IGD Supply Chain Leaders Network
16 March 2026Exclusive series convening senior leaders from major retailers and food manufacturers, creating a unique space to shape the future of supply chain collaboration.
Bringing together the sector’s most influential voices, this event series creates a unique opportunity to explore the industry’s most pressing challenges and the system-wide solutions that can unlock long-term resilience across the supply chain. Through shared insights and forward-looking discussions, supply chain leaders will gain clarity on what the next era of supply chain performance will demand, helping to shape the future of the food industry.
What this experience offers leaders:
Exclusive access to four in‑person breakfast sessions
Hosted in a modern, central London venue designed to support strategic discussion.
Insight‑led discussions
Each session opens with an IGD briefing and includes subject‑matter experts sharing the latest trends, innovations and implications for the industry.
Interactive collaboration
Participate in structured roundtable exercises to co‑create solutions and drive meaningful progress across the supply chain.
Senior‑level networking
Connect with peers from across the retail and manufacturing landscape to strengthen relationships and broaden your strategic perspective.
Meet your host
James Rothwell
Head of Supply Chain Insights
IGD
James leads IGD’s Supply Chain service, delivering thought leadership and inspiration from across the supply chain ecosystem. He brings together best practice from industry leaders and emerging disruptors to drive innovation and value.
“UK supply chains have never been more capable nor more challenged. As new technologies and disruptive forces reshape the landscape, the industry needs leaders who are willing to align, collaborate, and set the agenda. That is the role of the IGD Supply Chain Leaders Network.”
Event partners
Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison Corporation is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labour and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers.
We design and develop labelling and functional materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience.
Serving industries worldwide – including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive – we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2024 were $8.8 billion.
Brambles
Since 2021, Brambles Digital has been trialing and piloting solutions for customers that deliver value by illuminating our customers’ supply chains.
By pairing our deep expertise in supply chain with new capabilities in data insights and analytics, we are equipping CHEP pallets with new digital technology to help customers drive growth and efficiency by providing insights about their goods as they flow through the supply chain.
Our ambition is to help our customers see further and act faster – driving improvements across efficiency, product availability, quality and sustainability.
Wincanton
Wincanton Dedicated Grocery manages warehouse and integrated transport operations on behalf of UK grocery businesses, combining long-standing expertise with advanced automation and value-added services. This includes managing people, technology, inventory processes, and compliance to maintain stock integrity, availability and food safety standards.
Wincanton Dedicated Grocery has decades of experience in managing these facilities serving multiple channels for leading grocers across the UK. We provide our customers with the reliability, agility and flexibility to meet the complex demands of the grocery sector. Our role is to ensure warehouse and transport operations remain efficient, resilient, and fully compliant whilst maximising product availability in store.
Our core services include:
Dedicated warehousing
Robotics and automation
Integrated transport
Programme dates
Session 1 – 12 March
Session 2 – 1 July
Session 3 – 9 September
Session 4 – 18 November
Schedule
8:30am – Breakfast
9:00am – Session begins
12:00pm – Close
Contact us
If you have any questions:
Head of Supply Chain – [email protected]
Events team – [email protected]
Each session’s agenda, speaker line‑up, timings and guestlist will be shared via email in advance. Post‑event summaries will also be provided directly to attendees.