Jeff Danis

Vice President of Strategic Sourcing
Pinnacle Entertainment Inc

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Day 1: Monday, September 15, 2014

Monday, March 9th, 2015

17:00 Interactive Roundtable Discussions (2 rotations)

After a busy day of active listening, keynotes and networking, take control of your own event experience. This is your opportunity to network with industry peers with very similar challenges, interests and responsibilities as you discuss niche topics in a small group setting facilitated by a subject matter expert. After 30 minutes, you will be able to choose a second topic to participate in.

Table 1: Creative Workforce Management: Overcoming the Common Hurdles in Your Talent Management Program

Hosted by: Barry Shields, Sourcing Business Partner, Global Sourcing Services (GSS), NetApp, Inc.

Table 2: Fact Or Fiction: What You Need To Know NOW About Supplier Agreements & Your Meetings

Hosted by: Lisa English, Managing Director, Carlson Wagonlit Travel

Table 3: Tail Spend Management

Hosted by: Sam Mathur, Senior Director Services Procurement, Agile•1

Table 4: Putting Energy Into Your Energy Procurement

Hosted by: Maria Murphy, Schneider Electric Energy & Sustainability Services

Table 5: CapEx Strategies: What You’re Buying Today Didn’t Exist Yesterday

Hosted by: Craig Demarest, Senior Director, Chief of Procurement, RJ Reynolds

Table 6: In-Depth: How Technology Is Changing Procurement

Hosted by: Walter Charles, Global CPO, Kraft Foods

Table 7: Tackling Inefficiencies In MRO Spend

Hosted by: Brad Cook, Director of Purchasing, Indirect & Ammunition, Remington Arms

Table 8: Three Leading Procurement Challenges & Best Practices to Resolve Them

Hosted by: Tom Beaty, Chief Executive Officer, Insight Sourcing Group

Table 9: Strategies for Achieving Supplier Diversity Mandates

Hosted by: Mary Lewis, Sourcing Manager, Sprint

Table 10: Procurement’s Role in M&A

Hosted by: Jeff Danis, Vice President Supply Chain, Pinnacle Entertainment

Table 11: Procurement As A Shared Service

Hosted by: Kevin Chihak, Senior Buyer, PetSmart

Greg Modlinski, Director, Corporate Procurement, Kohler Company

Table 12: P2P Transformation

Hosted by: Michelle Hawkins, Vice President Procurement, Charter Communications

Day 2: Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Thursday, April 9th, 2015

13:50 Panel Discussion: Constructing A Framework To Build Procurement Influence With Internal Stakeholders

As procurement works to have more spend under management, convincing business units to give up control is one of today’s biggest headaches, especially in non-mandated environments. So, how can you sell procurement and create a campaign to build credibility and showcase the value you can add to their unit? Where do you begin to build and foster relationships with internal stakeholders? What types of collaborative efforts can you implement to work with them instead of against them? What are the best approaches to take against reluctant stakeholders? How do you reinforce the importance of “playing your position”?