

Supply Chain leaders are facing a number of challenges. Of all industrial sectors, the supply chain network has the most to gain from harnessing industry 4.0 but what are the best ways to chart a course, form a strategy, and a roadmap towards industry 4.0 success?
Sense check your approach with like-minded industry experts, sharing insight on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology, and drive your industry forward collaboratively.
Connect with 70+ senior Supply Chain leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
09:00 - 09:20
Intro & Challenger Panel
An insight into what’s to come with three of our roundtable moderators
09:20 - 09:50
Driving Supply Chain Transformation with Agility and Transparency
09:55 - 10:35
Customer Centricity and the Future of Smart Supply Chains
Customer centric and intelligent supply chains have never been as important. With an historic shift in consumer demand and digital acceleration, price is no longer the main competitive differentiator when it comes to customer fulfilment. Creating and delivering a supply chain which is innovative, hyper personalized and forward thinking is key to gaining competitive advantage. During this panel discussion you will hear from supply chain leaders as they discuss how they are responding with the shift to customer centricity, the new challenges this brings and their predictions for the future.
10:35 - 10:45
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: Collaboration, Agility and Visibility - Smart supply chains – Palantir Technologies
Track 2: Driving Purpose with Sustainable Supply Chains – QuickBase
Track 3: From transition to transformation – what’s next for your supply chain innovation strategy? – Sisu Data
11:55 - 12:25
From Field to Shelf: How PepsiCo is building the value chain of the future
Given today's ongoing supply chains challenges, it is critical to have the necessary systems and processes in place to handle unforeseen disruptions. Manual processes, a lack of supply chain visibility, poor data quality, siloed systems, and ad hoc processes continue to be a concern for businesses, limiting their ability to react rapidly to changes and match supply with demand. Join Steven Hoinka, PepsiCo's Senior Director, Digital Strategy for Latin America and Greg Brady, One Network Enterprises' Founder and Chairman, as they discuss how PepsiCo's digital supply chain network has helped them manage their operations from "field to shelf," creating the value chain of the future.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
From transition to transformation – Futureproofing your supply chain strategy
09:45 - 10:25
Leading Through Disruption
Supply Chains are constantly adapting and responding through multi country disruptions with 94% of the Fortune 1000 experiencing damaging impact to their supply chains . For companies to empower today’s agility and tomorrow’s resilience, they must orchestrate the capabilities required to plan, adjust and fill the gaps in an ever changing environment. During this panel discussion you will hear from supply chain leaders as they discuss challenges they have encountered, how they were overcome and how they continue to lead through times of disruption.
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: Collaboration, Agility and Visibility - Smart supply chains – Palantir Technologies
Track 2: Driving Purpose with Sustainable Supply Chains – QuickBase
Track 3: From transition to transformation – what’s next for your supply chain innovation strategy? – Sisu Data
11:40 - 12:10
Integrated Digital Supply Networks
Today’s Supply Chains can be largely disconnected, often have poor visibility into the location and status of raw materials, parts or even finished goods, and lack a secure, reliable way to share this information across participants. 5G, IoT and Web 3.0 offer opportunities to address these issues, enabling enterprises to better forecast demand, respond to Supply Chain incidents and provide enhanced customer care. Designing and implementing emerging solutions can be a challenge for many organizations who may lack the time, expertise, available staffing or tools required to get the job done. In this session, participants will learn how to take advantage of emerging technologies for better instrumentation and availability of real-time Supply Chain information.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
09:45 - 10:25
10:25 - 10:35
10:35 - 11:35
11:40 - 12:10
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session.
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most.
There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years
Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.