Day one

Day two

Day two – Wednesday 16 March 2022

Please note, all timings are in AEST

08:30 – 09:00

Registration/Platform login

09:00 – 09:10

Chair’s opening remarks

09:10 – 10:00

  • Megatrends suggest a booming post-pandemic future for Australia and New Zealand
  • The demographic profile of ANZ helps the region to prosper despite COVID induced migration decline
  • Markets and customer demands have changed during the lockdowns – some changes are here to stay
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Simon Kuestenmacher, Co-founder and Director, The Demographics Group

10:00 – 10:40

  • What are the challenges of bringing in the right people with the right skills and how do we ensure we retain talent?
  • Creating a culture that is attractive to new talent and younger generations
  • Developing training and succession plans to retain existing employees
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Mark Richards, Divisional Manager, Commercial Division, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Jacinta Taliauli, Procurement Manager, Ministry for Pacific Peoples

Luke Harrison, Head of Portfolios, Woolworths Group

10:40 – 11:10

  • Consider the ‘In-demand Skills’ within the ‘Future’ Jobs Landscape and the correlation with Procurement
  • Recognise how Neuroscience can enable optimised Talent, Culture & Performance 
  • Understand the relevance to Commercial & Relational Leadership & what you can do to develop further
Rob Halsall, Chief Procurement Officer, Transport for NSW

11:10 – 11:40

Morning break and networking

11:40 – 12:10

Breakout stream

Leadership and Capability

A4

  • Widening your leadership capability with political savviness and influencing skills 
  • Balancing business objectives with employee expectations 
  • Overcoming adversity and gaining trust from your people and stakeholders

Jodi Huebert, General Manager, Contracts and Procurement, INPEX

Brian Peirce, Director of Procurement, BGIS

Chair: Sharon Morris, General Manager, Australia & New Zealand, CIPS

Strategic Thinking

B4

  • Assessing how to improve your current sustainability initiative
  • Aligning sustainable supply strategies with business objectives 
  • How to implement new plans smoothly with minimum disruption to business

Noel Barrett, Senior Director, Contingent Workforce Outsourcing, APAC, KellyOCG

Wayne Giddings, Director Asset and Workplace Services, NSW

Chair: Giovanni Ferrante, Marketing Manager, CIPS

Data Analytics

C4

  • Learning how to assess the quality of your available data 
  • Getting a handle on your accessible data and knowing how to interpret it
  • Understanding how your data can be applied and utilised effectively

Rajat Sarna, Chief Procurement Officer, Vodafone New Zealand

Chair: Charlotte Payne, Head of Professional Body, CIPS

12:10 – 12:50

  • The power of listening and understanding whether our values were being experienced the same for everyone
  • Making the changes we needed to make to move quickly and decisively

  • Bringing this advantage to our marketplace

Sarah Abbott, Inclusion and Diversity Leader, Lion

12:50 – 13:50

Lunch and networking

13:50 – 14:30

  • Tackling modern slavery – formulating a plan of action to report and implement a best practice approach
  • Practising effective stakeholder management – overcoming adversity, managing expectations and gaining buy-in
  • Facilitating and promoting diversity and inclusion in your teams and set it as a top priority in your business’s agenda

Sharyn County, General Manager Procurement, Property and Fleet, Jemena and Zinfra

Joanne Kennett, Senior Manager – Social Procurement & Workforce Development, Transport for NSW

Martin Loosemore, Professor, University of Technology Sydney

14:30 – 15:00

For many years we have talked about ‘what’ is required and ‘how’ to engage with Indigenous and Māori businesses, but we now must have the conversation about the ‘why’:
  • Why do we need to have a prosperous and sustainable Indigenous/ Māori business sector?
  • Why facilitating economic equity through employment and business is crucial to the self-sustainability of the Indigenous and Māori communities?
  • Why is truth telling needed to ensure reconciliation is achieved?

Melanie Ahnau, Commercial Leader, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

Jodie Taylor, General Manager – Corporate Affairs, Supply Nation

Jarin Baigent, CEO & Co-founder, Trading Blak Nominee, NSW Aboriginal Women of the Year 2022

Chair:

Glenn Johnston, Director, Procurement & Business Support, Infrastructure NSW

15:00 – 15:30

Afternoon break and networking

15:30 – 16:10

For many years we have talked about ‘what’ is required and ‘how’ to engage with Indigenous and Māori businesses, but we now must have the conversation about the ‘why’:

  • Why do we need to have a prosperous and sustainable Indigenous/ Māori business sector?
  • Why facilitating economic equity through employment and business is crucial to the self-sustainability of the Indigenous and Māori communities?
  • Why is truth telling needed to ensure reconciliation is achieved?

Panellists:
Glenn Johnstone, Director, Procurement & Business Support, Infrastructure NSW
Melanie Ahnau, Commercial Leader, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment 

Nicola Nation, Chief Executive Officer, The Ākina Foundation

Duane Barber, CEO, IPC, Asia Pacific

Corinne Proske, CEO, Jobsbank

Malcolm Harrison, CEO, CIPS

16:10 – 16:15

CIPS closing remarks and close of conference

Back to day one

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Please note, the programme is subject to change without notice.