A Reflective Close to Day 1 The first day of CPO Outlook 2025 ended as it began — with realism and courage. After a full day of data, debate, and lived experience, the final session invited delegates to pause and look forward. The goal was not philosophy but perspective: to acknowledge how much is changing […]
EBG | Webinars
EBG | Webinar: From Fragmented to Focused: Elkem’s Supplier Management Journey
What does it take to create a shared, structured way of working with your suppliers — defining risk, mitigating actions and following up ESG, and performance? EBG | Network, together with Elkem, Ivalua and PwC invite you to a highly relevant and practical live webinar. Date: November 12th, 2025Time: 10:00-10:45 AM CET (we will extend the session […]
EBG | Webinar: Hidden Risks and Opportunities in Tail Spend Management
The New Urgency Around Tail Spend For years, tail spend has been seen as a transactional nuisance—an area too complex to manage effectively. But today, AI, automation and regulatory demands are reshaping how procurement leaders tackle tail spend. It’s no longer just about cost reduction; it’s about visibility, risk management and business resilience. This webinar […]
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CPO Outlook 2025 | Performing While Transforming – A Vision for 2040
A Reflective Close to Day 1 The first day of CPO Outlook 2025 ended as it began — with realism and courage. After a full day of data, debate, and lived experience, the final session invited delegates to pause and look forward. The goal was not philosophy but perspective: to acknowledge how much is changing […]
CPO Outlook 2025 | From Reality to Reinvention
After fifteen years on stage, one thing remains constant: procurement leaders’ willingness to share what is real. Behind every new technology lies an ongoing question. Every shift in expectation prompts how to focus, connect, and act when everything seems important at once. At CPO Outlook 2025, that honesty took center stage again. The conversations and […]
SEB | From Complexity to Clarity — Building a Fact-Based Procurement Function
At CPO Outlook 2025, Michael Hansén, Chief Procurement Officer at SEB, shared a candid and inspiring story of transformation. With over two decades of procurement experience across industries, he joined SEB in 2021 to build a procurement function almost from scratch — within one of the Nordic region’s largest financial institutions. From a blank slate […]
Yanfeng | From Ambition to Action in Procurement
At CPO Outlook 2025, Gunnar Büchter, Executive Director, Global Head of Sustainability at Yanfeng, shared how a global automotive supplier is embedding sustainability and risk into procurement’s everyday decisions — not through slogans, but by linking data, systems, and people. Enabled by Prewave, the journey shows what happens when visibility and collaboration turn ambition into […]
SSAB | Turning Complexity into Clarity for Buyers
At CPO Outlook 2025, Lisa Lidén, Procurement Director at SSAB and Henrik Nyberg Sales Director Northern Europe at Ivalua shared insights into a headache most teams share. Namely, how to operationalize many facts at once — risk, sustainability, sanctions, audits, and cost — in a way buyers actually use. Context and ambition SSAB is transforming […]
Future‑Ready Procurement: Managing More With Less
Throughout CPO Outlook 2025, delegates returned to a paradox: procurement’s workload is multiplying, but resources are not. Roundtable discussions on operating models, supplier management, and AI kept circling back to the same question: How do we cope? In his keynote, Yannick Thiry at Bain & Company answered that question with clarity — not by downplaying […]
From Cost Controller to Strategic Platform: Procurement’s Expanding Mandate
At CPO Outlook 2025, one theme dominated the conversations across roundtables, workshops, and keynotes: the workload keeps growing, but expectations grow even faster. CPOs and procurement leaders across industries spoke of fragmented data, limited resources, and expanding demands from the business. These demands include resilience, sustainability, innovation, and now AI. Against that backdrop, Yannick Thiry, […]
The Human Side of Digital Evolution: Why Our Brains — and Our Companies — Struggle to Keep Up
When we talk about transformation, we tend to think in systems: technology stacks, processes, AI platforms, and operating models.But beneath it all, there is one constant — the human brain. It has powered every revolution since the Industrial Age, yet remains largely the same.And perhaps that’s the most important insight of all. A note from […]
EBG | Xperience in STHLM | GBG & CPH
EBG | Xperience STHLM: Empowering Procurement in Imperfect Conditions
Reflections from EBG | Xperience STHLM 2025 On April 10th in Stockholm, procurement leaders from across industries came together for a powerful day of open, honest dialogue about what it really takes to evolve procurement — not in theory, but in practice. Hosted by EBG | Network, the event was designed not around best-case blueprints […]
