Evolve 2013 Agenda

Drinks and Hors D’Oeuvres

Chris Kennedy - Vice President of Consultative Services, Periscope Holdings

Come learn about Arizona's award-winning key performance indicator (KPI) project and the enabling technology, business process changes, and project approach. Chris Kennedy, Periscope's VP of Consultative Services, will walk you through the project, dashboards, and results.

Matt Walker - President of NIGP Code Services, Periscope Holdings

This session will provide updates regarding the NIGP Code business throughout the year 2012. We will discuss exciting new developments with Periscope’s Code-related business and lay out plans for this business going forward. Find out about programs that may appeal to your unique procurement needs.

Brent Maas - Executive Director for Business Strategy and Relationships, NIGP

Come hear the latest from the industry's leading organization. In 2013, NIGP will launch many new procurement operations and management support resources. During the first quarter of this year, NIGP has already announced partnerships that provide NIGP members access to two important services that strengthen due diligence and risk mitigation processes while extending transparent practices: online reference checking and commodity price indexes. Brent Maas, NIGP's Executive Director for Business Strategy and Relationships, will review these new offerings and other to-be-announced services that will be available online in the first half of 2013.

Gilbert Tuhabonye is an accomplished runner, motivational speaker, and philanthropist. He is the author of This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness (HarperCollins Publishing, 2006), the harrowing tale of his courageous escape from one of the massacres in the long Tutsi-Hutu war of Burundi.

In October of 1993, members of the Hutu tribe invaded Tuhabonye’s high school and captured more than 100 Tutsi children and teachers. Most of the captives were killed with machetes; the rest were burned alive. After spending nearly nine hours hidden beneath the burning corpses of his classmates and suffering burns over much of his body, Tuhabonye managed to escape and seek medical attention.

By 1996, his running skills took him to the United States as part of an Olympic training program. He obtained a track scholarship at Abilene Christian University and was a national champion runner.

Tuhabonye is the award-winning coach of Gilbert’s Gazelles Training Group in Texas. In 2006, he cofounded the Gazelle Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve life for people in Burundi without regard to tribal affiliations.

Jeff Brownlee - Chief Procurement Officer, State of Michigan

Dustin Lanier - Principal, Civic Initiatives