Founding Member of FormIGA – the global Industry for Good Alliance
The Summit kicks off with the Launch of the GSA’s Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Leaders Forum. The Forum is exclusive to Buyers.
The Forum is a one hour long interactive session which will be followed by the GSA’s Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit, which is packed full of insightful content pertaining to sustainable strategic sourcing.
The Forum brings together sourcing and business professionals across the technology and business services industry to collaborate on addressing key challenges and developing new best practices, guidelines and thought leadership on key subjects, such as: agile sourcing, ESG across the supply chain, standard contracts, AI ethics, and supply chain diversity.
8.30 -9.00 registration opens
9.00 – 10.00 Launch Discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Networking break
Launch of GSA’s Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Leaders Forum
BUYERS ONLY
If you are passionate about the environmentally and socially sustainable buying and delivery of technology and business services, then you need to join us on 28 November at GSA’s Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit.
GSA’s Sustainable Strategic Sourcing Summit promises a content packed day full of insightful keynotes and inspirational panels.
View the full agenda here.
Here at the GSA, sustainable strategic sourcing is significantly broader and deeper than environmental sustainability.
Sure, it covers environmentally responsible sourcing, ensuring you work with service providers that work consistently to the greenest of practices.
It also involves social responsibility and sourcing partners that align to your own corporate sustainability goals. But paramount is to build partnerships that stand the test of time, building business resilience and minimising operational risk by looking at long-term value creation rather than focusing on immediate cost cutting, whilst being environmentally and socially responsible at the same time.
This specialist event has been designed to provide actionable insights and best practices to help you integrate diversity into your own supply chain strategies.
Our Masterclass will cover key topics, including:
The Launch of GSA’s Best Practice Guide on supplier diversity presented by Kerry Hallard – CEO, GSA and Founding Member of the Council for Supplier Diversity & Inclusion UK
• Corporate case studies, such as Accenture’s approach to supply chain diversity - Peter Zerp, Global Supplier Inclusion and Sustainability, Accenture
• Developing RFPs to be inclusive for neurodiverse individuals - Edina Da Silva, Co-Founder & CEO, NeuroSpecial
• The future possibilities for supplier diversity and how legal cases in the US may influence social value adoption in the UK and beyond - Jason Roberts, Founder, Kaleida
• Unique opportunity to hear programmes of work and collaborative initiatives from leading NGOs including, Maggie Berry, Out Britain Representative; Jaxx Nelson, UK and Ireland Market Lead, WeConnect International; Reshma Sheikh, Managing Director, MSDUK
• The diverse Service Provider’s perspective, Farida Gibbs, CEO, Gibbs Consulting
If you’ve got global teams, then you’ve got a cultural alignment problem. We can fix this. How? The CAT programme.
What is it?
CAT is a performance improvement programme for global teams that identifies, then removes, cultural barriers to success.
The Introduction to CAT workshop:
Join us to hear our predictions for 2025 based on the outputs from the GSA- Global Sourcing Association workstreams, the discussions across the membership community and feedback.
