In association with the Financial Times, our CPO Spark Think Tank brings together a hand-picked group of progressive CPOs from market-leading companies around the world who want to drive positive change and top-line growth in their businesses. Over the course of four in-depth virtual sessions, the group is focusing on the strategies, new technologies, and bold ideas helping CPOs innovate and add value to the wider business while responding to the pressure to reduce costs and mitigate risk in a time of unprecedented change. The inaugural session looked at the effects of the pandemic on procurement functions and began to explore the ways transformative CPOs are revisiting their operating models and processes, as well as the composition of their teams, to place procurement at the heart of organizations' growth during the economic recovery.