Europe's Executive Forum for Supply Chain Transformation
Next Industry Forum brings together executive leaders from Retail, Automotive and Energy to exchange practical insights, explore emerging technologies and build strategic partnerships shaping the future of industry.
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Where Europe's Industry Leaders Shape the Future of Supply Chains
Supply chain decisions now determine margin, delivery reliability and the pace at which a company can change. They are made at board level, under cost pressure, with incomplete information.
One day. No sales pitches. Peer-level discussion you can act on.
Why It Is Worth Your Day
- ✔See how peers cut supply chain cost and lead time under real constraints
- ✔Judge where AI already pays back — and where it does not
- ✔Compare decisions with executives facing the same disruption in other sectors
- ✔Meet suppliers, partners and investors without a sales cycle in between
- ✔Leave with a shortlist of moves you can take to your next board meeting
“The future will not be built by companies working in isolation. It will be built by industries working together.”
The Context
WHY NEXT INDUSTRY FORUM?
The future will not be built by companies working in isolation. It will be built by industries working together.
Supply chains have become one of the most important strategic capabilities of modern business.
Resilience, artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cross-industry collaboration are redefining how organizations compete. Retail, Automotive and Energy serve different markets, but they compete on the same capabilities — and each sector is further ahead on some of them than yours:
- Supply networks that hold under disruption
- AI with a measurable business case
- Digital infrastructure that scales beyond pilots
- Cost and throughput discipline
- Partnerships that de-risk investment
Next Industry Forum creates a platform where executive leaders exchange practical knowledge, discuss emerging trends and build long-term partnerships — so you can apply proven answers instead of financing your own learning curve.
The Value
WHY EXECUTIVES ATTEND
Executive Insights
Gain practical knowledge from executives leading transformation across Europe's key industries — including what the decisions cost and what they returned.
Cross-Industry Learning
Discover how innovations from Retail, Automotive and Energy create value across sectors, and which of them transfer to your own operations.
Strategic Networking
Meet decision-makers, technology providers, investors and business leaders in a room built for peer-level conversation, not sales calls.
Actionable Takeaways
Leave with practical strategies, new partnerships and ideas that can immediately be applied within your organization.
Executive Tracks
THREE INDUSTRIES. ONE TRANSFORMATION.
Retail
Building Intelligent Retail Supply Chains
How leading retailers protect margin while service levels rise: where automation and forecasting return capital, and what the transition actually costs.
Focus Areas
- Customer Experience
- AI Commerce
- Demand Forecasting
- Connected Retail
Automotive
Engineering Resilient Manufacturing Networks
How manufacturers absorb electrification and tier-n supplier risk without losing throughput, and which investments have paid back so far.
Focus Areas
- Smart Manufacturing
- Supplier Networks
- Digital Twins
- Future Mobility
Energy
Powering Europe's Industrial Future
What industrial buyers should assume about price, grid capacity and equipment lead times over the next five years — from the people running the assets.
Focus Areas
- Smart Infrastructure
- Energy Storage
- Grid Modernization
- Industrial Decarbonization
Who Should Attend
AN EXECUTIVE ROOM, BY DESIGN.
The Format
EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
Learn
Keynotes with real numbers: investment, payback, failure modes. No product demos.
Connect
Curated, seated conversations with peers at your decision level — not open networking.
Discover
Technologies already in production elsewhere, presented by the companies operating them.
Shape
Closed-door roundtables where joint sourcing, pilots and partnerships get agreed.
The Outcome
WHAT YOU WILL TAKE HOME
Participants leave Next Industry Forum with concrete output, measured against a day of their time:
- ✔Executive insights from leaders running the same decisions
- ✔Cross-industry perspectives from Retail, Automotive and Energy
- ✔Meaningful business relationships at decision-maker level
- ✔Technology trends with evidence of what already works
- ✔New partnership opportunities that lower investment risk
- ✔Practical transformation strategies you can cost and stage
- ✔Actionable ideas you can put to your board
The Scale
WHO YOU WILL BE SITTING WITH.
Speakers
Leaders shaping Europe's industrial landscape.
Learn directly from leaders shaping the future of European industry through innovation, digital transformation and supply chain excellence.
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Agenda
One day. Structured for decisions.
Networking
Arrival, registration and executive networking before the programme opens.
Keynotes
Opening addresses on where European industry stands and what changes next.
Executive Panels
Retail, Automotive and Energy leaders on the decisions they are making now.
Industry Roundtables
Closed-door working sessions on sourcing, resilience and technology adoption.
Innovation Showcases
Technologies already running in production, presented by the companies operating them.
Business Meetings
Pre-arranged one-to-one meetings between executives, providers and investors.
Organizers & Partners
In partnership with institutions and industry.
Partnership
PARTNER WITH EUROPE'S EXECUTIVE SUPPLY CHAIN COMMUNITY
Whether you are an executive, technology provider, investor or strategic partner, Next Industry Forum offers opportunities to share expertise, build partnerships and contribute to the future of industrial transformation.
Partners join the conversation as participants, not exhibitors. The value is access to the people who sign off on industrial investment in Retail, Automotive and Energy.
Become a Speaker
Present a real case with real figures to a room of buyers and peers. Credibility, not exposure.
Become a Strategic Partner
Sit inside the discussions where sourcing and technology decisions are formed across three industries.
Become a Sponsor
Reach a defined audience of executive budget holders, without competing for attention in an exhibition hall.
Registration
Save your seat.
Register your attendance for the Next Industry Forum. Seats are limited and confirmed individually.
Contact
Enter the conversation.
For participation, partnership and speaking enquiries, contact the forum office directly. We welcome inquiries from speakers, sponsors, media partners and executive participants.
CONNECTED TO WHAT’S NEXT
The cost of a wrong supply chain or technology decision is measured in years. The cost of checking your assumptions against your peers is one day.
Places are limited and allocated to keep the discussion at executive level. Register your interest to secure one.