Speakers

We have carefully curated two agendas in two time-zones packed full of keynote sessions, panel discussions, workshops and debates. We are delighted to welcome world-class speakers and business-leaders to the Vibe Summit stage. Get ready to be inspired!

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Bill Deckelman Jr.

Executive vice president, general counsel
DXC Technology

Read more Bill Deckelman is executive vice president, general counsel for DXC Technology. He serves as principal counsel and advisor to senior leadership and the Board of Directors. He has global responsibility for all legal, privacy, contracting, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and compliance activities, as well as government and regulatory affairs. Mr. Deckelman previously served as executive vice president and general counsel for CSC, with global responsibility for all legal, contracting and compliance activities. Prior to his tenure with CSC, Mr. Deckelman was executive vice president and general counsel with Affiliated Computer Services Inc. He also was an associate with the law firm Winstead Sechrest & Minick and a partner with Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr. Mr. Deckelman was an attorney with MTech Corp. before its merger with Electronic Data Systems Corp., responsible for mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Deckelman holds BA and MBA degrees from Arkansas State University; a Juris Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law; and an LLM degree in international business and economic law from Georgetown University Law Center.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Yau Cheng

Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
BNY Mellon

Read more As Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), Yau leads DEI strategy for BNY Mellon and its nearly 50,000-strong workforce, promoting DEI as drivers of organizational and individual engagement, performance and growth. She also engages with clients, peers, professional associations and nonprofits to share ideas, best practices and leverage broader stakeholder networks to accelerate DEI progress at BNY Mellon and across the financial services industry. Yau brings to the role her passion and expertise in inclusive leadership and harnessing the power of communications to build and strengthen talent experiences, client relationships and brand reputation. Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Yau specialized in communications strategy at Deloitte Global, leading global initiatives focused on enhancing marketplace eminence, brand differentiation and client consideration. She has also led executive communications for Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, served as Chief Marketing Officer for a tech start-up and as Director of Marketing for a professional services company. Yau started her career in financial services as an equity investment analyst, and has held roles in corporate development, M&A and private equity. Yau has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Illinois – Champaign/Urbana and a Digital Media Marketing certificate from New York University. She is a member of various D&I leadership forums, including The Conference Board’s Global Diversity & Inclusion Executives Council, SIFMA’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and Asia Society’s Talent & Diversity Council. Yau lives with her husband in New Jersey, and is the lucky stepmom to three boys. She enjoys cooking, hiking, biking and traveling. She also designs jewelry, and has been twice featured in InStyle magazine.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

John Elkington

Founder & Chief Pollinator
Volans

Read more John Elkington, Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans, is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business, and a highly regarded keynote speaker and contributor, from conferences to boards. In 2008, The Evening Standard named John among the ‘1000 Most Influential People’ in London, describing him as “a true green business guru”, and as “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable”. In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop, and alongside Muhammad Yunus of the Grameen Bank. John has addressed over 1,000 conferences around the world. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008. He has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards. John has won numerous awards and is the author or co-author of 20 books. The 20th book was published in April 2020: Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism (Fast Company Press).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Oliver Hart

Nobel Prize Winner, Professor at Harvard University

Read more Hart is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and has several honorary degrees. Hart works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. He has published a book (Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Oxford University Press, 1995) and numerous journal articles. He has used his theoretical work on firms and contracts in several legal cases. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Halla Tómasdóttir

Chief Executive Officer 
The B Team

Read more Halla Tómasdóttir is the CEO of The B Team, a group of courageous business and civil society leaders working together to transform business for a better world. Halla started her leadership career in corporate America working for Mars and Pepsi Cola. She was on the founding team of Reykjavík University where she established the Executive Education Department, founded and led a successful women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment initiative and was an assistant professor at the Business School. She was the first female CEO of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and later went on to co-found an investment firm with the vision to incorporate feminine values into finance. The company successfully survived the infamous economic meltdown in Iceland. In 2016 Halla was an independent candidate for the President of Iceland. She entered a crowded field of candidates and finished as the runner-up with nearly 30 percent of the vote.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A.

