Valentina Schippers-Opejko is Coordinator of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement, Chair of the Eurocities Working Group on Public Procurement,  WeBuySocialEU Ambassador, trainer, and expert on public procurement. In 2021 she has been Coordinator of the Circular Procurement of Metropolis Region of Amsterdam. She has 25 years of experience and still working for a public authority. She is motivated to share her experience and to push forward public procurement as a strategic tool to accelerate innovation, energy transition, circular economy, sustainability, economic recovery, and other challenges public authorities are dealing with.