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Top 10 Conferences for Operations Managers to Attend in 2025

10 Dec 2024 · 8
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Top 10 Conferences for Operations Managers to Attend in 2025
As an operations manager, you’re running a tight ship. You have to make sure processes run smoothly, ensure policy compliance, support productivity, and more.
That’s precisely where operations management (OM) conferences can help. Whether you’re interested in the newest logistics software or industry best practices, OM conferences have everything you need to develop and improve your operations.
Here are 10 of the best in-person operations manager conferences in 2025.

Operations Manager Conferences in the USA

American Supply Chain Summit

1st - 2nd May, 2025
Loews Arlington Hotel, Dallas, Texas
The American Supply Chain Summit gathers managers and leaders to discuss cutting-edge strategies, methods, and technologies for improving supply chain and procurement. It offers a comprehensive view of the industry, including market dynamics and case studies on logistics disruptions.
This year’s key themes include profitability, risk management, cost optimization, emerging technology, and workforce management. Besides engaging keynote speeches, the summit will also provide attendees with various workshops, live demos, and open discussion platforms covering the unique challenges and potential solutions in supply chain management and business administration.

The Future of Everything Festival

20th - 22nd May, 2025
Spring Studios, New York City, New York
The Future of Everything, as the name suggests, is a festival covering a broad range of topics in innovations, trends, and future solutions.
This operations conference is not limited to a single industry; it’s a meeting place for leaders, executives, and managers eager to discover transformative insights from everyone from CEOs of globally renowned brands like Google to actresses, comedians, and reporters. You’ll hear from speakers about the future of, well, everything, from entertainment and social media to AI and autonomous aviation, information technology, financial planning, higher ed, climate change, and more.
Operations managers will also be able to take advantage of immersive technology demos from exhibitors while learning strategies for smooth implementation. If you’re a global operations manager seeking to expand your horizons and learn from executives across industries, then The Future of Everything is for you.
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Executive Leadership Development Conference

30th March - 4th April, 2025 OR 20th - 25th July, 2025
Stanford University, Stanford, California
The ELDC is part conference and professional development, part mini-MBA, and part immersive thinktank for those who want to become stronger leaders and more effective managers.  
This conference starts by evaluating your leadership style and effectiveness using Stanford's proprietary 360º leadership assessment. Then, you’ll get a personalized leadership development plan with a curriculum that follows Stanford’s MBA program across three main themes: business acumen, innovation, and leadership.
Three in-depth personal coaching sessions, immersive lectures, peer-based discussion groups and more will give you a wealth of insights on strategic principles, policy implementation, and best practices for operations managers to regularly use on the job.
Even better: it’s happening twice in 2025, both times in-person at Stanford University, just outside of San Francisco.

Future Festival

23rd - 25th September, 2025
TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, Canada
If you’re looking to brush shoulders with some of the biggest brands in the world, this one’s for you. Brands like Google, Starbucks, NASA, and Netflix all send their leadership teams to discuss innovation, AI, and management at Future Festival.
Day 1 of the conference starts with introductions and insights from top-tier innovators and industry experts. From there, the conference progresses with keynote speeches on the latest trends, real-world success stories, networking opportunities, and an after party.
On day 3, you’ll get a full day of Innovation Workshops to transform your insights into actionable strategies for your team.
It’s the perfect conference for ops managers to attend with leaders from other teams within your company and develop a company-wide strategy for innovation and AI adoption.
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2025 ACUHO-I Conference & Expo

28th June - 1st July, 2025
Columbus, Ohio
ACUHO is an annual conference where higher-education operations managers and campus housing managers can dive into keynote sessions, breakout sessions, an on-site expo, and networking, focusing on operations, management, and leadership for higher education campuses.
Besides curated educational content, ACUHO also offers specialized community-building spaces where you can meet with other managers and build your network.
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The best Operations Manager conferences in Europe

Creative Operations 2025

28th March, 2025
Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom
Creative Operations is a conference where operations directors, managers, and creative leaders come together to explore how to deliver greater operational excellence across the entire creative ecosystem.  
This year’s sessions and events cover three key areas: creative operations, content studio operations, and creative production.
Just some of the themes attendees can expect to learn about include AI-powered automation, creative leadership, talent and innovation, data and analytics and more. This is a great event for anyone managing processes and operations in a creative field.

Operations Research 2025

2nd - 5th September, 2025
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
The Operations Research conference in Bielefeld, Germany, is a must-attend for operations managers interested in academic research. It will offer a wide scope of presentations on the key themes of operations research, management science, data science, and analytics.
Both academics and practitioners will be sharing their latest findings, providing attendees with data-backed trends to better inform their management practices.
While OR is a conference that mainly attracts academics, it’s still a valuable opportunity for operations managers to obtain in-depth insights and brand-new research that can inform your daily decision-making.

ProcureCon Europe 2025

23rd - 25th September, 2025
Austria Center, Vienna, Austria
If you’re involved with procurement and supply chains as an operations manager, then this is a can’t-miss conference for you.
ProcureCon Europe gives you the opportunity to benchmark your strategy against some of the world’s biggest companies. Attendees will hear from the likes of Hugo Boss, Ferrari, and Henkel about their procurement strategies and processes.
Plus, learn how to develop more sustainable practices, leverage automation for increased workflow efficiency, and implement new data analytics to drive performance.
With so many experts around, ProcureCon is any operation managers’ ideal networking opportunity. Besides engaging in panel discussions, attendees can also take advantage of a series of interactive events, including their synergy workshops, interactive case studies, and Oxford-style debates.
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International Conference on Leadership and Management

5th - 6th February, 2025
In-person in Zurich, Switzerland and Virtual
Every year, the International Conference on Leadership and Management attracts more than 500 global operations professionals to discuss, strategize, and collaborate on leadership challenges and solutions.
For this conference, there’ll be a mix of experts ranging from researchers to industry practitioners with first-hand experience.
The focus of the conference this year is to identify the challenges facing engineering, medicine, social science, applied science, and management and collaborate on solutions in both recent research and for real-world application.
Here, you’ll do that through keynote speeches, panel discussions, industry-themed presentations, networking, and more.
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This year’s can’t-miss Operations Manager conference in Asia

6th Asia Pacific International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

5th - 7th August, 2025
Bali, Indonesia
IEOM is a forum for operations management officials, academics, researchers, and practitioners to discuss the most influential trends affecting the industry, while also identifying innovative initiatives in both theory and practice.
IEOM will feature 16 immersive tracks and panel presentations on artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing, sustainability, healthcare management, entrepreneurship and innovation, business management, project management, and more.
However, presentations on the latest research aren’t the only reason for operations managers to attend. IEOM also prioritizes partnerships between researchers and practitioners, with plenty of networking opportunities between sessions to ensure you have time to connect with others in the industry across Asia, Australia, and the Middle East.
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