Northern Ireland Procurement Conference

An agendaNi event

The Northern Ireland Procurement Conference recently took place in the Europa Hotel, Belfast on Thursday 24th March. The event brought together over 180 procurement professionals who gained an insight into what effective public procurement means for organisations in Northern Ireland. Expert speakers included, Sharon Smyth, Construction and Procurement Delivery, Linda O’Hare, Business Services Organisation, Lindsay Maguire and Ed Green, Cabinet Office, Hugh Carr, Scotland Excel and Karen Rodgers, Farrans Construction. A massive thank you to our conference exhibitors, speakers and delegates who joined us and made the conference a huge success.

An expert panel of local and visiting speakers will look at issues including:

The changing legal framework for public procurement;
Creating social value in procurement;
Procurement across the health sector;
Green procurement: Becoming more resource-efficient;
Transforming public procurement in the UK;
The impact of Covid-19;
Supply chain resilience and innovation;
Effective local government procurement;
Procurement as a strategic and innovative function;
Digital procurement transformation;
Procurement across the education sector;
Procurement to construct critical infrastructure.

Who should attend?

The Northern Ireland Procurement Conference, alongside hearing expert speakers and taking part in in-depth Q&A sessions, presents the opportunity to network with those involved in procurement throughout Northern Ireland. Procurement professionals and those working in other advisory roles from organisations across the public, private and voluntary/community sectors will be at the conference, including:

Chief Executives / Executive Directors
Board members / Non-Executive Directors
Purchasing officers / managers
Compliance officers / managers
Finance Directors
Legal and financial advisors
Other procurement professionals