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Very well organized and a nice blend of business and pleasure.

The venue was amazing. With all things on-site you maximize participation. Food, service, rooms, vendors, participants, and speakers was well coordinated.

The panels and roundtable discussions were veryy valuable and informative. Especially those from the non-supplier procurement professionals since they helped me understand that some of the more complex issues I face are the same everywhere. I liked the fast paced and short presentations followed up by panel discussions. I thjink Wednesday was my favorite over all.

Normally people tend to leave (or not even attend) day three of the conference due to flights or perceived "lower importance" of day three speakers / topics. Those that did not attend day three of ProcureCon West 2016 really missed out. All speakers and topics were thoroughly enjoyed and I was pleasantly surprised how articulate and dynamic the speakers were, and how well they kept the audience's attention. Great job on the hardest day to do that!

Good content overall but I was not happy with the working session summary presentations session. They were all over the map from great to terrible. The working sessions I went to were OK but listening to the summaries of all of them again and the other ones was overkill. If the summaries are available online that should be enough if people are interested in the other working groups. As always it was hit or miss on almost every session I intended depending on the speaker. The blockchain guy, the retired gal from ISM (a moderator), Tom Nash from the Red Cross, and the CPO from eBay were all outstanding and I won't name the dullards but there were too many. I think you need to screen them a little more carefully but you have to make it easier to give feedback on them in real time to build the data you need. Maybe each session should have someone video it on a smartphone then just upload it to your Facebook or Twitter page then we rate those. You need online rankings for the speakers with or without video so you know who to invite back! Loved the resort this was at and the wild west casino! Overall 3.5-4 stars. Very good but much room for improvement.