Webinars a great success

Hansel’s autumn roadshow that has toured around Finland was changed to a virtual webinar series due to the exceptional circumstances of 2020. The autumn roadshow webinars were kicked off with a quick pace in September, and by the end of December, some 1,700 people in total had watched our webinars.

We asked our customers for webinar topic ideas already in spring 2020. Based on these suggestions, we outlined the contents of the webinar episodes. We handled current themes, such as contractual management, legislation, procurement management, analysing procurement data, and responsibility of public procurement. Altogether 17 hardy Hansel experts talked at the webinars with our account manager Maritta Mäkelä. The episode that discussed the national procurement strategy also included Tero Meltti, Senior Financial Adviser from the Ministry of Finance.

“Thank you, it would be good to have these webinars in future too, they are a fast way to update matters to yourself. You get new ideas, you can go back to them later and use them.”

Hansel was certainly not the only organisation that had to make a fast leap into a world of virtual events in 2020 and compete for its customers’ time with numerous other webinars. However, our webinar series from September to December proved to be a huge success, thanks to our brilliant experts who shared their valuable competence with our customers. The original plan was to hold five hour-long webinars every two weeks, but by popular demand, we decided to continue the “tour” with two additional webinars.

“Excellent webinars that tackled topics with the right attitude, and the problems of the topics were also presented tangibly and professionally, which I’m especially thankful for.”

Even though 2021 will hopefully bring back the traditional networking events, we will continue organising webinars on topics that support our customers’ purchases.

Hansel’s customers can view recordings of the autumn roadshow webinars at the hansel.fi online service (in Finnish): Tietoa meistä > Tapahtumat > Syyskiertue.

Hansel’s autumn roadshow webinar series Sep.–Dec. 2020

Time	Topic	Guests
17 September	Good practices of contractual management	Jani Mäkinen, Category Manager Minna Isoherranen, Category Manager
1 October	Current topics in public procurement legislation	Kirsi Kunnas-Leinonen, Senior Legal Counsel Jukka-Pekka Salmela, Senior Legal Counsel
22 October	Procurement management and analysing procurement data	Juho Pursimo, Lead Analyst Kalle Pinni, Head of Unit
5 November	Joint procurement supply 2020–2021	Panu Kilpinen, Account Manager Mervi Olkinuora, Head of Unit Marjut Sood, Category Manager
19 November	Responsibility in joint procurement	Kirsi Koivusaari, Director of Finance Tero Lehtisaari, Category Manager Pasi Tainio, Category Manager
3 December	Hansel’s role in implementing the national procurement strategy	Anssi Pihkala, Managing Director Raili Hilakari, Deputy Managing Director Susanna Närvänen, Category Manager
17 December	Hankintailmoitukset.fi improves – Hilma’s new features	Mikko Saavalainen, Director of Digital Business Tero Meltti, Senior Financial Adviser, Ministry of Finance Tiina Luoma, Service Manager