Agenda
29th & 30th June 2021
- Match making networking and live delegate meet ups
- Replay functions so you never miss a session
- Live chat, questioning and polling tools
- Real time resources and presentations
- A next generation conference engagement platform
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.
Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.
- Delivering a framework that delivers the best commercial outcomes for the public sector and business
- Ensuring we build a commercial workforce for the future
- Building the skills and capability to ensure taxpayers money is spent effectively and efficiently
- How has 2020/2021 and Covid-19 reshaped the debate around public procurement?
- Emerging from the Lockdown – what next for public procurement?
- How the Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper is set to impact public sector procurement
- Whether the green paper goes far enough and what it will mean for central and local government
- Upskilling commercial teams
Full session details TBC. If you’d like to sponsor a speaking session please get in touch with the team.
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
- Coordination and cross-government action towards achieving net zero, supporting the development of strategy and driving delivery across government
- Overcoming ‘gaps’ in procurement targets and standards to achieve net-zero carbon emissions
- Managing risks and building resiliency
Session hosted by CPNI
The session will show the range of malicious threats facing the public and private sector and the vulnerabilities that can be mitigated by forethought and proportionate countermeasures that enable rather than inhibit the desired innovation.
If you’d like to sponsor one of our Seminar Sessions, please get in touch with the team.
- Sustainable Procurement
- Effective Contract Management
- Supply Chain Efficiency
- Public Procurement – Leveraging AI for Public Services
- Smart procurement in a post-Covid world
- Driving cost savings and transformation through shared services
- Procurement Fraud
- Collaborative Procurement
- Delivering sustainable, responsible and ethical procurement
- Getting to grips with cloud based procurement
- Delivering sustainable, responsible and ethical procurement
- Risk management and legislation
- Information security in procurement
During this break why not join one of four Fireside Chats & Roundtables
These sessions are open to all attendees and will allow you to drive your own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas in smaller, more interactive breakout rooms:
- Purchasing with Purpose – how can we shift towards sustainable and ethical business
- 2021 and beyond – what are the top priorities for the procurement function?
- How can cloud-based procurement help protect your business?
- How to partner with suppliers to drive value
- Embedding Counter Fraud into the Commercial Lifecycle
- Understanding dynamic purchasing systems
- Helping you deliver Social Value in your procurement process?
- Tech Procurement in Public Sector
- Contract Management
- Supplier Management
As our societies become increasingly data-centric and more public services than ever are now online; data privacy, security and availability have never been so important. The diverse array of individuals and organisations public authorities deal with must interact with each other and look up information in a secure and seamless way.
In this session we will explore the current state of data management, protection and disaster recovery practices in some of our local councils and outline key learnings and recommendations to enable you to deal with your data more effectively.
Choose the sessions that best suit your interests this afternoon, as we break out into three streams – Central Government, Local Government and Sustainability, Social Value & Green Procurement
- Responding to Covid-19 and facilitating the transition to the future system of public procurement
- Leveling the playing field for SME’s supplying to the public sector
- Strengthening social values, modern slavery and sustainability in our solutions
- Power to your procurement – Supporting the government’s ambitions around Carbon Net Zero – what does it mean for your estates, energy and infrastructure?
This presentation will describe the innovative approach used by Essex County Council to collate publicly available data and internal intelligence to create a holistic view of supplier risk in the social care sector. It will describe how this model has been used to proactively manage risk and target interventions to help the market recover from the impact of COVID-19.
Exploring Manchester City Council’s approach to recovery initiatives from the pandemic and carbon reduction through new approaches to commissioning and procurement activity.
An award-winning government department will discuss their approach to integrating commercial, delivery and finance teams across contracts and suppliers. They will cover complex supply chains and contract exit to demonstrate the benefits of collaboration.
- Benefits of collaborative procurement
- How the changing working landscape can benefit collaborativeworking
- How shared services can help you deliver your procurement outcomes
- How do you know how well a shared service is operating and can it do even more?
- Meeting the local government challenge through COVID-19
- Examining the evolving financial pressures on local government
- What support can be provided from central government?
