'Ideas in Practice' Supply Chain Summit 2022

Realising the value of digitalisation

The sixth annual Supply Chain Summit, hosted by Leeds University Business School in partnership with Squire Patton Boggs, addresses the opportunities and challenges of digitalisation of UK supply chains.

World events in recent times have led us all to experience difficulties sourcing products that we routinely took for granted – less than full shelves in supermarkets, lack of chips (that’s the electronic variety) leading to shortages of new cars or domestic products are daily experiences for us and the phrase “supply chain problems” is a common problem highlighted in the media. Management leaders have a new term for this; our supply chains today are described as brittle, anxious, non-linear and incomprehensible (BANI – a new acronym highlighting a real world immediate problem). Global supply chains are disrupted by significant labour shortage, part shortage, inflation and new technologies. What can be done about this? Well, to be resilient, managers from all sorts of companies now realise that they need real-time accurate information about their supply chain through digitalisation.

This summit invites experts from large and small enterprises to push forward the agenda on how digitalisation can help organisations to respond to such challenges.

Our target participants include:

Industry representatives from manufacturing, construction, fintech, medtech, engineering and automotive industries

Policymakers at a local and national level

Professional services

The programme includes keynote and guest speakers, a panel and Q&A session, followed by a networking lunch.

Please note that ticket sales for this event have now closed. If you would like to attend and haven't been able to sign up in time, please contact Grace Carter directly: G.M.Bird@leeds.ac.uk.

Event Programme:

09:30: Registration

10:00: Welcome and introduction

Karen French, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs

Dr Kathryn Watson, Faculty Research Impact Manager at Leeds University Business School

10:10: Opening address by Chee Wong, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Leeds University Business School - Realising value from supply chain digitalisation: challenges and opportunities

10:30: Keynote 1 – Caroline Gorski, CEO, R² Factory at Rolls-Royce - Understanding the complexity of global supply chains

11:00: Keynote 2 - Sherin Mathew, Founder and CEO, Chief AI Strategist and Data/AI expert at AI Tech UK - AI and ethics

11:30: Coffee break

11:45: Panel discussion: Building UK industry and supply chain strength through greater digitalisation of SMEs

Chaired by David Loseby, Procurement and supply chain specialist; Professor of Research Impact in Supply Chain Management at Leeds University Business School

- Chee Wong, Professor of Supply Chain Management

- Jon Chesman, Senior Associate, Squire Patton Boggs

- Dr Jyoti Mishra, Associate Professor in Information Management

- Jenny Powell, Founder and CEO, Calathea Supply Chain

- Jen Robson, Head of Economic Growth and Business Resilience Policy, West Yorkshire Combined Authority

- Tony Walsh, Non-Executive Director, NIC Services Group; Senior Advisor, LHH - part of the Adecco Group

12:30: David Loseby - Digital Transformations: It’s a people thing...

12:50 Event roundup: Chee Wong, Leeds University Business School

13:00 Networking lunch

14:00 Event close

The Supply Chain Summit is organised by Leeds University Business School in collaboration with Squire Patton Boggs.

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