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Gartner Announces Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit 2026 in Denver
Analysts to Share Strategies for Enabling AI-Driven Planning, Elevating Performance and Building More Agile Supply Chain Organizations
What: Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit
When: November 2-3, 2026
Where: Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, Denver, CO
Members of the media can register for the conference by contacting justin.lavelle@gartner.com or barbara.ruane@gartner.com.
Details: Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit delivers must-have insights, strategies and frameworks for supply chain planning leaders to address their strategic needs within their organizations. Leaders have the opportunity now to drive breakthrough outcomes to elevate performance, drive revenue growth, and foster lasting agility. Gartner analysts will explain how leaders can achieve this by building future-ready planning teams, ensuring frictionless planning performance, enabling AI-driven and digitally advanced planning, and embedding change management focus.
Audience and Topics: The conference will feature Gartner analysts presenting 50+ research-driven sessions, guest keynotes and additional guest speaker sessions, as well as interactive peer workshops. The audience will consist of heads of supply chain planning, and leaders of sales and operations planning (S&OP), integrated business planning, demand planning, and supply and inventory planning.
Keynotes:
- Gartner Opening Keynote: “The Planning Illusion: Escaping the "More is Better" Trap,” with Ingrid Gonzalez McCarthy, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
- Guest Keynote: "Rethink. Reboot. Reinvent: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation,” with Josh Linkner, Serial Entrepreneur, New York Times Bestselling Author, and Venture Capital Investor, Platypus Labs
- Guest Keynote: “Becoming an AI-Powered Organisation: The Mindset, Models and Method for Turning AI into Measurable Value,” featuring Priya Lakhani, Founder and CEO, CENTURY Tech
The conference agenda features a range of topics, including sessions such as:
- Talent Strategy for the World of AI and Automation
- Don’t Trust AI in Planning. Make AI Earn Your Trust
- Rethink Supply Chain Network Strategy to Win in an Age of Turbulence
- How to Automate with Confidence for Higher ROI in Planning
Exhibitor Engagement Zone: The Exhibitor Engagement Zone, an exhibitor showcase at the conference, will bring together leading supply chain technology and service providers. A listing of current exhibitors is available on the Exhibitor Directory.
Registration: Full-time journalists from editorial publications are eligible for a press pass. For additional details and registration requests, please contact: justin.lavelle@gartner.com or barbara.ruane@gartner.com.
Social Media: Join the discussion on social media using the hashtag: #GartnerSC
For complete conference details, please visit the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit website.
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About the Gartner Supply Chain Practice
The Gartner Supply Chain Practice provides actionable, objective insights for supply chain leaders and their teams, so they can respond to disruption and innovate for the future through leading-edge supply chain management practices.
Additional information is available at https://www.gartner.com/en/supply-chain. Follow news and updates from the Gartner Supply Chain Practice on LinkedIn and X using #GartnerSC. Visit the Gartner Supply Chain Newsroom for more information and insights.
Media contact
Justin Lavelle
Gartner
justin.lavelle@gartner.com
Barbara Ruane
Gartner
barbara.ruane@gartner.com
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