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Overall the conference went well for us. I feel the setup for the Solutions Zone was not optimal. Being in a separate room and in the back, I feel the traffic was not as heavy as last year but we were active and engaged with a lot of people through the ProcureCon App which works great and were able to drive some people to come visit us and met some interesting people/companies we hope to eventually start servicing. The Attendify app was a fiasco. It was unclear and complicated to setup so I wasted valuable time trying to figure this out to end up scanning 2 leads. That's $170 per lead scanned. I plan on requesting a refund for this but if you can help, that would be appreciated.

Venue (Hyatt) was not very good - rooms were poorly laid out. solutions floor was very poorly laid out. Not well attended.

As my first time at ProcureCon, I loved being able to network with other Procurement professionals. I did, however, wish we had more time with only practitioners, and that there were fewer suppliers. This made it difficult to speak candidly about experiences and recommendations.

Too many phishing emails and calls from the vendors prior to, during and after the conference. The afternoon sessions were less informative than they were sales pitches, not really appreciated. Eating outside in the height of the sun where the food was melting was a really poor idea.

I enjoyed the learning tracks more than the general assembly discussions. I would suggest a couple of things: 1. Have fewer tracks and dedicate more time to each track. Each time the group started to get into robust discussions, the time was up and we needed to move onto the next track. 2. Have your tracks scheduled in the mornings, the attendance as I witnessed was poor as people were tiring from a long day of events, and chose to skip tracks that they may have attended in the morning.