About
Drapers Supply Chain Summit is split into two parts - the afternoon content, and the evening dinner. If your registration is accepted you can select to attend either, or both. Our goal is to cultivate the best conversations, so we've created an environment that offers a blend of formal and informal learning and networking.
13:00 - 14:00
A buffet lunch will be served
14:00 – 17:30
A half day forum of tightly curated and highly relevant content. We’ll give guests the chance to speak freely with each other about challenges and opportunities as well as offering up some of the inspiring speakers that Drapers event have become known for.
17:30 – 21:00
A drinks reception and networking dinner to continue the conversations (limited numbers)
Why attend?
Drapers Supply Chain Summit is an intentionally intimate event, with a finely curated audience to ensure that everyone in the room shares the same goals. In attending, you can expect to meet around 50 people in the following roles:
Chief operating officers, operations directors, supply chain directors, data directors, sourcing directors, retail operations directors, retail development directors, distribution directors, fulfilment directors and logistics directors
If you attend, you can expect to:
Tackle industry disruption head on
Explore how omnichannel retail, sustainability demands and digital innovation are redefining fashion supply chains. Engage with real-world insights into rising costs, global sourcing shifts and the future of warehouse, fulfilment and logistics operations.
Network with high-impact peers
Join an intimate group of around 50 senior operations professionals: COOs, operations, supply chain, data, sourcing and logistics directors from leading fashion brands and retailers.
Access exclusive thought leadership
Attend a carefully curated half-day forum featuring expert speakers and our popular interactive “collab” sessions on the most pressing supply chain issues.
Build deep strategic connections
Take advantage of the multiple networking opportunities
Venue
The Soho Hotel
4 Richmond Mews
London
W1D 3DH
The Soho Hotel has access for wheelchair users through the restaurant and lifts down to the events floor, which also has an accessible toilet.
A ramp can also be placed in the screening room with access to the front row, where guests can position their wheelchairs.
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Sustainability
Drapers is working with a carbon consultancy to measure the carbon footprint of this event, taking recommendations on how to improve our performance and impact on the environment. We will publish the results of this report after the event.
Our company commitment to sustainability at events can be found below:
Minimising the environmental impact of Drapers Supply Chain Summit is important to us.
As part of our commitment to a more sustainable future, we are taking practical steps to reduce and offset our carbon emissions, and we encourage our event partners to do the same.
Below are some of the measures we are implementing to reduce waste and energy consumption, and to minimise the carbon footprint of the event:
Our event attendees
SWAG Is it valuable to the attendee? We ask to keep this to a minimum with the aim of using sustainable, recyclable or compostable materials.
No single-use bottles We provide water stations and encourage attendees to bring their own reusable drinking bottles.
Getting to our events Directions for public transport only are detailed on the event website.
Our event suppliers
Drapers chooses its suppliers with a bias towards those partners who take sustainability seriously.
Event collateral, signage and exhibition stands Our event guide programmes and tickets are electronic instead of printed. The signage we use is from Insite Graphics, which holds ISO14001 certification. Event signage is all either recyclable, reusable or used to provide community power at end of life – none will go to landfill. All the ink is water based and much of our signage is moving to cardboard-based alternatives, recyclable in generic paper waste collections. For more information click here .
AV supplier We have chosen our AV supplier based on its positive sustainability policy, which you can read here .
Couriers We request electric vehicles for our preferred courier, Santis Global. For more information click here .
Transport Employees are encouraged to take public transport to event or to travel using our Uber Green company account. For more information click here .
Lanyards Where possible, we source lanyards that are made from sustainable materials such as bamboo, and we aim for these to be returned, disinfected and reused.
We need to work harder
This section of the website is not just dedicated to shouting about how great we are for doing what we should have been doing all along. We need to do better. We would love to hear from you on how you think we could improve. Please email any suggestions to drapers.supplychainsummit@emap.com or take a few moments to complete the post-event survey that will be emailed to you after the summit.