In-Person

New York CSCO Community

Executive Summit

October 28, 2026 | Convene 101 Park Ave

October 28, 2026
Convene 101 Park Ave

Collaborate with your peers

Get together with New York's top CSCOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CSCOs today:

Building Resilient, AI-Powered Supply Chain

Engineering Profit Amidst Shifting Cost Mandates

Accelerating Growth Through Frictionless Supply Chain Performance

New York CSCO Governing Body

The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven By CSCOs, For CSCOs™.

What to Expect

Interactive Sessions

Hear from CSCO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.

Community Networking

Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your New York CSCO community.

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

Agenda

October 28, 2026

8:30am - 9:00am  Registration & Breakfast

9:00am - 9:45am  Gartner Keynote

The Future of Supply Chain 2026

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Ken Chadwick

Distinguished VP Analyst

Gartner

The next era of supply chain will be defined not by incremental improvements, but by how effectively CSCOs reimagine work, reshape talent and rewire partnerships in an AI-enabled world. Drawing on the latest Gartner research, this session examines how leading supply chain organizations are responding to geopolitical volatility, autonomous technologies and evolving business models by moving beyond resilience to actively shape the future of their industries.

Join this keynote to explore:

  • Building AI-powered capabilities that enhance decision making, improve operational performance and accelerate the journey toward autonomous supply chains
  • Reshaping talent strategies, organizational design and workforce capabilities to thrive in an era of human-AI collaboration
  • Rewiring partnerships and supply chain ecosystems to increase resilience, strengthen trust and unlock new sources of growth

9:45am - 10:10am  Networking Break

10:10am - 10:55am  Breakout Session

Explore Supply Chain Strategy, Alignment & Execution with Fujitsu Wayfinders

Join this session to explore one of the community's top priorities this year: Supply Chain Strategy, Alignment & Execution. Gain insights into key challenges, emerging approaches, and practical applications to help you navigate what's next.

10:10am - 10:55am  Executive Boardroom

Preparing Your Supply Chain For The Next Disruption

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Raj Kumar

Chief Operating Officer

GXO Logistics

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Vickram Srivastava

Head of Supply Chain Management

Sun Pharma

Geopolitical volatility, climate change and rapid technological transformation have turned supply chain management into a high-stakes discipline. As supply chains become more complex, visibility alone is no longer enough. Leading organizations are embracing AI-enabled decision orchestration to move beyond understanding disruption and toward anticipating, adapting and responding with greater speed and precision.

Join this boardroom to explore:

  • Moving beyond visibility to AI-enabled decision orchestration
  • Responding to disruption with greater speed and agility
  • Building the talent, governance and operating models to scale AI

10:55am - 11:40am  Networking Break

11:05am - 11:30am  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

11:40am - 12:25pm  Breakout Session

The Next Planning Reality — From Predicting Change to Responding Faster

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Ryan Hanson

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Staples

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Nelson Griffin

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Wawa

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Ana Laura Queiroz

COO / SVP

Heineken

For years, supply chain leaders focused on forecast accuracy and efficiency. Today, competitive advantage comes from recognizing change sooner and responding faster. To keep pace with growing complexity, organizations are combining AI, real-time insights and ecosystem collaboration to improve decision-making and execution. Success depends less on predicting every outcome and more on adapting quickly, aligning stakeholders and adjusting course as conditions change.

This panel will discuss:

  • How AI is transforming planning and decision-making
  • Why agility and adaptability are becoming more valuable than perfect forecasts
  • Approaches to scaling operations and partner ecosystems for long-term growth

11:40am - 12:25pm  Executive Boardroom

From Disconnected Systems to Intelligent Operations

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Jim Hoefflin

Chief Executive Officer, IFS Softeon

Softeon

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Caroline Troit

SVP, Supply Chain

L'Oréal

As supply chain operations become more complex, organizations are rethinking how technology supports decision making across warehousing, transportation, labor and asset management. AI is creating new opportunities to connect operational data, improve responsiveness and help organizations adapt more quickly to changing business demands.

