Thank you to our 2026 speakers

Sam Ulyatt
Chief Executive
Crown Commercial Service

Colin Morrow OBE
Principal Commercial Director
Crown Commercial Service

Ben Farrell MBE
Global CEO
CIPS

John Coyne
Director Commercial & Procurement
Birmingham City Council

James Peach
Keynote Speaker
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Susan Walsh
Founder & Managing Director
The Classification Guru Ltd

James Meads
Founder
Entrepreneurial Procurement

Annalisha Noel
Founder & CEO
AchieverOS

David Kershaw
Founder & Managing Director
Posterity Global

Jane Lynch
Director - Centre of Public Value Procurement
Cardiff Business School

David Lawson
Director of Medical Technology & Innovation
Department for Health & Social Care

Fleur Summers
Co-Host
A Procurement Podcast - The Reform Rundown

Chris Robinson
Co-Host
A Procurement Podcast - The Reform Rundown

Dr. Ian Brotherston
Deputy Director of Innovation Funding
Innovate UK

Joanna Dahlgren
Head of Social Value & SROI
London Borough of Waltham Forest

Amardeep Gill
National Head of Public Sector
Trowers & Hamlins

John Wallace
Director of Procurement
Clarion Housing Group

Dr. Clare Westcott
Social Value Researcher
University of Liverpool

Michelle Walker
Head of Procurement Services
YPO

Michael Crook
Head of Strategic Procurement
STAR Procurement

Caroline Brash
Principal Procurement Consultant
YPO

Richard Woodfields
Sales Director
RDB Concepts Ltd

Darar Apiri
Senior Sustainable Procurement Specialist
WRAP

Warren Smith
Director of Insight, Innovation & Impact
Posterity Global

Dan Ebanks
Co-Founder & CEO
Match My Project

Tiia Sammallahti
CEO & Founder
whatimpact

Phil McCabe
Merseyside and Cheshire Development Manager
Federation of Small Businesses

Kevin Lewis
Sales Manager
Delta eSourcing and Supply Chain

Fraser Neilson
Business Development Manager
Delta eSourcing and Supply Chain