Kenny Cheung

CPO
The World Bank Group

Kenny heads the World Bank Group’s procurement and vendor management effort globally across 130+ locations, and is undergoing a modernization agenda for the function to improve its efficiency, governance, value generation and sustainability of its ~26,000 vendor base. Before joining the Group, Kenny was the Executive Director and Global co-Chief Procurement Officer at Goldman Sachs, responsible for the delivery of a number of industry leading commercial, vendor risk management, and sustainable supply chain initiatives across 97 cities and 35 countries. Kenny also had a long career with the National Australia Bank Group and ExxonMobil Corporation where he spent much of his time in procurement transformational roles. Kenny has an Executive MBA from the Australian School of Management and Honors in Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He is married with three children, a keen cyclist and violinist, and an active member of his local church.

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Monday, October 22, 2018

1:40 PM Driving Innovation and Business Value With Cognitive Procurement

Recent studies show that 65% of the total value of a company’s products and services comes directly from its suppliers resulting in the possibility that even an incremental improvement in efficiency can drive huge gains. See how to boost procurement savings beyond the low-hanging fruit leveraging cognitive computing. Witness how this transformational strategy empowers human procurement professionals to do more than they possibly could using traditional technologies alone through better, faster and more reliable access to information.

Choosing the best Procurement processes to drive value with cognitive computing
Transforming Sourcing events to help with price point tasks
Making the contract negotiation process shorter, smarter and more thorough

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

10:45 AM Panel: How, Why and In What Ways Digital Impacts the Value Chain From Source-to-Pay

Companies that sell products and services are going through a transformation as a result of deep dive access and insights into customer behaviors. Enabled by digital connectivity, and slice and dice data integration capabilities; access to real-time analytics provides a platform for the smart business to connect across the value chain. Outcomes-based business models for SVP increasingly couple product functionality and services, creating turn-key customer support. This session addresses the strategies, building blocks, and applications that best leverage the new digital advantage for procurement risk mitigation and cost optimization. See how an industry leader exploits the promise of digital: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud-technologies, spend analytics and more.

· Exploring an enterprise use-case scenario: promise, perils and potential

· Hearing how IoT is changing product companies into IT companies and why it matters

· Knowing where to start, key challenges to adoption and compliance