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A big thank you to the over 130 delegates who attended the Driving Sustainability in European Public Procurement Conference! A selection of photos from the day are available along with a short video summary of the day. To access the presentations from the day, please click here.

Organised by Forum Europe in partnership with Dell Technologies, this conference explored how governments can leverage their buying power more effectively to support the transition to a resource-efficient, energy-efficient and circular economy and foster sustainable economic development.

This high-level conference debated what the EU and Member States can do to further ensure a wider uptake in strategic public procurement at all levels of government, challenges and opportunities for procurement authorities and suppliers, as well as best practices from selected industries.

Speakers include

Jyrki Katainen

Vice President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness

European Commission

Marzena Rogalska

Director of the Directorate for Single Market for Public Administrations, DG GROW

European Commission

Marc Tarabella

Member

European Parliament

Kestutis Sadauskas

Director of Circular Economy and Green Growth, DG ENV

European Commission

Aongus Hegarty

President Europe, Middle East and Africa

Dell EMC

Inger Ek

Director General

Upphandlingsmyn digheten/ The National Agency for Public Procurement Sweden

Deborah Albers

Vice President

Responsible Business Alliance

Ilse Beneke

Head of Competence Centre for Sustainable Procurement

German Federal Ministry of the Interior

Louise Koch

Corporate Sustainability Director

Dell EMC

Peter Nohrstedt

Sustainability Manager

SKL Kommentus Central Procurement Board

Kilian Moote

Project Director

Know the Chain

Sören Enholm

CEO

TCO Development

Peter Defranceschi

Head of Brussels Office

ICLEI

Farid Yaker

Programme Officer

United Nations Environment Economy Division

Björn Claeson

Director

Electronics Watch

Please see below a video message from Marc Tarabella, Member, European Parliament who could not join us at the conference, but wanted to send some information about the work the Parliament are doing around sustainable public procurement.