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AIvolution: Procuring Tomorrow

 

'AIvolution' is a must-attend, one-day event bringing together public sector
CPOs from across the UK to explore new ideas and gain practical skills that help you work together to achieve common goals.

 

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Catered Networking

C-Level Attendees

Reasons to attend

Join us as the CPO Forum explores the future of procurement and how leaders can get ahead – from early AI projects to streamline procurement processes or service delivery, encouraging innovation in the supply chain, and better use of data to inform day-to-day procurement decisions.

Hear from some of the trailblazers in the Procurement and Local Authority communities, demonstrating how AI and data has revolutionised ways of working. 

This event is the perfect opportunity to learn, grow and collaborate on potential solutions with like-minded procurement professionals who want to drive change in their local authority and beyond.  

The venue

Belle Epoque Room, Hotel du Vin, Birmingham, Church Street, Birmingham, B3 2NR

Travelling by rail

From Birmingham New Street Station, walk west then turn right towards Stephenson St. Turn left onto Stephenson St, then right onto Lower Temple St and continue onto Temple St. Finally, turn left onto Church St and the hotel will be on the right. 

Moor Street, Snow Hill and Five Ways stations are also all within a ten-minute walk.

Agenda for the day

Laura Lee, CPO Advisory Chair and Head of Procurement, Place & Corporate, at Essex County Council, will introduce today's session

Spendkey’s Alex Grundy will showcase what is possible with AI in Procurement currently, with some of the leading thinking around auto-generating Business Cases and RFQs. Delegates will come away from this session with some new skills and practical applications of AI that can change their business practices from today.

AI will undoutedly play a big part in our future but where should we start when it comes to adopting AI and supporting our colleagues? This session, hosted by Seb Burrell from Trustmarque, will focus on immediate and near applications.

Oxygen’s Debbie Lyons will showcase how the Oxygen Insights data can be used to benchmark council performance against peers – delegates will get the opportunity to see where they rank, to see where the Forum attendees fall from a market perspective and get a taste of supplier dependency reporting. 

A topic of interest in our most recent virtual forum; Mark Reddy from OneAdvanced will host an open discussion, sharing feedback and findings as we prepare for the upcoming changes.

In this session we will demonstrate how data can improve supplier engagement and rebate performance within your programmes. Michael Page from Newcastle City Council will share their experience and advice.

Our Awards will celebrate success within Early Payment. We'll also share plans for future events.
Closing remarks for today's session.

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