EBG | Xperience in Stockholm
Transform your procurement into a strategic powerhouse! Explore data-driven insights, supplier partnerships and sustainability strategies to drive real value. Learn more and join us! … Next-Gen Procurement Strategies in Stockholm When: April 10th 2025 Start-Finish: 09:30-15:00 Welcome receptionIntroductionTopic Insights & Reflections IGroup Discussions x 2LunchTopic Insights & Reflections IIGroup Discussions x 2Summary Where: Scandic Anglais, […]
EBG | Xperience GBG: Turning Risk Complexity into Actionable Procurement Strategies
On May 6th, procurement professionals gathered in Gothenburg for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day focused on ‘Knowing Your Supply and Suppliers: Managing Risks, Resilience and Sustainability’. A day centered on navigating the evolving risk, resilience, and sustainability landscape. Ahead of the event, attendees were asked what they most wanted to explore—and the answers […]
Procurement Risk & Resilience in Focus at EBG | Xperience GBG 2025
On May 6th, 30 senior procurement practitioners will gather in Gothenburg for a full-day, hands-on workshop. The event is fully booked — and for good reason. If you want to join we can just about make room for a couple of more but need to know now. Procurement teams today are navigating a perfect storm […]
EBG | Xperience CPH: From Potential to Practical AI
On May 8th, 2025, procurement leaders gathered in central Copenhagen for a fully booked EBG | Xperience day. The theme? AI-Powered Procurement Transformation. The aim? To explore how AI and GenAI might help turn complexity into clarity—while acknowledging that most companies are still at the very beginning of their journey. From the very start of […]
Procurement in 2025: Turning AI Hype into Real Impact
🔍 EBG | Xperience CPH | AI-Powered Procurement Transformation Why This Workshop Matters — Now More Than Ever Across the Nordics and beyond, procurement leaders agree: AI and GenAI will reshape how organizations operate. But most also acknowledge they are far from ready. According to BCG’s 2024 report “GenAI Complacency: The Costly Inaction in the […]
EBG | Play Interviews & Recorded webinar sessions
EBG | Play: Unlocking Tail Spend: Risks, Compliance & Strategy
A Recap from the EBG | Webinar with Medius Tail spend has long been viewed as “too fragmented,” “too low in value,” or “just too hard” to manage. But as the webinar host Russell Jaques pointed out, that narrative is changing—and fast. “If we can’t see it, we can’t control it—and that’s where the risk […]
EBG | Play: AI in Procurement: Unlocking Efficiency, Trust and Strategic Value
What Did We Learn from the AI-Powered Procurement Webinar? Procurement and finance leaders today face a perfect storm of challenges: tightening margins, increasing compliance demands and the ongoing struggle to do more with fewer resources. While AI and Generative AI offer unprecedented opportunities, many organizations are still in the early stages of adoption, questioning where […]
EBG | Play: Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability
EBG | Network recently hosted a webinar titled “Supply Chain Sustainability: How to overcome Critical Challenges in Data, Compliance and Real-Time Risk Management“, enabled by IntegrityNext. Industry leaders shared insights into the complexities of sourcing, procurement and supply chain in a world increasingly shaped by sustainability goals and regulatory demands. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud, the […]
EBG | Play: Leveraging GenAI to Re-invent the Role of Procurement
Generative AI (GenAI) is capturing attention across industries and procurement is no exception. During this recent EBG | Webinar, experts from Accenture and Ivalua shared their experiences and insights on how procurement teams can explore and leverage GenAI to enhance operations and strategies. Hosted by Anna Bjärkerud, the session combined practical demonstrations, real-time polling and […]
EBG | Play: Optimizing Spend Management challenging existing processes?
This webinar explored one of the most pressing challenges in modern organizations – optimizing spend management. Finance and procurement professionals gained actionable insights on leveraging advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to streamline processes, enhance compliance and achieve better spend visibility. Presented by Carin Collin, Global VP of Customer Success, Medius and hosted by […]
EBG | Play: Learn from the finance digitization and automation journey at Billerud
Finance Digitization and Automation: Insights from Billerud’s Journey Welcome to this inspirational summary of the recent EBG webinar where Jesper Persson, Business Developer at Billerud and Jari Paananen, Senior Solution Value Advisor at Basware shared their transformative journey in digitizing financial processes. Key Highlights Watch the On Demand recording Click the image below to re-watch […]