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music
Western New England University

Read more Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A. (it stands for Doctorate of Musical Arts), is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music at Western New England University. Her job is to run around waving her arms and making funny noises and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

William (Bill) Cox

Chief Executive Officer 
Aurecon

Read more Bill is Chief Executive Officer of Aurecon.

Aurecon operates in 10 countries across the Asia Pacific, with a team of over 5,500 engineers, scientists and advisors and a net annual revenue of approximately A$1.0 billion.

Prior to becoming CEO in February 2019, Bill was eight years in the role of Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, and has held senior operational positions within Aurecon throughout his over 30 years with the company. Bill’s engineering expertise has been focused on major transport infrastructure projects which he has been involved in across the Asia Pacific and the United Kingdom.

Bill is a member of the Aurecon Group Board and is Chair of the Group Health and Safety Committee. He also sits on the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Engineering and IT Industry Advisory Board.

Bill is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion in all forms and is a member of the Champions of Change STEM Coalition.

Bill was recognised by Engineers Australia as one of the Top 100 most influential engineers in 2015 and was appointed as a Fellow of Engineers Australia and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2019.

Under Bill’s leadership Aurecon received recognition in 2020 as the AFR BOSS Australasia’s Most Innovative Company as well as being named Most Innovative Professional Services Company. In addition, Aurecon’s Project Gilghi was recognised as Best Social Impact Innovation. Aurecon was further recognised by The Australian Financial Review as one of Australia and New Zealand’s Best Places to Work in 2021.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Andrew Mitchell

Director
General Exports and UK Trade

Read more Andrew Mitchell was appointed a Director General at the Department for International Trade in May 2020. Andrew was previously Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Europe, responsible for the Department for International Trade’s work promoting trade and investment with the countries of Europe. Prior to this he held senior positions in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Andrew led the government’s international work on Prosperity and was the FCO’s Director for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Andrew served in Germany and Nepal and was Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Sweden. Andrew’s work in the private sector focused on major international events, including World Expos and Olympic Games. In his current role as Director General for Exports and UK Trade, Andrew is responsible for the department’s work on exports, UK Regions and the Devolved Administrations, and global supply chains.

Robert Zafft

Speaker
Author, The Right Way to Win

Read more Robert Zafft’s introduction to business came in 1990s Russia, when bankers were getting blown up on Main Street at rush hour. The author of The Right Way to Win: Making Business Ethics Work in the Real World, Robert serves as a Forbes Contributor and WorldCC Fellow. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has served as a McKinsey & Company consultant, global law-firm partner, and Senior Expert for the OECD. He currently teaches at Olin Business School and practices law, Of Counsel, for Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, PC.

Bernadette Bulacan

Vice President, Lead Global Evangelist
Icertis

Read more Bernadette Bulacan is a frequent speaker regarding the digital transformation of global enterprises. As Vice President and Lead Global Evangelist for Icertis, the recognized leader in enterprise contract lifecycle management, she is charged with sharing contract management best practices with legal and contracting teams and evangelizing the use of innovative technologies like AI/ML and blockchain. Prior to Icertis, Bernadette was a co-founder and Assistant General Counsel of Serengeti Law, which created e-billing and matter management platform, Serengeti Tracker (acquired by Thomson Reuters.) She held leadership roles at Thomson Reuters and QuantAI, an intellectual property AI analytics start-up. Bernadette was recently named 2020 Women of LegalTech by the American Bar Association. Bernadette advised start-up technology companies at Graham & Dunn, a Seattle firm and Venture Law Group, a Silicon Valley firm. Bernadette received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her law degree and LL.M from the University of Washington.

