Thank you to our 2026 speakers

David Skinner
Director - Customer Experience
Government Commercial Agency

Ben Farrell MBE
Global CEO
CIPS

Colin Morrow OBE
Principal Commercial Director
Government Commercial Agency

Preeya Bailie
Managing Director
King's Facilities Management

Victoria Cope
Commercial Director - Defence Digital
Ministry of Defence

John Coyne
Director Commercial & Procurement
Birmingham City Council

Laura Sellers
Executive & Leadership Coach
Coaching for Procurement Ltd

James Peach
Keynote Speaker
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Amman Boughan
CEO
Pagabo Group

Susan Walsh
Founder & Managing Director
The Classification Guru Ltd

James Meads
Founder
Entrepreneurial Procurement

Annalisha Noel
Founder & CEO
AchieverOS

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

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

David Kershaw
Founder & Managing Director
Posterity Global

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

Phil McCabe
Merseyside and Cheshire Development Manager
Federation of Small Businesses

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

Dr. Ian Brotherston
Deputy Director of Innovation Funding
Innovate UK

Danni Aberg
Head of Social Value & Consulting
Thrive

John Wallace
Director of Procurement
Clarion Housing Group

Caroline Brash
Principal Procurement Consultant
YPO

Amardeep Gill
National Head of Public Sector
Trowers & Hamlins

Dr. Clare Westcott
Social Value Researcher
University of Liverpool

DI Dan Gianassi
Head of Cyber & Innovation
Cyber Resilience Centre for the North West

Rebecca Baxter
Managing Director & Chair
UK Universities Procurement Consortia (UKUPC)

Don Bowman
Director - LUPC
UK Universities Procurement Consortia (UKUPC)

Laura Savage
Director of Partner and Social Value Services
PeoplePlus UK

Stacey Speakman
Head of Procurement Operations (Get Help Buying for Schools)
Department for Education

Kevin Draisey
Head of Schools Commercial Partnerships
Department for Education

Jim Morris
Head of Engagement & Adoption Policy
Department for Health & Social Care

Lisa Bliss
Head of London Construction Programme
Haringey Council

Michael Crook
Head of Strategic Procurement
STAR Procurement

Charlene-Elise Anderson
Head of UK Government
Amazon Business

Lewis Sinkala
Head of Procurement
Leeds City Council

Debbie Howe
Social Value Officer
Durham County Council

Bryan Simmons
Head of Procurement & Ethical Commissioning Practice
Wigan Council

Hywyn Pritchard
Head of Procurement
Merseyside Fire & Rescue Authority

Ursula Hardwick
Chief Delivery Officer
NHS London Procurement Partnership

Stephen Sercombe
Procurement Director
NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative

Stephen Seki
Motivational Speaker
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Siobhan Goss
Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Matrix

James George
Chief Sustainability Strategist
The Vyne Group

Charlie Hobson
Senior Associate
Faithorn Farrell Timms

Adam Stanley
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Isoler Limited

Tiia Sammallahti
CEO & Founder
whatimpact

Darar Apiri
Senior Sustainable Procurement Specialist
WRAP

Richard Brown
Assistant Director - Cartels Enforcement Team
Competition and Markets Authority

Bev Thomas
Adviser – Procurement and Commissioning
Local Government Association (LGA)

Ceri D'Mello
Deputy Director - Get Help Buying
Department for Education

Warren Smith
Director of Insight, Innovation & Impact
Posterity Global

Emma Briggs
Director of Procurement
Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing

Alan Heron
Managing Director
Procurement Hub

Clare Murdoch
Procurement Manager
South Yorkshire Housing Association (SHYA)

Laura Summerell
Head of Procurement
Paradigm Housing Group

Nilton Melo
Pharmacy & Medicines Procurement Category Lead
NHS London Procurement Partnership

Sarah Stone
Founder & Director
Samtaler Ltd

Michael Murray
Partnerships & Commercial Manager
NEPO

Lucy Bridge
Social Responsibility Lead
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Phill Evans
CEO
RDB Concepts Ltd

Clare Riley
Special Projects Lead
SUPC

Andy Paul
Founder
Voyce AI

Richard Dickins
Managing Director
Social Value Quality Mark

Emma Grigson
Bid Partnerships & Social Value Director
PeoplePlus UK

Dan Ebanks
Co-Founder & CEO
Match My Project

Simon Thomas
Global ESG Lead
Ikonic Technology Ltd

Kevin Lewis
Sales Manager
Delta eSourcing and Supply Chain

Dawn MacTaggart
Key Account Manager
Tracker

Fraser Neilson
Business Development Manager
Delta eSourcing and Supply Chain

Darren Holloway
Head of Procurement & Fleet
Selwood Housing