PROGRAMME SCHEDULE 2022
On both mornings of Procurement Futures, our programme splits into three concurrent streams, designed to give you the choice of attending the sessions most relevant to you, your colleagues, and your company overall.
Stream 1: Insights: Presentations and panel discussions
Stream 2: Ignite: Workshops on practical challenges
Stream 3: Interact: Roundtables, hackathons and collaborative discussions
Should you wish to filter out any of these sessions, please use the filter options below:
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- Opening remarks from the Conference Chair and CIPS
- Opening remarks from the Conference Chair and CIPS
- Fireside Chat: How procurement helped Primark return to growth
- Headline Panel: Redefining the future role of procurement
- CPO panel discussion – How to build supply chain resilience and maintain quality in a VUCA world
- How will economic and geopolitical factors unfold in 2023 and beyond?
- Networking break
- Lunch
- Lightning Talks – 10:10:10 sessions 3 short presentations followed by discussion and Q&A
- Case Study – Risk management: Implementing an early warning system that mitigates the effects of global disruption
- Panel discussion – Attracting diverse talent
- Panel discussion – How leaders can future-proof their procurement teams
- Presentation: How to develop diverse and inclusive supply chains
- Case study – Seeking out social value opportunities in your procurement strategy
- Driving continuous digital transformation and creating value across the entire supply chain
- Presentation – Challenges of building a procurement function in a digital business
- Fireside chat – Change management – preparing for the unexpected
- Workshop – Increasing procurement efficiency through evolving technologies and data insights
- Case Study – Supplier collaboration strategies that deliver game-changing innovation and support your growth agenda
- Procurement Bill – Legislation workshop
- Case study – Transformation Strategies
- Lightning Talks: Practical steps for reducing scope 3 emissions throughout your supply chain
- Roundtable Discussions
- Mini Hackathon – Competitor collaboration
- Troubleshooting session
- Sustainability Procurement Roundtables
- Innovation Hackathon
- Day 1 Tuesday - 4 October 2022
- Day 2 Wednesday - 5 October 2022
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09:15 am
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09:30 am
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09:45 am
Fireside Chat: How procurement helped Primark return to growth
The pandemic shifted Primark from being a high growth retailer to a business with an absence of sales overnight. In this insightful and wide ranging conversation hear how Primark’s procurement function helped navigate this challenge and supported the return to growth
Ross Grierson, Director of Procurement, Primark
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10:15 am
Headline Panel: Redefining the future role of procurement
- The evolving role of the CPO in strategic initiatives
- What advice would you give to procurement professionals - what would you have done differently?
- Skillsets and leadership approaches required to navigate emerging challenges and opportunities
- How CPOs can collaborate with C-Suite, shareholders and customers to support wider business objectives and influence decision making
Patrick Dunne, Chief Procurement Officer, Sainsburys Plc
Malcolm Harrison, CEO, CIPS
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10:45 am
CPO panel discussion – How to build supply chain resilience and maintain quality in a VUCA world
- What strategies are we deploying to become more resilient and agile in an increasingly unpredictable world
- The importance of reducing supply chain complexity
- Balancing hyper-efficient, low cost procurement approaches with the need to ensure more resilient supply chains
- Onshoring and nearshoring strategies to tackle supply chain challenges
- The role of automation in ensuring supply chain visibility and transparency
- What strategic steps should procurement leaders take to ensure their organisations are ready for the future?
Dr. Clive Rees, International Chief Procurement Officer, Fujitsu
Imran Rasul, Chief Procurement Officer, Nationwide
Rebecca Simpson, Chief Procurement Officer, Balfour Beatty
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11:15 am
How will economic and geopolitical factors unfold in 2023 and beyond?
- Outlook for the UK economy and recession risks
- How will central banks control inflation and what does that mean for interest rates?
- What next for energy prices?
- How will geopolitics impact trade flows in different markets?
- What is the outlook for freight costs?
