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Mark Perera

CEO & Founder at Vizibl

London, United Kingdom

Helping business leaders accelerate EBIT growth by supercharging their "Supplier Collaboration & Innovation" programmes with Vizibl.

Board member and Founder of Procurement Leaders.

Available For: Speaking
Travels From: London
Speaking Topics: Procurement, Supply Chain, Startups

Mark Perera Points
Academic 0
Author 222
Influencer 320
Speaker 47
Entrepreneur 60
Total 649

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Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Minimum Project Size: N/A
Average Hourly Rate: N/A
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

AI 30.01
Business Continuity 30.12
Business Strategy
Climate Change 47.82
Cloud
COVID19 31.61
CSR 36.34
Design Thinking
Digital Transformation
Diversity and Inclusion 30.43
Emerging Technology 30.05
Entrepreneurship
Future of Work
HealthTech 30.02
Innovation 30.36
Leadership 30.05
Lean Startup
Open Innovation
Procurement 39.15
Renewable Energy 30.47
SportsTech 30.22
Startups 30.71
Supply Chain 34.18
Sustainability 45.02

Industry Experience

Consumer Products
High Tech & Electronics
Pharmaceuticals
Telecommunications

Publications & Experience

1 Analyst Report
NINIAN WILSON – STANDING TALL WITH VODAFONE’S THREE PILLARS (PART 2)
Procurement With Purpose
April 30, 2021
In Part 1 we talked to Ninian Wilson, CPO at Vodafone, about how the organisation is embedding sustainable and purposeful behaviours into its procurement activities and its supply chain. (Part 1 is here)

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement, Climate Change, CSR

149 Article/Blogs
The SaaS Playbook is Broken (And Every Procurement Leader Knows It)
Linkedin
July 04, 2025
Why traditional vendor evaluation fails for AI-native solutions—and what's replacing it

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Accenture loses out due to lack of DEI - hang on a minute, says the US
Procurement With Purpose
April 05, 2025
Much smarter and more expert people than me will comment on the consequences of the Trump regime’s actions in terms of the economy and impact on individual businesses. Tariffs are obviously the biggest issue, but the ‘war on woke’ is beginning to have tangible effect on firms and on procurement activity.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

"Purpose" is changing for all of us
Procurement With Purpose
March 13, 2025
In the context of Procurement with Purpose, the ‘purpose’ word relates to those wider benefits that procurement activities can bring to the planet and its people. For private sector firms, it means going beyond short-term profit motivation and considering the climate and environment, human rights and diversity, supporting disadvantaged people and communities and more. In my book, I argue that firms should not follow these ideas purely out of the goodness of their hearts or indeed to make the Board feel good about themselves. There must be solid business reasons behind these activities.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Would you like Modern Slavery with your burgers?
Procurement With Purpose
February 24, 2025
But recent events suggest we may be moving into an era where organisations have to contribute to a more basic purpose. If you remember the Maslow Herzberg hierarchy of needs from that HR course you did many years ago, you will recall that the most basic needs for humans, right at the bottom of the pyramid, are food and water, core physiological needs.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Scope 3 Peer Group Provides Some Hope!
Procurement With Purpose
February 02, 2025
The Peer Group is a ‘cross-industry, global collective of those tasked with supply chain emissions reduction’. It has over 2000 members now and aims to support faster and more confident action in a confusing space, signposting, and benchmarking and sharing best practice. So the first day (Tuesday) was given over to industry based groups (NHS, Pharma etc), Wednesday was a more conventional ‘plenary’ conference, and Thursday (when I attended) saw about fifteen topic-based sessions, with three running in parallel through the day.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Calm weather may lead to potential power cuts in the UK
Procurement With Purpose
January 14, 2025
Energy could be the issue that loses Labour the next election in the UK. I thought that might come to a head in about 2028 because the plan to get to 95% green power by 2030 is flawed and almost impossible to achieve, and the costs associated will make UK electricity even more expensive than it is already. If I am correct, those problems will be evident by 2028. But it may be we get to a crunch point before then.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

