08.00

Coffee & Registration

08.45

Chairman’s Opening Address

 Thomas Scheiwiller, Global Head of Sustainability, PricewaterhouseCoopers

09.00

Taking The Lead In Sustainability: How Procurement Can Drive The Green Agenda

• How purchasing and suppliers can contribute to growth and not only to savings (bottom line) - an example of an environmental procurement initiative that has (already) contributed on the sales of its company
• Is procurement best placed to take the lead in sustainability initiatives?  Understanding how procurement has a strong role to play and effectively becomes becomes a risk manager, focused on understanding monitoring and collaborating with suppliers
• Identifying industry sustainability case studies on how procurement has identified waste, eliminated costs, improved efficiency, and increased innovation with suppliers
• The wider corporate responsibility agenda – how do you also incorporate ethical and moral issues into your procurement plans?

09.40

The Green-Lean Supply Chain

• Learn about the latest thinking within Lean Procurement & Supply Chain Management
• How can Lean Supply Chains also be made green?
• What are the eight green wastes and how do they combine with the eight lean wastes?
• How do you go about mapping green-lean Supply Chains?
• How do you balance environmental and economic priorities?
• Can you achieve a genuine win-win in green-lean?

Professor Peter Hines, Chairman, Lean Enterprise Research Centre and Professor of Supply Chain Management, Cardiff University

10.20

Mid Morning Coffee

11.00

 Implications For The Corporation - The Economics Of Climate Change

• The City of London's leading commercial think-tank has completed a $15 million, two year, 20 organisation, 780 page research project into the economics of climate change, The London Accord – what were the main findings, and what are the main implications for corporations?
• What practical steps can procurement take as a result of these findings?  Examining key issues such as the measurement of a corporation’s climate impact, air and travel alternatives, sustainable procurement options, and logistics chain reductions
• Key take aways for procurement – how you can promote market solutions that make business sense

11.40

Leveraging Technology To Accelerate And Maintain Your Sustainability Initiatives

• Understanding the importance of spend visibility and supplier measurement tools in putting in place an effective sustainability agenda – quantifying how this makes a difference when you get it right
• Examining the role of technology in supply and contract management strategies – the specific tools and solutions that help you better manage your sustainability initiatives
• What measures best in class companies are implementing around people, process and technology to scale up their sustainability initiatives

Caroline Booth, CPO, Lloyds TSB

12.20

Lunch

13.30

Interactive Roundtables - Your opportunity to join interactive focused discussion groups on key topics, including:

Developing A More Environmentally Friendly Supply Chain – Hosted By Dino Marcozzi, Head of Major Projects Procurement, Enel

Sustainable SRM Opportunities And Challenges – Hosted by Laurent Jehanin, Group Vice President Purchasing, Safran

Insights From Akzo Nobel, #1 On The Dow Jones Sustainability Index – Hosted by Ton Geurts, CPO, AkzoNobel

Other Roundtables include: Reverse Logistics As A Tool To Improve The Impact Of Your Carbon Footprint; Sustainability In the FMCG sector – Opportunities and Challenges; Integrating Supplier Diversity Into Your Sustainability Agenda; Collaboration Opportunities – Working Effectively With Suppliers, NGO’s And Other Organisations 

14.30

Implementing A Sustainable Procurement Programme: Practical Measures That Add Ongoing Value – A Case Study From The Hospitality Industry

• How NH Hotels put in place creative plans to reduce the consumption of water and work with new more environmentally friendly materials – starting with small steps and making a big difference
• Implementing the ‘green’ supply chain – how to locate, assess and manage a sustainable and commercially viable green supply chain for a decentralised and geographically and culturally diverse company
• Communicating sustainability initiatives internally – how to engage internal stakeholders and management

Pedro Martinez, CPO, NH Hotels

15.10

Afternoon Coffee

15.40

 Future Proofing Your Supply Chain

• Collaborative supplier engagement
• Identifying waste  through a carbon lense
• Accelerating supplier  innovation
• Understand climate change risks and opportunities

Nigel Topping, Head of Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project with Member Client

16.20

Panel Discussion: In Difficult Economic Conditions, Will The Sustainability Trend Fall By The Wayside?

• When times get tough, do sustainability and green procurement initiatives drop off company’s radars?  Are we fair weather friends, or is this trend now more deeply ingrained into company’s agendas? 
• How can procurement ensure that sustainability is sustainable – how to embed any initiatives into commercial and business strategy
• Which sectors, companies and procurement departments are leading the way in sustainability and green procurement?  What can we learn from them?
• Is it true that being proactive on the environment helps to make your function attractive to talented people whose choice of employer is now in part determined by its ethical credentials?
• What current or upcoming legislation is there that will impact the need for a sustainability agenda?

17.00

End of Focus Day