Sally Guyer

Global CEO
World Commerce & Contracting

Read more Sally supports the World Commerce and Contracting global team in the pursuit of both the recognition of and excellence in Commercial and Contract Management. She is an experienced and accomplished commercial and contracts management professional, holding senior commercial positions at a range of corporate and multi-national organizations. After gaining an Honors degree in Law, Sally spent her time in the house in the corporate sector, where she worked globally in the Telecomms and IT industries, before establishing her own legal and commercial consultancy in 2007. Sally is passionate about enabling business efficiency and growth through contracting and commercial excellence; she understands the need for robust business operations to drive these efficiencies, together with the requirement for effective communication and collaboration at all times. Whether in contract development, negotiation, training or general communications, Sally has built a reputation for service excellence and responsiveness. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

Sharyn County

General Manager – Procurement, Property and Fleet
Jemena and Zinfra

Read more Sharyn County holds a Masters of Commercial Law (MComLaw) and Business Administration (MBA) and is a Member Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD). She also holds a number of World CC accreditations including Contract and Commercial Management Expert (CCME), Supplier Relationship Management Practitioner (SRMP) and Fellow. Sharyn's career has spanned more than 20 years in senior commercial roles across the energy, technology, engineering, construction, outsourcing and services industries. In addition to solid leadership skills, Sharyn brings a passion for, and demonstrated ability to deliver transformation and sustainable outcomes across the business, commercial and contracting lifecycle.

Stefania Passera

World Commerce & Contracting

Read more Stefania Passera is a contract design and visualization expert based in Helsinki, Finland. Her mission is to help her clients transform their contracts and policies into user-friendly, effective tools that work for business. With 10 years of experience in the field, her work ranges over information design, service design, user research, brand design, and user experience. After being awarded WorldCC Fellow status for her innovative work on contract design and simplification, Stefania has recently joined forces with WorldCC as a Contract Design Consultant and coordinates the WorldCC Contract Design Pattern Library project. Stefania is an all-rounder, holding one foot in business and one in academia: in addition to running her one-woman design consultancy, Passera Design, Stefania holds a Visiting Researcher position at the Helsinki University Legal Tech Lab. She earned her doctoral degree from Aalto University, writing her dissertation on how visualizations can enhance the comprehension and user experience of contracts. Her research has been published in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Stefania is considered a legal design and contract visualization pioneer: she is the initiator of Legal Design Jam, a co-founder of the Legal Design Alliance and a co-author of its Legal Design Manifesto, and a frequent keynoter on the topic. More details: www.stefaniapassera.com

Bruce Everett

Regional CEO for APAC
World Commerce & Contracting

Read more Bruce Everett has more than 30 years’ experience in the private sector (inc. financial services, utilities, telecoms) and public sector (inc. Defence, Immigration), in a career spanning project and line management, organizational change consulting, business development, and operational Contract & Commercial Management. Bruce is an expert in the design and delivery of complex strategic projects aimed at driving step changes in organizational performance, particularly where these require operating model and behavioral change. He has worked with ISG (www.isg-one.com), a global sourcing advisory firm voted World’s Best Outsourcing Advisor by IAOP and the International Association of Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM), advising members on procurement and commercial management strategy, assessment against best practice and industry benchmarks, contract definition and negotiations, and ongoing supplier management & governance services.

Tim Cummins

President
World Commerce & Contracting

Read more Professor Tim Cummins is founder and President of World Commerce and Contracting. He was inspired to start the Association by his work at the IBM Corporation, where he led global re-engineering of the contracting process and commercial organization. Through worldwide benchmarks, he recognized the importance of developing contract and commercial management as a distinct business discipline and competency. His research and influence have been recognized through appointment as a Professor of International Commercial & Contract Management in the school of law at the University of Leeds, and in 2019 as the winner of the Financial Times ‘Market Shaper’ Award. Prior to founding World Commerce and Contracting, Tim had a successful career in Corporate Finance and Commercial Management, working and leading high-value negotiations in the banking, automotive, aerospace, technology and services sectors. He was also a co-founder in two successful start-up businesses in the travel and technology industry. Tim is an active participant on a number of boards and commissions, with particular focus on matters such as public policy, social value and innovation. He is a regular keynote speaker at business and academic conferences.

