Webinar series
Resilience in 2026 is no longer about reacting well after failure. It is about whether the organization has deliberately designed decision systems that reduce exposure before disruption, force explicit tradeoffs as conditions change and enable disciplined execution when disruption occurs.
Robust and Resilient Supply Chains in 2026 is a three-part webinar series for procurement and supply chain leaders accountable for performance, risk, and capital efficiency under persistent uncertainty. Featuring Sphera experts, customer experience and empirical risk data, the series examines three critical questions:
- How AI reshapes risk intelligence before events occur and during unfolding disruption
- Where resilience investments reduce exposure versus quietly destroy value
- Why organizational confidence routinely exceeds actual preparedness, and how to close that gap
Across the series, participants will gain practical guidance to strengthen risk intelligence, define explicit resilience tradeoffs and align supply chain risk management with enterprise decision-making so action is grounded in design, not improvisation, in 2026 and beyond.
Future-proofing supply chains: AI as a risk management game changer
17 March 2026 | 9am CT | 3pm CET
AI is reshaping how organizations anticipate, prioritize, and respond to supply chain risk. Its real value goes beyond visibility. It lies in enabling faster, better-informed decisions before disruption occurs and more disciplined action as events unfold.
In this session, Scott Lehmann and Ian Silver explore how AI is transforming supply chain risk management into an enabler of continuous intelligence and coordinated action that protects revenue, optimizes margin and cost, and safeguards reputation.
Drawing on real-world implementations, they will demonstrate how AI enhances early risk detection, sharpens prioritization under pressure, and connects insights across suppliers, logistics, operations, and customers. Rather than treating signals as isolated alerts, AI connects fragmented data into actionable insight that enables synchronized, proportionate, and timely responses to material risk.
This session focuses on practical execution rather than theory. It examines how organizations embed AI into risk workflows to strengthen judgement, reduce noise, accelerate mitigation, and build supply chains that adapt as conditions change.
What you will learn
- How AI strengthens early warning and improves pre-disruption visibility
- How AI improves prioritization as risk evolves in real time
- How to design AI-enabled risk processes that enable coordinated, cross-functional response
Speakers:
Scott Lehmann
GVP - Product Management, SCRM & ORM
Sphera
Scott is the Group Vice President of Product Management for Sphera’s Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) and Operational Risk Management (ORM) product line. With over 28 years of experience in enterprise software across the U.S. and Europe, Scott defines the strategic direction, product roadmaps, and vertical segmentation that drive Sphera’s industry-leading solutions.
Ian Silver
Global Head of Group
Samsung SDS America
Ian Silver brings more than two decades of digital transformation expertise, with senior roles at KPMG, Coupa, Jaggaer, and Workday. Ian leads the development of a global partner ecosystem – spanning advisory, technology, and global SI partners – to ensure excellence in Samsung Caidentia delivery and drive measurable enterprise-wide value for global clients.
Supply chains as value destroyers: How much robustness and resilience Is enough in 2026?
14 April 2026 | 9am CT | 4pm CET
Resilience without economic boundaries is fragility by another name.
As organizations seek to reduce exposure, many over-invest in buffers, redundancies and controls that constrain flexibility, increase cost and degrade performance long before disruption occurs. This session challenges the assumption that resilience automatically creates value.
Through a candid, moderated discussion, the panel examines how leading organizations define the right level of robustness by making tradeoffs explicit in advance. Participants will see how resilience decisions should be evaluated as capital allocation choices, not insurance policies, and how “good enough” resilience is deliberately designed rather than incrementally accumulated.
What you will learn
- How organizations distinguish exposure-reducing resilience from value-eroding overengineering
- Where excess inventory, redundancy or control most commonly destroy value
- How to define fit-for-purpose robustness aligned with risk appetite, economics and strategy
Speakers:
Steffen Schulze Selting
VP - Value Engineering
Sphera
Steffen Schulze Selting, VP of Value Engineering at Sphera, brings 10+ years in supply chain, procurement, and Customer Success. A practitioner-focused advisor, he blends operational leadership with strategic innovation to help customers quantify and realize long-term value at scale.
Expectations vs. Reality: The confidence paradox in supply chain risk management
5 May 2026 | 9am CT | 4pm CET
Featuring insights from the Sphera Supply Chain Risk Report 2026
Many organizations report high confidence in their supply chain risk management capabilities. Disruptions consistently reveal otherwise.
This session examines the confidence paradox: why perceived preparedness routinely exceeds actual capability. Using insights from Sphera’s latest Supply Chain Risk Report, the webinar highlights structural gaps across governance, data visibility, third-party exposure, and execution readiness.
Participants will see where confidence is supported by real decision systems and where it is based on assumption. The session concludes with practical steps to recalibrate resilience strategies so confidence is anchored in designed capability across pre-event preparation, in-event tradeoffs and post-event execution.
What you will learn
- Where organizations most frequently overestimate their supply chain risk preparedness
- How customer experience compares with the findings in Sphera’s Supply Chain Risk Report
- Concrete actions to align confidence with actual capability and reduce exposure where it matters most
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