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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Time

Activity/Topic 

4:00-7:00pm

Registration
Essex Ballroom Foyer, Third Floor

5:30-7:00pm

Welcome Reception
Staffordshire, Third Floor

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Time

Activity/Topic

7:00am-5:00pm

Registration/Information Desk
Essex Ballroom Foyer, Third Floor

7:00-8:15am

Customer Connect Breakfast
Essex Center/South Ballroom, Third Floor

8:30am-12:30pm

General Session - America Ballroom Center/South
Fourth Floor

Welcome, Opening Remarks and
Company Update

Patrick D. Quirk, President and CEO
Emptoris, Inc.

Anglo American Customer Keynote

Susan Lasecki-Coiro, Head of Global Supply Chain Strategy and Performance, Anglo American

Customer Connect Break
America Ballroom Foyer, Fourth Floor

Executive Panel Discussion

Kevin McCafferty, Chief Procurement Officer
Qantas Airways

Ken Gottesman, Vice President, Procurement Services
Time Warner

Phillip Duncan, Chief Procurement Officer
Novartis

Jon Good, Director of Solutions and Risk
Management (SRM), Hewlett-Packard

Moderated by: Craig Doud, Vice President, Customer Loyalty, Emptoris, Inc.

Keynote Address

Tom Davenport, President's Chair in Information Technology and Management, Babson College

"What's Behind the Curtain"

Terrence Curley, Senior Vice President of Development and Product Operations, Emptoris, Inc.

Greg Iaquinto, Director of Product Management, Emptoris, Inc.

12:30-1:30pm

'Birds of a Feather' Networking Lunch
Essex Center/South Ballroom, Third Floor

1:45 -2:35 pm

Strategic Sourcing Product Update
St. George A/B, Third Floor

Jeff Robbins, Sr. Director, Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Contract Management Product Update
America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Lalitha Balasubramhanya, Director, Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Telecom Expense Management Product Update
Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

Hector Nevarez, VP TEM Product Management
Rivermine Emptoris, Inc.

Spend Analysis Product Update
St. George C/D, Third Floor

Bill DeMartino, Director of Supply Management Solutions
Emptoris Inc.

Vijay Chougule, Associate Product Manager
Emptoris Inc.

Services Procurement Product Update
Parliament/Adams,7th Floor

Aditya Burman,  Product Manager, Emptoris Inc.

2:35-3:20pm

“Tackling the Bottlenecks in Your Enterprise”
How Technology and Consulting Services Can Help
Optimize Your Process – Cardinal Health Customer Story

America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Patrick Eckhert, Director, Indirect Procurement
Cardinal Health

David Perla, Co-CEO,  Pangea3

"Emptoris Request and Program Management"
Linking Applications and Business Processes Together,
and Managing the Lifecycle of Major Category Initiatives,
Projects and Requests
Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

Greg Iaquinto, Director of Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Walter Krupinski, Product Manager
Emptoris, Inc.

“Emptoris Supplier Lifecycle Management 101”
Introduction to Emptoris Supplier
Lifecycle Management

St. George A/B, Third Floor

Bill DeMartino, Director of Supply Management Solutions
Emptoris Inc.

Heiko Schwarz, Director of Sales, Supplier Lifecycle Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Business Case for Services Procurement
St. George C/D, Third Floor

Jim Holbel, Practice Executive Services Procurement
Emptoris, Inc.

Sue Ann Leone, Senior Vice President, Business Development
ZeroChaos

Rivermine Clarity Boot Camp
Parliament/Adams,7th Floor

Kathy Dunaye Smith, Director, TEM Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

3:20-3:50pm

Customer Connect Break
America Ballroom Foyer, Fourth Floor

3:50-4:40pm

"Emptoris Supplier Data Management 101”
Introduction To Emptoris Supplier Data Management

Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

Greg Iaquinto, Director of Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Walter Krupinski, Product Manager
Emptoris, Inc.

