Past Offshore Outsourcing Events

Managing the Risks of Outsourcing In Financial Services
16 - 17 July 2008

Central London, UK

A comprehensive workshop with a second day dedicated to a Workshop on Exiting outsourcing agreements. Topics covered include. Why outsource? Understanding FSA Expectations for Outsourcing Arrangements. Establishing Risks and Controls in Outsourced Operations. Effective Relationship Management/Governance Frameworks. Getting the Most from Your SLAs and MI. Change Management and Change Controls. What If It Goes Wrong? – Continuity Planning and Exit Planning

Gartner Outsourcing Summit
2 - 4 June 2008

Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, UK

Opportunities to outsource various operations and projects continue to increase, but ensuring these initiatives provide the expected benefits is becoming more complex. Your choices are growing, but so are your risks. Improved flexibility and profitability from outsourcing depends on a solid understanding and smart management of every aspect of this business option. Know what's new, what's problematic, and how to make the most of onsite, offsite, and off-shore arrangements by attending the Gartner Outsourcing Summit.

Global Sourcing: Transformation, Innovation & Change
26 June 2008

Sheraton Hotel, London, UK

EMRG's 8th Annual BPO Conference enables you to join over 180 senior executives for a day that features in-depth case studies, interactive panel sessions and a host of networking opportunities over breakfast, lunch and an evening boat trip.

Speakers include senior executives from: Bank of America, Kodak, SunGard, Honeywell, Centrica, Department of Work & Pensions, BP, TPI, ABN AMRO, HSBC, EasyJet

The conference is divided into three streams covering: Hr & Payroll, Customer Contact and F & A / Transaction Processing. There will also be a special session on KPO & procurement.

Gartner Outsourcing Summit
19 - 21 May 2008

Gaylord National, Washington, DC, USA

Outsourcing as we know it - tactical, ad hoc and often chaotic - can lead to unintended consequences. In many organizations, integrating and managing a portfolio of service providers is a stumbling block, causing service disruptions, maybe even a crisis in confidence. What's needed is a cohesive, strategic approach to manage service relationships both inside and outside the organization - disciplined multisourcing.

A new way forward

Disciplined multisourcing is an innovative management approach that delivers an integrated and seamless service operation, formal governance structures and the opportunity to excel through cost-efficiency, agility and growth. The result: a truly sourcing-competent organization. In three days you'll learn how to apply disciplined multisourcing to your own organization, across all your IT outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and global sourcing initiatives, regardless of where you are in the sourcing lifecycle.

Effectively Managing Regulatory & Operational Risks in Outsourcing
31 - 1 April 2008

London, UK

OutsourceWorld London
16 - 17 April 2008

ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL, UK

Building on the success of the past six OutsourceWorld events, the OutsourceWorld London 2008 Conference and Exhibition will bring together service providers and practitioners from the global sourced services industry from over 20 countries to the ExCel Convention Centre

Best practices for “Managing Outsourcing in an Age of Globalization and Innovation” and current Market analysis will be discussed. The business case and opportunities presented by Globalization will be also be discussed by some of the world’s leading veteran service provider and practitioner executives.

This event presents you with a comprehensively researched agenda that will cover the most topical and timely issues pertinent to all service providers and practitioners that are starting to plan or adjust a long-term globalization strategy.

Strategic Outsourcing 2.0 Conference
23 - 24 April 2008

Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY, USA

Outsourcing has changed and with that change come new challenges and opportunities. In effect, outsourcing has grown up. During this conference we will explore the new approaches to Strategic Outsourcing and how Outsourcing 2.0 will impact your business. You’ll have the opportunity to hear from the experts driving innovation in the field and the executives charged with implementing these new approaches.

Nordic Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum
28 - 30 April 2008

Clarion Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark

Taking in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic Region, the 2nd annual Nordic Shared Services and Outsourcing Forum is uniquely focused on addressing the challenges that SSCs operating services in and for this region face. No-one understands the specific pressures that you face better than someone else who faces exactly the same challenges, which is why this event has been created after extensive market research with experienced Shared Services practitioners from the Nordic region.

This is your opportunity to meet with and learn from your peers, so that you can brainstorm solutions together to the specific regional challenges you face.

No other event features a speaker panel made up exclusively of companies operating SSCs in the Nordic region and for the Nordic region. Previous speakers have represented companies including: Eli Lilly, Ericsson, Kverneland, Statoil ASA, Nordea Bank, Atlas Copco, Carlsberg Denmark, and Coca-Cola Nordic Services

Outsourcing Conference 2008, France
1 March 2008

Paris, France

No details available - please check the conference web site (Link below)

Shared Services Summit
11 - 14 February 2008

Victoria Park Plaza, London, UK

As you reach Phases 2 and 3 of Shared Services maturity, innovation and transformation stop being a luxury, and become mission critical.

Put simply, without evolving through fresh ideas and continuous improvement, your SSO won’t continue to deliver value to your customers OR your business. For Shared Services organisaations, the status quo is not a long-term solution!

It’s true there’s no manual that can guarantee success, but experience is a powerful tool and the Shared Services Summit is the only event which actively seeks out the PIONEERING INDIVIDUALS behind the most successful SSOs, who’ve faced challenges and carved out new opportunities for growth and development.

Attendance enables you to fast-track your SSO’s maturity and actually shape future Shared Services strategy through access to:

- 300 of Europe’s most mature Shared Services practitioners
- 200 years of combined Shared Services expertise on the speaker faculty
- 40 case studies and presentations delivered by Shared Services’ pioneers and founders

The 2008 Outsourcing World Summit
18 - 20 February 2008

Disney's Contemporary Report, Orlando, Florida, USA

This year’s theme is Built for Change: Reconceptualizing the Corporation in an Era of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Globalization. Outsourcing, offshoring, and globalization have proven to be powerful value-creation engines for customers, providers, and the economy as a whole. But they’re still too often seen as simple extensions of the company’s basic way of doing business; adding value, but not changing the company at its core.

IAOP believes that tomorrow’s winners will actually be those organizations that truly use these new management models to redesign their businesses from the ground up as change-enabled enterprises – ones with the ability to adapt, respond, anticipate and most importantly capture markets in ways never before thought possible.