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Showcase time frames were very limited and scattered and overlapped with meals and rest breaks. Attendees had little interest in meeting with exhibitors given limited timeframes and their need to eat and refresh. We will not be attending this show going forward

This request for response and review of the conference is a major reflections of your conference. This appears to be the minimum effort approach. If you would like direct and honest feedback, ask direct and probing questions.

This was not a procurement conference. For procurement practitioners to talk with other procurement practitioners. This was a conference designed for marketing sales teams to try and sell to some procurement practitioners. It would be one thing if the suppliers on site were Marketing Sourcing suppliers, meant as tool kits for Procurement teams (which there were a couple such as Right Spend) but the the vast majority were the suppliers that are trying to find inroads to companies where procurement is the gate keeper and are constantly flooded with annoying sales outreach every single day that is non value add. To be put in the same room as them and give them a huge opportunity to try and annoy and pitch their product for marketing teams was both non-value add and a great missed opportunity for people to come together, learn, and network. There was even procurement bashing as on attendee put it on the main keynote stage, giving sales teams a megaphone to complain about procurement process and RFP and the only 2 sourcing people on stage were not even there to defend themselves or the wider procurement community.

I have changed roles within my company an have informed your organization MANY times of this but yet you still continue to come to me for your tradeshow related activities.

conference was too small