- Effective innovative ways to delivering new services and to meet responsibilities for supporting financial sustainability across the sector
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
The recent Green Paper acknowledged that Public Procurement has “significant potential as a strategic lever to drive innovation in the UK” but offered a limited range of proposals in response. In this session, we bring together speakers with global experience in innovation procurement to show how it can boost innovative products and services, engage inventive providers, nurture start-ups, and grow innovation hubs across the UK. They will consider how strategic procurement can underpin ambitions for post COVID recovery, levelling up, and meeting zero carbon goals.
- Developing standards and capabilities for better procurement
- Collaborating to develop procurement-related expertise across the public sector
- The Strategic Importance of procurement in responding to the challenges facing public authorities, especially in delivering zero carbon goals
- The need to integrate procurement into innovation policy, its effectiveness in exploiting new technologies and supporting inventive companies, especially SMEs
- How procurement can boost “levelling up” by becoming the core programme for regional innovation hubs
Before proceedings get underway, this short explainer session will explore how you can get the most out of our new next generation summit platform.
Our team will run through how to make virtual connections, creating networking meet ups, accessing content on demand and how to use our new Q&A, chat functions and virtual polling tools during the day.
As we move through 2021, a new procurement regime, no longer bound by EU Directives will be put in place, aiming to promoting British business and the local economy. In this session we will look at the impact of Brexit on public procurement
Full session details TBC. If you’d like to sponsor a speaking session please get in touch with the team.
- Introduction to accessibility regulation
- Understanding the digital accessibility regulations
- Outline accessibility responsibilities of those procuring websites/apps
- Top tips for those responsible for procuring accessible website/apps and how to manage the relationship with suppliers to ensure products deliver meet legal standards and maximise the benefits to users
Your opportunity to make the most of the virtual conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors, make connections, tour our real-time resources and content and take part on discussions via the tailored channels.
- Transforming public procurement through better contract management
- Achieving better outcomes and performance from your suppliers with the latest guidance, tools and techniques
- Best practice in contract management – challenges and successes
- The future of contract management
- With the economic impact of COVID-19 already impacting regions and localities, this panel session explores the way procurement can help local economies to promote employment creation and regenerate.
- Procurement as an enabler for employment and economic sustainability
- The impact of COVID-19 on different sectors and demographics
- Challenges with local supply chains in terms of capability, skills and product
- Mapping spending and local impact
- Raising living standards of localities and their residents
- Cultivating participation and citizen engagement
If you’d like to sponsor one of our Seminar Sessions, please get in touch with the team.
- Sustainable Procurement
- Effective Contract Management
- Supply Chain Efficiency
- Public Procurement – Leveraging AI for Public Services
- Smart procurement in a post-Covid world
- Driving cost savings and transformation through shared services
- Procurement Fraud
- Collaborative Procurement
- Delivering sustainable, responsible and ethical procurement
- Getting to grips with cloud based procurement
- Delivering sustainable, responsible and ethical procurement
- Risk management and legislation
- Information security in procurement
During this break why not join one of four Fireside Chats & Roundtables
These sessions are open to all attendees and will allow you to drive your own learning and share experiences with others on a number of different subject areas in smaller, more interactive breakout rooms:
- Purchasing with Purpose – how can we shift towards sustainable and ethical business
- 2021 and beyond – what are the top priorities for the procurement function?
- How can cloud-based procurement help protect your business?
- How to partner with suppliers to drive value
- Embedding Counter Fraud into the Commercial Lifecycle
- Understanding dynamic purchasing systems
- Helping you deliver Social Value in your procurement process?
- Tech Procurement in Public Sector
- Contract Management
- Supplier Management
- Sourcing the best procurement talent
- Implementing effective talent management to develop existing talent
- Diversifying the profession
- Workforce planning and management
Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic are changing the priorities of many supply chain leaders. In this new and uncertain environment there is a real need to balance value and efficiency with resilience. We discuss:
- Key strategies supply chain leaders should look to in order to build more resilience
- Planning and provisioning for risks
- Building visibility, protecting supply and designing a more resilient supply chain network
- Developing robust contract and supplier management strategies that improve procurement of critical products and services
- The need for collaboration and engagement between all parties in a supply chain
- Reflecting broader goals linked to resource efficiency, climate change, social responsibility and economic resilience
