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Hi - I thought that the first half of the first day was not valuable at all.

Director, Procurement

I felt it was more directed to and useful for a $1-7M ( small-med) companies.

1. To value participant time, procureInco should more experience and true leaders from Fortune 100 company to speak.Speakers from Uber, Google and international game company do not show much experience and value. Some of the speakers or panelists are not very seasonable. The true leaders are speakers from Dell and Dupont. 2. Work session should be elimiated

The topics were similar from prior conferences, would like less "success story" type topics and more engaging conversation. Best break-out was a roundtable on small procurement teams - it was an hour long and we could have talked for 3+ hours. Others, the moderators just asked the panel questions and the audience had no chance to engage. The final day, we were having a good roundtable discussion that was supposed to last an hour - and it was abruptly cut short at 30 minutes and the conference ended. The little touches were missing. The food at the event was not very good - especially the "boxed lunch". There was sparkling water available for only about 4 hours at the beginning of the conference, then never again...just not what you'd expect for such an expensive event. I'm a little tired of the booth set up exhibitor halls - there has to be a more engaging way to find out what products and services are new and relevant without having to walk to every booth. It'd be nice if ProcureCon could think of a way to evolve this for procurement...we get so many sales pitches, we need help cutting through to relevant content. A roundtable lead by a GPO was actually a pretty engaging conversation between them and those at the table.