Canadian Institute for Procurement and Materiel Management (formerly Materiel Management Institute of Canada)

May 30 – Opening Address: The Role of Material Managers

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May 30 – Keynote Address: Government of Canada Procurement Transformation:
Savings are a given, what other impact do we expect?

David Rotor, Special Advisor, Acquisitions Business Transformation, Deputy Minister, Public Works and Government Services Canada

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In this presentation David Rotor will address the status of procurement transformation in the Government Canada, with a focus on two areas:

Technology
•	The way in which technology will be used to drive the expected benefits such as reducing costs and improving efficiencies
•	The less obvious benefits of technology such as improving access for suppliers from the aboriginal, “green”, and small business communities
•	The ability of technology to assist in changing the concept of accountability from a post transaction audit and reporting bias to one that allows compliance and accountability to be integrated into the workflow of a transaction

The impact of reducing the costs of goods and services for the Government of Canada
•	Savings are coming from several areas including simple negotiations to reduce prices to complex programs to improve supplier productivity; what is our experience to date and where are we focusing on in the future
•	Intuitively buyers drive to aggregate demand in order to achieve volume savings. How successful is this and what other approaches does the Government of Canada use?
•	Small enterprises, aboriginal businesses, and "green" procurement are important to us from a social and economic development perspective, they are also highly competitive sources of supply for certain goods and services what have we learned about using these suppliers to help drive lower costs and greater productivity?

May 31 – Keynote Address: The Future of Procurement in the Federal Government

Ian Bennett, A/Assistant Deputy Minister, Acquisitions Branch, Public Works and Government Services Canada

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May 31 – Closing Plenary: Stress Management Through Humour

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