Alan is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply and has over 25 years’ experience of procurement in both the private and public sectors. He started his procurement career in the IT sector working for HP, before migrating to the automotive sector. Alan then moved into the public sector as Procurement Manager for NHS Scotland before joining the Housing Sector in 2007. He is now the Director of Procurement for Place for People Group and heads up the Procurement Hub consortium.

Darren leads a team of twenty-three procurement staff responsible for all procurement activity at Durham County Council. In 2016 Darren was awarded the Cabinet Office’s first ever award for Social Value Leadership for an Organisation. He is Chair of the Local Government Association’s National Advisory Group for Local Government Procurement and is the Chair of the National Social Value Taskforce.

Paul was initially a scientist, under taking a PhD in Polymer Physics at the University of Leeds, before joining Chemical giant ICI. He eventually joined their Contract Purchasing Group setting up international sourcing contracts for Engineering Equipment. He left to set up his own business in 1996, and since then has provided consultancy and training to a wide range organisations in the public and private sectors. He has carried out training programmes in Europe, USA, Middle East and Far East. Currently he focuses on UK Public Procurement, with a particular focus on developing SMEs.

Gemma has worked in procurement for nearly 20 years in both buyer and supplier roles, gaining valuable insights on what works best for both sides. She has worked with Capita, Siemens, Scottish Government, Proactis, and many other public sector bodies including housing associations, local government and health services. Gemma takes pride in staying on top of developments in the procurement sector and sharing this knowledge with others through a range of learning and development activities.

Guy Battle is passionate about the contribution that business can make to improve our society. This has been one of the driving motivations behind Social Value Portal, which he set up in 2015 to provide an online solution for measuring, procuring, and managing social value. Guy is also the creator of the National Social Value Measurement Framework (The National TOMs) that have become the most widely used methodology for measuring and reporting social value in the public sector. Outside of his work with SVP, Guy chairs the ESG committee for the British Council for Offices, focusing on environmental sustainability within office developments, and also chairs Riversimple, a zero-emissions mobility solution that builds and operates a growing fleet of hydrogen-electric vehicles.

Leah Mickleborough joined Norwich City Council in 2021 as a highly experienced local government officer. A chartered accountant and chartered manager, Leah has a particular interest in governance, having managed a wide range of services including procurement, democratic, elections, corporate support, legal and insurance shared services and community support. She has worked on major change and structural programmes in the sector, supported legislative change, advised on the development of sector guidance and on the governance of Council group companies. In her role, she is both Monitoring Officer to the Council, ensuring its administration and decision making is legal and sound, as well as holding the civic role of City Clerk of Norwich

Lynn has 24 years public procurement experience, predominantly with the Scottish Government, and has extensive experience of working with senior stakeholders from across the public and private sectors, managing complex supply chains, designing procurement best practice and leading procurement improvement programmes to maximise impact at local, regional and national level.

Neil Hind has worked across various private and public sector organisations advising and delivering on various procurement, programme and sustainability programmes. He is also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and holds an MBA from the University of Liverpool. He has previously held the roles of the Head of Procurement for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, was Head of Procurement at NHS England whilst implementing a new Commercial and Procurement team, and was the GM NHS Procurement Programme Director, setting up one of the first ICS procurement teams within the NHS. More recently he has been supporting Net Zero for Carbon & Social Value Projects for NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care and is now their Anchors Programme Lead looking at system approach in embedding the Anchor principals that includes social value.

Paul began his career in public sector housing working for Newark and Sherwood Homes in Nottinghamshire, where he spent 8 years, starting as a temporary finance admin officer before working his way up to procurement manager. Having managed tenant insurance, leaseholder properties, customer service, careline services and procurement he moved into the framework sector with Consortium Procurement in 2019. Today he works for national framework provider LHC, specialising in Construction, as the Regional Procurement Manager. Paul is passionate about procurement and helping to change the way procurement is done to open the public sector to the very best suppliers available.

Recognised by Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 as a leading expert in public law and procurement, Peter is the head of Browne Jacobson’s Government practice. Specialising in contentious and non-contentious procurement matters, Peter supports public and private sector clients to get the very best out of their regulated procurement activity. Peter’s extensive experience also means that he can advise clients on a variety of commercial matters for both government and supplier-to-government clients. Prior to joining Browne Jacobson, Peter was a special projects adviser for Nottinghamshire County Council – meaning he really understands the pressures faced by in-house counsel when leading major projects. Peter is also the Finance and Membership Secretary of the Procurement Lawyers Association, and on the editorial Board for Lexis Nexis Local Government.

Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement. She also leads the cross-firm Building a Safer Future team at Trowers & Hamlins. Rebecca is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world's leading government contracts lawyers (Who's Who Legal and Chambers and Partners). Rebecca has significant experience in advising clients in the public, private and third sectors on public procurement, subsidy control and building safety strategy issues. She advises clients on procurement strategy and structures, how to conduct flexible and compliant procurement procedures and compile objective and transparent evaluation models and guidance. With particular interests in value-led procurement, social value and building safety, Rebecca is a member of the Working Group 11 for Procurement Competency, part of the Competency Steering Group (CSG), set up by the Industry Response Group (IRG) to tackle competency failings identified in the Hackitt Review, Building a Safer Future and sits on DLUHC's Procurement Advisory Group. Rebecca also represents Trowers & Hamlins on the Social Value in Housing Taskforce, led by HACT, which focuses on the further development of robust measurement and management of social value outcomes. Rebecca also sits on the Advisory Council of Radioactive Waste Management, the public sector organisation established by government responsible for planning and delivering geological disposal of higher activity radioactive waste in the UK. Rebecca is ranked in Band 1 and named as a 'Top Ranked and Leader in the Field for Public Procurement (UK-wide)' by the Chambers and Partners' Guide to the Legal Profession 2022. She is also recognised as a Global Leader in the "Who's Who Legal Guide to Government Contracts 2021".

Rob has been Director of Procurement at the University of Bristol since 2018, where he leads all procurement activity, across commodity areas including professional services, IT services, building fabric and scientific equipment, prior to that he was Head of Procurement for Bristol City Council.

Sara is multi award winning socially driven business leader with 30 years’ experience leading both public and private sector organisations. Sara is motivated by a real desire to reach the most vulnerable and neglected members of society, raise their living standard, and see their dignity restored. During her time in the public-sector Sara delivered a range of frontline services that went beyond her role including mentoring young women at risk, creating specialist teams to tackle youth crime, working with women in prison to educate them about the dangers of arson and the delivery of Liverpool’s super zone The Fire Fit Hub (Fire Fit) that supports 100’s of young people. Seeing an opportunity to create an organisation that was truly capable of and committed to making a difference in people’s lives founded Rise Construction Framework; a business for good that uses profits to fund services that tackle some of society’s darkest issues.

Tom has supported procurement organisations across the breadth of the UK public sector in the design and running of complex, high profile procurements, and has extensive experience of managing complex supply chains, designing procurement best practice and leading procurement improvement programmes.