GLOBAL OPEX FORUM
Forum on operational excellence and business performance: benchmarking China
Accelerate transformation or lose competitiveness
In a world where the external environment is becoming less predictable, and AI and digital technologies are radically changing the rules, companies face a simple choice: accelerate transformation or lose competitiveness. Growing pressure on costs, decision speed, and operational resilience makes traditional management models insufficient.
Today’s leaders are moving from local improvements to fully integrated operating systems, where Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, data, automation, and AI work as one mechanism. A real competitive advantage belongs to those who keep exchanging experience and regularly engage with industry leaders, seeing how the world’s best companies work from the inside and adapting those practices at home.
Global OPEX Forum is a working platform for those responsible for efficiency, transformation, and scaling the business. The Forum brings together leaders of operational excellence, transformation, and digitalization to exchange experience in building and developing competitive high-performance operating systems.
The program features REAL CASES, PRACTICES of market leaders, and STRATEGIES that are already changing manufacturing, service, and financial models.
Gemba tours
to leading enterprises in China
Participants will go deep into operating models, see processes in action, talk with on-site teams, and take away insights and practical tools they can implement.
Baosteel Industrial Base
One of China’s largest integrated steel production hubs and a global benchmark in smart manufacturing, showcasing fully digitalized, highly automated, and data-driven production, logistics, and warehousing systems. The visit shows how advanced steel production, real-time data monitoring, and intelligent logistics are integrated into one connected industrial ecosystem.
SAIC General Motors intelligent manufacturing facility in Shanghai
One of the most advanced automotive plants in China. It demonstrates a highly automated, lean, and digital production system, with robotics, real-time analytics, and near “unmanned” operations, as well as best practices in automotive manufacturing across global brands such as Buick, Chevrolet, and Cadillac.
Bank of China / Shanghai Financial Data Port
A core element of Shanghai’s financial and technology ecosystem. Participants will see how large-scale financial data infrastructure, AI, and fintech solutions are applied in banking operations, including risk management, compliance, and customer services, showing how data-driven banking systems work at industry scale.
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Who will benefit from the Forum
Directors and heads of:
- Operational Excellence
- Transformation and Development
- Production and Quality
- Process Digitalization and Automation
- Strategy and Organizational Development
- Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen
- Business Systems and Production Systems
- Operational Excellence Centers (OPEX / CoE)
- HR and Corporate Culture
- Improvement and Internal Efficiency Consulting
Company representatives from:
- Industrial and Manufacturing Enterprises
- Automotive, engineering, and metallurgical industries
- Energy, Oil and Gas, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical sectors
- FMCG and Food production
- Logistics, Service, and Retail companies
- Financial Holdings
- Consulting and Solution Providers in Operational Efficiency and Digital Transformation
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Participation in the Forum is subject to a registration fee.
Terms, program, and details are available upon request.
- Terms and cost of participation
- Current forum program
- A place booked on a Gemba visit
- Support with visa and accommodation
Become a speaker
We invite practitioner-leaders who are ready to share real-world experience, the initiatives they have led, and the results they have achieved.
We are especially interested in real cases: the challenges a company faced, the decisions that were made, how implementation went, the difficulties the team encountered, and the results they achieved.
We are looking for speakers who:
- Hold leadership roles and are directly responsible for developing their area, delivering change, and achieving business results
- Have delivered, or are delivering, significant projects and change programs
- Is ready to talk not only about successes, but also about difficulties, mistakes, and lessons learned
- Can share specific approaches, solutions, and measurable results
- Want to exchange experience with leaders of international companies
Become a forum partner
We invite companies whose technologies and solutions help businesses improve operational efficiency, transform processes, and adopt new approaches to management and digitalization.
Partnership is a chance to present your expertise and build a professional dialogue with leaders who take part in selecting and implementing solutions.
- A place in the business program and a chance to present a practical case
- Direct dialogue with leaders and decision-makers
- One-to-one meetings with forum participants
- A stand and brand presence at the venue
- Brand presence in forum materials and communications with participants
Become a media partner
We invite professional media and information platforms interested in expert content, current topics, and a professional dialogue.
We are open to cooperation with:
- Industry and business media
- Professional online portals
- Business associations and industry organizations
- Professional and industry communities on social media
- Authors of professional newsletters and podcasts
