ProcureCon 2025
September 23 - 25, 2025
Austria Center Vienna
Agenda Day 1 - Tuesday 15th October 2019
8:00 am - 8:45 am
REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
Repositioning from Buyer to Value-Creator
8:45 am - 8:50 am
Opening remarks – Letitia Thomas, Programme Director, WBR
8:50 am - 9:00 am
Chair’s opening remarks with interactive polling
Richard Beaumont -
Independent Consultant & Former CPO Coop Bank & VP Procurement Rolls Royce,
Rolls Royce
Richard Beaumont
Independent Consultant & Former CPO Coop Bank & VP Procurement Rolls RoyceRolls Royce
9:00 am - 9:30 am
OPENING KEYNOTE - Technology as a value-creator: How Uber is using connectivity and IOT sourcing to its competitive advantage
Rahul Vijay -
Head of Global Connectivity Sourcing,
Uber
9:30 am - 9:50 am
PRESENTATION Procurement 2030: Driving ‘self-serve’ procurement: How to enable your procurement team and internal customers to focus on the value-add of delivering faster sourcing
Jan Fokke Van Den Bosch -
CPO,
HSBC
• How can the business procuring certain categories for themselves free up procurement for more strategic work?
• How to bring consumer expectations into the workplace so sourcing is quick and easy like buying has become in day to day life
• How to avoid making sourcing a costly and convoluted process
• How can ‘self-serve’ prepare the sourcing environment to move forward
9:50 am - 10:30 am
PANEL WITH INTERACTIVE POLLING - How can you upskill your team from ‘buyers’ to ‘business partners’ and reposition procurement as an ‘idea-generator’, innovator and ‘knowledge-pool’ within your business?
Alpar Kamber -
Executive Vice President,
WNS - Denali
Alex Muir -
CPO Downstream,
BP
Fabienne Lesbros -
Group SCM Commercial & Services Director/ Board Member VODAFONE Procurement Company,
Vodafone
Juha Taipalinen -
CPO,
Finnair
Karen Mansell -
Senior VP Procurement,
Bayer
• How can you bring value through execution, speed and business insight?
• How can you bring innovation from the supplier side to present to top management?
• How can being an advisor upskill and upgrade your procurement function?
• How can you work to improve and solidify your internal relationships?
• How can you shift the paradigm of how procurement is viewed and improve emotional intelligence?
Fabienne Lesbros
Group SCM Commercial & Services Director/ Board Member VODAFONE Procurement CompanyVodafone
10:30 am - 10:50 am
PRESENTATION - Performing whilst transforming: How to create a ‘procurement team of the future’ to meet the global needs of your internal/external clients and become your organisations competitive edge
Natasa Vidmar -
Global CPO,
Teva Pharmaceuticals
• How to deliver value year-on-year whilst serving as a key driver in transformation
• How to utilise a business strategy that focuses on people, processes and technology
• What tools and strategies can you use to manage your talent whilst going through a period of transformation?
• How to use procurement as a driving force through transformation to meet the needs of patients globally
10:50 am - 11:30 am
MORNING NETWORKING BREAK
10:50 am - 11:30 am
MASTERCLASS - Travel for the modern enterprise; Trends in contingent labour forces and how you can better manage growth
Daniel Flynn -
International Business Development Manager,
Hotailors
Embracing Next Generation Digital & Cognitive Procurement
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
PANEL WITH INTERACTIVE POLLING - Change management: How can you develop a digital and cultural transformation strategy to motivate your people and become a fully digitalised procurement team of the future?
John Callan -
Senior Director of Product Marketing,
Coupa
Mark Zafra -
Head of Global Strategic Sourcing,
Twitter
Robert Huter -
VP Procurement,
Bosch
Paulo Costa -
Global Head of Procurement,
Farfetch
Nina Bomberg -
Global Lead Buyer,
SEG Automotive (Bosch)
• How can you change your supply chain to digital?
• How can you think beyond your current business mode and articulate a future way of working?
• How can you streamline your tactical work and become more efficient?
