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It seems like a good conference for the attendees, but from a vendor perspective it's just okay. Not as much interaction with the attendees as advertised. The venue was mediocre -- lacking in coffee, water, silverware, etc Seemed to always run out fast. The venue seemed scrambling to meet the demands of the event which is surprising since it's a large hotel and host a lot of events. The key is to sponsor a breakout session and have a speaking engagement...which equals big $$'s, which a lot of vendors wouldn't be able to do.

I thought the content was lacking. A bit stale and not innovative.

Hi I thought the conference was well organized. From my perspective and advance skill level, I did not necessary learn anything new. I did confirm that I am following the same challenges as others. This was good along with the networking. For me, most of the presentations were too high level and did not provide the depth and detail that I was looking to obtain and / or more dialogue-exchange with my peers on a particular topic/constraint/challenge. 20 minutes for a presenter is not a whole lot of time to get into details / lessons learned. Perhaps adding more time to the dialogue would be a help.

I thought the conference was ok. I believe the content and topics were very appropriate. It was apparent that much time and effort was dedicated to put the conference together so no concerns on that part. My concern is around the amount of involvement in the conference from supplier partners. I thought it was great that there were booths set up which provided the opportunity to talk with suppliers. The networking events that suppliers put together were fruitful as well. I do no believe that suppliers should have been as heavily involved in the sessions and workshops. A few of the workshops I sat in became more of a sales pitch as opposed to sourcing/procurement best practices or industry information. I even sat through a workshop that was led by a Procurement Director. During the workshop, there were suppliers sitting behind me who were discounting everything the presenter was saying and said that all his strategy is doing nothing but slowing the business down from getting what they need (which I completely disagree with). I even heard the supplier partner say: "since all the procurement folks are here, we should probably be meeting with the business teams to sell since procurement wouldn't be in the way". All in all, the conference was put together well with appropriate topics. In my opinion, suppliers shouldn't be presenting or attending the workshops.

It was produced poorly. the venue was too small and cramped, the schedule was poorly organized and could have been spaced out better. I was uncomfortable and cramped most of the conference. I did enjoy the speakers and the vendors booths and will likely attend again.