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Learn, Network, and Partner! Procurement leaders will have an opportunity to address today’s challenges while collaborating with their peers from around the country.

Provide an educational program addressing topic areas, professional challenges, and issues relevant to state central procurement staff.

Provide a nationwide platform for engagement among member states for networking, connection, and peer-to-peer best practice sharing

Equip state procurement staff with practical solutions, innovative approaches, and best practices for state procurement.

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This conference is a place where learning, networking, and partnering come together to develop business relationships to support public procurements that are effective, efficient, transparent, and fair.

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2019 Annual Conference

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2020 Annual Conference

Provide an educational program addressing topic areas, professional challenges, and issues relevant to state central procurement staff

Equip state procurement staff with practical solutions, innovative approaches, and best practices for state procurement

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Leverage the power of procurement to advance state government by joining us on September 12-15 for the 2021 NASPO Annual Conference, where procurement leaders will have an opportunity to address today’s challenges while collaborating with their peers from around the country.

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2021 Annual Conference

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2022 Annual Conference

To provide an educational program addressing topic areas, professional challenges, and issues relevant to state central procurement.

To provide a nationwide platform for engagement among member states for networking, connection, and peer-to-peer best practice sharing.

To equip members with practical solutions, innovative approaches, and best practices for state procurement.

NASPO&#8217;s Annual Conference provides a platform for the NASPO community to interact, network, and conduct the organization&#8217;s business in a positive, cohesive manner. The Annual Conference goals are to Learn, Network, and Partner. Each state’s CPO/Primary Member is invited to attend, along with their executive-level designee (two participants per state). Additional attendees from each state may register using their state’s PD funds, with approval from their CPO.

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LEARN: Provide an educational program addressing topic areas, professional challenges and issues relevant to state central procurement staff.

NETWORK: Provide a nationwide platform for engagement among member states for networking, connection and peer-to-peer best practice sharing.

PARTNER: Equip state procurement staff with practical solutions, innovative approaches and best practices for state procurement.

Unite with procurement leaders nationwide to leverage the power of procurement by joining us at NASPO&#8217;s Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois, on September 28-Oct 1, 2025. NASPO&#8217;s Annual Conference provides a platform for the NASPO community to interact, network, and conduct the organization&#8217;s business in a positive, cohesive manner.

Registration opens mid-June 2025

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