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National Sustainable Procurement Conference


18 – 19 September 2008Sustainable Procurement
Hilton Hotel Brisbane

Held only every two years, you will not want to miss Australia’s ONLY conference dedicated to sustainable procurement.  If you are committed to introducing sustainable policies and practices into your organisation or you are a supplier to government or large corporations this conference is a ‘must attend’ for 2008.

Meet Australia’s own environmental celebrity, Tanya Ha as she guides you through the fourth National Sustainable Procurement Conference (formerly National Buying Green Conference).

This year’s conference brings you experts from around the world who between them have a wealth of experience in sustainable procurement.  Keynote addresses include:

  • Barbara Morton, Senior Procurement Advisor, UK Government
  • Ms Maria Atkinson, Global Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease
  • Joe Kremer, Managing Director and Vice President, Dell
  • Tony Hawthorne, Global Procurement Manager –Sustainability and Risk, Fosters Group
  • Christopher Browne, Senior Operator, New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development

For more information on the program, registration and exhibition spaces please visit the official conference website www.sustainableprocurement.com.au

 

Download the full conference brochure here.  

The 4th CIPS Australia Annual Conference - Melbourne

14-15 October 2008

Crown Palladium, Melbourne

The Winning Formula

CIPSA 4th Annual CIPSA Conference – Programme out now

The Winning Formula
Plans are finalised for the 4th annual CIPS Australia conference to be held at Crown Towers, Melbourne on 14-15 October 2008.

The theme for this year’s annual event is ‘The Winning Formula’. The conference will focus on exactly how procurement can gain true stakeholder buy-in to the profession’s wider contributions through genuine goal alignment in an ever changing and ever more challenging complex world? And not just through saving real costs.

Last year’s annual CIPS Australia conference addressed the question ‘It’s not just about cost’ – which begged the question: ‘What is it about then?’ Each keynote speaker addressed a different aspect of the benefi ts professional procurement can increasingly bring organisations.

This year, each keynote speaker will address their definition of ‘The Winning Formula’ for procurement to succeed in addressing the much tougher perennial question facing procurement managers today; exactly how to win genuine stakeholder buy-in, and keep it, in a changing world that is becoming more difficult to manage by the day.

The 4th CIPS Australia annual conference will be the biggest and best yet offering an unparalleled learning and networking opportunity for all levels of the profession. It will include:

  • Nine international quality key note speakers, including IBM global CPO, John Paterson.
  • 24 seminar presentations including four short CPO Agenda Masterclass seminars.
  • Four additional sessions after the main conference.
  • Professional development surgery for individuals.
  • Procurement Professional awards dinner, featuring new CIPS CEO, Simon Sperryn.
  • ‘The Purchasing Exchange’ trade exhibition with 50 exhibitors expected.
  • Learning and networking with more than 500 procurement colleagues.
  • The CIPS professional development surgery is for individuals to discuss their own circumstances privately with 15 minute appointments available to meet a member of the CIPS team.
  • Tuesday evening of 14 October will feature the Procurement Professional annual awards dinner, with 10 awards to be presented including the prestigious ‘CIPS Leadership Award’ to be presented by the new CIPS CEO, Simon Sperryn.
  • And ‘The Purchasing Exchange’ trade expo of support services to the profession will have even more than the 43 organisations that exhibited last year.


CIPS Australia’s managing director, Jonathan Dutton said, “Last year 560 people attended our annual conference, but this year we are hoping for even more. We would like to make it the largest professional procurement event in the world.”

This event will seek to define ‘The Winning Formula’ for success for the modern procurement manager often battling the reluctance of their organisation, the skepticism of colleagues and the ‘slings ‘n’ arrows’ of a changing world business environment. It will also redefine the greatest formula of them all: E=MC² but just for the procurement profession.

Download the conference brochure here.


For more information visit www.cipsaconferences.com.au

 

PP Awards Evening - 14th October 2008 - Crown Palladium

Procurement Professional Awards 2008 – Entries due August 15Early Bird Awards Brochure

If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to submit your entry for the CIPS Australia Procurement Professional Awards 2008 – time is running out!

Sponsored by Blue Star Print Group, Kelly Outsourcing & Consulting Group, Rio Tinto Procurement,  Michael Page Procurement & Supply Chain, Comensura, and ProcureNet, these awards represent a new way to demonstrate best practice, recognising the best people the profession has to offer and the best procurement practices in place by innovative organisations.

Highlighting the direct and wide ranging benefits of the procurement contribution, this recognition benefits both individuals working in the profession, as well as their organisations and stakeholders.

Award categories for 2008 include:

 

 

Sponsor collage

Click here for tips on entering.

The full printed version of the Awards application is out now and the final deadline for all entries is 15 August 2008. So get started working on your entry NOW as there will be no extensions this year!  If you would like a copy of the brochure sent to you, email your request to marketing@cipsa.com.au

 

Download the full brochure here.

For more information and details of how to register visit the PP Awards page here.