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One industry. No walls. One introduction away.Supply chain moves the world's goods, capital and data, and still can't get a 3PL, a software founder, a brand or an investor into the same room. NEXT is that room for you. We bring together the operators, technology, brands, manufacturers and capital who are shaping the modern supply chain network, so opportunity moves at the speed of relationships, not gatekeepers.
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01 Why NEXT exists
The industry that connects everything else forgot to connect itself.
The 3PL goes to the 3PL conference. The software company goes to the tech expo. The brand goes to the retail show. The investor goes to the private equity summit.
Four rooms. Four rosters. Four sets of business cards. And in every single one of them, the person you actually needed to meet was somewhere else entirely.
That isn't a networking problem. It's a structural failure, and the industry's own institutions built it. Segment associations serve segments. They were never designed to put your next client, your next tech partner and your next investor in the same room, because that was never the job.
NEXT was built for exactly that job. One room. Every discipline. No gatekeeping, no segment tax, no waiting three years for a committee seat before anyone takes your call.
We don't run a directory. We don't sell a badge. We make the introduction.
Our vision
A world where nobody in supply chain is more than one introduction away from their next breakthrough.
Our mission
To connect the people, ideas, businesses and opportunities shaping the next generation of supply chain.
Our purpose
“We connect the industry that connects everything else.”
02 What makes NEXT different
Most organizations tell you what they believe. Here's what we do.
We do
Put five sectors in one room, on purpose.
Operators, technology, brands, manufacturers and capital at the same table, at every gathering. Mixing isn't a bonus feature. It's the product.
Make the introduction ourselves.
You tell us who you need. We find them and connect you. That is the service.
Open the door to the whole chain.
If your work moves goods, you belong whether you run 40 warehouses or you're two years into your first job.
Give the stage to insight.
Speaking slots are earned by having something worth hearing.
Build globally from day one.
North America first for logistics. Never as a ceiling.
Move at the speed of business.
Decisions in days, not quarterly board cycles.
We don't
Run single-sector rooms.
A room full of people with identical problems is a support group, not a network.
Sell the stage.
No pay-to-present. No sponsor keynotes disguised as content. If we ever break this rule, hold us to it publicly.
Gatekeep by title.
Your seniority decides nothing about whether you're worth meeting.
Hand out badges as achievements.
Membership is a starting line.
Bury you in newsletters.
We contact you when there's someone you should meet.
Pretend to be a trade body.
We don't lobby. We don't publish standards. We connect people. That's the entire remit.
Every other organization in this industry can copy the first list. None of them can copy the second.
03 Who it's for
Possibly Anyone
and Everyone
Six pillars. One room. Every gathering draws from all of them.
“Supply chain” usually means logistics. Here it means everyone the chain depends on, including the people the industry keeps leaving off the invite list.
3PLs · 4PLs · carriers · freight forwarders · warehousing · fulfilment · last mile · cross-border
Here to find: new clients, capacity partners, tech that actually works, capital.
WMS · TMS · OMS · ERP · WES · robotics & automation · visibility platforms · AI & forecasting · integration and middleware
Here to find: qualified pipeline, implementation partners, design partners, investors.
Brands · retailers · e-commerce and D2C · marketplaces · omnichannel operators
Here to find: fulfilment and freight partners, the right tech stack, peers who've already solved it.
The pillar every existing association fails to bring.
Manufacturers · contract manufacturers · suppliers · sourcing and procurement · importers, exporters and traders · distributors
Here to find: route-to-market, downstream partners, buyers, capacity.
Private equity · venture capital · growth equity · commercial banking · trade finance · insurance · M&A advisory
Here to find: proprietary deal flow, operator diligence, portfolio partnerships, before the banker's process starts.
Marketing · PR · legal · talent and recruitment · consulting · academia and research · associations
Here to find: clients who need them, and the industry context nobody outside it has.
If your work moves the world, you belong here.That's the whole eligibility test.
04 What's in it for you
Six things. All of them concrete.
01
Introductions made for you, not left to chance
Tell us who you're looking for, a client in home goods, a WMS built for cold chain, an investor who understands middle-mile. We go find them and we make the introduction personally. This is the core of the membership and nobody else in this industry does it.
02
The best-mixed rooms in supply chain
Curated gatherings, dinners, roundtables, chapter events, an annual flagship, where the seating plan is engineered so you leave having met people you'd never have met otherwise.
03
A directory that's actually navigable
Every member listed by pillar, capability and geography. Search it. Reach anyone in it. No cold-outreach roulette.
04
The room's collective intelligence
Ask the network a question, vendor selection, market entry, a rate benchmark, a hiring decision, and get answers from people who've already done it, not from a search engine.
05
A platform, if you earn it
Speak, host, write, lead a chapter. Visibility here is earned by contribution, which is exactly why it's worth having.
06
A network that travels
North America now, and a deliberate global build. Your membership works wherever the chain takes you.
Every one of these is a thing that happens to you. Not a value we hold.
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