Contract Value Leakage

Companies lose on average 9 % of their annual revenue due to contract value leakage. Why and what to do about it?

Welcome to an evening with Tim Cummins, the world’s leading expert on commercial and contract management, President of IACCM, the global contract management association, followed up by a panel discussion and company presentation of three Finnish start-ups.

Seats are limited and will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. The event is free of charge. Please register by 13 September.

Agenda

15:30  Coffee

16:00 Welcome
Sami Rintala, Partner, Technology & Sourcing, DLA Piper 

16:20 Contract Value Leakage - Designing a new approach 
Tim Cummins, IACCM

17:00 How Dealsign.ai helps you to reduce Contract Value Leakage 
Tero Valkiala, CEO, Dealsign.ai

17:10 Contract mill – A new way to do contract automation and templates 
Kaisa Kromhof, CEO, Contract Mill Oy

17:20 Vontract – video contracts
Tomas Westerholm, CEO, Sessio Software Oy

17:30 Panel Discussion - Identifying and reducing Contract Value Leakage - where to start? 
Real life examples and cases

Tim Cummins, President IACCM
Teemu Marttinen, Chairman LOGY IT Procurement forum
Arto Mäkinen, Head of Commercial Contract management, Tieto Oyj

18:00 Drinks and snacks
 -19:00

Contract Mill, Sessio Software and Dealsign have demo stands at the event where you can find out more about their offering.

Speakers

Tim Cummins, President, IACCM, Professor in International Commercial & Contract Management, Leeds University School of Law

Tim Cummins is a founder and President of the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management, a New York-based non-profit organisation that promotes ‘a world where every trading relationship delivers economic and social value’. He is also a professor and Chair in International Commercial & Contract Management at the University of Leeds, UK, working extensively with worldwide academics and governments to research and improve procurement and contracting practices.

Sami Rintala, Partner, DLA Piper 

Sami Rintala is a legal advisor focusing on ICT, technology and digitalization, sourcing and outsourcing. His other areas of expertise include Privacy and IP. Sami advises clients in various industry sectors, mainly within Insurance, Travel, Media, Retail, Telecom and ICT. 

Teemu Marttinen, Chairman of the IT procurement forum, LOGY

Teemu Marttinen is the Chairman of the IT procurement forum at the Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics LOGY, Founder and procurement consultant at bang & buck consulting Ltd. and Co-Founder of Dealsign Solutions Ltd. He was previously responsible for IT procurement, IT architecture and PMO at Finnair Oyj and has worked in different procurement roles at Nokia Corporation.

Arto Mäkinen, Head of Commercial Contract Management, Tieto

Arto Mäkinen heads the commercial contract management team at Tieto and has been building the contract management capability up in Tieto since 2018. Arto has acted in various roles, on both supplier and customer side, covering service management, project management, procurement, supplier management, commercial contract management, contracting and leading negotiations for the past 20 years.