1. About Category Week

 
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Category Week will be a new event in the CIPSA Conferences Schedule, running from 29th May to 1st June 2012 at the Australian Technology Park Conference Center, Sydney.

Combining the best elements of a number of established CIPSA Conferences, namely The Category Management Forum, Use of Technology in Procurement, and the series of one-day Special Category Forums, Category Week will contain a broad programme, run in multiple streams, with delegates having the option to book to attend as much or as little of the conference as meets their needs.

This survey is designed to assist the CIPSA Conferences team in confirming the event content, and to identify potential speakers.

Based on the feedback from this survey, we anticipate releasing the outline programme in early January and the full programme by the end of February.
Category week will contain a number of full and half-day streams focussed on specific indirect categories. The full day streams will contain an eclectic mix of sessions from category experts, category suppliers and case studies from leading category managers. The half-day streams will be similar, but obviously with a reduced number of sessions. This section of the survey seeks to confirm which categories we should be giving priority to and to identify both issues and potential speakers within those categories.

1. The following indirect categories are proposed for Category Week in 2012. Please answer yes or no if these categories are of interest to you at this time. (F) means we intend to run as a full day stream, (H) means we are currently planning to run as a half-day stream.

If you have any comments about the proposed categories, please write them at the end of this question.

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Software (H)
Contract Labour & Recruitment (F)
IT Infrastructure (H)
Energy (H)
Telecoms & Data (H)
Workplace Supplies (H)
Professional Services (H)
Marketing Services (H)
Print (H)

2. If you ticked yes to any of the categories above, could you please let us know for how many years you have been managing the category? (This will assist us to determine at what level we should try to set the content)

3. Are there other categories you would like to see addressed as part of category week? If so, which and for how many years have you been managing them?

(Please note that we have not included Travel as a category because it will be covered in detail at the BTTB event on 2nd and 3rd May at the same venue. A special offer will be made to delegates attending Category Week in relation to attendance at the BTTB event)

4. On a scale of 1-5 where 5 is most important and 1 is least important, how would you rate the following types of sessions to be included in a category forum?

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Supply market changes/developments
Legal Issues
Supply Market Engagement
Developing category strategies
Managing internal stakeholders
Role of technology in managing category