AI Agents & the Future of Supply Chains: Opportunities, Risks & Resilience

How might AI agents change the way we manage supply chains, and could they help make them more resilient? As AI moves beyond providing information and recommendations towards autonomous agents capable of making and acting on decisions, new opportunities and questions are emerging for supply chain management. What could this mean in practice? Where are the real opportunities, what risks and challenges need to be considered, and how close are we to meaningful adoption? Join the University of Auckland Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM) and Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE) for a panel discussion bringing together academic and industry perspectives to explore these questions and the implications of agentic AI for the future of supply chains. Panellists: • Ankit Gupta, Group Chief Data and AI Officer, The Warehouse Group; • Samantha Smalley, Chapter Lead, Supply Chain Risk, Delivery and Performance, Air New Zealand; • Ilan Oshri, Professor of Information Systems and Director of the Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE), University of Auckland Business School; • David Robb, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Auckland Business School. Moderator: • Subhamoy Ganguly, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Auckland Business School. Want to explore the topic before the event? Read Ilan Oshri’s recent articles in The Conversation and Harvard Business Review. Event details • Date: Wednesday, 18 November 2026 • Time: 5-6 pm panel discussion and Q&A, followed by networking drinks and refreshments until 7 pm • Venue: Room 310, Level 3, Sir Owen G Glenn Building, 12 Grafton Road, Auckland 1010 (pay parking available beneath the building). This event is proudly sponsored by the Centre for Digital Enterprise and the Centre for Supply Chain Management. Centre for Supply Chain Management (CSCM) To learn more about the Centre for Supply Chain Management visit our CSCM website or LinkedIn page. If you would like to be added to our Invitation list, please email here. Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE) The Centre of Digital Enterprise (CODE) is an inter-disciplinary research centre, which focuses on the area of digital technologies' application in organisations facilitated through research, collaboration with international research units, and interaction with the business community. CODE combines both academic and commercially relevant research to investigate how new digital technologies are currently used, the potential for further development, and the implications of such use within the practice of business. Seminars, conferences and events may be photographed or filmed for use by the University and the media in hard copy and electronic publications including in newsletters and brochures and posted on the University or conference websites to promote subsequent events and the University. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please inform the organiser or photographer.