CIPS Risk & Resilience Week 2025
CIPS Risk & Resilience is back for 2025! Over four days, we’ll explore the most pressing challenges facing procurement and supply chain professionals in today’s unpredictable world.
Reasons to attend?
Proven practical strategies for managing risk
Earn CPD hours from anywhere
Agenda
Meet the speakers
Hosts
Past Events
Operationalising contracts: how procurement gains speed without adding risk
Time to Lead: insights from the CIPS Global State of Procurement & Supply 2026
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CloseFor the past 8 years Peter has worked at CIPS collaborating closely with procurement leaders to understand their challenges and helping them find the right solutions. A CIPS product suite expert, Peter is all about building strong relationships, connecting procurement leaders with the right CIPS expertise or partners, supporting the capability development of procurement personnel and transformation and improvement of procurement function.
Scott is Sphera’s Vice-President of Product Management for Platform and the Operational Risk Management product line. He has responsibility for defining the market-driven direction, roadmap, vertical segmentation, and delivery of product in these areas. He has more than 28 years of enterprise software experience in the U.S and Europe with small, mid-size and large companies including Microsoft - as well as his own venture-backed startup. His focus is on empowering organizations to unlock the potential of digital transformation through forward thinking software solutions to enable the journey to digital operations. He initiated Sphera’s annual Safety Survey back in 2016 and has been published in industry and technology publications including, Hydrocarbon Processing, Harts E&P, Oil & Gas Journal, Plant Services, and many others. Scott has degrees from Tufts University and Georgetown University.
Dr. John Glen was a senior lecturer in Economics and latterly Director of the Centre for Customised Executive Education CCED at Cranfield School of Management in the UK. After 18 years at Cranfield John retired from the School at the end of September 2017 and is now a visiting fellow at Cranfield.
John has extensive experience as a facilitator of top teams working with talented leaders on innovation and growth strategies in 40+ countries and from many more cultures. His focus is on top team deliberations around strategy, innovation, operating models, leadership and culture to promote growth and strategic value for shareholders.
John has worked extensively with the Kuehne and Nagel organisation for the past 10 years. Currently, he advises the boards of Kuehne and Nagel UK, Kuehne and Nagel South and Central America, and has worked on a wide range of engagements across Europe with Kuehne and Nagel. John has also advised a number of regional boards of global orgainsations including G4S Africa and DP World (Europe).
As of November 1st 2012 John was retained by CIPS as their economic advisor. In that role, John is speaking widely to procurement and supply chain practitioners about the impact of Brexit. John is also a member of the Brexit impact group that reports to the National manager of Kuehne and Nagel UK.
John appears regularly on BBC radio and television commenting on the UK macro-economy, the UK banking industry and the economics and finance of sport.
John teaches on a number of international MBA programmes in Germany, Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands and has delivered executive education programmes to a large portfolio of corporate clients including Kuehne and Nagel, Jaguar LandRover, EMC2, Sony, Vodafone, REXAM, Pfizer, BAE Systems, Trust Re, Etisalat, ARI, HSBC and SABIC.
Sayan Debroy is a Product Leader and subject matter expert in Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM), specializing in the design of AI‑native supplier risk and risk intelligence solutions. He focuses on building scalable, execution‑driven platforms that address real‑world challenges across financial and operational risk, supplier ethics and compliance, supply chain resilience, and responsible sourcing.
Sayan works at the intersection of regulatory expectations, data constraints, and limited supplier engagement to deliver SaaS solutions that embed AI and automation at the core of risk decision‑making. Alongside product leadership, he has led end‑to‑end program setup, governance design, and analyst enablement to help organisations strengthen their TPRM and responsible sourcing capabilities.