| MVI Congress | ||
| (Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Inkopen Congres – Dutch National Annual Sustainable Procurement Conference) | ||
The MVI Congress will run all day and will continue with the EcoProcura Conference in the afternoon. | ||
| 11:00 - 14:00 | Registration Open | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (Vegetarian): Food for thought | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Plenary 1: Welcome and setting the scene | |
Participants will be welcomed to the 10th EcoProcura Conference and will join with the MVI Congress participants. | ||
| 14:30 - 15:50 | Plenary 2: Making your procurement more strategic: What does this mean in practice? | |
The European Commission released a communication aimed at carrying out public procurement more efficiently and sustainably in October 2017. As the current procurement agenda pushes towards using procurement more strategically, what does this mean for procurement as a function within organisations and economies? | ||
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Refreshments and Networking | |
| 16:20 - 18:00 | Breakout Sessions | |
| Participants may explore specific procurement topics of their interest through dynamic formats. | ||
| 18:00 - 19:15 | Welcome Reception | |
| An evening of networking, drinks and canapés (location to be confirmed). | ||
| 19:15 | Nijmegen Tours | |
Details to be announced soon. |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | Plenary 3: Cultural and behavioural change: How to make friends and influence people | |
| Perhaps the biggest hurdle to increased sustainability and innovation in procurement is empowering the people who need to make it happen. How can you ensure to get buy-in from colleagues; the correct procedures are in place; and the support mechanisms enable procurers to think and act more strategically? | ||
| 10:40 -11:10 | Refreshments and Networking | |
| 11:10 - 12:50 | Market Lounge 1 | |
| The Market Lounge provides a place for sharing tools, presenting good practice, procurement processes, research, projects and initiatives. At roundtables a contributor will present their topic and will have three 30 minute slots. Each slot includes a 10 minute presentation followed by 20 minutes of questions and discussion. | ||
| 12:50 - 14:00 | Lunch (Vegetarian): Food for thought | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Breakout Sessions | |
| Participants may explore specific procurement topics of their interest through dynamic formats. | ||
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Refreshments and Networking | |
| 16:10 - 17:30 | Plenary 4: Disruptors and game changers | |
| An opportunity for procurement practitioners to propose radical ideas to take procurement into a strategic future in a timed presentation. The format will be a competitive session, with all attendees voting for the best idea. | ||
| 17:30 | Close of Day | |
| 19:00 | Official Dinner and Procura+ Awards Ceremony | |
| **Evening includes the 2018 Procura+ Awards ceremony, celebrating the Sustainable Procurement of the Year and Procurement Initiative of the Year** |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Plenary 5: Procurement Confessions | |
| Embrace lessons learnt in order to procure more intelligently. Public authorities are offered a space to openly talk about mistakes and challenges and how they turned the experience into a positive one, which can be just as valuable as good practice cases. | ||
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Refreshments and Networking | |
| 10:50 - 12:20 | Market Lounge Round 2 | |
| The Market Lounge provides a place for sharing tools, presenting good practice, procurement processes, research, projects and initiatives. At roundtables a contributor will present their topic and will have three 30 minute slots. Each slot includes a 10 minute presentation followed by 20 minutes of questions and discussion. | ||
| 12:20 - 13:10 | Plenary 6: Procurement: What’s next for procurement? | |
| This plenary will bring together all the key discussions and ideas from the conference and look at how we can make it happen in reality. | ||
| 13:10 | Lunch (Vegetarian): Food for thought | |
| Afternoon | Study Tours | |
| Details to be announced soon. |