UK Net Zero Electricity Grid by 2030? Not a Chance
Procurement With Purpose
November 10, 2024
A couple of months ago, the UK government’s Energy Secretary (Minister) Ed Miliband asked the head of NESO (the National Energy System Operator), Fintan Slye, how the target of a UK net zero electricity grid could be achieved by 2030. NESO has published its response now. Rather than saying ‘it’s impossible’, Slye has done the good civil servant thing and said ‘of course we can do this Minister, you just need to do a few things.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Flooding disaster in Spain raises difficult issues
Procurement With Purpose
November 04, 2024
The word ‘apocalyptic’ is overused these days but that seemed to be the only description that fitted the scenes in eastern Spain around Valencia last week after almost a year’s worth of rain fell in just four hours. Streets were turned into raging torrents that carried cars away and left them piled up, twisted and broken. At least 200 people have died and the final number could be much higher.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Will Carbon Capture & Storage Help Decarbonise the UK?
Procurement With Purpose
October 08, 2024
“The policy builds on the previous Conservative government’s plans to establish four CCS “clusters”, where carbon capture would be used to trap some of the CO2 emitted by fossil-fuel burning factories and power plants. Pipelines would then carry the captured gas underground to be stored in depleted oil and gas reservoirs under the North and Irish Seas”.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Mars shows purpose in the dairy sector - but acquires ultra-processed food giant Kellanova
Procurement With Purpose
September 02, 2024
No, is probably the answer. The other issue is what the cost implications for consumers will be as the UK moves towards a de-carbonised system. So I’ve been doing some reading on this in the last few days and I am not optimistic.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Mars shows purpose in the dairy sector - but acquires ultra-processed food giant Kellanova
Procurement With Purpose
August 16, 2024
I still have a soft spot for Mars, as the confectionery division of the company kindly gave me my first job post university and employed me for nine generally very good years. I didn’t realise what a great company it was until I left, and that realisation grew over the years as I experienced more and more organisations that frankly were far inferior to Mars in most ways.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

A Worthwhile "Purpose" Initiative - Helping ex-Offenders
Procurement With Purpose
July 19, 2024
Perhaps the most interesting appointment of the new UK government was that of James Timpson, who was elevated to the House of Lords to be the new Prisons, Parole and Probation Minister.

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Tags: Procurement

UK PUBLIC SECTOR FOOD PROCUREMENT REPORT - COULD DO BETTER
Procurement
June 13, 2024
The UK general election has halted or postponed various projects and pieces of work, some of which will start up again but some may be lost forever. Well done therefore to Conservative (ex) MP Will Quince, who has published his report on UK public sector food procurement here on LinkedIn, because it could not be published through the official government channels now we are into the election campaign. He is standing down at the election so this is his final act as an MP.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

AGRICULTURE AT THE FRONT LINE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Procurement
June 03, 2024
The market price of cocoa fell back recently in further volatility after hitting all-time highs of almost $12,000 a tonne. Recent trading has been around $7,200 a tonne (at time of writing), quite a drop. The shortages that caused the price to rise were based on supply disruptions, heavy rains and disease. But we might have to get used to this in terms of agricultural products in a world of rapid climate change.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

CLIMATE EXPERTS FEAR THE WORST IN TERMS OF GLOBAL TEMPERATURES
Procurement
May 14, 2024
The Guardian newspaper recently carried out a major survey, contacting over 800 climate experts, basically everybody who has ever been involved in the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. They were asked for their views on where the planet is heading in terms of climate change, and temperature in particular. The results, perhaps unsurprisingly, are not exactly cheerful.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

CONTROVERSY AROUND SBTI STANCE ON CARBON CREDITS
Procurement
April 15, 2024
We’ve written many times about carbon credits and the whole offsetting industry which enables organisations to claim they are “reducing emissions” or heading towards net zero when they are doing nothing of the kind. They are basically paying a fee so that they don’t need to take real action in terms of reducing emissions. Now some offsetting schemes may be genuinely beneficial; some proponents including John Kerry claim they are essential to drive funding into important sustainability projects. But many offsets and carbon credit schemes have proved to be dubious or even criminal, so arguably we cannot rely on this to address climate change.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

WHO DO YOU WANT TO DO BUSINESS WITH?
Procurement
March 18, 2024
We hear a lot of talk these days about organisations – both public and private – wanting to work with suppliers who “share our values”. That leads to supplier engagement and selection policies that ask firms how they approach all sorts of issues, including carbon reduction, human rights, diversity and inclusion… in fact, the list gets longer every year. In the public sector, we ask bidders to explain the “social value” they are going to bring above and beyond the basic delivery of the contract. Then the prospective supplier responds, saying “yes we have all the right policies, this is how we will help local orphans, and of course we share your lovely warm, caring values”.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement

