Victoria Folbigg
Chief Executive Officer CASMEDay 1 | 22nd September
2:50 PM Panel: Elevating Supplier Relationship Management: How can you shift from a price-focused mindset to collaborative partnerships that deliver long-term value and resilience?
- How can you strengthen strategic supplier relationships to build resilience against Middle East disruption and prepare for future geopolitical crises?
- How can you digitise and optimize supplier management to deliver measurable strategic benefits and enhance supplier engagement?
- How can you shift focus from purely price to technology stack assessment, AI capabilities and innovation to scale with partners and co-create value?
- How can you combat procurement losing leverage with suppliers to retain control in negotiations?
Day 2 | 23rd September
12:05 PM Keynote Interactive Polling Panel: Sink Or Swim: How can you balance speed, control and pressure to protect margin and outpace volatility?
- How to decide where to hold the line and where to adapt when faced with war, tariffs, disruption, and competing business priorities?
- How to balance speed, control, and stakeholder pressure when there is no perfect data or clear answer to ensure decisive action?
- How to redefine procurement's role as a strategic advisor to the business during periods of sustained uncertainty?
3:15 PM Panel: Reinventing Procurement’s Partnerships: How can you move from transactional buying to value-orientated procurement to deliver value for the business?
- How can you redefine success beyond cost to prioritise margin impact, continuity of supply, and speed-to-market?
- How can you influence demand planning and make-vs-buy decisions to create value upstream rather than reacting downstream?
- How can you collaborate with suppliers to co-innovate, accelerate growth, and deliver measurable business outcomes?
Day 3 | 24th September
11:40 AM Keynote Fireside Chat: Rebuilding Talent for the AI Era: How can you redesign, roles, capabilities and team structures to scale value without increasing headcount?
- How do you redesign roles and capabilities, so humans focus on influence and value creation while AI handles execution?
- How can you embed AI and human intelligence into everyday procurement decisions to increase procurement's value add?
- How are you moving from training programmes to talent systems that continuously evolve skills, careers, and ways of working to develop the next generation of procurement professionals?
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