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Yanni Karalis

Head of Global IT Vendor Management & Sourcing
Delhaize America

Yanni Karalis is an IT Procurement Professional with experience in different industries & countries. He completed a BA in Political Science & International Relations at the University of New Hampshire and an MSc in International Management at King's College London. After spending few years in the UK & Turkey, he joined Delhaize Group and he is now the Head of Global IT Vendor Management & Sourcing for Delhaize Group. He resides in North Carolina with his wife Laila & 22 month old daughter named Sophia

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Strengthening Relationships, Infrastructure and Your Organization

Wednesday, July 6th, 2016

16:50 Panel: Making the Most of Your Outsourcing Engagements

When considering outsourcing a portion or all of your information technology functions, there are many considerations you must take into account to ensure that you’ll actually receive promised savings. This panel will discuss:
• Selecting the right BPO for your organization- it’s not one size fits all
• Aligning your outsource strategy with your vendor strategy to drive value and reduce leakage
• Achieving value creation and ROI based on what’s outsourced and where
• Have compliance costs and the dollar’s continued weakness begun eating away at outsourcing’s potential savings?
• What is the lifecycle of an outsourcing engagement? How does that evolve over time?
• Offshore vs onshore implications

Risk Management

Saturday, August 6th, 2016

11:20 Panel: Managing Employment Risk by Optimizing Your Contingent Labor and Staff Augmentation Programs

What you need to know about the risks and opportunities associated with the convergence of procurement/HR managing contingent with IT programmers and architects:

Co-employment and compliance issues, who’s responsible for violations?
Benchmarking labor costs to ensure you’re getting the best people, quickly, at the best cost
How large a role should MSPs play in your contingent labor workforce?
How the rise of the freelance economy factors into your contingent labor strategy
Developing playbooks to manage contract labor outside of the United States
If there’s a mandate to reduce employees, does staff augmentation really save money?
Getting IT to use the same tools HR is using