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Visit Kinaxis at Gartner 2026 NA Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™
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Heading to the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Symposium in Orlando? Don’t miss Kinaxis at booth #301 and our featured sessions.
Customer Session: Why Adaptive Supply Chains Will Outperform Forecast-Driven Ones
| Discussion Focus: | Volatility now outpaces planning cycles, making forecasting accuracy and efficiency insufficient. Companies are moving toward agentic AI-powered, adaptive supply chains that continuously sense change, learn from outcomes, and re-orchestrate decisions across demand, supply, and finance in near real-time. Kinaxis customers, Extreme Networks, Ciena, and Jamieson Wellness, will share how adaptability enables faster pivots, strong margin protection, and sustained advantage. |
| Date: | Monday, May 4th, 2026 |
| Time: | 2:00 pm EST |
| Location: | Northern Hemisphere E |
| Speaker: | Andre Teixeira, VP Global Supply Chain, Jamieson Wellness Elaine Cartier, Senior Director of Digital Transformation, Ciena Gerry Hanrahan, Vice President of Global Operations, Extreme Networks |
| Moderator: | Fab Brasca, SVP Market Strategy |
Andre Teixeira
VP Global Supply Chain, Jamieson Wellness
Elaine Cartier
Senior Director of Digital Transformation, Ciena
Gerry Hanrahan
Vice President of Global Operations, Extreme Networks
Fab Brasca
SVP, Market Strategy Kinaxis
Demo Session: Close the Decision Gap — Before it Costs You
| Discussion Focus: | Your forecast is wrong. Your factory is behind. That marketing campaign? It wrecked lead times. Kinaxis Maestro helps you catch the impact before it hits revenue, margin, or customer promises. When demand spikes or plans collide, agentic AI flags what matters and surfaces trade-offs rapidly. No brittle forecasts. No disconnected decisions. Just a system built to flex, with you in control. Because if your plans can’t adapt, your business pays for it. |
| Date: | Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 |
| Time: | 10:30 am EST |
| Location: | Stage 2, Supply Chain Xpo |
| Speaker: | Anirudh Thatavarty, Business Consulting, Kinaxis |
Anirudh Thatavarty
Business Consulting, Kinaxis
Don’t react. Adapt.
Adaptive supply chains for a world in motion
Imagine a world where volatility isn’t the threat—it’s the strategy. Where supply chains don’t wait for forecasts to catch up, but sense change and respond in real time. Where people and intelligent agents work together on a single, live model where decisions move continuously. Where adaptability isn’t a goal, it’s how the business runs, every day.
Decisions you can trust
Adaptability depends on confidence. That’s why every recommendation in Maestro is explainable, every trade-off visible, and every decision grounded in one shared truth. Instead of reactive overrides, teams see the why behind the what, so they can move faster without losing control.
Accelerated productivity
When planning is the heartbeat of the business, work flows differently. A single concurrent model eliminates reconciliation and manual handoffs, while agents handle routine monitoring and analysis. Humans focus on judgment, exceptions, and strategy—exactly where they add the most value.
Continuously smarter decisions
Adaptive supply chains don’t operate in cycles, they operate in motion. Always-on intelligence, scenarios, and agent-driven orchestration sense change early, evaluate impacts instantly, and guide decisions across service, margin, risk, and sustainability—turning volatility into advantage.
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