• What does your future procurement team look like?
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
PRESENTATION The Kellogg Indirect Procurement Journey (with GEP)
Representative to be confirmed, GEP
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
PRESENTATION - The Digital Revolution: How can you leverage a “Procurement 4.0” strategy to combine new technology and revolutionise your operational and administrative processes?
Sanjay Mehta -
VP Global Procurement,
Nokia
• What changes do you need to make to your strategy to adapt to the future?
• How can new technology help you build a future-proof team?
• How can you upskill your existing team to reduce administrative processes?
• What is next for procurement?
12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
PRESENTATION How to position Contract Management at the centre of Sourcing and Procurement
Ulf Meyer -
Senior Director Contract Lifecycle Management,
Bertelsmann
Ulf Meyer on behalf of Icertis
1:10 pm - 1:20 pm
INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT - How can businesses sell disused Microsoft Volume software assets and buy pre-owned Microsoft software licences, legally?
Susana Jiménez -
Sales Consultant - France & Spain,
Discount Licensing
1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
PRESENTATION - How to form a winning team for your digitalisation journey to best use new technology and revolutionise your processes
Bodo Bokaemper -
Global VP Procurement Digitalisation,
BMW
• How can you prepare and form your team for the future digitalisation journey?
• What does a ‘winning team’ look like?
• What do you need to make digitalisation happen?
• How can you get everyone involved and gain their buy in?
1:40 pm - 2:50 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH
1:40 pm - 2:50 pm
MASTERCLASS - Contract Lifecycle Management: Digitisation as an accelerator of Procurement at Bertelsmann
Ulf Meyer -
Senior Director Contract Lifecycle Management,
Bertelsmann
Ulf Meyer on behalf of Icertis
1:40 pm - 2:50 pm
MASTERCLASS - How to effectively use the art of storytelling across your organisation to shift procurements impact and widen its reach
Alpar Kamber -
Executive Vice President,
WNS - Denali
TRACK A - Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
2:50 pm - 2:55 pm Chair’s opening address Michael Delle - Independent Consultant & Former VP Global ICT Sourcing Ericsson, M Delle Consulting
Michael Delle
Independent Consultant & Former VP Global ICT Sourcing EricssonM Delle Consulting
TRACK A - Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
2:55 pm - 3:15 pm PRESENTATION - How to harness the latest technology including AI, Machine Learning and RPA to drive your digital procurement transformation journey Ali Türk - Chief Supply Chain Officer, Turkcell
TRACK A - Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm PANEL WITH INTERACTIVE POLLING - The digital buyer: How to use rising Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and data analytics to meet the needs of your business stakeholders in an increasingly digitalised world? Fabienne Lesbros - Group SCM Commercial & Services Director/ Board Member VODAFONE Procurement Company, Vodafone Nick Jenkinson - Senior Director Procurement, Astellas Andrea Blanco - Head of CSP&A Procurement EMEA, Ecolab Julien Nadaud - Chief Product Officer & SVP Innovation, Determine a Corcentric Company
Fabienne Lesbros
Group SCM Commercial & Services Director/ Board Member VODAFONE Procurement CompanyVodafone
TRACK A - Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm PRESENTATION - Enabling spend analytics: How to use eProcurement technology to cleanse your spend data and catalogue your supply base Kåre Christensen - Head of Strategic Sourcing EMEA, Gap Inc• How can you build visibility in spend to create a controlled environment?
• How can data be used to build visibility and drive trends?
• How can you implement an established process to navigate your data pools?
• How can harmonized data help you to understand spend across your business units and identify trends?
• How can using data become a bi-product of the procurement role?
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
2:50 pm - 2:55 pm Chair’s opening address Cath Hill - Group Director, CIPS
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
2:55 pm - 3:15 pm PRESENTATION - How to successfully identify, measure and control value to better align with your stakeholders and move beyond traditional procurement savings Frank Faisst - Global Head Indirect Procurement, Generali• How can you create best practice around measure and controlling value?
• How can non-traditional value-add encourage better engagement with your internal stakeholders?
