Wednesday, September 16, 2026

61st BME Symposium Procurement & Logistics

18-19 November 2026 | STATION Berlin, Germany

BME e.V.

Geopolitical shifts, economic pressure from all sides and at the heart of it all, one question every Procurement and Supply Chain organisation needs to ask: How do we stay ready to act when uncertainty becomes the new normal? 

Martin Müller-Raidt, Chairman of the BME, kicks things off and from there, it’s one powerful perspective after another. 

Prof. Dr. Moritz Schularick, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, puts the economic framework into perspective and looks at the rules that are currently being renegotiated. 

Jens Plötner, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Defence, addresses defence, innovation and cyber in a time of profound change. Topics that would have been unusual at a Procurement conference just a few years ago. Today, they are at the very centre of the conversation. 

Melinda Crane, one of Germany’s best-known political journalists, asks a question that has been building beneath the surface for some time: Does Germany need a new ambition to move forward? 

And because good ideas alone don’t create transformation, Frauke Heistermann, Managing Partner at AXITcapital, explores why innovations fail even when they should work and what it really takes to move from talking to doing. 

And this is just a teaser…190+ speakers will share their ideas, experiences and perspectives with us. This is your community, come and be part of it.
 
A note for our international guests: All sessions in our plenary sessions and in the conference Procurement4Future will be simultaneously interpreted in English.
 
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