Future Procurement Leaders 2020 | IQPC | 25 February 2020 | Taj Dubai, Burj Khalifa Street - Dubai - UAE

Whilst procurement leaders across MENA have worked hard over the past decades to improve their strategies on procurement, supplier relationship, risk management and quality control, there has not been such an opportunity to leverage a competitive advantage as there is today.

Procurement has undergone tremendous changes over the past couple of years and is seen just at the start of their digital transformation journeys. A Hackett report suggests only 32% organisations having implemented a digital strategy in contrast to 85% of respondents believing how important digital transformation would be for procurement. Today, with the right investments in tools, processes and resources, businesses can become a global powerhouse by mastering their procurement strategies and have a competitive edge over others in the process of doing so.

But processing and technology only represent two of Procurement’ three prongs the other being people. In fact, we are already hearing voices suggesting that humans need to be re-integrated into processes (and that, despite automation only just having taken off). Cracking the talent and understanding which technology to implement remains at top of Procurement leaders’ lists. More specifically, the challenge lies in identifying what kind of tools to implement, how to upskill the talent to work with these tools and how to drive better supplier relationships and collaboration

2020 Speakers

Waleed Saeed Al Saeedi
Supply Management Director, Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism

Mina Hakim
General Manager Group Procurement, Al Futtaim Group

Mohamed Habib
Vice President, Supply Chain Management ,tabreed

Ahmed Hashem
Regional Head of Procurement, ME Bayer

Mahmoud Al Alawi
Director, Procurement and Contracts, Higher College of Technology

Juwad Alomari
VP Business Development and Procurement, Sebchem

Musbah Abujarad
SVP Corporate and Assets Management Procurement, Al Dar Properties

Emmanuel Augustin
Head of Procurement, Aggreko

Abdullah Alfifi
Spend Optimization - General Director, Ministry of Health Saudi Arabia

Shakti Arora
Chief Procurement Officer, RAK Ceramics

Ghazala Ilyas
Vice President, Head of Sourcing – Technology, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

Kunal Gupta
Director of Supply Chain, Bateel

Guillaume Akbaraly
Head of Supply Chain, Globalpharma a Sanofi Company

Dr. Arafat Mourad
Author & Procurement Banking Expert

Hariharan Laxminarayan
Associate Manager – Procurement, Emirates Global Aluminium

Imran Sajjad
Regional Purchasing Manager – Raw Materials – IMEA, Henkel

Nita Nair
AVP – Strategic Sourcing & SRM, Emirates NBD

Yousif M. Al Zarouni
Director - Business Development, Environment Consultancy & Agencies Services (Ecs) – Bee’ah

Hesham Elabd
Chief Procurement and Operation Services Officer, Emaar, the economic city (KAEC)

Ali Sadeddin
Head of Procurement, AG Projects

Kamran Ahsan
Area Procurement Manager, Lamprell

Yasir Rizvi
Head of Procurement, Fetchr

Kannappan Narayanan
Senior Procurement Manager, Tafawuq

Reem Ashraf
Head of Procurement, OSN

Jassim Alampara
Manager-supply Chain Management, Transgaurd Group

Christopher Gonsalvez
Regional Purchasing Logistics, Category Manager – Sea, Air, Road, Warehousing, Express & Parcel and Customs Brokerage, IMEA Purchasing, Henkel

Jonathan Tungu
Senior Procurement Manager, Tecom

GP Puri
Advisor – Procurement, Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO)

Umar Jamil
Procurement Manager, Trane Middle East ( Ingersoll Rand )

Salman Alhuzaimi
Director of Procurement and Logistics, Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen

Abdalla Abdelgalil
Contracting Specialist, Dubai Health Authority

Saurabh Mishra
General Manager - Supply Chain, Petronash

Mehmet Kamal
Strategic Sourcing Manager, MEA Logistics and Distributor Services, Mars

Mohammed Obiedat
Head of S&OP and Procurement, Al Ghurair Foods

2020 Partners

PROCUREMENT INNOVATION PARTNER:
• Icertis

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Supply Chain & Logistics Group (SCLG)
• Smart Procurement Review
• Link Magazine - Supply Chain and Logistics Group
• Supply Chain Brain
• Supply Chain IQ