Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

2023 SUMMIT

August 14- 16, 2023 | Atlanta, GA

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Thank you for a great Summit!


We were so pleased to have each one of you participating, sharing your knowledge, and taking away the mutual learning and support that is the hallmark of the SPLC community. Let’s keep the momentum and connections going and continue building our exchanges for learning, maturing, and reflecting together to move this work forward.

Slides from each presentation can be found in the Summit app.

View photos from the event here.

Watch our highlight video below.

Meet our Keynote Speakers!

Dr. Elouise Epstein, author of Trade Wars, Pandemics, and Chaos: How Digital Procurement Enables Business Success in a Disordered World, is a digital futurist and Kearney partner based in San Francisco. She has over two decades of experience working as a trusted adviser working with clients to develop digital procurement and supply chain strategies. 

Dr. Epstein will be our featured keynote speaker on Tuesday, August 15th. 

Vonshe Jenkins, SVP Global Supplier Diversity & Responsible Sourcing at Bank of America.

A longtime practitioner and leader in the diversity and sustainability space, Ms. Jenkins will share her journey, and Bank of America’s, toward a comprehensive approach to sustainability and equity and encourage Summit attendees to recognize and embrace procurement’s increasing power to drive transformative change.  

Ms. Jenkins will be our featured keynote speaker during breakfast on Tuesday, August 15th. 

Training Tracks

The 2023 Summit will offer two new dedicated training tracks to deliver SPLC’s core knowledge.

Leadership Awards

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Sponsors & Exhibits

Be seen by sustainable purchasing trendsetters. Exhibit or sponsor the Summit.

Meet and network with peers from organizations like:

  • A&W Food Services of Canada

    Abbott

    Action Sustainability

    AIG

    Alameda County

    Allstate

    Ally Financial Inc.

    Ameren

    Apex Clean Energy

    apto solutions

    Aramark and Avendra Group

    Aramark Avendra

    Aramark/Avendra

    Arizona State University

    Auburn University

    Bangor Savings Bank

    Bank of America

    BIFMA

    BOSTON UNIVERSITY

    CAMSC

    Centene Corporation

    Center for Environmental Health

    Center for Resource Solutions

    Ceres

    City of Austin - Austin Resource Recovery

    City of Kansas City, MO - Procurement Services

    City of Miami Beach, Florida

    City of Pittsburgh

    City of Santa Monica

    Clover Imaging Group

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts Operational Services Division

    Compass Group

    Con Edison Company of New York Inc

    Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC/Sustainability and Stewardship

    Deloitte

    Department of Defense

    Eco Geo Solutions, LLC

    Ecolab

    EcoVadis

    EDF

    Effecterra, Inc.

    Emory University

    Entergy

    Environmental Defense Fund

    ETCH Sourcing

    Ethix Merch

    ExxonMobil

  • FHWA

    Food Packaging Forum

    Friends of the Earth/Western Carolina University

    US General Services Administration

    Global Electronics Council

    Green Seal

    Greenly

    GSA

    Guardian Life Insurance

    Health Care Without Harm

    Hennepin County

    Hess Corporation

    Holiscentia

    Ignatian Solidarity Network

    Intengine

    Interface, Inc.

    Joan Kerr Strategies

    Johns Hopkins University

    Kaiser Permanente

    KEARNEY

    King County

    Kloopify

    Leidos Biomedical Research Inc.

    Los Alamos National Lab

    LSInextGen

    Mastercard

    Meta

    Milliken & Company

    Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy

    MIT

    Multnomah County

    National Grid

    Native, A Public Benefit Corporation

    Noblis

    Nordstrom

    Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

    Pacific Gas and Electric Company

    PAHO

    Paramount

    Passport Foundation

    Physicians Realty Trust

    Planet Price

    Portland Bureau of Transportation

    PowerSpeaking, Inc.

    PX3

  • Reeve Consulting/CCSP

    Rijkswaterstaat / Circular and Fair ICT Pact

    Rose International, Inc.

    RyeStrategy

    S&P Global

    Salesforce

    Sandia National Laboratories

    ScottMadden, Inc.

    SERI

    Smart Rain

    Sodexo

    SPLC

    State of Oregon

    Stok

    Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council

    Tampa Bay Water

    TCO Development

    The Nature Conservancy

    The University of Texas at Austin

    TIAA

    Truist

    Truist Financial

    U.S. Environmental Protect

    UC Berkeley

    UC San Diego

    UCLA Business and Finance Solutions

    UCOP

    University of California

    University of Colorado

    University of Georgia

    University of Oregon

    University of Pennsylvania

    University of Virginia

    US EPA

    US General Services Administration

    USDA

    Vertaeon LLC

    Villanova University

    Visions Management

    Vistra Corp

    WAP Sustainability

    Wells Fargo

    WestRock

    WSP

    WSP, USA

    Y12

    Yale Carbon Containment Lab

    Yale University - Carbon Containment Lab

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