Tentative Agenda posted. Pending potential additional sessions and OMES CEU Submission and Approval
Thursday, November 6th
7:00 AM to 9:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast - Presented by OpenGov
9:00 AM - Keynote Session with Trish Kordas
- Trish Kordas is a proven Human Resource Executive with over 20 years of progressive experience. She has a true passion for driving positive company culture through enhancing the employee experience. Her mantra is #GivePlaySlay, and she lives this out any chance she gets. She believes that when teams serve their community, put the fun in everything they do, and are dedicated to doing it exceptionally, they succeed. From Strategic Planning and Succession Management to Policy creation and Employee Relations, she possesses the breadth of expertise needed to help cultures thrive. She has an enthusiasm for developing talent and creating flourishing cultures where people want to Be, Grow, and Stay!
11:00 AM - NIGP BUSINESS COUNCIL: A Layered Approach to Securing Your Organization’s Environment - Dave Wetzel, Canon Solutions America
- Help protect your organization from security risks, data breaches and malware attacks. Learn how Canon Solutions America's 5 pillars of security can help you mitigate those risks.
12:00 PM - Lunch - Presented by GovDeals
1:00 PM - Breakout
Ballroom: Collaborative Procurement in Action: Unlocking Regional Value Together - Dan Ross, GovSourcing: Procurement success doesn’t happen in isolation. When agencies, suppliers, and partners come together at a regional level, the benefits go far beyond contract access — they include shared insights, stronger relationships, and collective problem-solving.
Meeting Room 1: Build It and They Will Come...And Stay! Creating a Workplace Culture for Innovation, Productivity, and Sustainability - Trish Kordas
2:00 PM - Reverse Trade Show
- In this roundtable exercise, we invite suppliers to meet with agencies in a collaborative discussion on trends in the world of procurement. This is an opportunity for all involved to discuss what issues may exist in supplier relationships and how we can better serve our agencies.
3:30 PM - Break
4:00 PM - NIGP Business Council: Building Your Cooperative Purchasing Strategy presented by Ryan Duncan -Public procurement practitioners will learn how other public agencies have leveraged cooperative purchasing to save time and taxpayer dollars while remaining in compliance with applicable public procurement requirements. Cintas Corporation, OMNIA Partners, and National Cooperative Procurement Partners will share several examples of how public agencies win utilizing cooperative contracts.
6:00 PM to 9:00 PM After Hour Event
Friday, November 7th
7:00 AM to 8:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM -
General Session - Let's Get Cooking with Cooperative Procurement, Tammy Rimes, NCPA
- This brand-new presentation, set up like an HGTV cooking show, will compare cooking with developing a good cooperative procurement recipe! Sharing key ingredients for conducting due diligence, with a pinch or two of insights into how good procurement teams use these contracts. Favorite recipes and cooking tips will be tied into cooperative purchasing strategies. Fun and interactive, this cooking show will include a cooperative, a supplier and a public procurement chef, along with a fun cooking quiz with prizes. Bon Appetit!
9:00 -
Break
9:15 AM - “Back to the Future” - Public Sector Purchasing/Response Trends - David Kidd, GOVMVMT
10:15 - Break for Hotel Checkout
10:45 AM - NIGP BUSINESS COUNCIL: Procurement’s role in managing disaster recovery risk, Shelley Vineyard, DRS -Procurement plays a critical role in managing risks across all phases of disaster recovery. While traditional areas of procurement risk such as supply chain disruption and onboarding alternate sources of supply come to mind, procurement also has a role to play in assessing risk and in mitigating planning, communication and compliance risk. Join DRS as we expand your view of the touchpoints with others in your organization during disaster recovery and introduce tools to assist in managing risk through all recovery phases.
11:45 AM - “The Many Costs of Procurement” (soft and hard cost of procurement and how to calculate) - David Kidd, GOVMVMT
12:45 PM - General Session and Closing Comments