Post-Conference Sessions (optional)

Complimentary to Attendees and Caucus Members

At each conference, Caucus offers complimentary post-conference study sessions for the Certified Technology Procurement Specialist (CTPS) and Certified Technology Procurement Executive (CTPE) for attendees and Caucus members.  This year is no exception.

We will offer five one-hour facilitated sessions to review each module of the examination.  We will review the contents of the module and focus on highlighting ways to help you pass the examination.

Post-Conference Schedule

Time	Event
Wednesday, Nov. 12
1:30 – 2:30 pm	CTPS/CTPE Procurement
3:00 – 4:00 pm	CTPS/CTPE Contract Management
4:30 to completion	CTPS exam (optional)
Thursday, Nov. 13
8:00 – 9:00 am	CTPE Legal
9:30 – 10:30 am	CTPE Finance
11:00 – 12:00 pm	CTPE Technology
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – completion	CTPE exam (optional)

If you are not attending the IT Procurement Summit or not a member, but would like to attend the post-conference study session there is a charge of $249.

Should you wish to attend the post-conference study session please click here to contact Tyrus Cooper, Caucus Customer Service Manager.  

Discussion points for each session

Procurement

• Learn about cost, value, price analysis and total cost of ownership.
• What are US and international shipping terms and how do they differ?
• What are key antitrust laws and the issues that concern you?
• What are some key project management issues that you should know?
• What are key outsourcing issues to be aware of?
• What is the ideal procurement process?

Contract Management

• Learn key negotiation skills including ploys and countermeasures.
• Learn why deadlock is something to consider in any negotiation.
• Learn about escrow about and why not to use the vendor escrow agreement.
• Understand revenue recognition and how to combat the vendor ploy.
• Learn some pre- and post-contract concepts to save you money and improve performance.

Legal

• What are the 4 IP protections and how long do they offer protection?
• What are the elements of a contract and what are the exceptions?
• What is the UNCISG and why is it important to you?
• What are some warranties, remedies, breach and indemnification issues?
• What are differing ways to allocate risk in your contracts?

Finance

• How do financial statements help predict supplier performance?
• How to evaluate a vendor’s response and solvency
• What are key leasing fundamentals?
• What are key leasing terms and how to negotiate them?
• How do we assess the financial basics of SLAs?

Technology

• Learn about the Open Source (GPL3, MicroSoft’s patent claims 235 of them.)
• What is the internet, its history and key concepts?
• What is Bluetooth, the wireless standards and the future?
• What are key network security issues and solutions?
• What are key disaster recovery issues?
• What is virtualization and where is it heading?
• Is embedded software a taxing problem and what is it?