Healthcare supply chains are entering a new era, defined by rising cost pressures, ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, evolving customer expectations, and rapid advances in digital technologies and AI. While the acute disruptions of recent years have subsided, supply chain leaders continue to balance resilience with efficiency, innovation with risk, and long-term transformation with day-to-day operational demands. 

• Explore the biggest strategic trends shaping healthcare supply chains, from cost containment and geopolitical risk to AI, digital transformation, and operational resilience 
• Learn how providers and manufacturers are working together to improve visibility, collaboration, and supply continuity while navigating competing priorities 
• Gain practical insights into the future of healthcare supply chain leadership, including where organizations are investing today to build more agile, resilient, and patient-centered supply chains 

PRACTITIONER ROUNDTABLES | Solving Today's Operational Challenges

Peer-driven conversations focused on practical challenges, implementation strategies, and lessons learned across planning, logistics, technology, supplier collaboration, and operational excellence. 

LogiLab #1: Improving Forecast Accuracy in an Unpredictable Environment 

Jeremy Padmos, SVP, Head of Diagnostics Supply Chain Management, Siemens Healthineers 

• Share strategies for improving demand visibility, leveraging data and analytics, and responding to fluctuating utilization patterns while maintaining product availability and service levels. 

LogiLab #2: Start-Up and Small Medtech  

Dutch Vandersand, VP of Supply Chain, Babson Diagnostics, Inc. 

LogiLab#4: Moving AI from Pilot to Practice 

Discuss the AI and automation initiatives delivering measurable results today, including lessons learned, adoption challenges, governance considerations, and opportunities for scale. 

LogiLab #5: Reducing Inventory Without Increasing Risk 

Explore approaches to inventory optimization, safety stock management, demand planning, and balancing resilience with financial and operational performance goals. 

LogiLab #6: Measuring and Managing Supplier Performance 

Exchange ideas on supplier scorecards, performance metrics, risk monitoring, supplier collaboration, and strategies for building stronger, more accountable partnerships. 

LogiLab #7: Balancing Cost Pressure, Resilience, and Supply Assurance 

Discuss how organizations are navigating budget constraints while investing in resilience, strengthening continuity plans, and managing disruption across increasingly complex supply networks. 

LogiLab #8: Reducing Variation and Driving Value Through Clinical Supply Standardization 

Explore best practices for engaging clinicians, reducing variation, supporting value analysis initiatives, and aligning product decisions with financial, operational, and patient care objectives. 

LogiLab #7: Scaling Automation in the Distribution Center: Where Are You Investing and What's Delivering ROI?