Private dinner · Europe 2026
Amsterdam
- Date
- Country
- Netherlands
- Format
- Hosted dinner
- Venue
- Bougainville
Twelve senior leaders invited.
Four seats at the table.
A private dinner for chief commercial officers and senior leaders in Commercial Excellence, strategy and transformation, hosted by Jesse Hopps for the Commercial Excellence Consortium™. It is complimentary.
Around TechEx Europe
The dinner falls during TechEx Europe in Amsterdam. The Consortium hosts it separately from the conference, and you can join without a conference pass.
By invitation
RSVP for the Amsterdam dinner.
Tables are small, so we review each request personally.
The venue · Amsterdam, 19 October
Bougainville
- Dam 27
- Chef Tim Golsteijn
One Michelin star.
Four guests, one table.
Bougainville opened in 2017 on the third floor of Hotel TwentySeven and won its star the following year. Golsteijn, who cooked at La Rive and Vinkeles, has led the kitchen since the day it opened.
Windows over Dam Square and the Royal Palace, cooking with flavors drawn from Asia and the Middle East, and 90 minutes of conversation.
A note from your host
The most useful ideas come from people doing the work.
Every month, members of the Commercial Excellence Consortium™ compare notes on the work in front of them. The most useful part of those conversations is rarely the answer. It is hearing how a peer got people to change how they work, and where it slowed.
This October we are taking that conversation to Europe: ten dinners in ten cities, each a single table for up to four guests, around one question:
How can commercial leaders turn transformation into measurable growth — faster?
Why a dinner? Because over a meal people tell you the real story, including the parts that seldom make it into a case study or onto a conference stage.
The Consortium exists to help large companies transform faster by building the capabilities their strategy requires through real work. Dinners like these are where the people doing that work learn from each other.
Amsterdam and Vienna fall around two conferences, TechEx and NEXT CX & AI Pharma. Everywhere else, we chose the cities where the leaders we most want to meet live and work.
You can RSVP for whichever dinner suits you. I hope you will join us.
See you at the table,
Jesse Hopps
Founder and Group Moderator
Europe 2026 · About the dinners
Accelerating commercial transformation and growth.
Three questions shape the conversation
How can we cultivate a positive, winning mindset?
How can we adapt and evolve quicker than our competitors?
How can we get a better return from our excellence investments?
- Guests
- Four senior leaders
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Cost
- Complimentary, hosted by the Consortium
Guests arrange their own travel.If your company’s policy asks you to pay for your own meal, we are glad to arrange it.
Nothing to prepare.Bring the question you are working on.
Who else is invited
Twelve senior executives from
top global enterprises.
Here is who else has received an invitation. It is an intimate dinner meeting, with four seats for those who RSVP and confirm.
Companies
- ABN AMRO
- Air France-KLM
- BDR Thermea Group
- Essent
- Greif
- Heineken
- Huhtamaki
- JD.com
- Philips
- Signify
- Tata Steel
- Trivium Packaging
Roles
- Chief Commercial Officer
- Chief Commercial Officer, Europe
- Head of Commercial Excellence
- Head of Data and Commercial Excellence, West Europe
- VP Commercial Excellence
- VP Commercial Operations, International Region
- VP Pricing and Commercial Excellence
October calendars fill quickly and many of those invited will be traveling, so we have asked enough leaders to fill the table with distinguished peers. The table is reserved for executives currently in role, with no move planned in the coming months.
Who is inviting you
Your host is laser-focused on one question.
Jesse Hopps
Founder and Group Moderator
At twenty-four he founded Demand Metric, a research and tools business that grew to 6,589 companies in 108 countries. Since 2006 he has worked with Microsoft, Schneider Electric, LANXESS, Honeywell, Pfizer, Medtronic and many other Fortune 2000 companies. He is writing The Transformation Architect, a book about the leaders who make change stick.
Is your organization evolving fast enough to comfortably achieve your growth targets?
Who is hosting
Where 350+ senior executives compare notes.
The Commercial Excellence Consortium™ helps large companies accelerate transformation and growth. Members meet in monthly roundtables to test ideas on people who have faced the same decisions. We also host private dinners like these. The Consortium is free to join. Demand Metric powers it and also runs paid programs, including the Fellowship™.
Our members lead at companies including
Expand your global network with some of the top operators in the world.
By invitation
RSVP for the Amsterdam dinner.
Tables are small, so we review each request personally.