CIPS Australia Annual Conference 2006
Venue: Crowne Promenade Hotel
Event Date/Time: Oct 17, 2006 | End Date/Time: Oct 18, 2006 |
Description
With 78 out of the top 100 most profitable companies* in Australia having CIPS Australia members within their procurement teams, this event will bring together some of the country’s most sought after professional experts with a combined spending power of many billions of dollars.
The Conference program will offer cutting edge insights and fresh perspectives, ideas and practices in line with the Conference theme – “Innovation in Procurement”.
The new CIPS Australia-Portland Group strategic procurement benchmarking research will be unveiled to delegates on day two.
A mix of plenary and streamlined seminar sessions are on offer to delegates and day one will include an invitation-only Chief Purchasing Officer [CPO] stream. Key note speakers from major Australian organisations and speakers from both the UK and USA feature. The guest speaker at the conference dinner on 17th October is Jeff Kennett, former state premier for Victoria.