Procurement has never faced more pressure to balance cost, compliance, and competitiveness — while simultaneously tackling risk and sustainability expectations that reach far beyond tier 1 suppliers. At CPO Outlook 2025, these realities take center stage through a series of keynotes, panels, and interactive roundtables designed to explore how risk, resilience, and sustainability can move from ambition to daily action.
Insights from EBG | Xperience Gothenburg
During the spring EBG | Xperience Gothenburg workshop, participants mapped their current supplier risk maturity. The results showed a clear pattern:
- Many organizations are stuck between manual and automated processes, struggling to turn data into predictive insights.
- Risk is often acknowledged at a strategic level, but embedding it into daily procurement actions remains fragmented.
- When it comes to risk data, companies risk drowning in dashboards — highlighting the urgent need to make information actionable rather than overwhelming.
As one participant noted, “We don’t lack signals — we lack clarity on who acts, when, and how.”
These findings set the stage for the conversations in Stockholm this October.
Risk, Resilience & Sustainability at CPO Outlook 2025
Throughout the two-day summit, leaders will share concrete cases of how to structure, embed, and scale procurement’s role in managing uncertainty (see the >>agenda here):
- Keynotes
- Responsible Sourcing: Building a Resilient and Sustainable Future — Lisa Lidén, SSAB (enabled by Ivalua)
From Ambition to Action — Sustainability in Procurement — Gunnar Büchter, Yanfeng (enabled by Prewave)
- How do you structure supplier risk management for real action — not just awareness? — Aneesh Venkataraman, Dentsply Sirona
- Responsible Sourcing: Building a Resilient and Sustainable Future — Lisa Lidén, SSAB (enabled by Ivalua)
- Panels & Workshops
- Sustainability Without Illusions: Making Regulations, Expectations & Ethics Part of Procurement Strategy (Equinor, Solar, Essity, Cirio)
Rethinking Supplier Sustainability — From Compliance Burden to Competitive Edge
- How do you build a risk-aware procurement community that acts with confidence?
- Sustainability Without Illusions: Making Regulations, Expectations & Ethics Part of Procurement Strategy (Equinor, Solar, Essity, Cirio)
- Roundtables
- Managing risk beyond tier 1 (Prewave)
Supplier Data Mastery: Turning Procurement into a Strategic Powerhouse (Ivalua)
Decarbonization without derailing cost (EcoVadis)
- Operationalizing Supplier Risk through Data & Ownership (Dentsply Sirona)
- Managing risk beyond tier 1 (Prewave)
More Than a Conference: Experience Exchange in Practice
What sets CPO Outlook apart is not just what is discussed, but how. Every delegate takes part in multiple roundtable discussions, each designed for open peer exchange and repeated twice to ensure diverse perspectives. Workshops allow participants to dive deeper into complex issues — from structuring supplier risk to building procurement communities that act with confidence.
This format ensures that risk, resilience, and sustainability are not only explored through presentations but translated into conversations that matter — where leaders can compare experiences, ask tough questions, and leave with practical ideas.
From Mapping to Market Reality
The Gothenburg mapping sessions made one thing clear: procurement leaders know the what — risks, ESG demands, data overload — but struggle with the how. CPO Outlook 2025 provides the platform to exchange practical solutions: – Who owns risk across functions?
– What data is “good enough” to act on?
– How can procurement maintain credibility when ESG ambition collides with business realities?
With input from expert organizations such as Ivalua, Prewave, EcoVadis, SAP, Coupa, GEP, JAGGAER, Zycus, and more, CPO Outlook 2025 ensures that risk and sustainability are not discussed in isolation, but as part of the broader transformation of procurement.
🔗 Read the full EBG | Xperience Gothenburg Post-Report (81 companies sharing their views):
EBG Xperience 2025 Post-Survey Report
🔗 Register for CPO Outlook 2025, October 15–16 in Stockholm:
cpooutlook.com/registration