“It’s All in the Contract”
How Regulatory Reform Impacts You
Blue Care Network of Michigan Customer Story

St. George C/D, Third Floor

Cathleen McPhail, Director of Provider Network Contracting
Blue Care Network of Michigan

Jill Torok, Manager – Provider Affiliation
Blue Care Network of Michigan

“Getting a Grip on Exploding Enterprise
Mobility Costs” – How to Manage the Exploding Rate
of Corporate Devices
Fannie Mae Customer Story

St. George A/B, Third Floor

Maurice Greene, Sr. Project Analyst, Fannie Mae

Building the Case for Better Management
of Your External Relationships
America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Brian K. Umbenhauer, Principal, Supply Chain and Operations
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Heiko Schwarz, Director of Sales, Supplier Lifecycle Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Emptoris Suite Reporting Boot Camp
Parliament/Adams,7th Floor

Bob Jamison, Senior Director
Product Management, Emptoris, Inc.

4:45-6:45pm

Free Time
Check your email, shop, meet a friend, get some fresh air!

6:45-7:30pm

Customer Appreciation Reception
Please join Emptoris employees and our Partners as we celebrate you, our valued customers!
America Ballroom Foyer, Fourth Floor

7:30-9:30pm

Customer Appreciation Dinner and Show
Sponsored by Deloitte
You won't want to miss tonight's entertainment!
America Ballroom, Fourth Floor

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Time

Activity/Topic

7:00am-3:30pm

Registration/Information Desk
Essex Ballroom Foyer, Third Floor

7:00-8:15am

Customer Connect Breakfast
Essex Center/South Ballroom, Third Floor

8:30-9:45am

General Session - America Ballroom Center/South
Fourth Floor

ABB Customer Keynote

Oliver Lawrenz, Group Vice President, SCM Technologies and Processes, ABB

Platinum Sponsor Keynote - Deloitte Consulting

Brian K. Umbenhauer, Principal, Supply Chain and Operations, Deloitte Consulting LLP

9:50-10:20am

Customer Connect Break
America Ballroom Foyer, Fourth Floor

10:25-11:10am

“Sustainable Supplier and Risk Management"
Siemens Customer Story

St. George A/B, Third Floor

Michael Villwock, Vice President Procurement Systems and Tools
Siemens AG

Martin Berr-Sorokin, SVP, GM Supplier Lifecycle Management
Emptoris, Inc.

"Contract Management Best Practices"
Getting the Value from ECM – Panel Discussion
America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Bridget Bilodeau, Contracting Program Manager, GE Healthcare

Martyn Hilton, Contract Management and eSourcing Systems
Nortel

Leslie Morgan, Contract Compliance, McKesson

Brian K. Umbenhauer, Principal, Supply Chain and Operations
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Moderated by: Lloyd Alexander, Strategic Solutions Director - ECM
Emptoris Inc.

"Delivering Value through and Integrated
Suite with Pro-active Compliance"
– Anglo American Customer Story
St. George C/D, Third Floor

Paula Jackson, Supply Chain IM Manager
Anglo American

Jessie Nadar, Logistics Build and Run Manager
Anglo American

Business Case For Telecom
Expense Management
- Customer Panel
Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

Rocky Perkins, Sr. Manager Communications Engineering
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Maurice Greene, Sr. Project Analyst
Fannie Mae

Kristina Ross, Director, Global Telecommunications Services
Boeing

Moderated by: Hector Nevarez, VP TEM Product Management
Rivermine Emptoris, Inc.

Qualification Boot Camp
Parliament/Adams,7th Floor

Heiko Schwarz, Director of Sales, Supplier Lifecycle Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Jeff Robbins, Sr. Director, Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

11:15am-12:00noon

"How Mobility Transforms Enterprise Productivity
and Delivers a Goldmine of Savings"
Boeing Customer Story
St. George A/B, Third Floor

Kristina Ross, Partner Management Specialist
The Boeing Company

Strategic Sourcing Best Practices:
Accelerating User Adoption – Panel Discussion

St. George C/D, Third Floor

Robert Bowen, Global e-Sourcing Coordinator, Alcatel-Lucent

Arnold Bynum, Project Manager-eSourcing, Abbott

David Lane, Sourcing Director, Rent-A-Center

Saurabh Mehta, Senior Manager, Process & Technology
Time Warner

Moderated by: Sean Correll, Senior Director Consulting Services
Emptoris, Inc.

