Seize the Future with Cognitive Certainty
Powered by Cognitive AI. Driven by Confidence.
Connect 2026 is Blue Yonder’s flagship event series, designed to help supply chain leaders act with clarity and confidence in an increasingly complex environment. Powered by Cognitive AI, each Connect delivers practical insights, real-world use cases, and focused exchanges rooted in local market realities and concrete business challenges.
Connect is delivered through two complementary formats, built to match different objectives and levels of engagement. Connect On Tour is a full-day experience, combining strategic morning sessions with hands-on workshops in the afternoon, enabling leaders to align vision, roadmap, and execution. Connect Spotlights are half-day, highly focused sessions hosted across multiple cities, each dedicated to one specific topic or project such as retail planning, category management, warehousing, transportation, network collaboration, or Cognitive AI—allowing you to go deep where it matters most.
Every Connect is designed for immediate impact. You gain a clear understanding of how AI-driven decisioning improves forecasting accuracy, inventory optimization, operational resilience, and end-to-end visibility, while leaving with practical approaches you can apply directly to your own supply chain initiatives.
Blue Yonder is the AI company for supply chain. Connect 2026 brings this promise to life—city by city, topic by topic—so you can choose the event, location, and focus that matter most to you.
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London Speakers
Andrea Morgan-Vandome
Chief Innovation Officer
Blue Yonder
Shirell James
VP Solution Strategy
Blue Yonder
Jon Carson
SVP Global Customer Success
Blue Yonder
Agenda
- London
London | Connect On Tour
Focus: End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation
This Connect On Tour is a full-day experience designed to address the full breadth of the Blue Yonder portfolio. During the morning, we will share Blue Yonder’s vision, roadmap, and real-world customer stories across planning, execution, and networked supply chains. In the afternoon, the event shifts to interactive, industry-focused workshops, where participants work through their own business pain points with Blue Yonder experts—turning strategy into practical, actionable outcomes.
08:30 | Coffee & Registration
09:00 | Welcome Address
Wayne Snyder, VP Retail EMEA, Blue Yonder
Robert Booth, VP CPG & Life Sciences EMEA, Blue Yonder
09:10 | From Insights to Autonomous Action: The Rise of Agentic Supply Chains
Andrea Morgan-Vandome, Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Yonder
09:30 | Unified Planning and Streamlined Decisioning Across the Supply Chain
Hugh Hendry, Senior Director Solution Advisory, Blue Yonder
09:50 | Customer Presentation: Arcadia Cold's Journey to Cognitive WMS
Christopher Lafaire, Chief Information Officer, Arcadia Cold
10:10 | AI Space Management & Assortment Management
Andrew Kyle, Director Supply Chain Advisory, Blue Yonder
11:00 | Why Supply Chain Leaders are Moving to Cognitive Solutions to Build Resilience
Jon Carson, SVP Global Customer Success, Blue Yonder
11:20 | Blue Yonder Platform and AI Agents
Karthik Mahadevan, Field CTO, Blue Yonder
11:40 | Extend Supply Chain Visibility and Orchestration With a Multi-Enterprise Network
Shirell James, VP Solution Strategy, Blue Yonder
12:00 | Workshops Introduction
Andrea Morgan-Vandome, Chief Innovation Officer, Blue Yonder
12:15 | Networking Lunch
13:30 | Parallel Workshops
Network Enabled Cognitive Execution from Plan to Fulfill
Orchestrate end-to-end execution across multi-enterprise networks with AI-driven intelligence. This workshop will explore how to connect planning and execution through enhanced visibility, collaboration, cognitive capabilities, and real-time orchestration — driving more agile, resilient operations across your extended supply chain.
Smarter Space & Assortment Planning with AI
Discover how AI is transforming shelf planning by automating complex planogram updates at scale. In this session, you will learn how to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and accelerate decision-making — enabling your teams to focus on strategy and shopper experience rather than operational tasks.
Cognitive AI for Planning Decisions
Learn how AI-powered planning solutions can enhance decision-making by combining real-time data, predictive insights, and automation. You will gain practical understanding of how to improve accuracy, responsiveness, and alignment across planning functions.
Smarter Orders & Returns: Decide with Certainty, Recover with Confidence
Every order and every return sets off a chain of decisions - and the winners are the ones deciding smarter. Join us to experience the new Order Management live, with agentic decisioning that guides your team to the right promise and lowest-cost fulfilment in seconds. Then see how ML-powered Smart Disposition helps you handle your returns and recover more margin from every item that comes back.
15:00 | Closing Remarks
15:15 | Networking Reception - Dubai
Dubai | Connect Spotlights
Focus: Network & Execution (WMS, TMS)
This Connect Spotlights is dedicated to Order Management and the orchestration of omnichannel fulfillment and returns. During this half-day session, we will explore how Cognitive AI enables retailers to promise accurately, route orders intelligently, and manage returns efficiently—balancing customer expectations, inventory availability, and operational costs across complex fulfillment networks.
10:00 | Coffee & Registration
10:30 | Sessions start
15:00 | Wrap-up and Next Steps
