Start

14.00

Delegates are able to log on at the start time for the event on the Procurious platform using the Join with Zoom button

14.05

Openers - Welcome by Roundtable Chair, Tania Seary, Founder of Procurious

• Agenda Overview
• Rules of play for making the most of the roundtable

14.10

The Warm-up – Quick-Fire Intro

A quick-fire introduction to Roundtable participants

• Name
• Role and Organisation
• What is your favourite sport?

14.25

Credit Crunch – What Happens When the Music Stops?

Chris Lynch, Former CFO, Rio Tinto & BHP and David Ketchin, Managing Director of Europe, The Hackett Group

Every government on earth is printing money. What happens when all the quantitative easing stops? What Procurement needs to know now…

14.40

Team Huddle

An important part of our Roundtable ethos is to build relationships and a peer-support network for our senior leaders.  In this session we break into smaller groups to focus on the following questions:

• Question 1 – what is your strategy for managing the relationship with Finance
• Question 2 – what are the current financial imperatives for your organisation. What are you doing about it?

15.00

Feedback from the Groups

15.15

Sledging – Why Words Matter in Diversity & Inclusion: Panel Discussion Div Pillay, CEO & Co-Founder, MindTribes and Miles Rose, Commercial Director at SweetSpot Group 

After England lost in the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, online abuse was targeted at three Black players, Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho. This incident reveals a larger societal problem of racism in sports and online. Div Pillay (CEO & Co-Founder, MindTribes) will share why #culturallydiversewomen need to bring their bring their different thinking and working styles, international experience, creative problem solving to #reimagine futures. and will ask the question, "what are leaders of #CDW doing to create safe and inclusive spaces for these women to thrive and lead?" Miles Rose (Commercial Director at SweetSpot Group) will share ways major sporting bodies are working to combat harassment and racial abuse online.

15.35

Tea break

15.45

Team Huddle

In this session we will be building the issues forward that we’ve been discussing during the day 

▪ Question 1 – What is your current return to work plan (if there is one)?

▪ Question 2 – How are you building and nurturing a diverse & inclusive team?

16.05 

Feedback from the groups

16.15

Playing to Win Nasser Hussain 

A British cricket commentator and former cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003. A pugnacious right-handed batsman, Hussain scored over 30,000 runs from more than 650 matches across all first-class and List-A cricket, including 62 centuries. His highest Test score of 207, scored in the first Test of the 1997 Ashes at Edgbaston, was described by Wisden as "touched by genius". 

16.40 

Wrap Up and Close 

Chair will draw the event to a close and summarise key insights and takeaways from the day. 

16.50

End of day