CORPORATE TRACK DESCRIPTION

Don’t miss the track for Supplier Diversity and Procurement Professionals, which is filled with a line up of dynamic speakers who will share how to maximize your Supplier Diversity Program’s Return-On-Investment (ROI) while increasing your companies profitability through marketing to women and women owned businesses. Sessions also feature trends and benchmarking from the members of the Billion Dollar Round table, who will discuss diversity strategies that have distinguished their supplier diversity programs and how they are maintaining their programs through tough times.

Workshop #1

Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Leveraging WBE Spend to Increase Market Share with Women

Statistics have shown the strong buying power of women. That rate is steadily growing in spite of the recession. As a Corporate professional, you know that being able to gain market share across the women and diverse market demographics is critical to your company’s bottom line. Hear how to market to women. Learn how to leverage key messages to help increase your company’s market share with women and women business owners and how to connect/translate those lessons into your supplier diversity program to maximize your diverse spend with women owned businesses.

Workshop #2

Thursday, June 24, 2010 –10:15am – 11:45am

Lessons from the Billion Dollar Roundtable

Hear Billion Dollar Round table members discuss the diversity solutions and strategies that helped grow and maintain their diversity spend to over one billion dollars. Learn how they maximized buy-in from officer – level leadership to achieve success and distinguish their Supplier Diversity program. This session provides key insights and workable solutions to help grow and embellish new or existing Supplier Diversity programs.

Workshop #3

Thursday, June 24, 2010 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm

Selecting Green Suppliers Successfully

Do you need to select suppliers from the green products and services industry? Learn what distinguishes “the best” from “the good.” An expert will share insights to help Supplier Diversity /Procurement professionals understand what to look for in a green products and services provider and ways to help increase spend with WBEs in the green industry.