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