Gareth Mawdesley

Head of Procurement
NFU Mutual

Gareth Mawdesley has more than 15 years experience leading procurement teams and is currently head of NFU Mutual’s global procurement team based in the UK. With expertise in risk management and extracting value from combining the best people, technology and processes Gareth is well placed to offer practical advice on how to mitigate risk, create trust and drive value creation.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Gareth.

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Conference Day One – Tuesday 4 April 2017

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

16:10 Wine and Beer round tables: Industry specific. What are the main procurement challenges within your industry and how can you overcome them?

This interactive session provides the opportunity to discuss your most pressing challenge with your peers in a small, industry specific group of 10. Don’t miss this fantastic chance to solve your issues and make important new contacts with procurement professionals from your industry!

Round table 1: Financial Services & Insurance – Gareth Mawdesley, Head of Procurement, NFU Mutual & Julian Herbert, Vice President, Everest Group

Round table 2: Utilities/Energy – Christoph Quick-Timmerhaus, Head of International Procurement, RWE

Round table 3: Travel – Claudia Unger, Founder, Claudia Unger Limited (ex Director of Research and Intelligence BCD Travel)

Round table 4: Consultants – Marc Rajal, Head of Procurement Transformation, Deloitte

Round table 5: Technology – Marco Stenvert, CPO, Wolters Kluwer

Round table 6: Telecoms – Pieter Swarts, CPO, KPN

Round table 7: Logistics/Distribution

Round table 8: Publishing/Media

Round table 9: Retail – Tim Brennan, Head of Procurement, Marks & Spencer & Tim Snow, Head of Procurement, Debenhams

Conference Day Two – Wednesday 5 April 2017

Thursday, May 4th, 2017

17:00 Fire Side Chat - How can you strategically manage and protect your data in an age of ‘high risk’ technology to mitigate reputational risk?

How to use cloud software to help protect business data
What do you do with company and customer data and how is it managed?
What control do you have over data stored using cloud technology?
How can your suppliers assist in data protection and privacy?
What can you do to preserve data and your businesses reputation?