ProcureCon Facilities Virtual Event

Live Interactive Zoom Roundtable discussion led by a ProcureCon Facilities Partner. These 50 minute Zoom discussions will allow you to interact and engage with your peers in a small group setting. Please note, You’ll ONLY be able to attend ONE roundtable

1. Table hosted by EMCOR

2. Your Facilities Have Surplus – What Should You Do With It To Achieve Significant Savings And Cost Avoidance

3. Transforming An Office Space; Meeting Your Needs During The Pandemic

4. Lease vs Buy vs WFH; A Conversation Around What To Do With Your Space

Live polling questions

Ryan Kulp – Program Director, ProcureCon Facilities

With return to work well under way, how many employees are actually back in the office? How much new furniture do you need? Where are you analyzing your spend? There’s been quite a significant change over the last few months, and the next few months are difficult to pin down too. This panel will aim to help you target cost saving areas of opportunity to save in this new normal we’ve found ourselves in by covering a variety of topics. Now more than ever, companies must be aware of their spend, strategize how to reduce costs and continue to maintain safety for their employees. 

Topics may include:

-Mapping out plans for return to work and dealing with lingering pandemic at you facilities

-Investing in your organization (technology, office furniture, janitorial, UV lighting, etc)

-Safety requirements/cleanliness

-Cost for GC services for construction

Moderator: Mark Baxa – President, Fernia Creek LLC

Alicia Beck – Strategic Sourcing & Procurement, Freddie Mac

Marilyn Biscotti – Senior Strategic Sourcing Consultant, Auto Club Enterprises

Wes Rester – Senior Manager – Global Procurement, Asurion

Fadi El Mouallem - Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing, Saleforce

Join us for a 1-1 conversation with Jennifer Ahrens with Intel, to learn about how Intel has been leveraging data and analytics to proactively identify risk and eliminate it early on in the process when it comes to construction. This strategic approach will be gone over in detail as we learn about the complex technologies invested in the supply chain (especially during thee pandemic)

Jennifer Ahrens - Director, Integrated Facilities Technology Sourcing, Intel Corporation 

Agreements with suppliers will need to be renewed. Contracts Adjusted. Where do you start to find the value? Starting from the top, we’ll compare how budgets have been impacted, where they’ve been impacted and what is changing. Short term length, quick termination clauses, moving 90 day to 30 day out on your clauses, three year deal down to one, we’ll do everything to jam pack this session with different ideas you can take and most importantly, negotiate with you . We’ll examine contracts you have in place and ways you need to rework them to ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. 

Joseph Pendergast - Global Commodity Lead - Facilities Management, Philips

Reserved for Party City

You’ve decided to proceed with an IFM program…but is it the right move, and how can you help ensure its success? Moreover, how do you define “success”? We’re told that by implementing an IFM program you’ll create a more streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective way to handle your facilities management under one consolidated solution, but is it that simple? There are times that things don’t work the way you envision after you sign on the dotted line. This panel will explore the times an IFM model has worked well (and why), the times it hasn’t (and why) and the grey areas in between.

-Safety and Cleanliness #1 priority (COVID protection temperature/thermal reading)

-Outside suppliers

Paul Roessler - Senior Facilities Construction Manager, LAM Research

DeAnna Henry - Indirect Categories Purchasing Manager, Barilla America, Inc.

Jeffrey Dill - Vice President Enterprise Facilities, Energy, and Asset Management, Party City

Representative from EMCOR

This panel conversation will focus on learning from panelists who have started to, or have laid the foundation to create a program that includes diverse suppliers and sustainability initiatives. The conversation will have an outward focus on how to find diverse suppliers in the facilities space, and push towards diverse use of different spend tiers. We’ll then shift over to sustainability initiatives to learn about what is being done to go green. Green roofs, solar panels, recycled furniture, janitorial suppliers… Are you paying more to do the right thing, and sometimes even paying the same or less for sustainability.

Mike Knievel - Senior Director, Procurement - Gilead Sciences