Tuesday 26th of February

08.30   Registration & breakfast

09.00   Statement of Intent - Ed Lawson, Director, Intent Group

09.05   Icebreaker - member intros

09.35   Roundtable discussions - first round (see below)

10.25   121 meetings

10.45   Networking break

11.00   Special guest: Goal setting and team dynamics, Hannah Macleod, MBE, Double Olympic Medallist

11.35   Roundtable discussions - second round (see below)

12.25   121 meetings

12.45   Hot lunch (healthy & tasty!)

13.35   Using AI to find operational optimisation opportunities, Daniel Hulme, CEO, Satalia

14.05   Roundtable discussions - third round (see below)

14.55   121 meetings

15.15   Short break

15.25   TALENT! How to attract and retain the next generation of SC specialists.

             Ideas and insights from Bethany Fovargue, Operations Manager, NOVUS

16.00   Roundtable discussions - fourth round

16.50   Table tennis battle & networking, Intent Group style!

18.00   Executive dinner hosted by Oracle (limited availability)

The following top interests of the members who are planning to attend this meeting will be the roundtable discussion themes (in no particular order)

• 1 DRIVER BASED PLANNING & COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING

  • Breaking down silos for effective S&OP

  • Aligning planning decisions with profitability implications

  • ​Connecting functions: systems and process for collaboration

    • Discussion host: Andy Noyce, BOARD International

• 2 DIGITALISATION AS A PATH TO ALIGNMENT WITH BUSINESS PRIORITIES

  • Visualisation of cross functional business impact
  • Digital readiness - how to step towards connected real time decision making
  • Agility through digitised operations
    • Discussion host: Vikram Singla, Oracle​

• 3 THE HUMAN SIDE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Threat or opportunity? Perceptions of digitalisation among the workforce

  • Changing group mindsets to optimise the impact of transformations

  • New ways of thinking: how digital technologies change thought processes

    • Discussion host: Caspar Jans, Software AG​

• 4 RESILIENCE & AGILITY STRATEGY

  • Scenario based planning

  • Changing environments - how robust are your plans given the likelihood of change?

  • Connected international decision making

  • Modelling and managing supplier risk

    • Discussion host: Joost Bossina, Quintiq​

• 5 LEAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

  • Why and how do continuous improvement drives fail to deliver?

  • Implementing systematic operational excellence

  • Leadership behavioural best practice

    • Discussion host: John Wynne, TBM Consulting​

• 6 BREXIT - MITIGATING KNOWN POINTS OF EXPOSURE

  • Border changes​

  • Customs delays

  • Labour availability and business impacts

  • Decision making - when to action plans​

    • Discussion hos​t: Martin Fletcher, Bisham Consulting

• Capped attendance (to maintain a private and safe setting for genuine sharing)

• Private, by-invitation only, Chatham House Rules

• Cross-sector, Director level, pre-profiled (all attendees receive full details on participating members)

• Mutually agreed 121 meetings based on common interests (no obligation or pressure)

• Our six Advisory Partners host roundtable discussions to ensure productive conversations

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Concurrent roundtable discussions

​The SIX roundtable discussions are concurrent / simultaneous and they run FOUR times during the day so members choose their top four discussions to participate in.

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Members submit questions and agenda points and we work with the discussion hosts to tailor the agendas for participants. Each member receives a personalised agenda with the times of each of their chosen discussions. No competing companies are scheduled on the same session.

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121 meetings

​We schedule member-to-member and member-to-partner 121 meetings for all attendees (that wish to). These meetings are based on common interests and are agreed in advance. There is no obligation to attend any meeting that is not of interest.

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What else?

Each meeting also includes two or more of:

• Member viewpoint/experience sharing: a member shares a short, honest review of a recent project or improvement made in their business, with a focus on 'lessons learned'.

• Expert Q&A: we invite a subject-matter expert on an important theme for our members and then invite them to ask whatever they want.

• Leadership "refreshers": knowing what to do is only half the battle...our members then need to make things happen! We invite inspirational coaches to equip our members with new tools and ideas to help them realise their goals.

• Something totally different: we invite interesting and unusual non-industry luminaries whose insights and experiences can provoke tired assumptions and stimulate new thinking.

• Rapport-building activities: we end each meeting with some fun stuff so that you make new friends, not just new contacts.