In logistics and production, identifying the right suppliers is one of the most delicate activities for a company. The real obstacle is not choosing the right technology, but finding the relevant interlocutor in good time, before the budget closes.
The most traveled path remains the sector trade fair, which however presents a rather high cost: participation fee, travel, two or three days taken away from the work of people who are needed in the company. With this investment there is no guarantee on the decisive variable, that is, meeting those who are entitled to decide or propose something truly relevant. It happens that you go through entire pavilions, collect a dozen brochures and return with just one useful contact, found by chance.
The rest of the work is carried out on commercial research with exploratory emails, calls that fail at the second meeting, months spent understanding who is really right for you. In the meantime, decision-making cycles become longer and projects are postponed. The Global Summit Logistics & Manufacturing, a point of reference among events on logistics and production in Italy, arrives to intervene right here, overturning the logic of the traditional event: instead of a showcase to be discovered, an agenda of appointments already tailor-made before the participant sets foot in the room.
What is the Global Summit Logistics & Manufacturing and when is it held?
The Global Summit Logistics & Manufacturing is the national business event dedicated to intra-logistics, production and Industry 4.0. In 2026 it will reach its thirteenth edition and will be held on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 November at the Hotel Parchi del Garda Congress Center, in Pacengo di Lazise, in the province of Verona, on the Verona side of Lake Garda.
It is organized by Concordia Professional Oriented Events, a company specialized in the creation of B2B events designed to encourage the transmission of knowledge and business between companies. A positioning that explains well the nature of the appointment, built as a professional context in which supply and demand meet on already defined bases.
The format: matching, inspiring, sharing
The program is divided into three registers, which the organization identifies with the words Matching, Inspiring and Sharing: business appointments, classroom training, informal relationship opportunities. None of the three works as a filler, and each participant decides how much weight to give to one or the other by building their journey over two days or just one.
The mechanism is based on what happens before the event. In the previous weeks, the organization collects the information that really matters from each member – sector to which they belong, areas of interest, open projects, declared objectives – and on that basis designs individual calendars. It is a work of precise knowledge of everyone’s needs, and it is what distinguishes a planned agenda from a simple list of stands to visit. Anyone arriving in Lazise already knows who they will sit with and on what topic.
Matching: one2one meetings at the center of the event
Business matching is the core of the event. The appointments take place one by one at the exhibitors’ tables and follow the agenda defined in the profiling phase, which crosses supply and demand based on what each party is actually looking for.
On one side of the table there are the visitors: executives and managers of user companies, admitted based on the role held and the size of the company, who are planning an evaluation of new partners, plants or systems. On the other there are the suppliers of technologies and services for the sector. Among the expected realities there is a range that covers warehouse automation, management software, planning and flow integration.
The most immediate advantage is the calendar which becomes a concrete business opportunity. A sequence of targeted interviews concentrates selection work in two days which, ordinarily, is spread over several months between recommendations, first contacts and preliminary meetings. For those who propose solutions, the benefit is mirrored: they talk from the first minute with those who have a say in the decision, without having to go back up the company’s internal chain. In both cases you leave with opportunities already in focus, not with a list of business cards to work on.
Inspiring: conferences, workshops and round table
Alongside the one2one meetings, the Global Summit reserves significant space for industry updates and trends. The classroom calendar alternates update sessions on the evolution of logistics and production processes, workshops dedicated to company experiences already achieved and the solutions available on the market, conferences on the scenarios and directions that the sector is taking.
The final round table pulls the strings, comparing different points of view on the themes that emerged over the two days. Those who participate in the sessions return to the company with something that commercial meetings alone cannot give: an overall picture of where the sector is going, useful for guiding medium-term choices and not just the current purchase.
Sharing: networking between lunches and aperitifs
The lunches and aperitifs organized in the structure hosting the event are part of the full program and are not an accessory. These are the hours in which an interview that began in the morning is resumed more calmly, in which you get to know people who did not appear on your agenda and in which evaluations of suppliers, projects and recurring problems are exchanged with colleagues from other companies.
It is a part of the value that is difficult to estimate but easy to recognize in retrospect. Many collaborations arise from an informal conversation rather than a scheduled appointment, and a relaxed context lowers the threshold of what people are willing to tell each other.
Who can participate and how to register
Access is reserved for executives and managers of end user companies, for whom participation is free. Registration takes place exclusively online and is open while places last.
The first step is pre-registration on the registration page of the official website. Once participation has been confirmed, each visitor receives the opportunity to organize their own personalized agenda between one2one meetings and training workshops, choosing whether to be present for just one day or both.
The 2026-2027 Global Summit calendar
The November event is part of a broader program of five vertical events, all hosted at the Hotel Parchi del Garda Congress Center in Pacengo di Lazise.
It starts on 21 and 22 October 2026 with the Global Summit Digital Marketing & Ecommerce, followed by the edition dedicated to Logistics & Manufacturing on 25 and 26 November 2026. 2027 opens on 24 and 25 February with Marketing & Digital, continues on 21 and 22 April with Logistics & Supply Chain and closes on 26 and 27 May with the appointment reserved for Human Resources, HR Human Resources.
Five dates that share the same methodological structure and the same signature, that of Concordia Professional Oriented Events, specialized in the creation of B2B formats oriented towards the transmission of skills and business development between companies.
Two days to transform time into opportunities
Precisely at a time when technological transformation is running faster than purchasing cycles, the value of an event is measured in the quality of the relationships it produces. The Global Summit Logistics & Manufacturing works exactly to convert two days into a defined number of useful conversations, with the right people.
The complete programme, the updated list of speakers and exhibitors and the pre-registration form can be found on the official website which combines practical information with an in-depth blog on the topics on the agenda. Anyone who wants to get an idea of the climate of previous editions can retrieve the interviews with participants on the event’s YouTube channel, while daily updates are provided via the LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram profiles.
