Event Agenda

    A powerful lineup of global CPOs and procurement experts are ready to help you prepare your procurement operation for the decade ahead
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    • Day 1

      November 16, 2021

    • Ardent Partners' Chief Research Officer welcomes the audience to the Digital Summit and sets the stage for this power-packed 2-day conference.
      Introductions

    • Despite everything that has happened over the past two years, CPOs and their teams continue to make a major impact. They continue to drive great value. They continue to rise. CPOs today have greater visibility into the future and a greater ability to impact and change it than ever before. In this panel, three Best-in-Class CPOs will share their successes, strategies, and plans for 2022.Set against the backdrop of increasingly complex global challenges, unprecedented supply risk, and transformational shifts in the global workforce, Ardent Partners’ sixth-annual CPO Rising Summit brings together forward-thinking CPOs and procurement leaders to discuss, examine, and debate the strategies and solutions that will transform the profession in the 2020s.
      Panel

    • The pinnacle event of CPO Rising, the CPO Honors Awards Ceremony is a momentous occasion for procurement professionals to be recognized for their achievements in the profession, their contributions to the industry, their leadership, and their teamwork. Cheers!
      Keynote

    • Day 2

      November 17, 2021

    • Major technological change does not simply pervade the modern world, it has come to define it. Today’s blistering pace of innovation makes it difficult to predict how procurement teams will communicate, collaborate, and transact ten years from now, much less the tools that they will use to do so. This panel of three technology experts will share their views and expertise on the topic.
      Panel

    • Ardent Partners' Founder & Chief Research Officer, Andrew Bartolini, believes that procurement in 2030 will be radically different than it is today. Join this session to hear how. If you think the last decade brought dramatic change to the procurement profession, buckle up because you ain't seen nothing yet!
      Keynote