• How can you identify value for your business?
• Governance and recording value – how can this be done?
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
3:15 pm - 3:55 pm PANEL WITH INTERACTIVE POLLING - Controlling your tail-spend: How can you best limit your supply base to reduce costs and drive efficiency across your business? Jutta Bub - Global Category Director Goods & Services, Lufthansa Group Rob Turner - Head of Procurement Operations, John Lewis Partnerships Jeroen Wennink - CPO Europe, Capgemini Filip Bloch - CEO & Co-Founder, Hotailors
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
3:55 pm - 4:15 pm PRESENTATION Card Payments: New approaches driving efficiency and economic value in Suppy Chain Ritesh Jain - B2B Product Head, Citi
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Mastering your Indirect Spend (Limited to 30 attendees)
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOP - Staying on top of your business travel spend Marc Wise - Global Sales Manager Corporations, Amadeus
4:15 pm - 4:55 pm
AFTERNOON NETWORKING BREAK
4:15 pm - 4:55 pm
MASTERCLASS - Procurement Metrics that Matter
Warren Hallworth -
Director of Business Development,
GEP
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
4:55 pm - 5:45 pm CASE STUDY INTERACTIVE - The evolution of your function: How to leverage cognitive technology and reposition procurement as a self-service model Ciaran Owens - Global Procurement Technology Lead, Imperial Brands• How can collecting using cognitive procurement technology lead to successful digital transformation?
• How can encouraging self-serve deliver value to the business?
• How can self-service procurement evolve the way you buy?
• How can you change your procurement model?
TRACK A – Mastering Data, Cognitive Procurement & eProcurement
5:45 pm - 6:05 pm PRESENTATION eProcurement: How to integrate your team and end-users to ensure the smooth roll-out of your new eProcurement system Anton Shibanov - Contract Management Director, MTS• What does your digital transformation look like?
• How can you integrate your team and end users?
• How to simplify things for the category managers and the suppliers
• Start first with the process automation etc. and then move ahead to business partnering and modelling, digitalisation can help to think with the business and partners
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
4:55 pm - 5:45 pm CASE STUDY INTERACTIVE - How to better leverage collaboration from your internal stakeholders, procurement business partners and suppliers to create a more unified sourcing strategy Daniele Giorgi - Global Director of Procurement, Ferring Pharmaceuticals• How can you join up your categories to leverage innovation from suppliers?
• How can suppliers scale up their innovation to create a new standard?
• What infrastructure is being built to create a joined up approach?
• How can procurement influence stakeholders to drive initiatives here?
TRACK B – Advancing your Indirect Strategy
5:45 pm - 6:05 pm PRESENTATION The future of work: How to assess real estate investments to drive better performance and enhance value for your business Rob Alexander - CPO EMEA, JLL• How is the future of work driving procurement to make different decisions on how they treat real estate?
• How can your real estate drive value and better performance?
• How do you enhance user experience?
SYNERGY WORKSHOPS - Optimising your People & Engaging your Customer Limited to 30 attendees
4:55 pm - 6:05 pm Agile procurement versus Agile development: How can you adopt Agile principles to help drive collaboration and drive value faster? Lorna Brown - Head of Supply Chain Management, Sainsbury’s Bank• What cultural changes need to be driven within the procurement team and across the business to drive Agile?
• How can Agile enhance your team’s performance?
• How does Agile deliver better results to the business?
• How does Agile create better value and opportunities?
• How does Agile improve how you work with your suppliers?
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm
Transition to main room
New Frontiers in Procurement Tech
6:10 pm - 6:40 pm
TECH DRAGONS’ DEN - Get a sneak peek into the most innovative technology to see how it can help address your buying challenges and opportunities
Lukas Wawrla -
Co-Founder,
Archlet
Andreas Zimmermann -
Founder & CEO,
Mysupply
Emma Rees -
CEO & Co-Founder,
Deployed
6:40 pm - 7:40 pm
PROCURECON EUROPE 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY!
Your opportunity to relax and network with your peers whilst celebrating 20 years of ProcureCon!