Mercado Eletrônico promotes ME B2B Summit 2022, the largest B2B e-commerce event in Latin America

Sao Paulo, October 2022 – Mercado Eletrônico, leader in e-commerce among companies in Latin America, will hold the ME B2B Summit 2022 on October 26. This year, the fourth edition of the event will be 100% in person, at the Teatro Bradesco, located in Bourbon Shopping in São Paulo.

The ME B2B Summit is considered the largest B2B e-commerce event in Latin America, with the presence of professionals and experts who talk about trends, challenges and technologies in the procurement and supply chain sector, as well as leadership and behavior.

Among the names that make up the agenda of lectures and panels are: Rodolfo Eschenbach, President of Accenture for Brazil and Latin America; Jerson Nascimento, Global Chief Procurement Officer at JBS; Marcelo Gerulaitis, Director of Indirect e-Procurement at Embraer; and Adriana Nunes, head of supply chain ESG for Latin America at EY. You can find the complete list of guests at event website.

Marcelo Tas, journalist and communicator, and Arthur Igreja, co-founder of AAA Inovação, are the keynote speakers at the event, which will include the presence of actors, magicians and comedians, Gabriel Louchard, as master of ceremonies.

The purpose of the ME B2B Summit is provide participants with an immersion in the most relevant B2B trade topics, with market experts and exclusive content. Other Klyvian Flores, Marketing Director at Mercado Eletrônico the event also provides a refreshment environment for shopping, networking and business opportunity professionals.

“We will have panels with executives from major companies, who will share their practical experiences on relevant corporate procurement and supply chain topics. Among the main topics are ESG, trends, digitization of processes, innovation and strategic teams. We want people to leave the event transformed, with a lot of knowledge that they will apply every day and achieve personal and professional development”, says Klyvian. Flowers.

See the full ME B2B Summit 2022 schedule below.

Panel: The Strategic Procurement Team in the Digital Age

Digitization of the procurement area has transformed business and, at the same time, posed a challenge to companies in a wide variety of areas. Among the challenges are retaining talent and quickly adapting to changes.

Guests:

João Francisco Toqueti, BSC and Procurement Executive at Tereos;

Julio Cesar Abrahao, executive procurement manager at Vibra;

Jerson Nascimento, Global Chief Procurement Officer at JBS;

Mediation: Priscila Padilha, head of corporate supply at Hidrovias.

Panel: The future of shopping in the time of digital transformation

New technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence) machine learning and RPA (robotic process automation), are transforming B2B shopping. Technological disruption will continue to shape the future of companies, the ways they do business with suppliers, and increase their ability to innovate and advance in the marketplace.

Guests:

Murilo Zappellini, Head of Procurement South America at APLA;

Carlos Duarte, Executive Director of Procurement at Nestlé Brazil;

Fabricio Sosigan, Director of Supply Chain at Cinemark;

Mediation: Celina Maria, Supp and Import manager at Sotreq.

Panel: An expanded view of B2B: the importance of ESG in the supply chain

As the ESG agenda evolves, customers and stakeholders are pushing companies to connect around topics such as inclusion and diversity. In this sense, the role of the supply chain in engaging social, environmental and governance issues is crucial and very challenging for organizations.

Guests:

Dominic Schmal, ESG Director at EDP Brasil;

Marcelo Gerulaitis: Director of Indirect e-Procurement at Embraer;

Leandro Pavão, Head of Integrated Services at Banco BMG;

Mediation: Adriana Nunes, Supply Chain Manager ESG EY Latin America.

Lecture: World Scenario and Supply Chain Impacts

Health crises, geopolitical conflicts, product supply shortages, inflationary pressure, among others, create uncertainties and threats to global supply chains. He will give this lecture Rodolfo Eschenbach, president of Accenture for Brazil and Latin America.

Lecture: Digital Reporta 2022 – Caution slows the cycle of abundance in startups, but the opportunity remains great

The country’s innovation ecosystem has gone through a cycle of unprecedented abundance, according to the 2022 Brazil Digital Report recently released by McKinsey & Company. Nevertheless, the new macroeconomic cycle will require a balance between profitability and growth and greater business efficiency. In order to understand the effect of this new macroeconomic scenario on the country’s innovation ecosystem, a series of interviews were conducted with venture capital funds and startup founders to understand the trends and reactions of the main players in this market. The lecture will be held by Marina Mansur, partner at McKinsey.event speakers.

About ME B2B Summit 2022
Date: October 26
Working hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m
Bradesco Theater – Bourbon Shopping – SP
Applications: www.meb2bsummit.com.br

About the electronic market

Mercado Eletrônico is the leader in Latin America in B2B e-commerce solutions. Its procurement technologies and services help companies achieve greater savings, agility, compliance and collaboration. With offices in Brazil, Mexico, the United States of America and Portugal, it has more than one million suppliers, 10,000 customers and realizes transactions of over R$ 120 billion. It is the only Latin American company that will be part of Gartner’s P2P Magic Quadrant in 2020 and 2021.

ME is GPTW Mulher 2020 and 2021 and is on the list of Best Companies to Work for, Great Place To Work (GPTW) for Brazil and TI in the 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 editions. She is also one of the winners in 2019 .Guia Você S/A – 150 Best Companies to Work for and Amazing Places to Work Award 2020, 2021 and 2022 For more information visit ja.com.br

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