CPO Exchange 2017 | IQPC Exchange | 22 October 2017 | JW Marriott Downtown Houston, 806 Main St, Houston, Houston TX 77002, USA

Join us to discuss how to expand procurement's sphere of influence within your organization. Learn from real-world case studies and experience the best in senior-level procurement networking opportunities. Take a look and see what makes our Exchanges different from other industry events and how you could benefit from attending.

2017 Discussion Topics

• Increasing agility, flexibility and efficiency of the procurement organization to optimize spend in business priority areas, given that procurement budgets are not growing.

• Establishing the procurement leadership as trusted advisors to the C-Suite and progressing the role internally to increase impact to the bottom line and to the customer.

• Retaining top procurement talent and bringing in new capabilities into the procurement organization to accelerate strategy execution and help stakeholders achieve their business goals.

• Accelerating procurement transformation and supplier innovation to drive value with a customer-centric mentality, at the same time responding to sustainability and legal demands.

Who Will You Meet?
To ensure the CPO Exchange offers the highest degree of relevancy, only senior level executives are invited to attend. This exclusive format allows delegates to connect with those peers whose insights they respect the most – through exceptional networking, business meetings and strategic information-sharing sessions.

The primary job function of attending delegates includes the following cross-industry job titles:
• Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) or Head of Procurement
• SVP/VP Global Procurement
• SVP/VP Procurement
• SVP/VP Indirect Procurement
• SVP/VP Global Sourcing/Purchasing
• SVP/VP Global Supply Chain
• SVP Supplier Diversity

Top Reasons to Attend
• Unique invitation-only event which will only feature senior executives from leading global companies.
• Unsurpassed formal and informal networking opportunities to share and exchange ideas and concepts.
• Benchmark your current strategies and initiatives with other leading companies in our exclusive BrainWeave™ discussions.
• Meet the leading solution providers relevant to your business needs in private, prescheduled, one-on-one meetings.
• A wide range of conference and discussion sessions led by peer-level presenters sharing case studies, best practices, and unique updates that are most relevant to your current priorities.

2017 Speakers:

Mariano Legaz
CPO, Sprint

Bob Currey
Managing Director of Operations & Corporate Supply Chain, Delta Air Lines

Sanjeev Majoo
Vice President, Global Procurement, Bristol-Myers Squibb

David Hammerle
VP, Procurement & Contracts, Bechtel

Benjamin Zurita
Director, US Procurement Operations, LafargeHolcim

Jim Reed
CPO, Spirit AeroSystems

John Becvar
CPO, Groupon

Aileen Rivera
VP, Strategic Sourcing, Americas - Indirect Procurement, Ericsson

Ron Gregorsok
VP, Purchasing, AmerisourceBergen

Garry Christie
Director, Procurement, Advanced Micro Devices

Lissa Miller
First VP, Supplier Diversity, SunTrust Bank

Canda Rozier
Senior Vice President Global Procurement & Real Estate, NTT Security

Jeffrey Lentsch
Head, Enterprise Procurement, Mutual of Omaha

Thomas Cague
Director of Procurement, EDP Renewables

Gabrielle Albert
Former Senior Director, Corporate Strategic Sourcing, Hilton

Renee Leong
Head of Indirect Sourcing, Hess Corporation

Keith Corell
Director, Global Procurement & Chair Supplier Risk Governance Council, BMC Software

Christine Mack
Regional Head of Procurement, Americas, BP

Lamar Chesney
Chairman & Chief Advisor, CPO Exchange

Florian Winterstein
Chief Strategy Officer, BravoSolution

Tunir Chatterjee
Vice President, Global Delivery
GEP

Christian Lanng
CEO and Co-founder, TradeShift

Nagi Prabhu
Chief Product Officer, Icertis

Doug Fullenkamp
Director
Insight Sourcing Group

Shaz Khan
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Vroozi

Eric Beylier
CPO, Scientific Drilling

2017 Sponsors:

•United Lex
•Icertis
•BravoSolution
•Tradeshift
•Vroozi
•FinHealth
•GEP
•American Express Global Corporate Payments
•Avetta
•CoreTrust
•Insight Sourcing Group
•Taulia