The three-day conference for hospitality purchase professionals aimed to share their expertise and innovations, and create a collaborative environment as well as build a strong community. HPMF Annual Convention 2016 & Awards, will bring together around 200 + Senior Purchase Heads from the Hospitality Industry.

THE HOSPITALITY Purchasing Managers’ Forum announced recently that its flagship event--the HPMF Annual Convention 2016 & Awards was going to be held on 17 - 20 November 2016 at the Hotel Mayfair, Bhubaneswar.

The three-day conference for hospitality purchase professionals aimed to share their expertise and innovations, and create a collaborative environment as well as build a strong community. It also was an opportunity to gain expertise, learn and understand the tools, new challenges and solutions for creative ideas and strategies through series of interactive session, panel discussion and B2B engagement opportunities, the press release added.

HPMF Annual Convention 2016 & Awards, will bring together around 200 + Senior Purchase Heads from the Hospitality Industry to meet, discuss and find solutions to the challenging issues faced when it comes to Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, and strategies revolving around it, as well as to network under one roof.

Some of the main speakers include Giriraj Singh Lotwara; architect Karan Grover; Director Ikya Human Capital Marcel Parker; Pradeep Rao of Mind Storm; Dennie Matthews of AHLEI; Ex Mumbai Police Commissioner D Sivanandan; Colonel AK Shukla and Lion Pankaj Mehta.

Another main highlight of the event is the HPMF Awards during the convention which aims at recognizing and celebrating the collaborative efforts of individuals and the teams in their journey towards procurement excellence through innovation, commitment & hard work, thereby making it the most sought after awards in the Hospitality Industry. This is a step in representing the best initiatives of individuals, their teams and companies across the industry.

This year the HPMF Living Legend Award will be given to Narinder Kapoor (Ex VP Procurement of EIH Hotels); Basil Massey (Director Procurement Duet Hotels) and to Sundaram RM (Materials Manager of Vasantabhavan Hotels).