Blue Yonder Mumbai Connect

Forty leaders.
One sealed envelope.
One evening.

Thursday, 19th November, 2026

6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Venue:

Sofitel Mumbai BKC

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About the evening

A room where nobody presents at you.

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Supply chain leaders spend most of their time in rooms where someone is presenting to them. Mumbai Connect is the opposite. It is a small, private evening where senior leaders from Manufacturing, Automotive, CPG and Pharma work a live business problem together, and learn from how their peers decide.

The evening opens with a candid panel on what it takes to trust AI with a real supply chain decision. Then a sealed envelope is placed on every table, and nobody at the table has seen what is inside. At a signal, all tables open them together and work through the scenario as a leadership team would: under time pressure, with incomplete information, and with real trade-offs to defend.

There are no product pitches and no long keynotes. The room produces the answer. Leaders from different industries see how peers weigh the same decision, where they disagree, and what they would do differently. Then the evening settles into dinner, with the conversations that only a shared problem can start.

Agenda

The shape of the evening

Times are indicative.
  1. 7:00 PM

    Welcome note and keynote

    Welcome to Mumbai Connect, and a showcase of Cognitive for Planning and Execution
    Vinod Mathur, Blue Yonder

  2. 7:30 PM

    Microsoft

    Building an AI ready manufacturing enterprise
    Virendra Chaudhari, Microsoft India

  3. 7:40 PM

    EY

    Turning supply chain transformation into results you can measure
    Sapan Joshi and Alamelu B Ganesh, EY

  4. 7:50 PM

    Ubiqtern

    From pilot to production: making supply chain AI stick
    Siva Devireddy, Ubiqtern

  5. 8:00 PM

    Panel discussion

    From pilot to decision: would you trust AI with a real supply chain call?
    Moderator: Surat Gupta, Blue Yonder

  6. 8:30 PM

    War Room simulation

    Tables of five work through a sealed scenario, make the call together and pitch it in 60 seconds
    Anand Chorghade, Blue Yonder

  7. 9:30 PM

    Networking and dinner

    Continue the conversation over dinner
    All

40Senior leaders
Who is in the room

Small on purpose.

Forty senior leaders, across Manufacturing, Automotive, CPG and Pharma.

The room is kept small on purpose. Every request is reviewed personally, and you will hear from us within two working days.

On stage

Our speakers

Leaders from Blue Yonder, Microsoft, EY and Ubiqtern.

Vinod Mathur
Keynote

Vinod Mathur

Vice President, Product Management, Blue Yonder

Virendra Chaudhari
Microsoft

Virendra Chaudhari

Director and Industry Advisor, Manufacturing and Mobility, Microsoft India

Sapan Joshi
EY

Sapan Joshi

Partner, Technology Consulting (Supply Chain and Manufacturing), EY

Siva Devireddy
Ubiqtern

Siva Devireddy

Co-founder and CEO, Ubiqtern

Surat Gupta
Panel moderator

Surat Gupta

Director, Technical Account Management, Blue Yonder

Anand Chorghade
War Room

Anand Chorghade

Sr Director, Supply Chain Advisory, Blue Yonder

Hosted by

Blue Yonder, with Express Computers as media partner. Supported by Microsoft, EY and Ubiqtern.

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