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Berlin 2026 • Two Premier Conferences

The Global Operational Excellence, Business Transformation & EPC Forum 2026

📐 EPC Contracts & Claims Forum

📅 22–24 April 2026
Berlin + Online

⚙️ Operational Excellence & Transformation

📅 25–27 November 2026
Berlin, Germany
📍 Berlin, Germany🎯 In-person & Hybrid🏆 60+ Global Speakers

📘 OpEx Forum 2026 (Nov)

Full 3-day agenda: Keynotes from Amazon, P&G, Pfizer, BASF, Bayer. Culture, AI, Lean Transformation.

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📐 EPC Forum 2026 (April)

Contract strategy, claims, dispute resolution, AI contract review, risk management.

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EPC Contracts, Claims & Project Performance Forum

22–24 April 2026 | Berlin, Germany + Online

A global platform for Engineering, Procurement & Construction leaders focused on contract strategy, negotiation, claims management, dispute resolution, capital project delays, risk management, AI contract review tools, and data-centric execution.

Who Should Attend?

  • Project Directors, PMO leaders
  • Contract managers, commercial teams
  • Owners/operators, project controls
  • Claims, risk, dispute specialists

Key Benefits

  • Reduce delay/disruption impacts
  • AI contract review & negotiation tactics
  • Dispute avoidance strategies
  • Networking with owners & EPCs
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The Global Operational Excellence, Business Transformation & Process Improvement Forum

25–27 November 2026 | Berlin, Germany

A practitioner's guide to leading successful transformations, avoiding pitfalls, and building cultures that sustain change. Featuring real-world insights from Amazon, P&G, Pfizer, BASF, Bayer, Vestas, and more.

🎯 Why Attend

  • Real reasons initiatives fail: culture, change fatigue, governance
  • Actionable frameworks for culture change & process automation
  • Peer networking with OpEx leaders across industries
  • Hands-on workshops solving real transformation challenges

🏆 Featured Experts

  • Serkan Atlas (OFI), Kirsten Hawle (Vestas), Roland Flaig (ANEO)
  • Daniel Jenkinson (ex-Amazon), Marc Winkelman (P&G)
  • Vasileia Formozi (Pfizer), Nicolas Tzouanos (Bayer)
  • Kevin Neirynck (BASF), Maurizio Tessarotto (Generali)

📅 Complete Agenda – Operational Excellence Forum 2026

25–27 November 2026 | Berlin, Germany | In-person event

Day One

25th November 2026
08:00-09:00
☕ Registration & Morning Coffee
09:00-09:30
Keynote
The New Rules of Operational Excellence
  • How OpEx is evolving in 2026
  • From efficiency to business value
  • Where most organizations fall behind
Serkan Atlas, Head of Operational Excellence, OFI
09:30-10:00
Session
Automating the Right Processes First
  • Identifying high-impact automation opportunities
  • Quick ROI vs long-term bets
  • Avoiding automation waste
Kirsten Hawle, Director Business Improvement, Vestas
10:00-10:30
Session
Embedding a Continuous Improvement Culture
  • Moving beyond one-off projects
  • Leadership behaviors that sustain change
  • Practical culture-shift levers
Roland Flaig, Managing Director, ANEO Sweden
10:30-11:00
🤝 Networking Break
11:00-11:30
Session
Using Data to Drive Process Decisions
  • Turning dashboards into action
  • Leading vs lagging indicators
  • Building decision discipline
Jaroslaw Kulik, Head Data & Analytics Services, Philip Morris International
11:30-12:00
Session
Customer-Centric Process Design
  • Designing from the outside-in
  • Journey mapping essentials
  • Linking CX to operational KPIs
Anthony Savell, Head of Business Optimisation, Close Brothers
12:00-13:00
🍽️ Lunch Break
13:00-13:30
Session
Lean Transformation in Complex Organizations
  • Why Lean stalls at scale
  • Breaking functional silos
  • Proven scaling approaches
Daniel Jenkinson, Former Senior Continuous Improvement Expert (Worldwide), Amazon
13:30-14:00
Session
Change Management That Actually Works
  • Why transformations lose momentum
  • Stakeholder alignment tactics
  • Communication rhythms that stick
Eimantas Sinkevicius, Operational Excellence and Transformation Director, Yara International
14:00-14:30
🤝 Networking Break
14:30-15:00
Session
Operationalizing Customer-Centricity: From Principle to Daily Decisions
Ruchi Shah, VP of Operational Excellence and Strategic Growth, AVIV Group
15:00-15:30
Session
Making Strategy Actionable Through Operational Systems and Behaviors
Yr Gunnarsdottir, Head of Business Transformation, TRESOIS