Daphne Perry

Plain English consultant, writer and trainer for law and business
ClarifyNow

Read more Daphne Perry is a trainer, writer and consultant specialising in plain English for law and business, who previously worked in London as a commercial barrister and as the plain language co-ordinator for an international law firm. A plain English enthusiast since 1993, she is co-author of the Law Society’s textbook "Clarity for Lawyers" (3rd edition) and UK representative of Clarity, the international association promoting plain legal language. She writes on commercial contract law for Practical Law Commercial and has never turned down a challenge in contract simplification. For more information, see www.clarifynow.co.uk and her article, Why traditional legal terms are costing your business.

Kunoor Chopra

VP of Legal Services
Elevate Services

Read more Kunoor is VP of Legal Services at Elevate. In this role, she leads teams that design and implement solutions for litigation, contracts, M&A, compliance, and IP, combining people, process, and technology in innovative ways, empowering customers to modernize and optimize operations. Her vision has always been to create a platform that provides the most effective and efficient options to obtain, manage, and perform legal services. In working to achieve that vision, Kunoor has been instrumental in the legal industry’s transformation, from the early days of legal process outsourcing to helping build one of the leading law companies, Elevate. Through this work, Kunoor and her team meet the unique needs of sophisticated customers by providing the right resources for efficient service delivery, specialized domain expertise, and process efficiencies and visibility into the comprehensive services delivered. Kunoor is a recognized authority in the legal industry on topics related to women in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, legal outsourcing, right sourcing of legal work, and optimization of legal work. Kunoor is a College of Law Practice Management Fellow and a cochair of the South Asian Bar Association’s LGBTQ+ Section.

Barry Hooper

Chief Commercial Officer
UK Ministry of Justice

Read more Originally from Birmingham, Barry Hooper joined the Civil Service in November 2015, having held a number of senior posts within the financial services, telecoms and automotive sectors over the past 25 years. In Barry’s current roles as Chief Commercial Officer for the Ministry of Justice, he is responsible for £3.2bn of spend across over 4500 contacts. His responsibilities include the end to end commercial process from commissioning, sourcing, supplier management and third-party risk. Barry is also responsible for the operation of the department’s national distribution centre and fleet engineering services. Barry also plays a key role in the Government Commercial Function by helping to influence and develop the procurement profession throughout the entire public sector. Some of Barry’s other roles and responsibilities include: • Non-Exec Director for the International Association of Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) • A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) and fellows committee member. • Advisor to the Leeds University Business School • A member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing

Scott Alden

Partner - Construction Team - Sydney
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers

Read more With over 19 years’ experience, Scott specialises as a legal advisor on significant projects and procurements for government clients, including representing and advising the Regional Investment Corporation. In recognition of his position as a leading government lawyer, Scott was one of the first NSW Law Society Accredited Specialists in Government and Administrative Law (with a focus on government commercial and procurement transactions). Scott’s role of lead legal advisor to significant projects often incorporates legal, procurement and probity expertise on the same transaction to provide desired commercial outcomes and ensuring all due diligence is carried out. He is experienced in drafting and implementing key project documents under the broad suite of various contract models including market sounding/engagement documents, industry briefings, RFTs, tender evaluation plans, tender evaluation reports, service agreements, D&C and construct only, commercial contracts and agreements and legal advices to support decisions, mitigate risks and provide pragmatic and strategic advice.

