There are two in-person events taking place this week in addition to the webinars and virtual events listed below. Procurement Leaders’ Americas Procurement Congress is taking place March 21st and 22nd in Miami, and Keelvar Konnect is taking place in Chicago.
If you are planning your procurement event schedule beyond this week, I recommend ‘How to Navigate Crucial Leadership Moments and Deliver Great Performance’ from the Harvard Business Review on March 30th.
And now for this week’s recommendations…
Conga: How AI can "and can't" help you with your contract management (World Commerce & Contracting)
March 21st, 11am ET
AI is being considered as a solution for nearly every business challenge… now including contract management. Join Tracy Cannon, Sr. Principal Solutions Engineer and IA Specialist at Conga, and Matt Tizzard, Director of Strategic Alliances at World Commerce & Contracting, for a review of the role AI might realistically be able to play in managing contracts in the near future.
Source to Growth 2023 (Art of Procurement, Opstream)
March 22nd, 11am ET
Art of Procurement is participating in two sessions at this one-day virtual event. I’ll be speaking about The Rise of Spend Control with Opstream CEO Lihi Lutan, and my colleague Helen Mackenzie s facilitating a panel of practitioners speaking about how you can ‘up your procurement game’ by ditching the bad and embracing the good. I hope you can join us!
Enabling Risk-Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains with Bristol Myers Squibb (SAP)
March 22nd, 11am ET
We don’t have much detail about this event, but I’m a sucker for a case study. Join Wayne Cheng, Director of Digital Capability Management and Supply Chain Planning at Bristol Myers Squibb, as well as Salil Kamat, Managing Director, SAP NA Supply Chain Planning Lead at Accenture, and Anna Linden, Global Head of Supply Chain Planning, Solution Management at SAP for a webinar with a lot of potential!