Breakfast Sessions

TERMS OF REFERENCE
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR PROCUREMENT AND MATERIEL MANAGEMENT (CIPMM)
BREAKFAST SESSIONS

The Breakfast Session Committee will organize up to 4 sessions each year of presentations, panels, armchair discussions and videoconferences on topics of interest to the material management, fleet management and procurement communities in the National Capital Region.

The objective of the Sessions is to provide a forum for the exchange of information and hands on practical solutions to problems currently facing the materiel management, fleet management and procurement communities. The Sessions would serve to strengthen the networking opportunities for the members and reinforce the role CIPMM plays with the materiel management, fleet management and procurement communities. The Sessions may also provide another opportunity to market other CIPMM undertakings.

A minimum of one of the 4 Sessions would focus each on materiel management topics; fleet management; and procurement with the fourth session generally designed to cover more than one of the communities. The topics will be more operational in nature and will provide an occasion to showcase innovative practices developed in the different departments and agencies. Videotaping of the conferences could be tried to provide an opportunity to share the content with the regional material management, fleet management and procurement communities. The sessions would be free but would require pre-registration. They would occur approximately once every 3 months on a single morning beginning at 8:00 am with registration and continental breakfast; introductions at 8:20 am; Presentation(s) from 8:20 to 9:20; and Questions and Answers from 9:20 to 9:40. 

Guiding Principles:

1. Direct marketing from any presenter will be forbidden.
2. Topics chosen will focus on practical operational types of solutions.

Mandate:

Chair:

• Participate as a Board Member on CIPMM;
• Propose a list of topics and speakers for the Board approval.
• Coordinate logistics assistance from the Willow Group. The event is advertized on the CIPMM web site. A brochure or email campaign can be sent to CIPMM members and individual marketing could be undertaken by members of the organizing committee and other related resources. Contacts at the Canada School of Public Service and Treasury Board Secretariat Committees could also be used to communicate the breakfast sessions.

The Breakfast Session Committee Members will:

• Organize up to 4 sessions each year of presentations, panels, armchair discussions and videoconferences on topics of interest to the material management, fleet management and procurement communities in the National Capital Region

Member Activities:

• Identify hot topics and confirm speakers
• Coordinate with the Willow Group for logistics

Members