Where operational excellence meets real-world execution
A global executive platform connecting operational excellence, GBS modernization, smart manufacturing, and industrial strategy to drive execution in a volatile world
Curated forums. Structured interaction. Real operational dialogue.
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Geopolitics is reshaping operating models
Global trade, regulation and regionalisation are changing how organisations design operations and supply networks.
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AI is compressing execution cycles
Organisations are expected to move from strategy to execution faster than ever before.
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Cost pressure is redefining operational priorities
Leaders are expected to improve performance while managing tighter budgets and greater uncertainty.
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Execution has become the competitive advantage
The organisations that learn, adapt and execute faster are outperforming those with better strategies alone.
Who Is Opex Fusion For?
Opex Fusion is designed for leaders responsible for making strategy work in practice.
It brings together operators and transformation leaders who are accountable for:
- improving operational performance & leadership execution
- scaling Enterprise GBS & digital modernization
- modernizing manufacturing & plant production
- building resilient supply chains & industrial strategy
How Different Leaders Get Value
at Opex Fusion
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Operational Excellence & Process Strategy
The Persona:
For COOs, Chief Process Officers, Heads of Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement Directors, and Lean Leaders.Why they show up:
- frontline ownership: Practical, real-world governance frameworks for sustaining process integrity and alignment across distributed global sites.
- The strategy-to-shopfloor bridge: Proven change-management methodologies for translating high-level corporate margin and cost targets into actionable daily frontline habits.
- Sustaining continuous improvement culture: Strategies for overcoming organizational tool fatigue, navigating leadership turnover, and preventing performance drift after transformation deployment.
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Enterprise Modernization & GBS Scale
The Persona:
For VPs of Global Business Services (GBS), Heads of Shared Services, Chief Transformation Officers, and CFO-Transformation Leads.Why they show up:
- Transactional automation at scale: Actionable roadmaps for moving past isolated AI pilots into the enterprise-wide deployment of autonomous process engines.
- Breaking corporate silos: Blueprints for unifying fragmented workflows (Finance, Procurement, HR, and IT) under an integrated, value-driven operating model.
- Clean enterprise data cores: Proven strategies for tackling systems fragmentation and building high-integrity master data pipelines required to power advanced enterprise analytics.
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Smart Manufacturing & Industrial AI
The Persona:
For VPs of Manufacturing, Plant Directors, Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Operations Directors, and Industrial Automation Heads.Why they show up:
- Brownfield plant modernization: Real-world case studies detailing how to integrate advanced Industrial AI, digital twins, and edge-analytics into legacy factory floors.
- Bridging the OT/IT data gap: Technical and structural blueprints for connecting plant floor operational technology safely to enterprise IT systems.
- Autonomous factory execution: Actionable insights into scaling advanced robotics, predictive maintenance systems, and automated quality loops across multi-site production networks.
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Supply Chain Architecture & Industrial Strategy
The Persona:
For Chief Supply Chain Officers (CSCOs), VPs of Global Procurement, Logistics Directors, Sourcing Strategists, and Risk Officers.Why they show up:
- Network Architecture & Reshoring: Data-backed scorecards for executing rapid supply chain reconfigurations and nearshoring transitions closer to consumer markets.
- Tariff and trade insulation: Tactical frameworks for building agile, multi-sourced supplier networks capable of handling geopolitical disruption and cost volatility.
- Predictive supply chain execution: Harnessing AI-enabled logistics data to improve visibility, minimize inventory holding risks, and defend margins against macro supply shocks.
Here’s How Opex Fusion Is Designed Differently
Opex Fusion is built as a working forum — not a stage-driven conference or a content outlet.
It is designed for leaders accountable for execution, where discussion focuses on how strategy performs inside real operating environments.
Rather than prioritizing volume, visibility, or abstraction, Opex Fusion emphasizes:
- Practical experience over theory
- Dialogue over performance
- Responsibility over profile
The result is a focused environment where operators and enterprise leaders — across operational excellence, GBS modernization, smart manufacturing, and global supply chains — engage with real constraints, trade-offs, and decisions.
What Happens at Opex Fusion
- Curated keynotes from experienced operators and transformation leaders
- Parallel tracks covering operational excellence, GBS modernization, smart manufacturing, and resilient supply chain strategy
- Facilitated discussions and executive roundtables
- Structured networking designed for relevance, not volume
No vendor noise. No filler sessions. No abstract vision talks.
The Events
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Executive Sessions 2026
September 21, 2026OnlineDiscover. Question. Connect.
2 Core Themes: Operational Excellence | Smart Manufacturing & Digital Operations
A focused virtual executive programme exploring what it takes to move transformation beyond initiatives, pilots and incremental improvement — and build the capability to scale and sustain change across complex operations.
Practitioner perspectives, community findings and live executive discussion examine the systems, technology, leadership and human factors that determine whether transformation delivers lasting performance.
What it leads to: The strongest questions and challenges identified by the community will progress into deeper practitioner discussions, Match & Solve and working sessions at Opex Fusion Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam 2026
November 16 - 18, 2026EuropeExecution-first. Operator-led.
2 Core Tracks: Track A: Operational Excellence | Track B: Smart Manufacturing & Digital Ops
The European edition of OpEx Fusion, bringing together operational leaders solving today’s execution challenges across Operational Excellence, Smart Manufacturing and Digital Operations.
Target partner profile: Providers of Lean governance, energy efficiency systems, and shopfloor optimization.
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CONTINUE 2027
January 20–21, 2027OnlineRevisit. Go Deeper. Move Forward.
Post-Amsterdam Follow-ups: Speaker Conversations | Practitioner Exchange | Implementation Challenges
The conversation doesn’t end in Amsterdam. Opex Fusion CONTINUE brings selected contributors and the community back together to take the most important questions, challenges and ideas from Amsterdam further.
Focused follow-up sessions revisit unresolved questions, explore what implementation looks like in practice and create space for deeper exchange with the practitioners behind the original conversations.
What it leads to: The conversation continues within Expertise Hub, with new insights and questions helping shape the next Opex Fusion DISCOVER cycle.
Insights from the Opex Fusion Community
Beyond the events, Opex Fusion shares practical insight through:
- Articles and analysis from operators and practitioners
- Short perspectives on operational excellence, GBS modernization, smart manufacturing, and resilient supply chain strategy
- Curated questions and expert responses surfaced from the community
