DCSA+ Leadership Forum
Singapore | 29 - 30 October, 2025
The DCSA+ Leadership Forum brings the people shaping digital standards into one room, and opens the discussion to you.
It is an exclusive forum for senior leaders across carriers, shippers, forwarders, terminals and technology providers to connect,
share perspectives and push the industry forward.
Claim your seat at the table where the roadmap gets written.
This event offers you a unique setting to hear how leading voices are addressing challenges, building solutions and defining what comes next.
A landmark setting for global shipping
Venue: Mandarin Oriental Singapore
Address: 5 Raffles Avenue, 039797, Singapore
Date: 29th and 30th October
To register, please send your details by email to Teresa Fuente at [email protected].
"By aligning across the industry, we ultimately deliver greater value to customers and partners worldwide." Lee Hambleton, DSV x Schenker
"By aligning across the industry, we ultimately deliver greater value to customers and partners worldwide." Lee Hambleton, DSV x Schenker
Programme
October, 29thTime | Session | For Who | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
18:00 - 20:00 | Reception and Networking Drinks | DCSA leaders, partners and friends. | An opportunity to connect with the attendees of the DCSA+ Leadership Forum, local industry representation and leading voices in shipping. |
October, 30th
Morning ProgrammeTime | Session | For who | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
08:45 - 09:00 | Morning Welcome & Strategic Networking | All | Kick off the Forum by connecting with peers, partners, and industry leaders over coffee. | |
09:00 - 09:15 | Opening Plenary: Shaping the future of shipping | All | Welcome address to open the Leadership Forum and outline the focus for the day | |
09:15 - 10:15 | Anchoring the industry: Building Resilience Through Shared Standards | All | A moderated pannel exploring how standards and coordinated adoption create a stable, competitive foundation in uncertain markets. | |
10:15 - 10:45 | Keynote: Leadership in a New Era of Change | All | An inspired, grounded view on resilience and leadership in today’s environment. Speaker to be announced. | |
10:45 - 11:00 | Networking Coffee Break | All | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Shippers & Carriers Exchange: Turning Standards into impact | DCSA Executives+ Shippers | A closed, outcome-driven roundtable bringing together shipper leaders and the DCSA Members CIOs to translate digital standards into measurable impact through a shared action plan for accelerating adoption. | |
11:00 - 12:30 | eBL 2030 Vision: Progress, Gaps & Next Moves | All | A clear-eyed look at eBL adoption, the blockers to scale, and the levers that move the network toward 100% by 2030. | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Networking Lunch | All |
October, 30th
Afternoon ProgrammePlease note, the remainder of this event is reserved exclusively for DCSA+ signed partners.
Time | Session | For who | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
13:30 - 15:30 | Shipper Leadership Roundtable: Powering Digital Trade | Shippers | A moderated, peer-to-peer exchange where leading shippers define what success looks like in digital standardization of container shipping. | |
13:30 - 15:30 | Defining the Next Chapter: Standards Roadmap 2026 | DCSA+ Partners & Executive Board | A forward-looking session on the priorities, challenges and collective ambitions shaping the next phase of digital standardisation. | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Networking Coffee Break | All | ||
15:45 - 16:30 | Leadership AMA: Open Dialogue with DCSA | DCSA+ Partners & Executive Board | An open dialogue with the DCSA leadership team. Your opportunity to ask and and contribute directly to what comes next for standards, partnership and products from DCSA. | |
16:30 - 18:30 | Closing Networking & Farewell | DCSA+ Partners & Executive Board |
What you'll get
- Access you won’t get elsewhere – connect with decision makers in open dialogue.
- Influence what comes next – shape the standards that set the industry’s direction.
- Insight you won’t find online – exchange perspectives on challenges and solutions.
- Connections without the wait – build the relationships that usually take months, in just days.
Book your stay with us
Venue: Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
Adress: 5 Raffles Avenue, 039797, Singapore
DCSA + Partners
DCSA+, a global partnership programme uniting carriers, BCOs, freight forwarders, ports, terminals, feeders and technology solution providers to accelerate the adoption of digital standards and build a more seamless, resilient, and efficient supply chain.
