountability.

  • KEURZAAL

    Dispatcher to Cognitive WMS: Your Modernisation Journey

    Modernising warehouse operations does not have to mean replacing everything at once or disrupting the service levels your customers depend on. This session explores how logistics service providers can move from Dispatcher to Cognitive WMS through a phased, value-led journey that protects operational continuity while introducing greater intelligence, flexibility and automation. Participants will examine how to prioritise sites and capabilities, manage coexistence during transition, retain critical customer configurations and build the operational self-sufficiency needed to onboard new business quickly. The discussion will also show how cognitive capabilities can improve labour, inventory and workflow decisions while supporting more scalable, resilient and profitable multi-client operations.

  • TOOROPZAAL

    Securing the AI Supply Chain: Trust, Cybersecurity & Data Protection

    As supply chains become more connected, autonomous and AI-enabled, resilience increasingly depends on the trustworthiness of the data, systems and partners behind every decision. This cross-industry session explores how organisations can protect critical supply chain operations while enabling greater interoperability, automation and intelligent decision-making. Participants will examine the risks created by expanding data flows, cloud environments, AI agents and multi-enterprise networks, and discuss how cybersecurity, data protection, access controls and governance must evolve in response. The session will focus on practical approaches to strengthening operational resilience, protecting sensitive information and building confidence in AI-driven decisions—without slowing innovation or creating new barriers between planning, execution and network partners.

• 14:45-15:30 Breakout Sessions
  

  • EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

    Logistics Service Providers: Scale Faster, Operate Smarter

    Logistics Service Providers face pressure to win renewals while margins tighten, customer expectations rise and labour and transportation costs erode profitability. This workshop focuses on the operating model required to launch and adapt multi-client services with speed and precision—without sacrificing control. Participants respond to a capacity disruption across several customers, decide where processes should be standardised or configurable, and identify how warehouse, transportation, labour, order and network capabilities can support faster onboarding, differentiated value-added services and resilient performance. A specific focus is operational self-sufficiency: enabling experienced LSP teams to configure, run and improve their operations while Blue Yonder provides a secure, scalable cloud foundation.

  • KEURZAAL

    Resilience by Design: Anticipate Risk, Secure Operations and Coordinate Response

    European supply chains face geopolitical disruption, cyber risk, regulatory change, transport constraints and supplier instability. Resilience is not achieved by adding more alerts; it requires trusted signals, secure operations and coordinated decisions across the network. In this simulation, participants compare sourcing, inventory, capacity and transport responses to a cross-border disruption, then introduce a cyber or cloud-access constraint that tests recovery priorities and decision rights. They quantify the cost of inaction, decide what should be automated or escalated and examine how multi-enterprise visibility, scenario modelling and command-centre capabilities support faster response. Sustainability is included where it changes the operational trade-off—not as a standalone ESG message.

  • TOOROPZAAL

    The Future Supply Chain Operating Model: People, AI Agents and Decision Rights

    Cognitive applications and AI agents change more than technology: they change who monitors, decides, approves and acts. In this operating-model design lab, attendees map a supply-chain decision, assign roles to people and digital workers, define escalation and permission boundaries, and identify the skills and performance measures required to scale. The session connects governance with practical execution—how to move from pilots to repeatable value while maintaining accountability and trust. Participants leave with a decision-rights matrix, staged-autonomy blueprint and leadership checklist for building an AI-enabled operating model.

• 15:45-17:05 Closing Keynote
  

  EFFECTENBEURSZAAL

  • Wayne Usie
    Chief Strategy Officer, Blue Yonder
    

  • Wayne Usie, Blue Yonder’s Chief Strategy Officer, will walk through the latest innovations, enhancements, and agents across Blue Yonder's Cognitive Solutions. You’ll hear first-hand from several Blue Yonder customers and transformative leaders on their learnings, insights, and winning strategies.

• 17:05-19:00 Networking Reception
  

  GRAANBEURSZAAL

  Cap off the Executive Summit with an evening reception designed for genuine connection. Over drinks and local dishes, this reception provides the perfect environment for strategic conversations, new partnerships, and memorable connections. Leave with both new insights and new relationships.