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Great conference. My only suggestion for next time is to have multiple microphones available for questions so that the person with the mic does not have to be running across the room.

Great converge of procurement leaders and real estate practitioners. Would love to see some deeper dives, some further segmentation in breakouts (office v. manufacturing; US v. Canada v. rest-of-world), and broader participation by suppliers with new, innovative, and battle-tested solutions for us to consider.

I think the networking opportunities were excellent. One suggestion for the future is more flexibility around timing of segments. Good Q&A seemed to get started in different panels but then was cut off due to time. Hotel accomodations were great!

The conference highlighted some significant topics being addressed by all companies today. There were some presentations that highlighted break through approaches to Sourcing in today's world. Very impressive!

In all I think the event was a success given that this was the first one done for direct in quite some time. With that said, areas to improve would be some of the content to be less focused on a tool/company and more on the process/data. I thought the Newell Brands presentation blended the two very nicely, but some of the risk companies that spoke were quite focused on selling a product as opposed to speaking to leaders in sourcing. I also enjoyed the panels a lot, but wish there was more time for questions. The more interactive roundtables were also enjoyable. To summarize, interacting more with the members as opposed to the companies was what I found to be the most enjoyable and thought provoking.