// cause & effect; small rooms, honest conversations.
cause & effect hosts invitation-only 10-seat dinners with the operators responsible for global supply chains. built to stay small. membership is intentionally limited.
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every seat is reviewed. most applications are declined.
they happen at dinner. when the agenda is gone, the badges are off, and the people across the table are dealing with exactly the same pressures you are. cause & effect creates that room deliberately - in the cities where global logistics is actually managed, with the people who are actually accountable for it.
ten is not a target. it is a structural decision. below ten, the conversation has nowhere to hide. every person at the table must contribute. every seat carries weight.
every person at the table holds direct operational accountability for a piece or all of a global supply chain. the title must match the weight.
dinner runs for three hours. no presentations, no panels, no Q&A format. everyone at the table speaks. nobody is there to watch.
dinners are held in the logistics hubs of the world — the cities where the actual decisions get made. not convention centres. not hotel ballrooms. places worth the travel.
attendance at one dinner is how you receive the next invitation. the collective grows by word of table, not word of mouth. there is no public waitlist. this page is the closest thing to one.
when the collective reaches critical mass, we release what has been built: anonymous benchmarking across freight cost, inventory ratios, and technology stack — contributed by the operators in the room, available only to them.
a private channel for the moments that cannot wait — supplier failures, port closures, geopolitical disruption. when it matters, the group is available. built on the trust the dinners create.
you do not advise on supply chains. you own one. c-suite, vp, or director-level with direct accountability for the outcome — not the deck about it.
your operation moves real volume. whether that is a $500m manufacturer or a global 3pl, the decisions you make create downstream consequences for the people, systems, and markets that depend on them.
cause & effect is not a newsletter or a conference badge. it is a dinner. you show up, you contribute, you hold the room. that is the only requirement that cannot be delegated.
there are over 200 supply chain conferences running annually. attendance is up. the quality of peer conversation is not. the format has not changed in 30 years.
the average cost of a major supply chain disruption to a Fortune 500 company is $100m+. most of those decisions are made without access to anyone who has been through it before. peer intelligence at that level is nearly impossible to find.
fewer than 4,000 people globally hold c-suite or vp-level accountability for a supply chain operating above $1bn. they do not have a room. cause & effect is building one.
// seats are allocated. most requests do not make it through.
if you qualify, you will hear back within 72 hours.
// personal emails are not accepted. please use your work address.
// one more thing.