Vineet Khanna
Former SVP Global Supply Chain at Nestlé
Previously spoke at: TFEST24, TFEST25
Speaking at TFEST26: Tuesday, December 1 2026 at 17:35–17:55 on the Main Stage: “The Intelligence Era: The Unprecedented Opportunity Ahead - Are You Ready?”. With Stephanie Wright (Agora Leadership).
Speaking at TFEST26: Wednesday, December 2 2026 at 11:40–12:10 on the The Lab: “Simulation Before Optimization: Why Enterprise Planning Needs a Causal Model of the Business”. With Jay Koganti (Anusama) and Dr. Dirk Holbach (Henkel).
Speaking at TFEST26: Wednesday, December 2 2026 at 12:15–12:45 on the Main Stage: “End-to-End Visibility: Why Most Companies Still Don't Have It and What It Takes”. With Dr. Knut Alicke (McKinsey & Company), Declan Supple (Fresenius Kabi) and Julia Merkulova (Ferrero).
About Vineet
Vineet Khanna is the former SVP, Global Supply Chain at Nestlé and a supply chain advisor, with more than 35 years of experience managing end-to-end operations and digital transformation, spanning demand and supply planning, customer service, materials management, and physical logistics. From 2018 to 2023 he served as co-chairman of the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) at the Consumer Goods Forum, helping advance and redefine the role of business in promoting social and environmental sustainability.
Session Overview
A joint keynote. AI is transforming how supply chains analyse data, predict risk, and automate decisions, which requires leadership to redefine and elevate. The most critical decisions are often made with incomplete information, where experience, judgement, and intuition become decisive competitive advantages. This keynote provokes a new leadership model that integrates IQ, EQ and SQ to elevate leaders to maximise the potential ahead of us. Discover why the future belongs to leaders who know how to leverage AI, and the freedom that comes with it.
About TFEST26
TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders (Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others) for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.