Beatriz Antona Rodriguez

VP Group Head of Contract Managment - LCM
Atos

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Jacqui Archer

Positive Impact Commerce
 

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Ted Botzum

Executive-In-Residence; Partner
WorldCC, Aptitude Global

Read more Ted Botzum, an IACCM Executive-in-Residence, who joined IACCM after merging the BFSI sourcing roundtable network, Global SRN into IACCM, is an accomplished, business-focused sourcing, finance and IT executive with extensive knowledge of and deep experience in the marketplace. With leading commercial deal structuring in over $30 billion in transactions, he has an extensive background in deal structuring and negotiations, governance, vendor management, program management, finance, strategic development, asset sales / buy-backs, M&A integration, people and project management, IT services and business development. He has had leadership roles over the years at IBM, TPI Inc./Information Services Group (ISG), and UBS and currently leads IACCM’s BFSI network in addition to running his own advisory business. He has led and developed financial best practices that are used industry-wide. Teds holds an MBA in Finance from Fairleigh-Dickenson University and BS in Management from SUNY Binghamton. He is a CCM (Commercial and Contract Management) Advanced Practitioner, Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP), Professional Project Manager (PMP) and ITIL certified. As president and founder of The Michael Petrone Foundation, he has led community service efforts focused on a range of identified individual needs, including scholarships at Pope John Paul II and Kennedy-Kenrick High Schools. Ted currently resides in Raleigh & Wilmington, North Carolina.

Else Bright

Commercial Manager - Aircraft Sustainment and Training
BAE Systems Australia

Read more Else has worked for BAE Systems twice in Commercial lead role. The first period was from 2008 to 2012 and then again from 2017 to the present. During this time she has led commercial teams on proposals, won key negotiations and managed commercial team delivery in both the Defence and IT sectors. This work included developing pricing, contract and product models and required development and presentation of business proposals to Board level for approval. Else has also worked for CSC and Unisys in similar roles where her key strengths in IT and Defence were used to pursue new business while supporting project delivery on acquisition, systems integration and sustainment programs. She is highly skilled in resolving complex issues and has been successful in repairing relationships that have deteriorated and which required recovery of performance, while meeting KPI expectations and recovery of profit margins.

Danny Chan

Contracts Manager APAC & EMEA
Scenario

Read more Danny currently oversees all contracts & commercial strategies, across various contracts and jurisdictions in the APAC and MENA regions, for a global organisation. Danny has extensive international commercial management experience, gained from a variety of major construction projects throughout the UK, Hong Kong, Macau, China, Japan, and the UAE. Danny is professionally recognised as a member of The Chartered Institute of Building, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and World Commerce & Contracting as an Advanced Practitioner & Council Member. Danny has worked for internationally renowned consulting businesses and tier one main contractors on multi-billion dollar projects across a wide variety of sectors including, high speed rail, water, nuclear energy, theme parks, and pharmaceuticals. Danny holds an LLM in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, and a BSc in Commercial Management.

Barbara Chomicka

Consultant (Senior Project and Contract Manager)
Arcadis of New York, Inc.

Read more Barbara Chomicka is a creative thinker and problem solver: a registered architect and certified project, contact and commercial manager, she has been combining the design and management disciplines for over 20 years, optimizing the delivery of projects and programmes. She has received two doctorate degrees from British universities and has produced a body of published work endorsed by the leading global professional associations. She is a recognized thought leader in the areas of complex projects delivery, social value and ethics in contracting, recognized with fellowships for significant contribution to project, contract and commercial management professions. Her professional, academic and voluntary work has been recognized with APM Herbert Walton Award, Women in Construction Project Manager of the Year Award and Communitas Making the Difference Award. Her approach to life exemplifies her belief that everything we face is a project – a collaborative enterprise requiring the right methods to resolve it. In her thought-provoking writing and presentations, she promotes a 360-degree duty of care inside and outside of work.