Beyond the Boundaries: Unlocking Innovation for Climate Impact
Scope 3
February 29, 2024
In the race against time to combat climate change, traditional sustainability frameworks, focusing solely on direct and supply chain emissions, are increasingly seen as a foundational step rather than the finish line. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)'s latest report, "Above and Beyond," introduces a revolutionary concept that challenges companies to extend their climate action through Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM) strategies. This approach not only amplifies their impact but also positions them as frontrunners in the global effort to achieve net-zero emissions.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Beyond Data Perfection: Activating Scope 3 Engagement Now
Scope 3
February 28, 2024
The journey toward net-zero emissions compels businesses to confront the carbon footprint not just within their direct operations but across their entire value chain. Scope 3 emissions, originating from sources not owned or directly controlled by them, often represent the largest share of a corporation's carbon ledger. The pursuit of perfect data to quantify these emissions has become a quest for many, potentially stalling vital climate action. But the urgency of climate change demands swift action—prompting a critical question: What if the catalyst for progress isn't data perfection but the immediate engagement of suppliers with the insights currently at hand?

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Showcasing Success: Highlighting Achievements and Learning from the Supplier Day
Scope 3
February 23, 2024
The journey toward sustainability is paved with shared goals, collaborative efforts, and most importantly, tangible achievements. As we wrap up our series, we turn our focus to celebrating the victories and extracting valuable insights from our Supplier Day. This final installment is dedicated to showcasing the successes and learnings that emerged from the event, emphasizing how these accomplishments contribute to the overarching sustainability objectives of your organization.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Tracking Progress: How to Measure Success in Scope 3 Emissions Reduction
Scope 3
February 22, 2024
Accurately measuring success in reducing Scope 3 emissions is foundational to the fight against climate change. As organizations strive for greater sustainability, they must ensure that the progress of suppliers aligns with ambitious environmental goals. This enhanced focus involves integrating commitments to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), particularly its Net Zero Standard, thorough disclosure via the CDP Climate Change program, and meticulously tracking suppliers' own Scope 3 emissions reduction efforts. Additionally, developing targeted GHG reduction programs with key suppliers—often those contributing most significantly to emissions and aligned with the spend profile—is crucial. Here’s how organizations can effectively monitor and report on these critical aspects.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Beyond the Day: Follow-Up Strategies to Maintain Momentum
Scope 3.co
February 09, 2024
The culmination of a successful Supplier Day marks the beginning of a critical phase in the journey toward Scope 3 emissions reduction: maintaining momentum. The energy and commitments ignited during the event must be nurtured and sustained through strategic follow-up actions. This article outlines effective strategies to keep the dialogue active, support ongoing initiatives, and ensure that the collaborative spirit of Supplier Day translates into tangible progress.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Collaborative and Interactive: Designing Engaging Activities for Your Supplier Day
Scope 3.co
February 08, 2024
For a Supplier Day dedicated to reducing Scope 3 emissions to truly resonate and drive action, the event must transcend traditional presentations and speeches. Incorporating interactive and collaborative activities is key to fostering genuine engagement and encouraging suppliers to make actionable commitments. Here's how to infuse your Supplier Day with dynamic, participatory elements that captivate your suppliers and spur them towards sustainability

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

Virtual, In-Person, or Hybrid? Choosing the Right Format for Your Supplier Day
Scope 3.co
February 08, 2024
As organizations intensify their focus on reducing Scope 3 emissions, the format of Supplier Day events emerges as a strategic decision point. Balancing the imperatives of effective engagement, cost management, and minimizing the event's own carbon footprint requires a nuanced approach. This article re-evaluates the options for hosting a Supplier Day, considering access to board and senior stakeholders, financial implications, and the environmental impact of the event itself.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

CONSERVATION VERSUS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
Procurement With Purpose
February 06, 2024
Looking into this in more detail, it relates to the African Parks charity, which manages 22 national parks and protected areas across 12 countries. It is investigating allegations of rape, torture and brutality by guards employed by the charity, aimed at the indigenous people who live in these areas within the Republic of the Congo. A statement from the African Parks board said it was investigating the allegations and had a zero-tolerance approach to abuse. It was committed to upholding the rights of local and Indigenous people.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Sustainability

1 Book
PROCUREMENT WITH PURPOSE
Procurement With Purpose
November 29, 2021
Procurement with Purpose describes a growing and powerful movement – how organisations can use the money they spend with suppliers to help address wider environmental, social and economic issues. That is not just about emissions and climate change, but includes how to address issues such as biodiversity and habitat loss, plastics and waste, modern slavery, inequality and discrimination, and more. That organisational ‘buying power’ is now being used to drive change across the business and political world.