Performance Benchmark of Best Practices
in Strategic Supply Management
America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Craig Doud, Vice President, Customer Loyalty
Emptoris, Inc.

Jennifer Cantino, Customer Loyalty Manager
Emptoris, Inc.

Business Case for Enterprise
Contract Management

Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

Zach Barber, Manager, Knowledge Management
Cardinal Health

Scott Mars, Solutions Consultant
Emptoris, Inc.

Supplier and External-party Evaluation and
Development Boot Camp

Parliament/Adams, 7th Floor

Heiko Schwarz, Director of Sales, Supplier Lifecycle Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Jeff Robbins, Sr. Director, Product Management, Emptoris, Inc.

12:00-1:00pm

Customer Connect Lunch
Essex Center/South Ballroom, Third Floor

1:05-1:55pm

“Driving Significant Cost Savings by
Leveraging Powerful Telecom Expense
Management Strategies”
Sodexo USA Customer Story
St. George A/B, Third Floor

Rob Ingalls, Senior Manager of Telecommunications, Sodexo USA

Maryann Wiertel, Wiertel & Associates

“ROSMA® — Measuring and Communicating
the Return on Supply Management Assets"

St. George C/D, Third Floor

Marc Hochman, Vice President & Partner
A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytic Solutions

Craig Doud, Vice President, Customer Loyalty
Emptoris, Inc.

Business Case for Strategic Sourcing
of the Sacred Categories
America Ballroom North, Fourth Floor

Wayne Evans, Head of Procurement Americas, DHL

Richard Breese, Senior Managing Consultant
Consulting Services, Emptoris, Inc.

“Rolling out and Expanding Services
Procurement Programs to Continually
Drive Value” – Best Practices on
Successfully Expanding Services
Procurement Programs into Multiple
Categories and Countries
– Hewlett-Packard Customer Story

Essex Ballroom, North West, Third Floor

John Wallace, Solutions and Risk Mitigation
Hewlett-Packard Global Procurement

Expediting Signatures and Managing
Commitments Post Contract Execution

Parliament/Adams, 7th Floor

Lalitha Balasubramhanya, Director, Product Management
Emptoris, Inc.

Oliver Sabitsana, Senior Manager, Services
Emptoris, Inc.

Nina Yuan, Senior Manager, Technical Services
Emptoris, Inc.

2:00-2:50pm

General Session - America Ballroom Center/South
Fourth Floor

American Express Customer Keynote

Robin B. Shahani, Senior Vice President, Global Business Services and Chief Procurement Officer, American Express Company

Customer Award Ceremony

Mark Logan, COO
Emptoris, Inc.

Craig Doud, Vice President, Customer Loyalty
Emptoris, Inc.

2:50-3:30pm

Closing Cocktail Reception
America Ballroom Foyer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme Key
Intelligence
Decision
Value
Building a Business Case
Master Classes
Product Key

Emptoris Contract Management

Supplier Lifecycle Management

Emptoris Sourcing

Services Procurement

Spend Analysis

Emptoris Suite

Rivermine Telecom Expense Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme Key
Intelligence
Decision
Value
Building a Business Case
Master Classes
Product Key

Emptoris Contract Management

Supplier Lifecycle Management

Emptoris Sourcing

Services Procurement

Spend Analysis

Emptoris Suite

Rivermine Telecom Expense Management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theme Key
Intelligence
Decision
Value
Building a Business Case
Master Classes
Product Key

Emptoris Contract Management

Supplier Lifecycle Management

Emptoris Sourcing

Services Procurement

Spend Analysis

Emptoris Suite

Rivermine Telecom Expense Management

 

 

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