At CPO Outlook 2025, Michael Hansén, Chief Procurement Officer at SEB, shared a candid and inspiring story of transformation. With over two decades of procurement experience across industries, he joined SEB in 2021 to build a procurement function almost from scratch — within one of the Nordic region’s largest financial institutions. From a blank slate […]
People-Powered Procurement at CPO Outlook 2025
At CPO Outlook 2025, Michael Hansén, Chief Procurement Officer at SEB, will deliver the keynote “People-Powered Procurement: Transformation in a Risk Averse Environment.” Why this matters Driving transformation in a highly regulated, risk-averse industry is never straightforward. Yet procurement leaders are being asked to modernize processes, ensure compliance, and deliver cost efficiency. They are also […]
Agents, MAS and Real Transformation at CPO Outlook 2025
At CPO Outlook 2025, we are pleased to welcome Lars J Andersson, Partner at Carve Consulting, to share insights on what it really takes to move beyond efficiency talk and into procurement transformation that creates value. His keynote — “Agents, MAS and Real Transformation” — will address how procurement organizations can rethink roles, processes, and […]
EcoVadis join CPO Outlook 2025
EBG | Network welcome EcoVadis—a longtime partner and trusted guide in procurement-led sustainability—as an Expert Organization to CPO Outlook 2025. Since joining EBG | Network’s summits in 2016, EcoVadis has stood out not just as a sustainability rating provider, but as a constant advocate for turning intention into improvement. EBG commemorated that partnership. EBG noted […]
EBG | Webinar: Hidden Risks and Opportunities in Tail Spend Management
The New Urgency Around Tail Spend For years, tail spend has been seen as a transactional nuisance—an area too complex to manage effectively. But today, AI, automation and regulatory demands are reshaping how procurement leaders tackle tail spend. It’s no longer just about cost reduction; it’s about visibility, risk management and business resilience. This webinar […]
EBG | Play: AI in Procurement: Unlocking Efficiency, Trust and Strategic Value
What Did We Learn from the AI-Powered Procurement Webinar? Procurement and finance leaders today face a perfect storm of challenges: tightening margins, increasing compliance demands and the ongoing struggle to do more with fewer resources. While AI and Generative AI offer unprecedented opportunities, many organizations are still in the early stages of adoption, questioning where […]
EBG | Insight: What is procurement transformation?
Gathering different type professionals in a room – real or virtual – and allowing the group to share experiences is what EBG is all about. At Source to Pay Summit 2015 Andreas Bivall at Boliden moderated Theme Discussions about transforming procurement and below is a recorded summary interview about what was said. Next Source to […]