Sessions Highlight AI in Supply Chains
Aera Technology will present its agentic decision intelligence platform at the Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2026, scheduled for May 4th to 6th in Orlando, USA. The company plans to host sessions with leaders from The Estée Lauder Companies and Kerry Group to discuss advancements in AI-driven supply chain management.
These sessions will explore how decision intelligence is reshaping global supply chains by cutting waste, improving service, and enabling sustainable operations. Participants will learn about early adoption strategies and large-scale deployments that integrate decisions across functions.
The first session, featuring Florent Guillet-Caillot from Estée Lauder and Aera CEO Fred Laluyaux, will occur on May 4th at 2:00 p.m. ET. It will focus on transforming supply chains with agentic decision intelligence, highlighting the move beyond dashboards to automated decision systems.
Florent Guillet-Caillot will discuss how Estée Lauder is transforming its operating model using Aera’s technology to autonomously optimise objectives and execute decisions at machine speed. Attendees will gain insights into identifying decisions ready for autonomous execution.
Kerry Group’s Success with AI
The second session, led by Jamie Dunn of Kerry Group and Gonzalo Benedit of Aera, is set for May 5th at 3:35 p.m. ET. This discussion will cover Kerry Group’s use of AI to automate inventory decisions, achieving significant time savings and risk reduction.
Jamie Dunn will illustrate how Kerry Group deployed decision intelligence to automate thousands of inventory decisions, reducing waste and mitigating supply chain risks by millions of dollars. attendees will learn how Kerry Group achieved fast ROI and scaled decision autonomy across operations.
Aera Technology states that the platform enables real-time performance optimization by continuously sensing conditions and executing autonomous actions. Gartner forecasts that decision intelligence platforms will make business decisions more trusted and efficient by 2030.
According to Gartner, explicitly modeled business decisions will be five times more trusted and 80% faster than ungoverned decisions by 2030, driven by decision intelligence platform adoption.
Attendees can visit Aera Technology’s booth #423 at the symposium to explore how their solutions help supply chains capture value. The sessions will be held at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort, with details available on the symposium’s website. The event promises to provide valuable insights into the future of supply chain management.