Joanne Chuang

Head of APAC
Syke

Read more Joanne is the Head of Data Services, Triage and Matter Management at SYKE Legal Engineering. Her role aims to set and deliver the strategy for SYKE’s Data Services and AI technology workstream in the APAC region. Joanne manages a team of legal engineers based in Australia, Malaysia, Singapore and India. Her experience in legal technology is extensive which has enabled her to lead and manage large scale global legal transformation projects, end-to-end implementation of contract lifecycle and automation tools, develop bespoke workflows and train artificial intelligent contract abstraction tools for local and global clients. Joanne read Law at the University of Durham, UK and is a dual qualified lawyer with more than 15 years of private practice experience in the UK and Malaysia specializing in technology and intellectual property. Joanne was previously a lawyer at Field Fisher Waterhouse and Baker & McKenzie. Joanne was also the Head of Legal and Global Project Manager at Unilever where she successfully led Unilever’s global legal transformation project and implemented and managed the end-to-end roll out of its legal transformation journey across 33 countries. Joanne was nominated in the Asian Legal Business top 3 In-House Lawyer of the Year Award in 2017 and recipient of Unilever’s World Class Legal Winner in 2015, 2016 and 2018. Joanne is proud of being at the cutting edge of data driven legal innovation and has a keen interest in the interaction between human and technology through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Craig Conte

Managing Director, Contracts Consulting
Deloitte Legal

Read more Craig is the Partner responsible for Deloitte’s Contracts Legal Management Consulting team and has been working in contracting, contract management and tech enablement for over 20 years. Craig’s team focuses on optimizing the end to end contracting and then post-signature contract and commercial management processes for companies. They do this with a focus on business outcomes, lowering the cost of contracting and increasing the speed and efficiency of each process. Additionally, the team has unique expertise in creating contracting Centers of Excellence hubs and deploying contract enablement technologies, having assisted with the selection, implementation and management of dozens of platforms for many clients globally. Craig is a qualified US lawyer who has practiced outsourcing and IT transactional law

Ines Curtius

Head of Contract Governance Space Systems
Airbus Defence and Space

Read more That was the reason for Ines Curtius, Contract Innovator at Airbus Defence and Space to go to law school in Munich. For Ines cooperating with and including all various functions and business areas to build good, simple and understandable contracts have been key in her life. Another area of passion of Ines is giving internal trainings at Airbus to explain law and contracts in an international context. Since 2003 she has been designing and conducting approximately app. 100 sessions and is continuously doing so. Fortunately she was able to start in 2017 an Airbus wide initiative “Contract Innovators@Airbus” to explore how digital transformation in all its forms, be it legal tech or legal content wise is impacting the way Airbus is handling their contractual relationships. The ContractInnovators also won 2019 the IACCM global award for innovation and excellence - strategic direction. The award is given to initiatives that have raised the strategic profile and contribution of the commercial or contracting process or function. Ines is a fully qualified lawyer and has twenty years of experience in the Aerospace industry sales and buy side. Her focus areas are: international business law, designing and giving legal trainings to non-legal people, design thinking, driving and making things happen. She has been working in the space and defence domain of Airbus since 2001 in various functions and areas.

Christina Demetriades

General Counsel, Europe - Global Sales & Delivery
Accenture

Read more Christina is the General Counsel, Europe for Accenture, leading a team of almost 1000 legal professionals who support our European Business. Christina also leads legal support for Accenture’s client-facing business globally in her leadership of Sales and Delivery, Legal. In this role she leads a team of approximately 1,500 people in 48 countries who support Accenture’s sales and client delivery teams. Christina is a member of Accenture’s Global Leadership Council, Client Capital Committee and Ops Council. Since September 2020, Christina has taken on the role of Strategy and Enablement lead for Legal with a particular focus on technology and innovation.

