A day in the life of a Synergy 2026 trade professional attendee

No two days at Synergy 2026 look the same. This is one version of what’s possible, built around real sessions, real conversations, and real momentum.

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6:45 AM – Rise and shine

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7:00 AM – Decoding Tariffs: IEEPA, 301s, 232s, Sequencing Logic, and ACE View

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8:30 AM – Beyond Tariffs: CPSC PGA eFiling + Other “Gotchas” That Can Hold Your Imports

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10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

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11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

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1:00 PM – Advanced Tariff Strategies for Landed Cost

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2:10 PM – Trade Wars and Policy: Assessing Geopolitical Risk

6:45 AM – Rise and shine

The alarm goes off, and you’re still thinking about yesterday’s sessions on global trade compliance and tariff management. They shifted how you’re thinking about the year ahead. Today’s agenda, packed with real, confirmed sessions, promises more of the same.

7:00 AM – Decoding Tariffs: IEEPA, 301s, 232s, Sequencing Logic, and ACE View

You start the day untangling the U.S. tariff programs stacking on top of each other this year (IEEPA, Section 301, Section 232) and the sequencing logic that determines which applies first. The session walks through how to read and use ACE data for both compliance and refund opportunities, and you leave with a much sharper sense of how to sequence duty calculations correctly.

8:30 AM – Beyond Tariffs: CPSC PGA eFiling + Other “Gotchas” That Can Hold Your Imports

This session covers the non-tariff issues that quietly hold up shipments: CPSC PGA eFiling requirements and the regulatory gotchas that catch importers off guard. You come away with a checklist of common pitfalls and a clearer procedure for resolving import holds before they become a real problem.

10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

The general session opens with a run of new capabilities across the trade portfolio. The roadmap makes a strong case that your compliance workload is about to look very different, and you take detailed notes on where things are headed.

11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

You talk with a Director of Global Trade from an electronics company, and it’s immediately clear you’re fighting the same battles, including tariff complexity, customs delays, the daily grind of classification and documentation. At lunch, you sit with trade professionals from manufacturing, retail, and logistics, and find that everyone is dealing with the same tariff volatility.

1:00 PM – Advanced Tariff Strategies for Landed Cost

This session digs into tariff stacking and tariff ceilings and how they’re reshaping landed cost calculations. You walk through both traditional and new cost-calculation methods and leave with a few concrete strategies for optimizing duty payments while staying compliant under the newest tariff structures.

2:10 PM – Trade Wars and Policy: Assessing Geopolitical Risk

This session steps back to the bigger picture with frameworks for assessing geopolitical risk and the growing role of economic security in shaping trade policy. You now have a new way to think about trade wars, sanctions, and shifting alliances not as background noise, but as inputs into a resilient compliance strategy.

What comes next

You find a quiet spot and call your manager, and the recap practically writes itself. The tariff sequencing strategies and the landed cost work are worth a real proposal. You talk budget and ROI and already know what the summary is going to say.

Back at the hotel, you go through your notes, a real, workable picture of how your compliance function could operate, backed by frameworks you can actually put to use. Before bed, you map out tomorrow’s sessions and list your follow-ups.

• Schedule a working session on tariff sequencing and ACE data with the trade team
• Connect with today’s panelists about their landed cost and geopolitical risk strategies
• Review the CPSC PGA eFiling checklist and share it with compliance
• Follow up with Thomson Reuters about integration and implementation support

This conference has given you more than value and momentum. You’ve seen new capabilities in action, met professionals facing exactly your challenges, and come away with real clarity on where trade compliance technology, and your own function, is headed next. That’s exactly what you came for, and it’s only the beginning.

Your own day at Synergy 2026 is still unwritten. Register now and start building it.