CPO-Summit 2024 (A) | Euroforum Germany GmbH | 9 April 2024 | Handelsblatt Media Group, Toulouser Allee 27, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany

The CPO – the key figure in corporate transformation.

You know it from your practice: As a CPO, you determine the framework conditions for optimizing purchasing processes, ensuring supplier quality and delivery capability, as well as reducing costs and minimizing risks. Under the influence of current challenges, energy security, supply chain management and sustainability focus have become strategically crucial topics in the boardrooms of the German economy.

This summit is dedicated to important findings and insights from CPOs for CPOs. From the DAX group to medium-sized companies, we look across all sectors at the topics that move purchasing. Factual, constructive and critical.

Making Decisions in Uncertain Times for Sustainable Success:
• Sustainability Between green footprint and competitive pressure
• Location strategies for the German economy – costs vs. security
• Energy security and price developments – looking into the future
• How to Procure – Meaningful use cases exclusively on our stage
• The new role of the CPO as trend scout and transformation manager
• Revolutionary – What future scenarios are still conceivable through AI?
• CPO vision of the future – securing skilled workers internally and externally

CPO Summit at a Glance
• Quality instead of quantity – Meet the purchasing decision-makers from large and medium-sized companies from all sectors in an exclusive setting
• Exchange at eye level - In sessions under the Chatham House Rules, you can exchange ideas with specialist colleagues in a confidential setting
• We discuss the topics that concern you. Critical and independent.
• Exclusive international insights through live connections to Handelsblatt correspondents
• Experience a diverse program with future talks, panel discussions, theses talks, best practices and CPO Meet & Greet
• Get a taste of the editorial atmosphere at Germany's most successful business newspaper

2024 Speakers

Dr. Deniz Albayrak
CEO, Dümpelfeld & Partners

Mathias Alt
MBA, Managing Partner, GetAhead Pte. Ltd.

Marie-Cecil Aufmkolk
Director Procurement, RWE Power/RWE Generation

Christoph Bäumer
Chief Procurement Officer, Bilfinger

Stephan Chassaing de Bourdeille
former Vice Head of Group Procurement, Axel Springer; Founder/Entrepreneur, OOPUS, Procurement Punk

Martina Boxberger
Head of Group Strategic Sourcing, Merz Pharma

Carsten Brzeski
Global Head of Macro Research and Chief Eurozone Economist, ING

Yurda Burghardt
Managing Partner, Negotiation Advisory Group

Dr. Patrick Dümpelfeld
CEO & Founder, Dümpelfeld & Partners

Simon Fahrenholz
Partner, Strategy and Transactions, EY

Nora Maria Ferfers
Head of Procurement, Handelsblatt

Prof. Dr. Stephan Freichel
Faculty of Vehicle Systems and Production, Institute of Production (IFP), TH Cologne

Jan Grothe
Chief Procurement Officer, Deutsche Bahn

Isabel Hochgesand
Chief Procurement & Hazelnut Company Officer, Ferrero

Felix Holtermann
US correspondent, Handelsblatt

Edzard Janssen
Group Chief Procurement Officer, Raiffeisen Bank International

Philipp Artur Kienscherf
Manager, Energy Economics Institute at the University of Cologne (EWI)

Stephan Kunigk
Senior Vice President Procurement, Amprion

Gao Kwintmeyer
Chief Procurement Officer, Otto Bock

Dr. Thorsten Makowski
Professor Supply Chain Management and Purchasing, SKEMA Business School

Daniel Menzel
Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the management team, Meyer Burger Technology

Stefan Middelhauve
Chief Procurement Officer, Meyer Werft

Lars Nennhaus
Chief Operations Officer, Port of Duisburg

Moritz Nill
CEO, ctrl+s

Mathias Peer
Southeast Asia/India correspondent, Handelsblatt

Michael Pradel
Senior Managing Director Global Procurement, Hapag-Lloyd

Dr. Arndt Präuer
Chief Procurement Officer, KraussMaffei

Elisabeth Schlag-Lawrence
SVP, Head of Procurement Governance and Enabling, Bayer

Mario Schmidtgen
Director, 7Q1 – AI for Procurement

2024 Partners

PREMIUM PARTNER:
• EY

CONTENT PARTNER:
• Dumpelfeld & Partners

JUNIOR PARTNER:
• Get A Head

CORPORATE PRESENCE PARTNERS:
• Apadua
• CTRL+S
• Servicenow