Sam Edmonds

Principal, Buyer Services
Social Traders

Read more Sam is the Principal of Buyer Services at Social Traders and has been integral in establishing Social Traders’ marketplace from a pilot in 2015 to its current 100+ corporate and government members and well over 400 certified social enterprises. Sam leads Social Traders’ work with business and government members to embed social procurement across those organisations and facilitate connections with social enterprises as a way of addressing disadvantage across Australia. Sam’s background spans environmental planning, sustainable business entrepreneurship and leading a growth agenda as the CEO of a social enterprise. Her first hand understanding and knowledge of the social enterprise market provides valuable insights for government organisations and businesses looking to unlock the potential that social procurement offers to change lives and improve communities.

Matthew Friedman

CEO
The Mekong Club

Read more Matt Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 30 years of experience. He is CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong’s leading businesses which have joined forces to help end all forms of modern slavery. Mr. Friedman previously worked for USAID and the United Nations in over 30 countries. Mr. Friedman offers technical advice to numerous governments, banks, and corporations working to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and is the author of twelve books. In 2017, Mr. Friedman won Asia’s prestigious “Communicator of the Year” Gold Award.

Adrian Furner

Managing Director
Kommercialize

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Grace Hamilton

Contracts Manager
Municipal Association of Victoria

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Fraser Hill

General Manager Digital, Systems & Process Innovation
Shell

Read more I lead the digital transformation agenda within the managed supply chain across Upstream and Downstream in Shell. My team of 120 staff is accountable for all technology, process design, AI, big data and digital innovation. Shell has $50 Billions of procurement spend across many tens of thousands of vendors eachvyear. My team ensures that we have the processes and supporting platforms to manage this vendor ecosystem in a cost effective way that enables value delivery for the group. We look after the technology ecosystem across CLM, Assurance, Big Data, SAP, across Upstream/Downstream/Igne and Projects & Technology. I own the Digital Strategy concept to delivery across Shell Supply Chains which will contribute $2—3Bn of enterprise value.

Hiroyuki Inuma

Contract Executive, Contracts & Commercial Management
Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.

Read more Hiroyuki Inuma, Contract Executive (Senior Business Program Manager), at Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. As a professional services contract manager and negotiator at Microsoft Japan, he has handled Microsoft Consulting Services and Support Services contract reviews and negotiations covering Japan, Korea, India and Hong Kong begore since 2013. Before joining Microsoft, he was a legal/contract counsel and procurement contract specialist at Hewlett-Packard Japan for 10 years handling professional services agreements, outsourcing agreements, product sales agreements, product support agreements, partner master agreements, software end-user license agreements and software reseller agreements. Before that, he was a legal/contract counsel and procurement contract specialist at Minolta Japan for 4 years handling product sales agreements, product support agreements with multiple countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, US, Italy and product manufacturing outsourcing agreements with Hong Kong/China. He received LL.M. degree in the U.S. and LL.B. degree in Japan.

Richa Kaul

Chief Strategy Officer
ContractPodAi

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Mirko Kleiner

President
Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance

Read more Mirko Kleiner is the President of the Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance, Thought Leader in Lean-Agile Procurement, CIPS Award Winner 2018, international speaker and co-founder of Flowdays – The Agile Cooperative. Mirko supports their customers as an Agile Enterprise Coach on their journeys to create a positive impact for their employees, customers and shareholder. He can be contacted via lean-agile-procurement.com.

Sebastian Ko

Managing Director APAC
FiscalNote

Read more Sebastian Ko is a legaltech lawyer and entrepreneur, and a co-author of The RegTech Book and The LegalTech Book (Wiley). He is an IACCM Council Member, MIT Technology Review Global Panelist and Law Society of Hong Kong InnoTech Committee Member. He was senior legal counsel and Asia regional director at a leading legaltech company. Previously, he practised financial regulatory law and commercial dispute resolution at international law firms. Mr. Ko is a trainer at the Hong Kong Academy of Law, an accredited mediator and certified IACCM Advanced Practitioner. He holds degrees in science and law, including the Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxon), and is legally qualified in Hong Kong, New York and at the U.S. Supreme Court.