Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group who finance, develop, build and maintain innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins daily life, supports communities and enables economic growth. Aaron Reid is a sustainable procurement and supply chain diversity...

Nathan Bennett is the Author of Riding Shotgun: the role of the COO. Recently updated in 2018, the book is one of the few publications to attempt to crystallise the role of COO and the value it can bring to an organisation.

There's value in data, but there are also costs and risks. Who should be involved in managing data; from capture through to storage, analysis and, ultimately, its commercial and strategic use? In this discussion a CFO, CIO and COO explore where responsibilities lie and what works best.

Total SE is a French multinational energy company founded in 1924 and one of the seven "Supermajor" oil companies in the world. It is present in over 130 countries and its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, from exploration and production, transportation, refining and trading. As part of its ambition to get to...

This meeting will help COOs and organisations improve their operational resilience.  We live in turbulent times and COOs play a key role in stabilising our ships.  Brig. Alan Richmond OBE, will start by drawing on his institutional resilience experiences from the...

In the run up to Cop26, more and more corporations are announcing their emissions reduction targets. But are these targets ambitious enough to achieve 50% reduction by 2030? And how exactly are companies going to achieve them? Join our panel to get an in-depth view of how companies are setting their...

As the pressure mounts on organisations to play their part in tackling the climate crisis, we’ll hear about some of the initiatives being used, what that journey looks like and why sustainability should be a key KPI for the future.

Imagine a future, in five to ten years time, where organisations have advanced, from today’s handful of AI proof of concepts and pilot projects, to that future where AI is fully embedded throughout the organisation. What will the new operating models look like? How will humans...

Alex Jennings, Group Chief Procurement Officer at DS Smith will talk CPO members through how they combined processes, technology, organisational design, governance, compliance and change management to create a One Procurement approach. This procurement initiative that was...

One of the most critical parts of any organisation’s sustainability journey is creating real commitment to delivering results. Vanessa will give us an overview of Pernod Ricard’s sustainability journey and share with us how she is tackling the challenge of...

Anglo Pacific recently completed a US$205m acquisition of a cobalt stream from the Voisey’s Bay mine in Canada. This transaction achieved the two most pressing strategic challenges facing the Company: that...

Gladys Naylor, Group Head of Sustainability, with 23 years at the Mondi Group and a background in engineering will share their bottom-up operational and top-down strategic approach to deploying sustainability across the value chain. Ms Naylor will discuss the...

The pandemic has highlighted that global supply chains can be both fragile and vulnerable. As we slowly emerge from this crisis, now is the perfect time for procurement professionals to start looking at how they can mitigate effectively against future risk and build in...

The session is designed to help CSO’s ensure that Boards, CEOs and C-Suite Executives keep sustainability high on their agenda. Whether making economic choices in favour of sustainability over profitability or setting meaningful targets, the Board need to get...

Cameron Ireland was CEO of BoardEx, one of the most successful business units in FTSE250 Euromoney PLC. He has significant experience in building data businesses and will talk members through the issues around data collection, such as...