Agenda

Where are US trade, food security and farmer competitiveness policy actually heading, and what does each mean for sourcing cost and availability? 

How are tariff decisions made, and which early signals matter to sourcing teams before disruption lands? Examine where political pressure is building , how to map exposure and how to secure priority before supply tightens. 

What does the procurement function become over the next decade, and who gets to design it? Examine the shift and the version of procurement that’s coming and what it asks of the people leading it.  

Procurement is being asked to own continuity, carry enterprise risk, protect margin and govern AI, usually without the resource or authority to match. How do leaders take control of that redefinition rather than have it done to them? Examine what it takes to own the COGS conversation at board level, and the governance and capability changes that make the rest possible. 

What’s moving across grains, proteins, dairy, oils and packaging, and what’s driving it? Expana’s senior price reporting analysts give a straight read on each category, followed by the forecasting team on the price drivers worth watching.

This session hands the floor to a senior leader willing to talk openly about a crisis they have lived through. Stay tuned for the speaker reveal!   

Most risk frameworks in food procurement were built for conditions that no longer exist, and decisions now must be made faster than the data supports. Who owns the call when procurement, finance and commercial all have a stake, and what have the best teams stopped doing to make room to act? 

Which suppliers warrant long-term partnership status, and what is that partnership worth when conditions change? Examine how leading organisations decide who to back, what relationship capital looks like in practice, and where partnerships return value in R&D, speed and priority. 

This panel puts both sides on the stage: how buyers earn priority through relationships, contracts and indexation, and how suppliers actually decide who moves up the queue when they cannot serve everyone. Where are you genuinely single sourced and does your most important supplier rank you where you think they do?

What’s the decision you made in the last 12 months that you’re least sure about now? An open conversation about the calls that are hardest to get right in a permanently disrupted market. What’s keeping us up at night. What moves the business and what’s just noise. What we’d cut tomorrow if we could.  

Five minutes  to work out what you’ll do differently. What’s the one thing you heard today that changes a plan you walked in with?  Everyone leaves with a Monday Morning Action Card: one decision changed, one exposure named, one action committed to.