You've spent years honing your skills and building expertise as a strategic supply management and enterprise contract management professional. Our prior speakers and presenters still talk to us about the sense of accomplishment and enjoyment from their prior engagements at Empower. There is still time to share your experience and knowledge by submitting a proposal for consideration as a presenter at Emptoris Empower 2011.

Why Should You Present at Emptoris Empower 2011?

• Broaden your network among other Emptoris customers
• Have an opportunity to showcase your knowledge and expertise among your peers
• Gain peer recognition as an industry expert
• Be exposed to prospective clients, partners, and thought leaders in your industry
• Have your conference fee waived

Audience: Attendees are primarily mid to senior-level management and executive-level professionals across industry sectors.

Types of Presentations: 2 to 3 sessions will be held concurrently each conference day. Sessions will be approximately 45 minutes in length. Participants typically prefer interactive formats with a Q&A segment to lecture formats.

Sessions may be presented in a variety of ways to encourage interaction, such as:

• Round Table - A facilitator encourages the sharing of information within and among groups.
• Panel - A small group of presenters shares information with the audience, which might be asked to offer their views.
• Lecture or similar style presentation.

Session Topic Areas:  Sessions may fall into but not limited to the following topical areas:

• Controlling Risk
• Creating Sustainable Results
• Delivering Competitive Advantage
• Maximizing Trading Relationships
• Spend Analytics
• Sourcing
• Contract Lifecycle Management
• Services Procurement
• Supplier Risk Analysis

The Call for Presentations deadline is Friday, June 25, 2010. The review and selection process will take approximately 2 weeks. You will be notified via email on Friday, July 9, 2010 as to your proposal's status. Chosen presenters will be given a deadline to submit their final presentation of Friday, August 27, 2010.

Please contact Lori Webber at lwebber@emptoris.com to submit a proposal for consideration.  Lori will provide you with an overview of submission guidelines and help to answer all of your questions.