Gartner Sourcing & Strategic Vendor Relationships Summit 2017

Date: 22-May-17 to 23-May-17
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel / London / United Kingdom
Category: IT Technology Conferences & Trade Fairs

The Gartner Sourcing & Strategic Vendor Relationships summit will help you to identify disruptive technologies and emerging ecosystems, understand how to source emerging required skills and services and how to engage with new types of unknown providers. We will show how bimodal sourcing strategies support cost optimization as well as digital business innovation and how to mitigate risk while maximizing business opportunities. The event will give you new practical guidelines and tools to manage an increasingly complex ecosystem of vendors with new metrics to create the right behaviours, reduce risk and achieve the expected business outcomes. Advanced sessions will explore the potential of disruptive technologies such as Blockchain, Intelligent Automation Services, Cognitive Computing and Artificial Intelligence as well as the growing business concern for Cybersecurity that sourcing executives must address now.
This summit provides sourcing, procurement and vendor management leaders with ‘how-to’ foundations ,best practices, emerging strategies and next practices to be a trusted business advisor and an high-performance business partner to drive sourcing to the core of digital business.
Experience our unique mix of strategic and innovative thinking, practical advice, up to date market analysis, case studies and a unique opportunity to network with Gartner analysts and hundreds of industry peers.

Book now to secure your place.
*Ask the Analyst sessions
*Negotiation Clinics
*Senior Leaders programme

Have to be booked in advance of arrival.

Early bird expires March 24th, 2017!

Exhibitors

Stefan Hyttfors, Rob Geraghty, Claudio Da Rold, Alan Stanley, Cathy Tornbohm, Chris Ambrose, Daniel Barros, David Groombridge, Denise Rueb, Ed Weinstein, Fabio di Capua, Frances Karamouzis, Gianluca Tramacere; Gilbert van der Heiden, Joanne Spencer, John P Morency, Luke Ellery, Magnus Bergfors, Neil Barton, Roberto Sacco, Tom Scholtz, William Maurer

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