An Evening with Retail Supply Chain Leaders in Los Angeles
Come join Inspectorio for dinner and a conversation covering how AI is reshaping the supply chain, where leaders are already pulling ahead and what is worth doing about it now.
A year ago, most brands and retailers were still deciding whether AI belonged in their supply chain. Today the question is narrower and harder: which applications hold up in production, and what data they depend on. Meanwhile, the tariff framework has been rewritten more than once, and sourcing is moving across regions. The product might be a seasonal apparel line, a furniture program, or a private-label assortment spanning thousands of SKUs. In every case, a supplier change resets the testing, quality, and compliance evidence behind it.
For companies selling into California, that pressure is closer to home. The state’s extended producer responsibility programs for packaging and textiles are moving from legislation into implementation. That puts new demands on the product, material, and packaging data producers keep. Prop 65 continues to turn gaps in chemical testing across materials, finishes, and components into warning-label and litigation exposure. Both depend on the same thing: accurate, current data on what products are made of and who made them.
This dinner brings together a small group of senior sourcing, quality, and compliance leaders from apparel, hardlines, furniture, and general merchandise brands and retailers. The goal is to compare notes on where AI is already sharpening inspection focus, catching defects earlier, and keeping supplier evidence current as sourcing changes, and where it isn’t ready yet.
EVENT DETAILS
- Monday, October 26, 2026
- 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
- Perch – Bar Thirteen
Pershing Square Downtown LA
448 S. Hill Street
Los Angeles CA 90013
Good food, and a candid conversation with peers managing the same sourcing, quality, and compliance pressures you are.
What We’ll Discuss
- Where AI is moving from pilot to daily use in quality and compliance, and what separates the two
- Changing suppliers without missing launch windows: requalification, retesting, and labeling when sourcing shifts
- Holding standards consistent across a broad assortment and a changing vendor base, including private label
- What California’s packaging and textile EPR programs will ask of producers, and which data to start capturing now
- Catching Prop 65 threshold issues before goods ship, not after
