Here is just some of the incredible content we have on offer this month!

Expo City Dubai: The evolution of procurement
We see how procurement is underpinning the growth of a brand-new city, with Expo City Dubai’s procurement leaders. We speak to Anis Tabka, (SVP Procurement & Contracts), Hani Al Najjar (Director Of Procurement), Bogdan Cotirlan (Procurement and Contract Director) and Munmun Khaitan (Senior Manager of Procurement and Contracts)…
The Middle East is changing. Possibly nowhere on Earth has transformed as quickly and dramatically.
Dubai is a city spearheading this transition. Its city limits are pushing further and further in every direction, as the UAE metropolis undergoes incredible growth.

Dubai is the focus of much of the world’s attention on the Middle East. None more so than when Expo 2020, the first World Expo in the Middle East North Africa & South East Asia region, attracted over 24 million visitors, despite the challenges of a global pandemic.
The theme of Expo 2020 was “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future” with three subthemes: Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability. Such was the scale behind the planning and delivery of the event, the ambitious project required highly experienced and talented project leaders and teams. From a procurement and supply chain perspective, that person was Anis Tabka.
With a CV that lists some of the world’s biggest enterprises – latterly with Siemens and Du across multiple continents – Tabka was appointed as Expo 2020’s Chief Procurement Officer in 2019. A safer pair of hands they would have struggled to find…
Ping Identity: Customer-first Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
Digital identity is the lifeblood of every organisation because it is both the entry point, and gateway to great user experiences.
Ping Identity’s platform is a one-stop shop for managing identities, access, and governance. The company works with enterprise organisations to manage more than eight billion digital identities around the world to deliver best-in-class customer experiences combined with uncompromising security through its AI-driven platform. Ping helps these organisations protect their employees and customers from significant challenges such as fraud, data breaches and account takeovers.

Matthew Row is the Global SS&P Director at Ping Identity. Like many before him, Row fell into procurement by accident and even had to ask what procurement was after being offered a graduate role in the function. “Since then, I’ve had so much fun delivering business transformation from building cost management in financial services after the financial crisis to establishing greenfield procurement functions in rapidly growing technology companies,” he tells us. “The most recent experience is in building SS&P functions in private equity owned technology companies over the last five years. I’ve had fun taking the best practice I’ve learned from working in leading SS&P functions in the FTSE100 and pragmatically applying this in smaller technology companies. It’s enabled me to deliver award winning SS&P functions rapidly by rightsizing the function for the business and enabling it to scale rapidly as the business grows.”