The 7th CIPSA Annual Conference - Day One Programme

Day One – Wednesday 12^th October 2011

Time	Session	Speaker & Status
7.30-9.00am	Registration Arrival Tea & Coffee
9.00 – 9.20am	Risky Business: Procurement’s role in securing supply side value in the New Normal · Conference programme summary – Risky Business 2011	Jonathan Dutton FCIPS Managing Director, CIPS Australia
9.20 – 9.40am	Official welcome from CIPS · Welcome to the 7^th CIPSA Annual Conference · Serving the profession as a global Institute · “Seizing Today, Embracing Tomorrow” CIPS President’s theme for 2011-12	Peter Rushton FCIPS, President, The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS UK)
9.40 – 10.10am	Opening Keynote – Managing Risk in a Two-speed Economy	Alan Kohler, Business Commentator
10.10-10.40am	An assessment of excellence in Australasian procurement. · The results of the ATK-CIPSA quadrennial AEP survey 2011 · The state of the art in Australian procurement excellence · Benchmarking globally : How do we rate ‘down-under’?	Carrie Ericson Vice President A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytic Solutions (USA)
10.40 – 10.45am	Managing your conference · Conference housekeeping · Understanding the programme · The 5^th Procurement Professional Awards dinner 2011	Nigel Wardropper, Event Director, CIPSA Conferences
10.45 – 11.30am	Refreshments at the Purchasing Exchange
11.30 – 12.30pm	Seminar Stream 1
12.30 – 1.30pm	Buffet Lunch served in the Purchasing Exchange
1.30 – 2.30pm	Seminar Stream 2
2.30 – 3.30pm	Seminar Stream 3
3.30 – 4.00pm	Refreshments at the Purchasing Exchange
4.00 – 4.40pm	Building a better procurement function The role of innovation in securing supply in a volatile world · How the ‘new normal’ alters the concept of value · P2P Transformation through Cloud Computing · Leveraging emerging markets · Balancing process and structure with flexibility	Scott Singer MCIPS, CPO, Rio Tinto
4.40 – 5.25pm	How to step up to change Change often presents both challenges and opportunities. Over Pessimism or over Optimism are undesirable. · How to think more like an optimist · Learn to better understand the different personality types in a team · The one word that we need to expunge from our vocabulary	Dr Patrick McCarthy
5.25 – 5.30pm	Launch of ‘THE SUPPLY SIDE’ on www.pponline.com.au Closing remarks	Jonathan Dutton FCIPS Managing Director, CIPS Australia
5.30 – 6.45pm	Networking Cocktail Function in the Purchasing Exchange
6.45 – 7.00pm	Delegates move from Crown Conference Centre to Crown Palladium
6.45 – 7.30pm	Pre-Dinner Cocktails at Crown Palladium	^{Kindly Sponsored by}
7.30 – 10.30pm	The 5^th CIPS Australasia Procurement Professional Awards Dinner	^{Kindly Sponsored by:}
10.30pm - ??am	After Party at JJ’s