Mastering negotiations | Improving cost transparency | Enabling agility

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While agility and speed progressively determine the success of business in the age of digital transformation, new technologies and new licensing and pricing models represent increasing challenges for organizations across all industries. The IT Procurement & Sourcing Summit brings together more than 100 IT sourcing, procurement, finance and vendor management decision makers from leading European companies to discuss effective IT Procurement strategies, exchange experiences on most successful negotiations and vendor relationship tactics and learn how to re-organize processes to enable agility of their organization and achieve better business outcomes.
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"Do not give two pennies for that which is too dear by one."

Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 - 1801), philosopher and writer from Switzerland

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KEY TOPICS

Sourcing strategies and governance – Developing effective strategies to optimize the sourcing and supply of IT services and products in an increasingly changing technology landscape

Best in class approaches to identifying relevant emerging technologies and supporting the business balancing speed with acceptable risk

Transforming IT procurement processes to increase speed, agility and cost optimization

Rethinking and adopting new IT finance strategies for budgeting and exposing hidden IT costs

Redefining the role and value of sourcing in a rapid-paced, agile and competitive business environment

Cost optimization – Gathering insights, understanding the business needs, improving cost transparency and lowering operating costs

Negotiating better deals for IT services, software, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and hybrid infrastructure

Successfully using dynamic price benchmarks and achieving business objectives with data-backed negotiations

Enabling SaaS transparency from Adobe to Zoom: How to identify savings potentials and optimize SaaS cost at speed?

Vendor management – Designing and implementing the ideal operating model for managing your vendor ecosystem to reduce vendor risks

Implementing a Vendor Performance Management Program to optimize vendor performance

SaaS Governance – Defining and understanding who is responsible for decisions on new purchases, contract negotiations, onboarding, and off-boarding of users in the context of SaaS

Innovation vs. costs – Improving collaboration between IT and IT Procurement to drive digital business

Build vs. buy in the age of digital transformation – From full outsourcing to a selective multi-/service tasking or even back to insourcing and building in-house IT services

RPA and intelligent automation meet IT Procurement – Progressing efficiency with automated processes

From renewal alerts and IT asset visualization to contract management – Identifying the best tools for effective IT Procurement

we.HAVE PARTNERS

IT Procurement & Sourcing Europe is a leading event in the business & technology world because of our relationship with our partners. Our aim is to support our partners to reach their targets and inspire innovation. This vision is shared by a select group of partners at our highest quality events with the most elite audience.

Position your business as a thought leader at the IT Procurement & Sourcing Summit Europe. Join our partners today!

THE EVENT AT A GLANCE!

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ALL INCLUSIVE EVENT PASS

€ 3.249

PREMIUM EVENT PASS

€ 2.749

STANDARD EVENT PASS

€ 2.549

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