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I was disappointed with the number of presentations that were more like sales pitches. Almost all of them were really just companies pitching their products. Same with the networking time. Also, I wish there was a lot more round table time. That was the most valuable for me.

The conference is a good conference for new procurement professionals only. A lot of the information provided was high level and repetitive

Overall, the Conference was geared towards sales pitches, and or entry level IT Procurement professionals. The one bright spot, was Brad from Walmart who spoke for ~20 minutes on the impact of NTEs/Renewal costs.

Some of speakers were very good other..very weak...monotone, no procurement professionals (engineers/architect's etc.) future presentation....need real life experiences the Walmart, ACE, DELL/EMC the Woman narrator all GREAT, other very weak not sure you ever took the time to actual talk to these folks and see what is relevant to procurement and what I would like to see in these seminars...was disappointed this yr :(

Several topics were low on the procurement maturity curve. The round table brainstorming sessions were inappropriate for a conference and appeared more of a filler. The professor,s presentation was poor.