Procurement Says No Ep23 ProcureCon - Events, dear boy

Rich and Ed discover all there is to know about hosting your very own Procurement Event - with special guest stars Frank Musero and Michael Dunlap of ProcureCon; which only happens to be one of the biggest organisers of global procurement events!We ask Frank and Mike - what is ProcureCon all about; how many events do they hold; how long these things take to organise; how do they deal with terrible speakers and drop outs; what's in it for sponsors; and most importantly, what's in it for you, dear listener; and whether Taylor Swift or Guns 'n' Roses are playing ?   And how crazy does it get when things go wrong (and right!).Plus we've got news about Trump's tariffs from Columbia and Ericsson (who managed to predict this at least 2 years ago); no news as usual from CIPS (and a plan to fix it)...and a whole new world of agentic AI which is coming soon.   All this and DeepSeek - or is that SkyNet - and setting fire to the sky (again).And where exactly is Eswatini and where else has the world's top Procurement podcast been downloaded this month?Wherever you are, you know what to do - click the link!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/procurement-says-no--5886102/support.