Join this session to discuss:

  • Reducing friction, delays and decision-making challenges created by disconnected systems
  • Connecting operational insights across functions to enable more coordinated planning and execution
  • Accelerating transformation while building a more agile and adaptive supply chain

11:40am - 12:25pm  Gartner Boardroom

From Roadmaps to Results — Accelerating Supply Chain Transformation

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John Kaminski

Supply Chain Executive Partner

Gartner

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Thomas Crowe

Chief Supply Chain Officer

Pl Developments

Digital transformation is reshaping supply chains, yet many organizations struggle to turn investments into measurable outcomes. Success requires aligning technology, processes and people while building the organizational readiness needed to sustain change.

Join this boardroom to collaborate on:

  • Prioritizing transformation investments that deliver measurable business value
  • Aligning stakeholders around a shared vision to accelerate change adoption
  • Strengthening change leadership to sustain transformation

12:25pm - 1:00pm  Lunch Service

1:00pm - 1:35pm  Keynote

Enabling Smarter Supply Chains Through Orchestration

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Koen Jacobs

Global CRO Supply Chain Management

SAP America

 For decades, supply chain leaders have invested heavily in optimizing planning, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, and execution. Yet as disruption, volatility, and AI accelerate the pace of business, many organizations still struggle to make coordinated decisions across functions. The decisions that matter most—balancing service with cost, resilience with efficiency, or inventory with working capital—can no longer be optimized within a single function. Competitive advantage now comes from orchestrating decisions across the full supply chain and ecosystem.

Join this keynote to learn how to:

  • Build the data foundation and intelligence layer connecting signals, decisions, and execution
  • Redesign operating models and governance to accelerate cross-functional decisions
  • Scale AI beyond isolated use cases

1:35pm - 2:00pm  Networking Break

2:00pm - 2:45pm  Breakout Session

The Hidden Cost of Complexity—Building Smarter Supply Chains

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Nitin Jayakrishnan

CEO and Co-Founder

Freehand

As supply chains become more interconnected, many organizations find that complexity is quietly eroding efficiency, agility and value. In an era of constant change, the organizations that thrive will be those that turn complexity from a constraint into a source of competitive advantage.

This boardroom will dive into:

  • Identifying hidden sources of complexity across supply chain operations
  • Balancing resilience, agility and efficiency in increasingly dynamic networks
  • Building simpler operating models that enable faster decision-making and execution

2:00pm - 2:45pm  Executive Boardroom

Is Your Supply Chain Ready for AI?

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John Barbee

Chief Logistics & Client Services Officer and Global Head of Operations Excellence

Tory Burch

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Sheetal Shah

VP, Supply Chain and Chief Procurement Officer

PPL

 The future of enterprise orchestration relies on more than advanced AI models. Trusted data, consistent governance, standardized processes, and organizational alignment are essential for transforming AI from isolated use cases into a true enterprise capability. Achieving enterprise-scale AI requires a strong foundation: one that addresses common readiness gaps and elevates data, governance, and operating disciplines. When these elements are in place, organizations can enable trusted, cross-functional decision-making and unlock the full potential of AI across the business.

Join this roundtable to discuss:

  • Identifying barriers to enterprise-scale AI
  • Building trusted data, governance, and operating models for enterprise AI
  • Enabling trusted, cross-functional decision-making at enterprise scale

2:45pm - 3:30pm  Networking Break

2:55pm - 3:20pm  Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Peer-to-Peer Meetings

Connect with like-minded peers in a one-on-one setting through Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.

3:30pm - 4:05pm  Keynote

The Adaptive Advantage in an Unpredictable World

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Peter Charles

Global Head of Supply Chain

Tapestry

Consumer expectations are evolving faster than traditional planning cycles, forcing supply chain leaders to rethink decision-making across the network. As customers increasingly expect anything, anywhere, anytime, supply chains must become more flexible and strengthen the connection between demand signals and execution.

Join this session for insights into:

  • Building a supply chain that scales with changing consumer demand
  • Turning consumer volatility into operational advantage
  • Developing leaders who thrive amid constant change

4:05pm - 4:15pm  Closing Comments and Prize Drawing

4:15pm - 5:30pm  Governing Body Reception

Governing Body Reception

Finish the day sharing lessons learned with your peers over light fare and drinks at this closing reception hosted by your governing body members.

October 28, 2026

We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming in-person gathering

Gartner cares about the health and safety of our community. If you are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending the conference. At this time, Gartner does not have any health-related requirements in place for attendance. Should this change, we will follow up with updated guidance.

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