On Wednesday this week (September 30th, 2020), the two founders of the Procurement with Purpose website (and movement), Mark Perera and Peter Smith, are participating in a session on the topic during the Vizibl Collaborate 2020 virtual conference.
Vizibl is the software firm founded and run by Mark, previously one of the founders of Procurement Leaders, and the line-up for the event is very impressive, with big name speakers such as Marcel Vollmer (ex SAP CPO and now a partner at BCG), Clive Heal, Detlef Schultz from Vodafone and many others from academia, the consulting and solution provider worlds plus top procurement execs.
Peter will chair the session, which is titled Procurement with Purpose – Looking into your supply chain to make a world of difference. As well as Peter and Mark, the discussion features two of our previous interviewees here – Deborah Dull and Nandini Basuthakur, both really interesting and informed speakers (click on those links to read our full interviews).
We’ll be talking about Deborah’s personal passion around the circular economy and circularity as both a way of thinking and a practical tool to drive environmental gains – and business performance. Nandini is the CEO of Procurement Leaders, so has better access to the world’s leading CPOs than pretty much anyone else we know. So she will be talking about how those leaders are turning the concepts of procurement with purpose into real, tangible actions – and how they are “selling” such programmes internally and to their own supply base.
The overall theme of the Vizibl event is collaboration, and we’ve seen the relevance of that in many of our procurement with purpose success stories featured in previous interviews. Making gains in areas ranging from deforestation to human rights almost always involves multiple parties, firms and often government bodies too. The whole world of business purpose and sustainability relies on effective collaboration to move forwards, so there is a real link there with the event’s wider themes that we will also discuss.
The event really does look good – and it is free to practitioners, so do sign up here. It runs from 2 – 5pm UK time, with parallel streams, and our session is at 1610 (UK time). We hope to see and hear some of you then!