Shared Services & Outsourcing Week Europe 2026 | Event Guide


The SSOW Europe 2026 agenda has arrived – and it’s bold, future-focused and built to help you reimagine GBS for the agentic age.

📍 Date: 18–21 May 2026

📍 Location: Estoril Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

What’s Inside?

Get ready for the most future-ready SSOW Europe yet, with agenda content shaped around four enterprise-critical themes:

  • Value: Move beyond cost and build service models that deliver measurable business growth, innovation and performance.
  • Service: Redefine, expand and elevate service categories across the enterprise – from finance and HR to procurement, supply chain and end-to-end operations.
  • Capability: Strengthen capabilities in Continuous Improvement, Change, Automation and agentic AI to build a competitive advantage.
  • Experience: Reimagine customer, stakeholder and employee experience to elevate GBS impact across the business

What Can You Expect in 2026?

🎤 THE BIG IDEAS STAGE – CHALLENGING VALUE FROM THE OUTSIDE
Hear directly from the ultimate owners of GBS – internal and external customers – as they challenge the community to redefine the value GBS must deliver in the next era.

🏗️ FOUNDATIONAL CAPABILITY STAGE – BACK AND BETTER
Strengthen the fundamentals with focused content on process excellence, governance, talent, digital enablement and service quality.

🤖 THE AGENTIC AI SHOWCASE LAB
See agentic AI in action with practical demos and real use cases that show how autonomous workflows and decisioning will reshape your operating model.

📊 GPO EXCELLENCE LABS
Deep, practical best practice sessions for P2P, O2C and R2R, packed with templates and real-world case studies.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 PEOPLE & HR SERVICES STAGE
Tackle skills, workforce experience, operating culture and the human side of transformation.

🔻 Download the Event Guide Now to explore the full agenda, speaker lineup and networking opportunities.