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Tags: Procurement, Climate Change

3 Founders
Scope 3 Collective
Scope 3 Collective
September 06, 2023

Empowering Sustainable Change Through Collective Action

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Tags: Climate Change, Sustainability

Vizibl
Vizibl
March 04, 2014
At Vizibl, we put collaboration, innovation, and sustainability at the
heart of supplier relationships.

Our best-in-class digital platform enables enterprise organisations, and their suppliers to manage every aspect of their relationship more effectively.
Whether it’s discovering new revenue streams, developing innovative products and solutions, or taking joint action towards your sustainability targets, Vizibl helps to align your suppliers with your business goals to deliver mutual value.

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Tags: Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainability

Procurement Leaders
Procurement Leaders
January 01, 2004
Procurement Leaders connects, informs and inspires global corporations and their executives to enhance the contribution procurement makes to the business each day.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in London, we are a global membership network serving major corporations and procurement, sourcing and supply chain executives. We provide independent procurement intelligence, professional development and peer to peer networking via our award winning online information resource, events and training solutions.

Our unique insights, research and data, as well as networking and professional development opportunities, enable procurement executives to deliver more value to their businesses equipping them with expert practices that deliver greater savings faster, reduce risks and transform functional performance.

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

4 Keynotes
Illuminating The Future: Evolution of Supplier Relationships
hopin
March 31, 2021
Join the discussion with our industry experts on how they are evolving their relationships with their suppliers to deliver their goals

If you are a supply chain, procurement, sustainability or innovation practitioner Vizibl's COLLABORATE 2021 is a must attend. At this years summit we are focused on discussing topics with industry leaders and thought-leading trailblazers that challenge the status quo and show you how you can do what they have done.

Join us on Wednesday 31st March at Vizibl COLLABORATE 2021 to be enlightened, enabled, and empowered to turbocharge your supplier relationships for sustainability and growth.

Date: 31st March 2021 // Time: 14:00 - 18:30 UK TIME | 15:00 - 19:30 CET | 09:00 - 13:30 EST

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Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Procurement, Climate Change

Vizibl Collaborate
Vizibl
July 03, 2020
Procurement with Purpose: Our future. Our legacy.

Mark Perera looks at how leading organisations are looking deep into their supply chain to make a world of difference and how organisations are developing strategies for procurement with purpose.

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Tags: Climate Change, Procurement, Supply Chain

Arch Summit Keynote on supplier & startup ecosystems
Tomorrow Street
May 22, 2018

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Tags: Startups, Supply Chain, Procurement

Mark Perera - Vizibl
Arch Summit
May 22, 2018
Mark Perera - Vizibl

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement

1 Media Interview
Mark Perera - What's the case for Relationship Management?
Mission Innovation
May 26, 2020
A lot of people use terms like "supplier relationships" and "partnerships" interchangeably. To most of us, they mean the same thing. But when you're talking about your procurement strategy, it's important that you differentiate between the kinds of arrangements you want to nurture. They'll impact how you carry out your strategy and what resources you need to invest in.

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Tags: Innovation, Supply Chain, Procurement

1 Panel
SAP Ariba Live
SAP Ariba
June 14, 2019
Don't get left behind in the ecosystem revolution. Understand how innovation, through a strong, dynamic ecosystem, benefits your business now and in the next few years. Learn from Sean Thompson, Yves Mulkers and Mark Perera from Vizibl on how you can capitalize on global commerce for your business now.

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Tags: Innovation, Procurement, Supply Chain

1 Speaking Engagement
PROCUREMENT WITH PURPOSE ROUNDTABLE
PROCUREMENT WITH PURPOSE
September 27, 2020
On Wednesday this week (September 30th, 2020), the two founders of the Procurement with Purpose website (and movement), Mark Perera and Peter Smith, are participating in a session on the topic during the Vizibl Collaborate 2020 virtual conference.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement, Climate Change, CSR

1 Video
Mark Perera - CEO - Vizibl
Arch Summit
May 04, 2018
Mark Perera

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Tags: Supply Chain, Procurement, CSR

1 Webinar
Sustainability through Supplier Collaboration: From green ideal to commercial imperative
Vizibl
February 03, 2021
On February 3rd 2021, Vizibl will be hosting a live webinar alongside executives from Heineken, BP, and Colgate Palmolive to discuss the topic that should be top of every enterprise's agenda in 2021: sustainability.

