The Premier Forum for Shared Services & GBS Leadership

Shared Services & GBS Select Executive Leadership Summit

June 8 - 10, 2027

Chicago, IL

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What Makes This Invite-Only Summit So Valuable?

Step away from the day-to-day. Compare playbooks. Leave with a sharper strategy.

3 Days of Executive Insight, Innovation & Impact

Redefining GBS for Business Value and Growth

Shared Services & GBS Select is an executive-only forum where the next era of business services is shaped in real time. Taking place in Chicago in June 2027, the summit brings senior leaders together to explore how AI, digital labor and evolving operating models can drive business performance, enterprise agility and growth.

Through peer-led discussions, interactive Challenge Rounds and curated 1:1 Meetings, you’ll pressure-test your roadmap with executives facing the same strategic decisions. Explore where GBS should lead, how to build the workforce and governance to support it, and which investments will create lasting enterprise value.

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The full select experience

Signature Moments for YOU

An Agenda Shaped by GBS Leaders

Hear how senior leaders are redefining GBS’s enterprise role. Explore future operating models, AI, workforce strategy and governance, with a focus on measurable business value. Be the first to know about the Agenda.

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Your VIP Experience.

Enjoy a complimentary hotel stay and a tailored itinerary built around your priorities. Make time for relevant discussions, peer connections and curated meetings while keeping travel expenses down. See if you qualify.

Next-Level Benchmarking in a Closed-Door Setting

Compare approaches with senior peers and explore technology investments through curated one-to-one meetings with solution providers. Discuss your priorities, challenge assumptions and identify options that support your future operating model. Request for the Event Guide.

Work Through Your Next Big Decisions

Through interactive Challenge Rounds, discuss where GBS should lead, how human and digital work should evolve, and which investments can improve enterprise decisions and long-term business performance.

Eligibility Criteria for Attendance

How Do I Qualify?

Company annual revenue is $750 million or above
Sits in C-Suite or reports directly to C-Suite
Controls or directly influences where the budget is spent controls or directly influences corporate strategy at regional, divisional, or group level
Personal annual budget of $1 million or above.

Attendees must answer "yes" to two of the above to obtain an invitation, which means you will be able to network with a truly elite group of digital business leaders.

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insights from your peers

Hear from Past Attendees

The event provided a valuable opportunity to connect with other industry leaders while hearing directly from solution providers.

The Clorox Company

VP, GBS Service Delivery and Operations

The GBS select event was a great event. I enjoyed the different applications of AI and the discussion around how time management shapes where leaders should focus.

Agogee

Director, Finance Shared Services

The value is in GBS leaders connecting, understanding what others are focused on, and learning how peers have tackled similar challenges.

Lifepoint Health

President, Business Services

SSON continues to put on thought provoking events for GBS professionals. The content is always relevant to current challenges and the networking opportunities are wonderful. Meeting GBS professionals and hearing their challenges helps us learn from each other in ways that is more difficult to do without these types of events.

Roche

Director, GBS Transformation & Deployment