Michael Baron

Procurement leaders need to reduce costs and uncover opportunities to support business growth. Unfortunately more than 80% of IT budgets are spent on maintaining current IT systems instead of innovation. The worst case scenario is to do nothing, pay the annual vendor fees and limit your business growth. Attend this session to learn about the recent ProcureCon survey findings on the challenges your peers face with the ERP mega-vendors and successful strategies they are using to take back control of their enterprise software and maintenance.

Table 1: Topic TBD
Hosted by: Michael Baron, Vice President Sales, Rimini Street

Table 2: Winning the Day - Negotiating Better Software License Agreements
Hosted By: John Emmitt, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Flexera Software

Table 3: Managing Supplier Exits
Hosted by: Nancy Tiran, Senior Director, IT Procurement & Enterprise Contract Labor Services, Best Buy

Table 4: Structuring Open Source Software Agreements
Hosted by: Jason Wegmet, Director, IT Sourcing, Corporate Supply Chain Management, Cox Communications, Inc.

Table 5: Software Contracting Strategies for Adobe
Hosted by: Rosemarie Sharpe, Associate Consultant, Global Procurement, Eli Lilly and Company

Table 6: Sourcing the Internet of Things to Improve the Supply Chain
Hosted by: Melanie Alexander, Director Strategic Sourcing – IT, MGM Resorts International