IT Procurement and Sourcing 2024 - Nordic | we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH | 11 June 2024 | Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel Copenhagen, Amager Boul. 70, 2300 København, Denmark

While agility and speed progressively determine the success of business in the age of digital transformation, new technologies and new licensing and pricing models represent increasing challenges for organizations across all industries. This event brings together more than 100 IT sourcing, procurement, finance and vendor management decision makers from leading North-European companies to discuss effective IT Procurement strategies, exchange experiences on most successful negotiations and vendor relationship tactics and learn how to re-organize processes to enable agility of their organization and achieve better business outcomes.

Key topics:
• Sourcing strategies and governance – Developing effective strategies to optimize the sourcing and supply of IT services and products in an increasingly changing technology landscape
• Best in class approaches to identifying relevant emerging technologies and supporting the business balancing speed with acceptable risk
• Transforming IT procurement processes to increase speed, agility and cost optimization
• Rethinking and adopting new IT finance strategies for budgeting and exposing hidden IT costs
• Redefining the role and value of sourcing in a rapid-paced, agile and competitive business environment
• Cost optimization – Gathering insights, understanding the business needs, improving cost transparency and lowering operating costs
• Negotiating better deals for IT services, software, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hybrid infrastructure
• Successfully using dynamic price benchmarks and achieving business objectives with data-backed negotiations
• Vendor management – Designing and implementing the ideal operating model for managing your vendor ecosystem to reduce vendor risks
• Implementing a Vendor Performance Management Program to optimize vendor performance
• Enabling SaaS transparency from Adobe to Zoom: How to identify savings potentials and optimize SaaS cost at speed?
• SaaS Governance – Defining and understanding who is responsible for decisions on new purchases, contract negotiations, onboarding, and off-boarding of users in the context of SaaS
• Innovation vs. costs – Improving collaboration between IT and IT Procurement to drive digital business
• Build vs. buy in the age of digital transformation – From full outsourcing to a selective multi-/service tasking or even back to insourcing and building in-house IT services
• RPA and intelligent automation meet IT Procurement – Progressing efficiency with automated processes
• From renewal alerts and IT asset visualization to contract management – Identifying the best tools for effective IT Procurement

Why should you join:
• Multi-Touchpoint Networking:
Our fun expert community offers an opportunity to enjoy two Evening Events; Pre Event Workshops with drinks and finger food, with dinner at a luxury restaurant the next day. Our unique event get-togethers are terrific!

• Live Streaming via App:
Catch speaker sessions anytime you feel like it. Switch between in-person attendance and listening in on digital sessions.

• Guided Delegate to Delegate Matchmaking & One2Ones:
Our Matchmaking tool will enable you to find other event visitors that suit your preferences and interests, and our friendly staff will gladly help you connect with them at the event too.

• 85% Decision Makers:
At any we.CONECT event, you will create solid connections. A majortiy of our guests are senior executives and decsion-makers at influential businesses.

• 15+ hours of intense direct networking and discussions:
Unique Workshops like World Cafes and Challenge your peers to ensure you get to discuss your and other’s ideas in learning exchange sessions with leading industry experts. Our formats will help you find out which ideas and viewpoints others are exploring and share and learn along them.

2024 Speakers

Maria Rydberg Kangevall
Vice President IT Purchasing, Volvo

Thomas Stahl
Global Procurement Manager, DB Schenker

Soren Thaysen
Chief Procurement Excellence Manager, Danske Bank

Robert Smith
Head of Strategic Sourcing, Nordea

Henrik Bruun-Pedersen
Director, Head of IT Procurement, Ramboll

Kira Katasonova
Global Procurement Category Manager, Tetra Pak

Kamran Taherian
Senior Group Manager, Indirect Procurement, Polestar

Vesa Kuismanen
Director, Sourcing Transformation, UPM The Biofore Company

Mihaela Tapu
Head of Supplier Performance Management, Nordea

Dmitrij Subenko
Global Category Manager, IT Services, Novartis

Philippe Verbeeck
IT Sourcing Manager, Atlas Copco

Stein Ove Rov
Strategic Advisor, Skagerak Energi

Daniel Pryjma
Systems Manager, Global Procurement, Wolt

Sateja Mhamunkar
Director, Digital Partnership and Vendor Management, Novo Nordisk

Rolf Ericsson
Commodity Manager IT, Husqvarna

Andrej Rosenberg
Senior IT Procurement Manager, Falck

Farida Ismatilova
Director Sourcing, Nordics & Baltics, Mediq

Julia Popova
Senior Analyst Sourcing BI and Analytics, UPM Kymmene Oyj

Anders Backlund
IT Buyer & Software Asset Manager, Zenseact

Ilkka Kautto
Directing Chief Specialist, Helsinki

Jon Gill
Senior Director Sales EMEA, Spinnaker Support

Patrik Burvall
Principal Business Consultant, Snow

Hirsa Navid
Director Sales DACH TR, Capefoxx

Eric Helmer
SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Rimini Street

Nick Op De Beeck
IT Vendor Management, ITAM Consultant, Leadout

Howard Daws
Technology Lead Optimisation and Governance, Insight Enterprises

Regzena Erdyneeva
Program Director, We.Conect

2024 Partners

EVENT LEAD PARTNER:
• Spinnaker Support

PRIMARY PARTNER:
• Rimini Street

COMPETENCE PARTNERS:
• Cass Information Systems Inc
• Oncept Consulting Group

BUSINESS PARTNERS:
• Crayon
• Origina
• Capefoxx
• SoftwareOne
• Flexera
• Preo
• Snow
• Insight Enterprises
• Certero
• Xensam
• Leadout
• Foxit