If you are searching for Operational Excellence Conferences December 2025 or Continuous Improvement Conferences December 2025, you have landed in the right place. December is not just for end-of-year planning; it is a surprisingly strategic month to learn, benchmark, and sharpen your improvement roadmap before the new year.

As organizations prepare for 2026, this month’s global lineup of conferences, summits, and workshops offers the ideal platform to sharpen your skills and drive performance excellence across your teams and processes.

Whether you are a Lean Six Sigma practitioner, a process leader, or an executive championing organizational agility, these events will help you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Featured Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement Events – December 2025

Below is a curated list of 10 key Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement Conferences in December 2025 you would not want to miss!

Date: December 3–4, 2025

Location: Irving Convention Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

Focus area: Digital marketing strategy, content, social media, AI in marketing, and customer experience.

Target audience: Digital marketing professionals, content strategists, marketing technologists, agency leaders, and entrepreneurs.

Why attend: Learn actionable tactics from 30+ expert speakers, explore AI-driven marketing use cases, and join hands-on workshops and roundtables that translate directly into better campaign performance and CX outcomes.

Date: December 3–4, 2025 (8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET)

Location: Virtual (HKPO Digital Room)

Focus area: The Shingo Model™, guiding principles of organizational excellence, and behavior-driven culture change.

Target audience: CI and OpEx leaders, executives focused on cultural transformation, Lean practitioners, HR and training professionals.

Why attend: This two-day virtual workshop is foundational for anyone adopting the Shingo approach, it teaches the Three Insights of Organizational Excellence™ and gives practical exercises for aligning culture with continuous improvement goals.

Date: December 3–4, 2025

Location: Bengaluru, India

Focus area: Kanban Method, scaling flow-based agility, AI-enabled flow optimization, leadership and culture for knowledge work.

Target audience: Agile coaches, transformation leads, project and program managers, product & tech professionals, and enterprise leaders.

Why attend: Kanban India brings together global thought leaders (e.g., Mike Burrows) and practitioners from 18+ countries to explore practical, workshop-based ways to scale agility while integrating AI and system thinking into flow and delivery.

Date: December 4–5, 2025

Location: NH München Ost Conference Center, Munich, Germany

Focus area: Supply chain transformation, AI-driven forecasting, digital twins, sustainability in logistics, and end-to-end resilience.

Target audience: Chief Supply Chain Officers, logistics leaders, procurement and planning executives, digital transformation managers, and tech vendors.

Why attend: Hear real case studies from Intel, Emerson, Siemens Healthineers and others; learn practical strategies for AI, digital twin planning and measurable supply chain resilience.

Date: December 7–11, 2025

Location: Fraser Suites, Manama, Bahrain

Focus area: Executive development in performance management, Balanced Scorecard/OKR alignment, KPI development, and public-sector performance.

Target audience: Public-sector leaders, performance officers, HR directors, and change agents.

Why attend: This five-day program from Global Horizon Training Center is an intensive executive learning experience that delivers frameworks, leadership coaching, and tools to embed measurable performance across complex organizations.

Date: December 8–11, 2025

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Focus area: Shared services/GBS, AI-led automation, talent activation, governance & metrics for service delivery.

Target audience: Shared services executives, transformation leaders, HR and finance heads, automation and vendor managers.

Why attend: SSOW MEA is the region’s premier forum for GBS transformation — expect targeted workshops, site tours, and sessions on scaling maturity and embedding AI for measurable value.

Date: December 8–12, 2025

Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Focus area: Business excellence frameworks (EFQM/Baldrige), strategic planning, Balanced Scorecard and KPI deployment, and sustaining excellence.

Target audience: Strategy leads, business excellence professionals, senior managers, consultants and transformation sponsors.

Why attend: This five-day course offers hands-on work with tools and models to design and implement business-excellence systems, ideal for leaders building a structured performance-management approach.

Date: December 9–11, 2025

Location: The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Focus area: IT operations, cloud strategies, AI enablement, automation, and resilient infrastructure.

Target audience: CIOs, IT infrastructure heads, SRE/DevOps leaders, cloud architects, and procurement leaders.

Why attend: Gartner’s research-backed conference helps IT leaders align infrastructure strategy with cost/value optimization and automation, especially useful for organizations tying IT resilience to operational excellence.

Date: December 15–19, 2025

Location: DoubleTree by Hilton Cape Town – Upper Eastside, Cape Town, South Africa

Focus area: Lean, Six Sigma basics, process mapping, KPI definition, change management and sustainable CI implementation.

Target audience: Middle managers, process analysts, project managers, operations leaders, and customer-service managers.

Why attend: A practical 5-day program that builds a hands-on improvement roadmap and KPI dashboards, ideal for practitioners who need tools and templates to launch measurable CI initiatives.

Date: December 21–25, 2025

Location: Fraser Suites, Manama, Bahrain

Focus area: Advanced performance management systems, leadership accountability, KPI alignment and public-/private-sector benchmarking.

Target audience: Senior public-sector managers, performance officers, OD consultants, and leaders responsible for cross-functional performance systems.

Why attend: This advanced five-day training deepens implementation skills for performance management and governance, valuable for leaders launching enterprise-level performance systems.

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Why December 2025 matters for Continuous Improvement & Operational Excellence

December’s events are practical, often intensive, and perfectly timed for teams who want to finish 2025 with fresh playbooks and clear plans for 2026. Whether your priority is digital transformation, supply-chain resilience, shared services maturity, or foundational CI skills, these ten events deliver targeted learning and benchmarking opportunities. Because many are workshops or training courses, you’ll return with tangible tools, not just ideas.

Don’t Miss Out!

If you are ready to elevate your Continuous Improvement journey or looking to expand your network and professional growth, December 2025 is the perfect time to do it. These events offer powerful opportunities to refine your skills, share ideas with global leaders, and gain practical strategies for lasting transformation. You will end the year inspired and ready to apply fresh insights that drive measurable improvement in your organization.

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