Once regarded as little more than corporate philanthropy, sustainability initiatives have since proved their returns
outweigh their cost; alongside safeguarding our planet and its people, they provide tangible financial advantage
to the businesses that pursue them.

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Tags: Sustainability, Procurement, Climate Change

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1 Prediction
2023 Predictions for Sustainability

Date : October 11, 2022

At time of writing we are already over 25% of the way through the decade, with every five weeks that pass signifying one percent further to 2030. As such, my prediction for sustainability in 2023 is that we will see focus in corporate sustainability move away from data-gathering and aggregation towards taking urgent action based on the insights we’re able to generate quickly. We’ve spent years trying to construct the perfect dashboards, but nothing is going to happen if we just sit around staring at them rather than changing our behavior. I also anticipate that the focus of our attention will expand towards a broader concept of sustainability that places more emphasis on social issues, particularly human rights; organisations have been grappling primarily with their environmental impact thus far, but the upcoming European human rights legislations will force companies to look more closely at their performance across other dimensions under the banner of “ESG”.

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Opportunities

1 Keynote
Keynote speaker on the future of procurement

Location: Europe and US    Fees: Open

Service Type: Service Offered

As the founder of Procurement Leaders, I regularly speak conferences on there future of procurement and how technology is transforming the function.

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Events

1 Physical Event
Sustain 2020

Location: Paris    Date : March 11, 2020 - March 11, 2020     Organizer: Ecovadis

The world is reaching an existential tipping point of sustainability crises -- from climate risks to modern slavery. The signs are becoming clearer and stronger every day. The only way to avert these crises is to include sustainability as a core component of everything we do as businesses and individuals.This means challenging the status quo and sometimes going against the odds. To succeed, we must do it together. Together, we must be bold and daring. We must Dare Together.

Sustain 2020 is a must-attend event for anyone at the intersection of sustainability and procurement. It will bring together over 700 sustainability/CSR and procurement experts from across the world to network, share best practices and exchange ideas.

The event will take place in conjunction with the 4th Annual EcoVadis Sustainability and Sustainable Procurement Leadership Awards, which recognize those who demonstrate excellence in driving sustainable practices across all industries.

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3 Online Events
Sustainability through Supplier Collaboration: From green ideal to commercial imperative

Location: Virtual    Date : February 03, 2021 - February 03, 2021     Organizer: Vizibl

On February 3rd 2021, Vizibl will be hosting a live webinar alongside executives from Heineken, BP, and Colgate Palmolive to discuss the topic that should be top of every enterprise's agenda in 2021: sustainability.

Once regarded as little more than corporate philanthropy, sustainability initiatives have since proved their returns
outweigh their cost; alongside safeguarding our planet and its people, they provide tangible financial advantage
to the businesses that pursue them.

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Vizibl Collaborate: Pharma Summit

Location: Online    Date : June 24, 2020 - June 24, 2020     Organizer: Vizibl

Vizibl COLLABORATE summit looks to the future of supplier collaboration in pharma with a lineup of insightful presentations, expert panel sessions and keynotes. The focus of our inaugural COLLABORATE | Pharma summit is on how organisations can build resilience in the new normal and seize opportunities where others can’t.

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TNW Transform

Location: Online    Date : July 02, 2020 - July 02, 2020     Organizer: TNW

The current disruption of the business world presents us with an opportunity to change course. We’ve seen global value chains unravel, leaving us to rethink the impact of systems designed to maximize profits and efficiency. Rapid digital transformation, made possible through third parties, becomes essential as the boundary between offline and online activity becomes blurred. How can companies implement innovation initiatives to ensure long-term success, support employee wellbeing, benefit society, and the economy at large?

In collaboration with the FT, Transform online event will leverage expert insights to tackle questions like:

How do businesses accelerate innovation efforts when spending is under pressure?
Which technologies and startups are leading the way in global supply chain and logistical innovation?

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