Mark your calendar: Join us in Nashville for NextGen Supply Chain Conference

From the September-October 2025 edition of Supply Chain Management Review.

September-October 2025

This issue of Supply Chain Management Review explores the technologies, strategies, and leadership practices shaping next-generation supply chains. Features include Gartner’s 2025 Top 25 Supply Chains and an…

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Each year, supply chains grow more complex, more connected, and more critical to global business. The NextGen Supply Chain Conference brings together the people and ideas shaping that future. This fall, we’re turning the page on another transformative year in supply chain—and there’s no better place to do that than at the W Nashville hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. With its vibrant energy, easy access, and central location, Nashville offers the perfect setting for innovation, networking, and fresh thinking.

The conference opens with a reception on Wednesday, Oct. 22, followed by a full day of sessions on Thursday and a half-day Friday program. Our host hotel, the W Nashville, is graciously extending the group rate through the weekend so attendees can enjoy all that Nashville has to offer.

To register, visit NextGen Supply Chain Conference

What truly sets the NextGen Supply Chain Conference apart, though, is the quality of its content. Sessions dig deep into the technologies and strategies moving the industry forward—AI, robotics, automation, predictive analytics, and digital transformation, to name a few.

Senior executives from some of the world’s most forward-thinking supply chains will share their real-world lessons, bold ideas, and roadmaps for the future. Whether they’re tackling the challenges of consumer-packaged goods, third-party logistics, food and beverage, or life sciences, each presenter brings experience, insight, and candor to the stage.

Designed by supply chain professionals for professionals, the conference goes beyond Keynotes. Attendees will hear from innovators solving real problems—and leave with actionable ideas.

We are pleased to have true industry leaders as our Keynote speakers this year. Val Marchevsky, EVP & CTO of Uber Freight will kick off the event on Thursday. The afternoon Keynote address will be from Lisa Drane, Director of Procurement Supply Innovation, Logistics and Warehouse for Diageo as she accepts the NextGen Supply Chain Visionary Award on behalf of Diageo.

And then, on Friday morning, we are excited to welcome Todd Stillwell, the new VP of Supply Chain and Manufacturing for Dole Packaged Foods.

Among the companies scheduled to present are C.H. Robinson, Kenco, RXO, GEODIS, Diageo, Our Home, Johnson & Johnson, Medline, Regeneron, Walmart, GNC, Quickcode.ai, Corvus Robotics, Easy Metrics and Dexory, Moody’s, IBM Consulting, Blue Tiger International, The Reshoring Institute, and more. Universities will also be represented with speakers from the University of Tennessee and Michigan State University slated to appear.

We’re also proud to host the annual NextGen Supply Chain Awards at the event, recognizing Startups, End Users and Solution Providers who are helping supply chains become smarter, faster, and more resilient. Their stories are as inspiring as they are instructive.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your supply chain journey, we invite you to join us in Nashville. You can find more information on the conference, including the agenda, registration, and hotel information, at nextgensupplychainconference.com.

We hope to see you there.

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