IT Procurement & Sourcing 2024 | we.CONECT Global Leaders GmbH | 28 September 2024 | Postillion Hotel Amsterdam, Paul van Vlissingenstraat 9-11, 1096 BK Amsterdam, Netherlands

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 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
• Enabling SaaS transparency from Adobe to Zoom: How to identify savings potentials and optimize SaaS cost at speed?
• 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
• 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

2024 Speakers

Christian Lojewski-schön
Group It Purchaser, Volkswagen Ag

Marcus Oestereich
Head of It Procurement, Bayer Ag

Dietmar Bruehl
Vp It Solutions, Buyin

Suneet Pandey
Global Procurement & Supplier Governance - Technology & Consulting, Lonza

Lukas Wisweh
Buyer It Services, Volkswagen Ag

Per Larsson
Procurement Manager, Resurs Bank Ab

Mattias Andersson
Procurement Specialist, Resurs Bank Ab

Jonathan Aveling
Procurement Specialist, Resurs Bank Ab

Lukasz Ostrowski
Senior Procurement Manager, Allegro Sp. Z O.o.

Ben Scharrenberg
Director Procurement, Lely

Ieva Terminaitė
Procurement Team Lead, Nord Security

Laurence Guillemot
Head of Vendor Management Office, Groupe Renault

Andrea Kowarschik
Improvement System Manager, Global Procurement, Google

Kimberly Master
Head of Technology Sourcing, Netflix

Steven Wynants
Manager, It Transformation, Toyota Motor Europe

Robert Smith
Head of Strategic Sourcing, Nordea

Louise Bäckman
Global It Software Category Manager, Essity Hygiene and Health Ab

Henk Dirven
Head Financial Software & Contract Management, Abn Amro Bank

Benita Niemann
Head of Procurement It, Hapag-lloyd Ag

Magnus Lännholm
Manager, Vendor Management Office, Scania Cv Ab

Daniel Van Daele
Category Manager It, Axa Bank Belgium

Thomas Flesch
Global Lead Buyer It, Telecommunication and Services, Seg Automotive Germany Gmbh

Phil English
Global Procurement Category Leader - It & Digital, Syngenta

Tommi Rissanen
Global Category Manager – Im & Data Analytics, Anglo American

Regzena Erdyneeva
Program Director, We.conect Global Leaders

2024 Partners

EVENT LEAD PARTNER:
• Spinnaker Support

PRIMARY PARTNERS:
• 2Data
• Vendr

COMPETENCE PARTNERS:
• Azul
• CapeFoxx

BUSINESS PARTNERS:
• CCP
• Timetoact Group
• ProLicense
• Certero
• Origina
• Oncept
• Anglepoint
• PREO
• Raynet
• Cass Information Systems, Inc.
• USU
• Xensam
• Belarc
• BearingPoint
• Software One
• Crayon
• Insight
• Leadout
• Softline
• Foxit