Date and Time
10/02/2026, 12:00 - 17:30
Resilience (in Dutch weerbaarheid) and agility (in Dutch wendbaarheid) perhaps sound the same but in practice are not.
Agility is a crucial capability of Resilience which enables your supply chain not only to become more robust (weerbaar in Dutch), but also allows you to bounce back even stronger after a disruption by creating business opportunities.
With Robustness the focus is more on risk management while agility the focus is more on entrepreneurship.
In a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) business environment with the number of disruptions ever increasing investing in Resilience is more important than ever.
Resilience is about external and internal influences and how an organization can handle effectively with these disruptions, agility is the way how organizations can adapt and react swiftly in a never changing environment. Together with the Dutch Shipper Association (evofenedex) and our academic research we want to test/discuss our tools based on practical cases.
At TU/e we develop digital platforms and policy guidelines to design and models for agile companies in resilient networks. These tools provide decision makers with concrete actions to prevent some level of shocks, rapid response to disruptions, and guidelines on how to recover and adapt the organization.
Experience Workshop Business meets Business interaction
The workshop focuses on application and peer exchange. We will address your actual business concerns, assess where your organization stands in terms of resilience, and identify the capabilities needed to strengthen it.
Program
12:00 Walk-in & Lunch
12:50 Opening & objectives
13:00 Setting the Scene around Resilience and Agility
A clear conceptual distinction between resilience and agility, including typical considerations, is discussed, and companies analyse disruptions using the PESTLE framework in a positioning exercise.
13:20 Keynote: Luc Perebooms, Manager supply chain engineering at Technische Unie
13:40 Break-out to work on a concrete disruption scenario: Shock simulation
In groups we work on a concrete disruption scenario. Together with colleagues, you work out questions and benefit from each other’s knowledge and experience. The difference between resilience and agility becomes tangible. You gain insight into where the disruptions within the supply chain have an impact.
14:25 Keynote: Impact of EU regulation on supply chains by Jaime Bonnin Roca, TU/e Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
14:45 Break
15:00 Capacity Mapping
We will identify key resilience capabilities versus agility capabilities. What structures does your company have in place to deal with disruptions at the moment? With use resilience KPIs and other frameworks.
15:45 Keynote: Ronald Kleijwegt, CEO at Vinturas
16:00 Ecosystem (re-)framing
Instead of focusing on one company, supply chain, think about resilience from an ecosystem perspective.
16:30 Final discussion
17:00 Closing & Drinks
Registration
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