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TECH SOURCING 2025 AGENDA

TECH SOURCING DAY 1

Tuesday November 4

Day 2 Agenda

Day 1

  • 8:00 AM

Registration, Breakfast and Networking

  • Lakeview Terrace

Day 1

  • 9:00 AM

Chair's Welcome

  • Main stage

Jon Winsett, CEO, NPI

Day 1

  • 9:20 AM

The Game is Changing

  • Main Stage
  • So, change your way of thinking and evolve with the game
  • How to pivot and level up
  • Do you know your business and product?
  • Centering procurement as profit center and bringer of value

 

Zai Mohammed, Head of Global Procurement Talkdesk

Day 1

  • 9:45 AM

Keynote: Becoming Digital Starts with You

  • Main Stage

Dr. Elouise Epstein Digital Futurist & Partner, Kearney

Day 1

  • 10:20 AM

Your Dream Tech Stack - Cutting Edge Tech For Real Business Wins

  • Main Stage

Jon Winsett, CEO, NPI

Day 1

  • 10:50 AM

Coffee and Expo!

+Sponsor demos on Expo Floor

  • Lakeview Terrace

Day 1

  • 11:20 PM

Negotiating the Future of Procurement

  • Main Stage

Mark Raffan, Founder & Host, Negotiations Ninja

Day 1

  • 11:50 AM

Market Perspectives: Real Tech. Real Problems. Real Solutions

  • Main Stage
  • Disruptors and the next wave
  • What are we buying in tech?
  • How are we evolving?
  • The impact of AI

Susan Patrick Harris, VP Procurement, R1 RCM
Mike Rossi, Director of Procurement, HUB International

Day 1

  • 12:20 PM

CONTENT HUDDLES / ROUNDTABLES (BUY-SIDE ONLY)

  • Ballroom
  1. Software negotiations
  2. Market Intelligence 
  3. KPIs
  4. Digital platforms
  5. Cost-to-Serve
  6. Spend analytics
  7. Supply Chain Risk management
  8. Managing your SaaS architecture
  9. How suppliers are leveraging AI
  10. Data Compliance and Security
  11. (Sponsors only) Working better with procurement

Day 1

  • 1:00 PM

Lunch

  • Lakeview Terrace
  • 2:00 PM

Delegates Break into Peer Working Groups #1

  • Meeting Rooms 1-7

Cloud Optimization

Simplification and Value through Orchestration

Negotiation Best Practice - Tricks of the Trade to make mega vendors true corporate partners

Spend Management and Automation

SaaS

Brian Weinblatt, VP Internal Solutions, Movable Ink
Alan Poulin, Supply Chain Sr. Category Manager, IT Services, Xcel Energy

Hardware

Cost Center to Profit Center

A’Keela Johnson, Digital & Procurement Strategy Exec, Advisory Board Member, DVSum

  • 3:00 PM

Delegates Break into Peer Working Groups #2

  • Meeting Rooms 1-7

Influencing Key Stakeholders - how to be better partners to the business 

How are you becoming more strategic & aligning procurement goals with business goals to be strategic, Brainstorming ways to position procurement as a strategic influencer in the corporation

Do More with Less – roadmap to maximum impact for the lean procurement organization

Productivity Brainstorm

What tool / tech are you using to make your life easier. What creative and innovative things are you doing to be more efficient without breaking the bank – come equipped with examples to share and inspire your peers

Building the Next Gen Procurement Team

Training, management, inspiring Next Gen, managing remote workers effectively

Data Privacy and Protecting Data from Cyber Attacks

How procurement is putting this into practice

AI in Tail Spend  

Everyday AI

Brainstorming session on how peers are using AI day to day. The cost of AI vs the output of AI

My First 100 Days as a Lone Wolf CPO

Starting a procurement function from scratch – share lessons on failures and best practices on propelling an immature organization to maturity

Day 1

  • 3:45 PM

Break

  • Lakeview Terrace

Day 1

  • 4:15 PM

Fire-Side Chat

  • Main stage

Katie Sharma, Head of Sourcing, Coinbase
Host: Zip

Day 1

  • 4:45 PM

Future Procurement & Inspiring the Next Generation

  • Main stage
  • What’s the talent market like?
  • Shaping future talent
  • Priorities for team management and development
  • Embedding AI literacy in the workforce

