Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Autumn | Agenda

The SSOW Autumn 2025 agenda is here – and it’s packed with cutting-edge insights, bold new session formats, and the strategic conversations you need to navigate transformation in GBS and Shared Services.

📍 Date: 21–23 October 2025

📍 Location: Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre Amsterdam, Netherlands

What’s Inside?

Get a front-row seat to the next chapter of operational excellence with practical sessions focused on:

  • End-to-End Value Creation: How are GBS leaders defining, measuring and proving strategic value creation to the whole business and what do the board really want from their GBS leaders.
  • AI and Automation at Scale: From tactical RPA to transformative AI, discover the blueprint for intelligent operations
  • Cost-Performance-Value: Exploring strategic ways to reduce cost, increase employee experience and ultimately drive value from the GBS
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Uncover how to shift from reporting to insight-led action across functions
  • Talent, Culture & Change: Tackle hybrid leadership, capability development, and the human side of transformation
  • Customer-Centric Service Design: Reimagine delivery with a value-centric shift towards delivering value directly to the end customers

What’s New in 2025?

  • 🤖 EXPERIENCE THE AGENTIC AI SHOWCASE
    Explore how autonomous decision-making and intelligent process optimisation are revolutionising GBS – and what it means for your operating model.
  • 📉 UNLOCK THE COST– PERFORMANCE– VALUE PLAYBOOK
    Discover proven strategies to drive down costs, elevate performance, and deliver measurable value through powerful case studies
  • 🧠 ENGAGE AT THE CXO PRIORITIES STAGE
    Learn directly from top CXOs what they expect from shared service leaders and redefine what delivering end-to-end value truly means.
  •  🔄JOIN THE GBS REINVENTION PROGRAMME
    Reimagine the future of GBS as a value-creation engine and explore bold strategies that shift the focus from cost-cutting to strategic impact
  • 🎯STEP INTO THE PEER INSIGHTS STAGE
    Break free from traditional formats with our ‘unconference sessions’. Collaborate openly, share experiences, and build connections in a dynamic, peer-driven environment

Whether you're redesigning your operating model, scaling AI adoption, or repositioning GBS as a strategic driver – this is the must-attend event to benchmark, connect and lead with confidence into 2026.

🔻 Download the Event Guide Now to view the full speaker lineup, session details and networking opportunities.