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I have attended ProcureCon IT for the past five years and always found it beneficial to my profession. I love the opportunities to network with my colleagues across industries and to learn about the "hot" topics we must address well to excel in Strategic Sourcing. Because there were some leadership changes leading up to the conference, logistics were not as well managed as in the past. Several conference attendees had to book rooms at other hotels as there were not enough rooms blocked. There were too many IT staffing vendors involved, and there were overly aggressive. I have no qualms about putting a vendor in their place, but would prefer to not have to do that at a conference. Some of the speakers did not seem to be well prepared, so if you can monitor the quality of the presentations/speakers, I think that may help. One vendor, Rimini Street, was self promoting, which was contrary to the guidance I saw you give to presenters. I really appreciate Michael Shaw highlighting the contributions of women and for promoting the organizations that help to further IT Strategic Sourcing as a profession. For next year, will you please add the ability for speakers to co-present? For example, for workshops I think it would be great to have more than one person to go table to table. I also suggest making the workshops run one hour as we ran out of time for mine. Thank you.

As a new comer to the Procurement world, this conference was incredibly informative. Everyone was very welcoming and encouraging. I great conference that I took a lot away from. Already looking forward to next year!

Was a very good conference and enjoyed the experience. There were a lot of general themes across the board which is to be expected. That being said I think it could be condensed to 2 days to limit some of this to avoid overlap or repetitiveness.

Lead Procurement Analyst

As usual, ProcureCon delivered...I came away from another event with a few nuggets of inspiration / ideas / new suppliers to consider.