Charlotte De Brabandt, Head of IT Partner Management (IT Sourcing) & Deputy Head of IT Governance and Compliance, ZF Group
Ariella Lachman, Senior Procurement Manager – Technology, Jfrog

Day 1

  • 5:15 PM

WRAP UP OF DAY 1

  • Main stage

Jon Winsett, CEO, NPI

Day 1

  • 5:30 PM

DRINKS ON THE TERRACE

  • Lakeview Terrace

TECH SOURCING DAY 2

Wednesday November 5

Day 1 Agenda

Day 2

  • 8:00 AM

Coffee and Breakfast

  • Lakeview Terrace

Day 2

  • 9:00 AM

Welcome to Day Two

  • Main Stage

Recap of key learnings from day one and what’s coming up on day two

Jon Winsett, CEO, NPI

Day 2

  • 9:10 AM

Building the Digital Organization

  • Main Stage
  • Use cases in practice – the procurement processes generating ROI
  • To build or buy?
    Finding your biggest pain point and starting there
  • Solutions that scale

Bob Booth, Founder, AI Ethicals

Day 2

  • 9:40 AM

Holding for sponsor

  • Main Stage

Day 2

  • 10:10 AM

Rewiring from the Inside Out for the Digital Age

  • Main Stage

Amanda Prochaska, Chief Wonder Officer, Wonder Services

Day 2

  • 10:40 AM

Break

+Sponsor demos on Expo Floor

  • Lakeview Terrace

Day 2

  • 11:15 AM

Why the CPO is an Organization’s Best Friend

  • Main Stage

Neal Sample, CIO, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Binh Tran, CPO, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Day 2

  • 11:45 AM

Cybersecurity & Cyberattacks – What Procurement Needs to Know

  • Main Stage

Day 1

  • 12:15 AM

Boosting Resilience Through Tech

  • Main Stage
  • Building risk and resilience in the supply chain
  • Tariffs, imports and geopolitical impacts on tech, services, hardware, software
  • Financial risk, business continuity
  • Risk in contracts
  • Managing supply dominance

 

Greg Stoller, Sr. Director, Procurement Technology, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Day 2

  • 12:45 PM

Lunch

  • Lakeview Terrace
  • 1:45 PM

Delegates Break out into Peer Working Groups

  • Meeting Rooms 1-7

Maximizing Supplier Engagement

AI for Lone Wolves – what readily available tools are out there?

Making Sense of Your Data 

Consolidation and Vendor Cost Reduction

Executing a Best-in-Class Procurement Data and Analytics Program

Defining the tools and technology you need to set up the program, and the people you need behind the tools

Syed Naqvi, Procurement Analytics & Data Leader

Sustainability Tech and Tools

Day 2

  • 2:40 PM

Prioritizing Sustainability

  • Main Stage

Day 2

  • 3:10 PM

Holding

  • Main Stage

Day 2

  • 3:40 PM

CONTENT HUDDLES / CHAMPAGNE ROUNDTABLES

  • Ballroom
  1. Next steps on your career trajectory
  2. Pricing models for AI vendors
  3. Onboarding tools with AI
  4. Supplier management
  5. Intake & Orchestration
  6. Negotiation workshop
  7. Vigilance on our vendors who are using AI
  8. Consolidation – cutting vendors and keeping lean
  9. Modern Travel Technology
  10. Total Cost of Ownership
  11. IT Services – The Complexity of dealing with System Integrators

Day 2

  • 4:30 PM

Close of Technology Sourcing 2025

  • Main Stage

Jon Winsett, CEO, NPI

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Testimonials

WHAT DO PAST ATTENDEES THINK OF THE EVENT?

    "It was an awesome gathering. Never been around so many IT Procurement Professionals from the buy side that shared best practices."

      "What a great opportunity to meet, engage, and learn both from and with Procurement colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds!"

        "An exceptionally valuable event; speakers and breakout sessions were exceptional and the hallway conversations alone were worth multiples of the cost."

          "It was an amazing conference and I’ve already been able to successfully put some of the negotiation tips and tricks into use. Thank you!"

            "The concentration of specialized expertise and experience was overwhelming, so much to learn from those in the room. I can’t wait to dive in again next year!"