The 2026 agenda delivers the latest technology, strategy and leadership insights across seven key topic areas, covering the challenges most critical to CPOs, heads of IT sourcing, procurement, vendor and supplier management, and their leadership teams. Explore 2026 conference topics.
Track A. Leadership and Functional Design
As procurement navigates significant volatility and shifting enterprise expectations, the importance of leadership effectiveness and influence has never been higher. This track explores how to maximize effectiveness through functional redesign, optimized operating models, robust governance, and strategic talent alignment.
Track B. Cost and Value Optimization
In today’s dynamic business environment, procurement leaders must deliver sustainable value while navigating cost pressures and rapid technological change. Procurement leaders are challenged to move beyond short-term cost-cutting to focus on long-term value creation, risk mitigation, and strategic impact. This conference track provides practical strategies and tools to help leaders not just cut costs but also transform procurement into a key driver of enterprise value.
Track C. Risk Management and Resilience
In an era marked by escalating disruptions, geopolitical uncertainty, and rising cyber threats, today’s procurement leaders must manage unprecedented supplier and vendor risk. Organizations must proactively navigate a complex landscape where threats can emerge from any corner of the globe, impacting supply continuity and business operations and performance. This track equips procurement leaders with the strategies, tools, and insights needed to anticipate and mitigate risks and threats, while ensuring organizational resilience, fostering agility and improving decision making that enforces a competitive advantage.
Track D. AI and Technology Innovation
Procurement leaders must be prepared to navigate the whirlwind of innovation resulting from artificial intelligence and emerging technologies as it is crucial to increase strategic value. Forward momentum is harnessed by exploiting technology to boost productivity and improve strategic decision-making, while addressing legacy systems and data challenges. This conference track will explore enabling procurement teams to be embedded in their organization’s success through strong data governance, targeted use cases, organizational readiness and fostering AI and data literacy for effective and sustainable AI adoption.