Day Two

26th November 2026
08:30-09:00
☕ Morning Coffee
09:00-09:30
Keynote
Digital Transformation Without the Hype
  • Business-first tech strategy
  • Lessons from failed programs
  • Where to focus in the next 12 months
Sachin Sankpal, Vice President of Group Excellence and Digitalization, Vynova Group
09:30-10:00
Session
Why Employees Often Struggle to Improve Digital Processes — Do We Really Enable Them to Do the Magic?
Matthias Schrepfer, Process Excellence Lead, BESTSECRET Group
10:00-10:30
Session
Topic to Be Announced
Miguel Macias, Global Business Services – Performance Management & Transformation, Bilfinger
10:30-11:00
🤝 Networking Break
11:00-11:30
Session
Building Agile Operating Models
  • Transforming ways-of-working and building continuous improvement culture
  • Strategy deployment to connect all employees with must-win battles
  • Organizational design for cross-functional liquid teams
  • Agile leadership behaviors that remove fear of failure
  • Building trust, feedback, and growth mindsets
Kevin Neirynck, Senior Principal Scientist – Operational Excellence, BASF
11:30-12:00
Session
How to Start & Strengthen the Implementation of Your Operational (Digital) Excellence Program
P&G's operational excellence capabilities have transformed employee engagement and digitalization, delivering continuous improvements in cost efficiency, inventory, service levels, productivity, and satisfaction.
Marc Winkelman, Global Director Manufacturing Innovation Capability, Procter & Gamble
12:00-13:00
🍽️ Lunch Break
13:00-13:30
Session
Operational Excellence Starts with Culture: Enabling People to Drive Improvement
Clym Stock-Williams, Head of Operational Excellence, Vattenfall
13:30-14:00
Session
Topic to Be Announced
Azeeza Sunmonu, Global Head of Commercial Excellence, Mundipharma
14:00-14:30
🤝 Networking Break
14:30-15:00
Session
Driving Change That Delivers Results
Stephane Jeanmart, Site Manager, Syngenta
15:00-16:00
Workshop
How Do You Create Real Transformation with Your Operational Excellence Journey?
Cristina Jackson, Operational Excellence Leader, AAK

Day Three

27th November 2026
08:30-09:00
☕ Morning Coffee
09:00-09:30
Keynote
Future-Proofing Your Operating Model
  • Know your business deeply enough to know when data and logic are wrong
  • Fall in love with the problem, not the technology
  • Embrace conflict — the best ideas don't come from harmony
Maurizio Tessarotto, Head of Operations, Generali Engagement Solutions GmbH
09:30-10:00
Session
The Human in the Loop! Leading a Human-Centric AI Revolution
  • The AI Fluency Blueprint
  • Value-Driven Strategic Selection
  • The Human-in-the-Loop Safety Net
  • Cultivating Psychological Safety and Adoption
  • Measuring ROI and Time Reclaimed
Vasileia Formozi, Change Enablement Director, Pfizer
10:00-10:30
Session
Digital Transformation Doesn't Fail in Strategy... It Fails on the Shopfloor
Digital transformation often falls short not because of technology, but because organizations struggle to translate strategy into daily behavior on the shopfloor.
Hugo David Herrmann, Operational Excellence, Smart Factory & Continuous Improvement, Inteva Products
10:30-11:00
🤝 Networking Break
11:00-11:30
Session
How Continuous Improvement Process Can Drive Profitable Growth
  • From Data Management to Data Analytics
  • The human component of Continuous Improvement
  • Simplicity as fundamental pillar of CI
Marco Danzini, Group Quality Executive, Schindler
11:30-12:00
Session
Governance That Enables Speed: How to Design Decision Models That Accelerate Transformation Instead of Blocking It
Focus on how governance, decision rights, and prioritization models can either enable or unintentionally slow down operational excellence and transformation initiatives.
Hamza Arif, Process Excellence Manager, Agilent Technologies Deutschland GmbH
12:00-13:00
🍽️ Lunch Break
13:00-13:30
Session
Embedding AI into Continuous Improvement: Lessons from Process Intelligence at Bayer
How AI is being embedded into continuous improvement through process intelligence, based on practical experience at Bayer.
Nicolas Tzouanos, Operational Excellence & Business Transformation, Bayer
13:30-14:00
Session
Under the Bonnet of OpEx: Souping Up the Engine with Organisational Culture
  • Operational Excellence: journey or destination?
  • Organisational culture as a powerful and invisible force
  • Knowledge, questioning attitude and integrity as cultural characteristics
Fabio Scaringella, Chief Operating Officer, AXA MPS Financial DAC
14:00-14:30
🤝 Networking Break
14:30-15:00
Session
Measuring What Matters in OpEx
  • Skills for modern emotionally intelligent OpEx leaders
  • Structuring the inspired OpEx function
  • Talent development priorities
Naveed Khawaja, Principal Solution Architect, SAMI Advanced Electronics
15:00
🏁 Closing Remarks & End of Forum

Registration & Tickets 2026

📐 EPC Forum (22-24 April 2026)

Standard Delegate: €2,899 | Virtual: €2,499

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⚙️ OpEx Forum (25-27 November 2026)

Delegate Pass: €2,599 (Full 3-day access, workshops, networking)

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