Day one - 28 October
Please note, all timings are GMT
09:30 – 09:45
Chair’s opening remarks and welcome from CIPS
John Glen, CIPS Economist and Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management
Malcolm Harrison, Group CEO, CIPS
09:45 – 10:30
- Making sense of the current economic climate, and the impact of the pandemic
- Planning for the future and identifying opportunities to drive recovery
- Ensuring security of supply in uncertain times
John Glen, CIPS Economist and Visiting Fellow, Cranfield School of Management
Peter Munckton, Chief Economist and Head of Market Strategy, Bank of Queensland
10:30 – 10:50
Break
10:50 – 11:20
- Moving away from a heavy focus on cost, to a procure for resilience model
- Reevaluating procurement teams and anticipating future skills needs
- Assessing your supply chain capability and redesigning it to meet the needs of the future
Chair: Ducan Brock, Group Director, CIPS
Andrew Forzani, Chief Commercial Officer, Ministry of Defence
Sopan Shah, Global Chief Procurement Officer, InterContinental Hotels Group
Angela Qu, Senior Vice President, Chief Procurement Officer, Lufthansa Group
11:20 – 11:40
Break
11:40 – 12:20
- Taking full responsibility and ownership of the sustainability agenda to create new and more value to the business
- Making it easy to embed sustainable practices into your ways of working
- Engaging other business functions and departments to help you create new sources of value and business models
- Aligning procurement goals/KPIs with your responsible business commitments and Science-Based Targets
Chair: Oliver Hurrey, Founder, Galvanised
Emma Peacock, Global VP Sourcing, Mars
Tony Roy, Head of Governance and Sustainability, BT
Thomas Udessen, Chief Procurement Officer, Bayer
Virginie Vast, Head of Procurement Innovation and Sustainability, Amazon
12:20 – 13:20
Lunch break
13:20 – 13:50
Select your breakout stream below
Stream A
Resilience and recovery
Ceri Jones, Editor, Supply Managemnt
A1
- How to approach business continuity planning in a period of continuing uncertainty
- Leveraging technology to make your business continuity planning more robust and effective
- Future-proofing your procurement strategy with the aid of technology.
Raphael Fadiora-Johnson, Regional Manager, Avetta
Stream B
Sustainability
Oliver Hurrey, Founder, Galvanised
B1
- The key phases of a carbon reduction action plan for the supply chain, and the importance of supply chain engagement in driving actual improvement.
- Procurement’s vital role to bridge the gap between predictive insights and planet-saving action
- Insights on the scope of the opportunity, and the challenge faced with SME suppliers
Pierre-François Thaler, Cofounder and Co-CEO, EcoVadis
Stream C
Supplier Relationships
Emma Scott, Representation Manager, CIPS
C1
- Unlocking innovation by actively including SMEs as well as minority and women owned businesses in your supply chain,and businesses of different sizes.
- Leveraging supplier diversity to drive competitiveness and unlocking innovation
- Overcoming the barriers to building a diverse supply chain, such as supplier visibility
Nedra Dickson, Global Supplier Diversity and Sustainability Lead, Accenture
Tamer Hussein, Head of Sourcing CU MTN Africa, Ericsson
Mayank Shah, Founder and CEO, MSD UK
Minnie Venkatachalam, Regional Director, South East Asia and Oceania, WEConnect International
13:50 – 14:10
Break
14:10 – 14:40
Breakout streams continued
A2
- How to effectively measure the current level of risk in your supply chain
- Developing initiatives with suppliers that reward reductions in risk
- Collaborating with suppliers and competitors to meet risk reduction targets
Sarah Hamilton, Deputy Commercial Director, Strategic Contract Management, HMRC
Rob Woodstock, Chief Commercial Officer, HMRC
B2
- Taking a creative approach to contracts to build social value
- Engaging with suppliers to build social value throughout your supply chain
- Getting stakeholders and board members on board to secure buy-in and investment
Claire Costello, Chief Procurement Officer, The Co-Op
Barry Hooper, Chief Commercial Officer, Ministry of Justice
Paul Polizzotto, Founder and CEO, Givewith
Eric Soubeiran, VP Nature and Water Cycle (CSO) and CEO of the Danone Ecosystem Fund, Danone
14:40 – 15:00
Break
15:00 – 15:30
Breakout streams continued
A3
- Taking an open book approach to contracting
- Crafting contracts that offer increased protection for a post-COVID world
- Reworking contracts to increase supply chain liquidity
Nick Jenkinson, Former Senior Director, Business Services, Procurement & Corporate Real Estate, Astellas Pharma
B3
- The importance of collaboration in driving real change in complex supply chains, with practical examples from global organisations.
- Navigating the complex landscape of sustainable supply chain initiatives to work out who to collaborate with and how.
- Making best use of data to avoid pitfalls and make collaboration easier and more effective.
Jamie Barsimantov, COO and Co-Founder, SupplyShift
Euan Murray, CEO, The Sustainability Consortium
C3
- Tapping into the expertise of your supplier network to supercharge innovation in your own business
- Taking advantage of supplier innovation to reduce time to market and increase profitability
- Best practice and proven models for achieving supplier innovation
Niklas Fahlén, SVP Sourcing, Stora Enso
15:30 – 15:50
Break
15:50 – 16:20
- Proactively mitigating against the increased risk of modern slavery entering your supply chain in an economic downturn
- Tackling new forms of workers rights abuse, such as furlough fraud, that could cause serious reputational damage
- Ensuring that working conditions do not deteriorate in the post-COVID recession
Chair: Duncan Brock, Group Director, CIPS
Simon Leigh, Group Procurement and Supply Chain Director, Whitbread
Dame Sara Thornton, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
16:20 – 16:30
Closing remarks and end of conference day one
Please note, programme is subject to change without notice.