8:30 AM  |  Vision

Steve Yurko, CEO of apexanalytix

8:45 AM  |  Welcome

Stephanie Atkin, SVP, Marketing at apexanalytix

9:05 AM  |  Networking Activity 

9:25 AM  |  Supplier Risk Management Strategies that Enterprises Need to Survive

10:00 AM  |  15-Minute Break

10:15 AM  |  Leadership Panel: How Global Supply Chains are Evolving

11:00 AM |  Expanding the Impact of Supplier Information and Risk Management

Danny Thompson, Chief Product Officer at apexanalytix

Akhilesh Agarwal, COO & EVP, Global Procure to Pay Solutions & Applied Technology

11:45 to 1:00 PM  |  Lunch

Round 1: 1:00 –2:00 PM

Scaling for Success: Transforming and Centralizing Supplier Management After Substantial Growth

Is your P2P team prepared for substantial growth? Join this session to learn about Highgate’s digital transformation journey as it expanded from 40 to 500 properties resulting in the management of thousands of new vendors.

• Identifying key factors for what is needed during a period of change and growth within your organization and P2P teams.
• How to effectively lead an RFP process and lead a digital transformation project with various stakeholders across different departments.
• Centralizing supplier management across multiple locations and establishing a shared services model to streamline vendor touchpoints and expedite onboarding.
• Leveraging a new supplier management solution with new internal processes to help reduce duplicates, increase compliance, mitigate risks, and prevent fraud.

• Kathryn Dunstan, Senior Director of Supplier Management and Optimization at Highgate
• Danny Thompson, Chief Product Officer at apexanalytix

Panel: Creating a Foundation of Control in Finance Operations

ERPs aren’t perfect when it comes to overpayment controls. Major disruptions, like ERP migrations or eInvoicing deployment, happening in tandem with enterprise obstacles like poor vendor master data or invoice submission problems, leave organizations vulnerable to spikes in overpayments.

This session focuses on how to create AP processes that safeguard your organization from overpayments—from leveraging an audit to recover lost funds, to implementing technology that prevents creates greater control.

• Sudhanshu Chopra, Director – Global Finance Processes at Cummins
• Phil Beane, COO & EVP, Global Transaction Compliance Solutions at apexanalytix

Roundtable Discussion: Strategies to Transform Shared Services in 2025

Start off the session with an overview of how a global sports apparel company recently transformed their shared services operations. Then, open up the discussion with the problems your team is facing, recent success and plans for 2025. Join a group of your peers for the candid conversations that can help your company solve problems.

• Pete Erdner, VP of Commercial Operations  at apexanalytix

Demo: Supplier Risk Management

See how Supplier Management amplifies the faint signals of risk across a broad spectrum of risk categories: financial health, cyber risk, sustainability and more.

• Derek Staloch, Director of Pre-sales at apexanalytix

Partner Session: TBD

Round 2: 2:20 – 3:20 PM

How to Create a Tight Choreography Between Supplier Information Management and Third-party Risk Management 

• Akhilesh Agarwal, COO & EVP, Global Procure to Pay Solutions & Applied Technology

Forced Labor Risks: A Compliance-Driven Approach to Supply Chains

During this session, we will first walk through the forced labor regulation and compliance requirements for companies operating in certain regions. Then we will share how companies can implement tools and processes to identify indicators of potential risk in their supply chain.

• Alan Lee, GM & EVP, ESG at apexanalytix
• Ed Struzik, CPIM – Partner, Supply Chain at ERM

Roundtable Discussion: Let’s Collaborate on Fraud

Kickoff the discussion with the latest and greatest technology to prevent payment fraud. Then have a private group conversation with your peers on fraud impacting your operations. From the constant phishing attempts to the near misses, share what you are doing to prevent the next event and learn from your peers that are facing the same problems.

• Danny Thompson, Chief Product Officer at apexanalytix

Demo: Supplier Onboarding & Management

See how automated supplier onboarding and ongoing management looks from both a supplier and buyers perspective. Hint: it’s a better experience for both.

• Derek Staloch, Director of Pre-sales, apexanalytix

Partner Session: TBD

Round 3: 3:40 – 4:40 PM Speed Networking

Join a topic-based speed networking room for 5 minutes with a practitioner that is interested in discussing the same topic that you are!

Round 4: 8:30-9:30 AM

Demo: Supplier Cyber Risk

Your suppliers’ cyber risk is now your problem. Learn how apexanalytix can assess cyber vulnerabilities and dark web threats to identify pathways to supply chain disruptions.

• Charlie Clark, General Manager & EVP, Cyber Risk at apexanalytix

Proactively Resolve Risk Across Your Suppliers and Customers

• Danny Thompson, Chief Product Officer at apexanalytix
• Chris Haydon, GM & EVP at apexanalytix

Roundtable Discussion: Ensuring Accuracy from Contracts to POs to Payments

Panel: Preventing Overpayments from Making It Out the Door

Mistakes like overpayments, duplicate payments, and payment errors can add up to cost companies billions each year. These mistakes happen for all kinds of reasons—from something as big as a complex software migration, to something as small as a mistyped extra zero on an invoice.

Preventing these payment mistakes from going out the door means that your money can be used to further your success. During this session, we will talk through how companies are leveraging apexanalytix overpayment prevention software to prevent mistakes…in the millions.

• Phil Beane, COO & EVP at apexanalytix

Partner Session: TBD

9:40 AM  |  Welcome

9:55 AM  |  Leadership Panel

10:40 AM  |  15-Minute Break

10:55 AM  |  Keynote

11:50 AM  |  Closing Remarks

Steve Yurko, CEO of apexanalytix

12:15 PM  |  Book Signing & Lunch

1:00 PM  |  Giveback Activity Presentation

1:30 PM and 3:30 PM  |  Complimentary shuttle to Nashville Int’l Airport BSN

1:30 PM -3:30 PM  |  Give Back Opportunity with Rise Against Hunger

Join us in creating meal kits with Rise Against Hunger. This is a growing global movement to end hunger by nourishing lives, empowering communities, and responding to emergencies. Targeting remote, last-mile communities within hunger pockets designated “serious” or higher by the Global Hunger Index, this giveback will supply those in need with their own food and nutrition security as they overcome these challenges.