September 3, 2025 | The Duxton Hotel
Perth Big Breakfast.
Our Big Breakfast events are back following the tremendous success of our sell-out 2022, 2023 & 2024 series. We’re hosting seven Big Breakfast’s in seven cities throughout the region in 2025.
Connect and learn over breakfast.
We’re bringing an expanded program in 2025 to bring more procurement networking and knowledge over a tasty breakfast. Centre to each event is how best procurement can navigate today’s key challenges in the profession.
The Theme.
Each event will follow a similar theme, allowing key differences specific to each region.
Key challenges facing the procurement profession will be explored, including:
Mitigating the effects of high inflation – refocussing on value creation over cost savings
Delivering on stakeholder demands for raised ESG standards from the supply side
Rebalancing sourcing decisions based on risk management as well as cost advantage
Capturing the true benefits now available from eProcurement technology and digitalisation work
Reviewing the future of global sourcing from Australia & New Zealand in the face of deglobalisation worldwide
Understanding local needs and differences
Why you should attend.
- Get across issues facing Procurement now and in future – and what you can do about them in practice
- Tap into new procurement thinking from specially recruited procurement thought-leaders and experts
- Hear real-world case studies from leading procurement practitioners and organisations often facing the same challenges as you.
- Network with colleagues and peers from around your region to connect, share and learn together
Programme.
7.30am
Hot Breakfast Served
8.00am
The ‘ECT’ theme for 2025 – building efficiency, collaboration and transparency
Lesley Wardropper – Managing Director, PASA and event MC
8.10am
With demands on the supply side growing exponentially, it is almost impossible for a small procurement team to fulfill every request and every objective in a short timescale. Balancing the needs of a wide range of stakeholders in a small agency, weighed against commercial imperatives, can be a real challenge for a few pressed people in procurement.
One solution is to “decentralise’ the procurement workload and share effort within a designed control framework – like at MCB in WA. Using purchasing cards, the three-quote rule, set spend limits, a one-page procurement policy and clear roles for their small team … they achieved more in six months than in the previous 16.
Adam Blackheart, Manager – Procurement & Capital Works, Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, WA Government
8.45am
An average of 9.2% of annual revenue is lost due to contract mismanagement according to a study by the World Commerce and Contracting association (WCC)
Indeed, the Top 10 systemic problems typically experienced by organisations when managing contingent labour are surprisingly consistent and, yet, can be largely solved in the same way through a digitally holistic ECT approach. Understand how you can automate to prevent being contractor-led in your payment process and avoid “paying in the dark” in future.
Delanie Sloan, SVP, Services, Management Controls
9.00am
Coffee Break and Networking
9.30am
Kulbardi is Australia’s largest Indigenous-owned holistic workplace supplier and a major supplier of stationery supplies amongst many other products.
Supporting indigenous-owned vendors as part of your Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) can provide a real flow-on effect to local Indigenous communities across Australia, including direct and indirect benefits such as
- Increased employment prospects for indigenous people
- Training and development opportunities
- ‘Bridging the Gap’ between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy
- Furthering the process of Reconciliation
- Contributing to a sustainable Indigenous business enterprise and Supporting and contributing to the Bibbulmun Fund, designed to build capacity in local communities and produce long term, sustainable outcomes
How is your RAP and your IPP delivering real results?
Kim Collard, Founder & Exec Chair, Kulbardi
9.45am
How do you progress beyond simple policy to achieve measurable impact and real results – especially on your IPP as part of any organisational RAP perhaps?
Understand the WA Government DoT Main Roads approach …
Dennis Kickett, Director, Aboriginal Engagement, WA DoT - Main Roads
10.15am
Across the utilities sector, procurement teams are under pressure to deliver faster, respond to changing needs, and build trust with diverse stakeholders — all without compromising governance or outcomes.
In this live panel discussion, Horizon Power leaders and Agile Procurement pioneer Henriette Kamfer join Twenty2 Collective’s Marcus Ward to share how a renewable energy project planning cycle was cut by 80% in a one day collaborative workshop — aligning internal teams, suppliers, and community stakeholders in record time and Innovation in procurement was demonstrated in utilities to rethink the future of metering technology.
This isn’t about cutting corners — it’s about transforming how procurement works through collaboration, transparency, and structured, time-boxed engagement.
You’ll learn:
- How utilities are rethinking procurement to be faster and more responsive.
- The practical steps to align diverse stakeholders quickly and effectively.
- A repeatable approach you can adapt in your own organisation to accelerate results without sacrificing rigour or relationships.
If you want to see what the future of procurement looks like — and how to get there — this is your session.
Marcus Ward, Lean Agile Procurement COACH, The Twenty-Two Collective
Richard Chin - Strategic Sourcing Manager Horizon Power
Bianca Eriygama - Procurement Business Partner Horizon Power
10.45am
AI Agents and Agentic AI are poised to transform enterprise procurement, offering significant opportunities for enhanced decision-making, improved supplier relationship management and optimised sourcing strategies. This session will outline how AI Agents are improving procurement operations, enabling efficiencies and creating new areas of opportunity for procurement teams and their organisations.
Tom Zielinski, Senior Director, Consulting & Services Leader ANZ – GEP
11.15am
11.25am
Event Ends
Secure your ticket.
Book for this event and pay online with a credit card.
Standard tickets are $93.50 + GST and $71.50 + GST per person including GST for PASA Connect members.
Alternatively, you can request an invoice for yourself, or your team attendance directly
from lesley@pasa.net.au T: 0413 029 709
**Please note that tickets are only available to procurement professionals on the “buy side” and not vendors, consultants or unofficial sponsors.
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What people say about our events.
The PASA conference was the best conference I had attended in many years – many practical advice and applications that my team and I can put to use straight away, a great investment of our time.
Procurement Professional
It was great to hear a wide range of presentations from a diverse mix of speakers, especially in person.
Procurement Professional
I very much enjoyed the depth and variety of skills experience of the presenters.
Procurement Professional