Agenda
The current agenda will be updated with additional details as they become available.
All times in EDT.
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join us for registration, networking, all-day food and beverages, and departure for Welcome Activities!
Prime 54 Restaurant, Fontainebleau Hotel
Icon Welcome Activities
8:00 AM - 4:45 PM
During registration, you chose one of the following:
7:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Deep Sea Fishing
Meet in Fontainebleau Main Lobby
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Golf and Lunch at Turnberry Golf Course, Miller Course
Meet in Fontainebleau Main Lobby
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Icon Pool Day in VIP Cabanas
Meet in Cabanas 27 & 28
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
South Beach Food & Art Deco Tour
Featuring five unique stops!
Meet in Icon Hospitality Room (Prime 54 Restaurant)
12:00 - 4:45 PM
Catamaran Sailing and Lunch
Meet in Icon Hospitality Room (Prime 54 Restaurant)
Icon Welcome Reception and Dinner
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Fontainebleau Hotel's Ocean Lawn (Rain Location: Flicker Ballroom, Fourth Floor)
Icon Registration
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Fleur de Lis Ballroom
Breakfast
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Prime 54 Restaurant, Fontainebleau Hotel
Welcome and Vision
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Fontaine Ballroom

Steve Yurko
CEO
apexanalytix
Networking Activity
9:00 - 9:15 AM
Fontaine Ballroom
Benchmark: Lay of the Land Right Now
9:15 - 9:45 AM
Fontaine Ballroom

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix
Morning Break
9:45 - 10:00 AM
Fleur de Lis Ballroom
Source-to-Pay Leadership Panel
10:00 - 11:15 AM
Fontaine Ballroom

Ray Swetnam
Director of Finance & Procurement
Koch Business Solutions

Michele Dacus
SVP, Treasury Operations & Shared Services
Highgate Hotels

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix
Establishing a Comprehensive Supplier Information and Risk Management Program. That Actually Works.
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Fontaine Ballroom
Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Splash 1 - 4, Lobby Upper Level
Breakout Sessions - Round 1
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Splash 13 - 16, Lobby Upper Level
SIM:
Accurate vendor master data without the painful manual tasks of onboarding suppliers. Hear how to automate supplier management and gain benefits from a clean vendor master.
Splash 13

Barry Cook
VP, Solutions Assurance & Pre-Sales Consulting
apexanalytix

Claudia Armenta Rentería
P2P Global Process Owner
CEMEX
Supplier Risk:
Is ESG your responsibility now? Learn how to get started on your ESG journey, no matter your company’s ESG persona—advocate, competitor, or complier.
Splash 14

Alan Lee
EVP and General Manager
apex ESG Enterprise

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix

Vishnu Kumar
ESG Director
apexanalytix
David Shepley
Director of Sustainability
FIVE Holdings
AP / Shared Services:
Practitioner to practitioner discussion on virtual payments. Which tools are you using to make virtual payments? Biggest challenges? Plans for 2023 and beyond?
Splash 15

Gregg Maxwell
Group Vice President NASC
Albertsons
Fraud:
Join a group of peers for a confidential discussion on payment fraud in your company and ways to prevent it in the future.
Splash 16

Akhilesh Agarwal
COO & EVP
apexanalytix

Ray Swetnam
Director of Finance & Procurement
Koch Business Solutions

Tammy Schneider
Business Process Manager - Supplier Enablement
Koch Business Solutions
Afternoon Break
2:30 - 2:40 PM
Splash 17 - 18, Lobby Upper Level
Breakout Sessions - Round 2
2:40 - 3:40 PM
Splash 13 - 16, Lobby Upper Level
P2P Transformation:
eInvoicing requirements are becoming more and more complex due to government regulation. Join the session to learn about upcoming requirements and how to comply across the globe.
Splash 13

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix

Garry Benjoya
Director of Sales
Kofax
Audit:
From consolidating global operations and migrating to a single ERP to deploying many digital tools to make better decisions. Join this session to hear how Verizon has optimized their shared services operations over the last ten years.
Splash 14

