Arkestro Optimal '26

Breakout Tracks

Tangible
Dramatic savings and fast time to value

For teams focused on measurable business impact, this track highlights how Predictive Procurement can help unlock savings quickly across complex spend categories. Explore how teams are using Arkestropricing intelligence and more structured decision-making to move from opportunity identification to captured value faster.

Scalable

Improving the productivity of every procurement hour

This track focuses on helping procurement teams create more capacity without adding more burden. Discover how Predictive Procurement reduces manual work, guides supplier engagement, and makes complex sourcing events easier to manage, giving teams more room to focus on the high-impact initiatives that move the business forward.

Transformational

Reducing cycle time for competitive impact

Find out what becomes possible when procurement moves at the speed of the business. Sessions will explore how Arkestro Predictive Procurement helps teams shorten complex cycles and make earlier, more confident decisions on the supplier and pricing moves that shape business outcomes.

Long-term

Protecting value across the supply base over time

This track explores how procurement teams can move beyond periodic sourcing events toward a more continuous view of value creation and protection. Customer-led discussions will focus on how teams are monitoring market movement, keeping supplier pricing current, identifying value leakage earlier, and building the operating discipline to sustain impact long after an event closes.

Sessions

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Arkestro Advanced Training (Arkestro customers only)
Joshua Jones Joshua Jones

This two-hour advanced Arkestro certification extends event-level design discipline into global procurement and sourcing and portfolio governance, keeping the strategic decisions in your hands while predictive technology accelerates the work that scales.

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Arkestro Basic Training
Eric Dudleck Eric Dudleck

Spend 90 minutes inside Arkestro 101 to pull back the curtain on the predictive procurement platform and refined workflows that turn a blank screen into a fully built sourcing event, and discover how Arkestro works nothing like the tools you've used before.

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
GAP Partner Negotiation Workshop: Building Commercial Resilience

Commercial resilience is not built at the negotiation table, but long before it—inside the organisation. As volatility increases, early warning signs appear in everyday commercial interactions: suppliers revisiting terms, customers delaying payments, and service levels quietly shifting.

This interactive seminar introduces the audience to a more strategic approach whereby negotiation must be treated as a coordinated, strategic capability rather than a reactive, transactional event.
 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Speak CFO SIG Workshop: A Working Session for Procurement Leaders Ready to Reframe Their Value
Dawn Tiura Dawn Tiura

CFOs and CPOs are talking past each other in nearly every enterprise. CFOs hear "savings" when CPOs are trying to say "strategic capital allocation." The result: procurement keeps making the case it has always made, and the CFO keeps responding the way they always have.

This 90-minute working session, led by Dawn Tiura, President and CEO of SIG and a 30-year procurement veteran, is built to break that pattern. Participants will work through a guided exercise to reframe their own CFO conversations, apply a structured framework to a real situation from their organization, and leave with a draft CFO pitch they can use within 30 days.
 

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM