Conference Day Two
02 May 2018
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08:30 Registration and welcome coffee
08:50 Opening remarks from the Chair
Ben Tulloch, Sourcing, Procurement & Supply Chain Services Lead ANZ, Accenture
THE WINNING FORMULA FOR LEADERSHIP AND TEAM-BUILDING
09:00 OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Delivering on procurement leadership in a dynamic and evolving marketplace
- Fine-tuning your procurement strategy
- Building the team and leadership skills set
- Mapping a future with less process, better insights and seamless engagement
Kimberley Dripps, Assistant Director-General and Chief Advisor of Procurement, Qld Department of Housing and Public Works
09:30 CASE STUDY: Strengthening your global procurement expertise
- Drawing on an energetic, collaborative and people-focused business
- Delivering on transformational project support
- Nurturing a supportive working environment where staff can trial, grow and deliver to their full potential
- Boosting your strategic procurement teams and stakeholder relationships
Sarah Cook, Group Chief Procurement Officer, Coca Cola Amatil
10:15 Morning tea
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND IMPACT ON PROCUREMENT CHOICES
10:45 Tackling your procurement pain points in a dynamic, fast-changing and technology-led marketplace
- How do you innovate and transform your procurement programs?
- What are the unique challenges and opportunities in a high-tech marketplace?
- Which technologies will impact your industry outreach, including data analytics, shared services, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud?
- Why prepare your organisation for current and emerging technologies to deliver organisation-wide efficiencies?
Karen Lay-Brew, Managing Director, 3Pillars Digital, & President & Chair, Australian Business Software Industry Association
11:15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Leveraging artificial intelligence for forward-thinking procurement
- How will cognitive procurement technologies help make the right purchasing choices?
- What’s the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to assess suppliers, manage performance, tackle risk, and ensure compliance?
- Can AI tools be utilised throughout your organisation?
- Why build your teams’ AI, analytics and data science capabilities?
- What benefits do AI skills sets deliver in a procurement context?
Moderator:
Michelle Robinson, Manager Procurement Contracts and Supplier Relationship, Department of Justice
Panellists:
Karen Lay-Brew, Managing Director, 3Pillars Digital, & President & Chair, Australian Business Software Industry Association
Mary Sabin, Technology Advisory - AI Lead A/NZ, Accenture
Lynn Penny, Group General Manager, Procurement, Mirvac
Angela Donohoe, Chief Information Officer, BPay
12:00 Networking lunch
13:00 CASE STUDY: Managing payment systems with innovative technology platforms
- Building high-quality and innovative payment services
- Calibrating technology, governance, risk management and information security
- Managing the architecture, solutions and operations to deliver high-quality services
Angela Donohoe, Chief Information Officer, BPay
MOVING BEYOND TRANSACTIONS INTO STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIPS AND SUSTAINABLE PROCUREMENT
13:30 CASE STUDY: Building a more environmentally sustainable supply chain
- Why environmental sustainability is a key goal for supply chain managers
- How environmental sustainability links directly to the bottom line by reducing operational costs, securing new customer revenue and improving business performance
- What’s the outlook for sustainable recycling?
Sandra Nagels, Head Of Procurement, Corporate Centre, Finance & Commercial Services, Australia Post
EMBRACING DIGITAL DISRUPTION TO BUILD A TECH-SAVVY ECO-SYSTEM AND 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE
14:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: How digitisation will make the supply chain more efficient, agile and customer-focused
- Tapping into a connected, smart and highly-efficient supply chain ecosystem
- Leveraging suppliers’ digital networks for the timely delivery of products and services
- Building your inventory of digital procurement
Moderator:
Natalie Budovsky, Group Director, Macquarie University Group
Panellists:
Sandra Nagels, Head Of Procurement, Corporate Centre, Finance & Commercial Services, Australia Post
Jonathan Dutton, Director, JD Consultancy
Christian Bloomfield, Partner, FutureYou
14:30 CASE STUDY: Attracting millennials into the procurement career track
- Do tech-savvy millennials see procurement as a ‘sexy’ profession?
- How do you move past the clunk factor to make procurement attractive for millennials?
- What’s needed to attract ambitious young stars into the fold?
- Which strategies work for a younger, more nomadic, and discerning workforce?
Chontelle Kelly, Supply Chain NextGen Graduate, Nestlé
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:15 Assessing the Department of Defence’s transformation journey for commercial reform
- How the Department of Defence implemented a commercial reform programme
- Establishing a Commercial Centre of Expertise
- Building commercial capabilities through professionalisation of the procurement role
- How to become a “smart buyer”
- Progress made to date and lessons we have learned along the way
Victoria Bergman, First Assistant Secretary, Procurement and Contracting - Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, Department of Defence
KEEPING PROCUREMENT ETHICAL – WHY CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY MATTERS
15:30 Building the business case for ethics and probity for procurement
- Managing supplier accreditation and diversity under the ISO 20400 guidelines
- How do we define ethical business relationships?
- What are the core values and commitments that drive ethical procurement?
- Who monitors relationships and outcomes between all parties?
- Which checks and balances work best and why, including corporate and regulatory reforms?
- Why is boardroom and ‘C-suite’ participation important in building trust?
Michelle Robinson, Manager Procurement Contracts and Supplier Relationship, Department of Justice
16:00 Aligning business transformation with a coherent, actionable, and highly-effective team
- Building the skills set and qualifications for your teams
- Offering a career track that moves past silos into personal growth and new opportunities
- Assessing the (magic) ingredients for individual and team success
Shae Howard, ICT Category Director; IDG Policy & Innovation, NSW Department of Finance, Services and Innovation
16:30 PANEL DISCUSSION: Moving beyond cost-savings and commercialisation into corporate social responsibility
- Is corporate social responsibility an oxymoron in the procurement and supply chain context?
- How do we align corporate social responsibility with highly-commercial business models?
- Can we place a price and value on socially-responsible procurement?
- Why does corporate governance, transparency and visibility matter?
- What’s needed to fast-track your sustainable and socially-responsible procurement programs?
Moderator:
Jonathan Dutton, Director, JD Consultancy
Panellists:
Kate Harris, CEO, GECA
Lucia Schiavo, Manager, Contracts & Procurement, Commercial Services, Actew AGL
Maggie Friday, Procurement Manager, Anglicare SA
Karen Walker-Jones, Assistant Director, ICT Contracts and Procurement, Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
17:15 Closing remarks from the Chair
17:25 End of Day Two and close of conference