Lisa Espenshade
Associate Director, Accounts Payable
Verizon

Pete Erdner
VP, Commercial Operation
apexanalytix
Outsource, offshore, reshore, captive sites. Join this session for an open discussion on what you and other practitioners are doing to efficiently run their operations.
Splash 15
Supplier Risk:
Unfortunately, your suppliers’ lack of cybersecurity is now your problem. Join for a presentation on how to identify suppliers with the greatest cybersecurity risk and how to prevent disruption.
Splash 16

Charlie Clark
CEO
Darkbeam

Akhilesh Agarwal
COO & EVP
apexanalytix
Afternoon Break 2
3:40 - 3:50 PM
Splash 17 - 18, Lobby Upper Level
New Innovations in Supplier Information, Risk and Opportunity Management
3:50 - 4:15 PM
Fontaine Ballroom

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix
Off-Site Dinner and Networking Activities at CHICA Miami
5:00 - 10:00 PM
Meet at Departures Drive in the Fontainebleau Hotel
Icon Registration
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Fleur de Lis Ballroom
Breakfast
7:30 - 8:30 AM
Prime 54 Restaurant, Fontainebleau Hotel
Welcome Session
8:30 - 8:45 AM
Fontaine Ballroom
8:45 - 9:45 AM
One of the most renowned military figures of our time, recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of America’s 25 Best Leaders, and runner-up for Time Person of the Year, General Petraeus will be sharing his experience leading teams across storied military campaigns, at the CIA, and in business ventures.
Fontaine Ballroom

David H. Petraeus
Partner, KKR & Chairman, KKR Global Institute
KKR
Morning Break
9:45 - 10:00 AM
Splash 17 - 18, Lobby Upper Level
Breakout Sessions - Round 3
10:00 - 11:00 AM
Splash 13 - 16, Lobby Upper Level
Learn how to prevent inaccurate supplier data (Tax ID, bank account, diversity status) from entering your systems while getting rid of all the associated manual tasks.
Splash 13

Danny Thompson
SVP, Market and Product Strategy
apexanalytix

Chris Pardo
Chief Data Officer
apexanalytix
P2P Transformation:
Walk through how your peers are building business cases to effectively position new source-to-pay solutions as essential for the future of your operations.
Splash 14

Nicole Thomas
VP, Project Management & P2P Consulting
apexanalytix

Amy Platis
Director of Finance, APM
Northwestern Medicine

Tim Pidgeon
Controller Coodinator, GBS Finance
UPS
Fraud:
Benford’s Law, employee-supplier matches, high-risk postal codes, prepaid phones. All the fraud flags to identify suspicious suppliers that you are already paying.
Splash 15

Akhilesh Agarwal
COO & EVP
apexanalytix

Joni Geurts
Accounts Payable & Fraud Expert
Supplier Risk:
Managing supplier Certificates of Insurance (COI) is typically a tedious, manual process that takes up a lot of time and may not be accurate when an event happens six months later. During this session, we will walkthrough how apexportal and the Smart COI network can provide a new level of compliance and confidence for every supplier COI.
Splash 16

Rob Blanchette
Co-Founder
Certificial

Barry Cook
VP, Solutions Assurance & Pre-Sales Consulting
apexanalytix
Break
11:00 - 11:15 AM
Splash 17 - 18, Lobby Upper Level
Future Trends in Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Management
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Fontaine Ballroom

Dennis Frio
Senior Managing Director, Third Party Risk Management
PwC
12:00 - 12:10 PM
Fontaine Ballroom
Tuesday Closing Remarks and Drawing for a Free Trip to the Next Icon Conference
12:10 - 12:35 PM
Fontaine Ballroom
Lunch
12:45 - 1:30 PM
Prime 54 Restaurant, Fontainebleau Hotel
Airport Shuttles to MIA and FLL Airports
1:30 and 3:30 PM
Meet at Departures Drive in the Fontainebleau Hotel
Icon Giveback Activity
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Fleur de Lis Ballroom