- Impact of the pandemic on global supply chains
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12:25 pm
Lightning Talks – 10:10:10 sessions 3 short presentations followed by discussion and Q&A
Nina Bomberg, Director Global Indirect Purchasing, SEG Automotive
David Wylie, Chief Procurement Officer, Thames Water
Paul Bestford, Chief Procurement Officer, Nutreco
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12:25 pm
Workshop – Increasing procurement efficiency through evolving technologies and data insights
This session will explore how digital transformation is changing the way we procure and more importantly the increasingly important and evolving role of procurement within organisations. It will analyse the new and exciting tools that are driving procurement transformation.
- How can automation make procurement more efficient?
- How can AI take away high levels of administration so procurement can focus on the strategic issues?
Savita Mace, Director Supplier Management, AstraZeneca
Steven King, Source to Contract Improvement Manager, SONY Europe
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12:30 pm
Roundtable Discussions
- How data-driven insights build resilient supply chains?
- How can you diversify your supply-base whilst maintaining your supply-chain quality?
- To what extent can a risk management strategy protect you from the VUCA era?
- How to optimise collaboration with your key customers and suppliers and drive the transformation needed to secure your supply chain?
Imran Rasul, Chief Procurement Officer, Nationwide
Bernhard Raschke, Chief Transformation Officer, RS Components
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13:00 pm
Case Study – Risk management: Implementing an early warning system that mitigates the effects of global disruption
- How can businesses stay ahead of the complexities of their supply chain
- Why every company needs a nimble and holistic risk management strategy
- Developing a well-defined risk identification and assessment process that minimises occurrence and impact
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13:00 pm
Case Study – Supplier collaboration strategies that deliver game-changing innovation and support your growth agenda
This session will explore practical strategies for taking your supplier collaboration to the next level. Find out how to work with your suppliers to drive value and support your company’s growth agenda.
Roopali Khurana, Supplier Relationship management, NHS Digital
Chris Garwood, VP Supply Chain Solutions, BP
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14:30 pm
Panel discussion – Attracting diverse talent
- Recognising the benefits that a diverse team can bring to your procurement strategy
- Overcoming the challenges of attracting diverse talent
- Training and up-skilling to ensure inclusivity
- Strategies for addressing and resolving diversity shortages in your team
- How to become an employer of choice
Ginny Warr, Head of Procurement, British Land
Carol WIlliams, Head of Procurement, Laing O’Rourke
Pip Wells, Innovation Consultant / Advisory Practice Lead, Resource Solutions
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14:45 pm
Procurement Bill – Legislation workshop
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15:00 pm
Mini Hackathon – Competitor collaboration
Strategies for collaborating with your competitors to solve common problems in the supply chain
This interactive session will address the advantages and sensitivities associated with collaborating with your competitors in overcoming common supply chain challenges.
Harold Hendrickx, Procurement Director - Head of Procurement Enablement, DS Smith
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15:00 pm
Panel discussion – How leaders can future-proof their procurement teams
- How are leadership teams adapting procurement work environments?
- How emerging enterprise priorities are re-shaping skills and scope of the traditional procurement role
- Emerging procurement job roles
- Up-skilling strategies and programmes that future-proof your team
- How to improve your talent pipeline
- Can you benefit from on-demand workforces?
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15:30 pm
Case study – Transformation Strategies
2 presentations followed by joint Q&A
Presentation 1: Indirect spend: How SAP centralised subscriptions & memberships globally
Indirect spend is a noisy and challenging category for procurement leaders. Take a look at how SAP captured and controlled a large proportion of their tail-spend. The project made digital transformation possible whilst also improving visibility and transparency.
Jean-Philippe Moulin, Chief Commercial Officer, PrenaxPresentation 2: Roads for the future – how building roads has changed and is going to transform in the future
Malcolm Dare, Executive Director - Commercial and Procurement, Highways England---
15:30 pm
Troubleshooting session
How to make procurement a career of choice
A unique opportunity to develop a cross-industry plan to entice more people into the procurement function.
- How can you sell the procurement function more effectively?
- What adaptable skills are you looking for and how can you entice new talent?
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15:30 pm
Presentation: How to develop diverse and inclusive supply chains
- Defining supplier diversity and inclusive procurement and highlighting their importance to the bottom line
- Understanding the ways in which supplier diversity drives innovation
- How engaging with diverse suppliers creates better competition
- Assessing the potential impact of a diverse supply chain on your brand reputation
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16:30 pm
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17:00 pm
Keynote Case Study- The Tony’s Chocolonely roadmap to 100% slave free chocolate
- Analysing the chocolate supply chain and understanding why it is particularly susceptible to unethical practices
- The importance of creating awareness and leading by example
- Critical steps to responsible sourcing
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17:10 pm
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09:30 am
Opening remarks from the Chair
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10:00 am
How to create a sustainability culture which delivers real and measurable change
- Assessing the importance of sustainability as a strategic initiative
- Defining your sustainability ambitions and identity and determine how best to incorporate this in your team’s day-to-day decision-making
- Creating a culture that reflects your sustainable business practices and an engaged ESG strategy that you live and breathe
- Implementing an authentic sustainability vision that is relevant to your business
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10:40 am
Keynote panel discussion – How can the industry collaborate to drive sustainability?
- Assessing the importance of collaboration in driving sustainable procurement and why going it alone is not an option
- How to encourage competitors to collaborate to improve sustainability across common supply chains
- Educating and influencing the customer on sustainability
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11:00 am
Tedtalk: Alternative thinking – the way forward for procurement
- Alternative thinking is the embodiment of that
- Cost transformation is what CPO’s and CFO’s often talk about
- We deliver that with people not AI/Tech
- Alternative thinking is about getting a different type of procurement person using market expertise and business knowledge to challenge
- Can we change business process, can we challenge the wider business to think differently and change its operating model?
- Focussing on people development, new ways of measuring value
- An enhanced role for procurement that builds on the traditional strengths of being experts in negotiation and process and ultimately a role that has a direct impact on business transformation.
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12:20 pm
Case study – Seeking out social value opportunities in your procurement strategy
- How Hotel Chocolat is taking a leadership position in community and social issues that are relevant to its business operations
- How procurement can help by creating innovative ways to turn profits using socially responsible methods
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12:55 pm
Lightning Talks: Practical steps for reducing scope 3 emissions throughout your supply chain
- Engaging with your suppliers to develop strategies for mapping out your emission footprint throughout your value chain
- Identifying your carbon hotspots and developing practical solutions to tackle them
- Developing an emissions reduction strategy tailored to your specific objectives
Anne Simonnet, Head of Sustainability and Compliance, Foodbuy
Amanda Wood, Sustainability Director, Supply Chain, BAE Systems
Ursula Minton, Responsible Sourcing & Sustainability Manager, Whitbread
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12:55 pm
Sustainability Procurement Roundtables
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12:55 pm
Driving continuous digital transformation and creating value across the entire supply chain
- The importance of digital transformation in 2022
- Strategies for achieving company buy-in for digital transformation
- How digital transformation can support your procurement strategies in areas such as reducing cost inefficiencies, enabling greater productivity, accelerating new product introductions and enhancing greater transparency and communication
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15:00 pm
Workshop – Procurement career plan
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15:00 pm
Innovation Hackathon
- Solutions to increase supply chain visibility
- Solutions that increase supply chain sustainability measuring reporting and compliance
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15:00 pm
Fireside chat – Change management – preparing for the unexpected
Kevin Mills, Head of Procurement, NATO
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16:00 pm
Transforming procurement and becoming a game-changing business partner
- How is the remit of procurement transforming?
- How procurement is enabling game-changing insights that are shaping key corporate decision-making processes
- How the role of procurement is evolving as a business insights expert and business intelligence leaders through innovative use of data
- What will the future of procurement look like?
Jim Townsend, Chief Procurement Officer, Walgreen Boots Alliance