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Webinar
October 7, 2025 | 1:00 pm EST

Mastering Small Business Sourcing: How Experts are Turning Data into Action

You’re looking to reduce risk, volatility and cost by sourcing more with small suppliers. We have the data to help you.  We analyzed over $100B in spend data across 447 organizations to see how they’re successfully sourcing with small businesses. 

In this session, we’ll share highlights including where they’re finding suppliers, categories they’re investing in, and more. We’ll also sit down with Tiffany Lovelace from Regions Bank, who is leading one of the nation’s top financial institutions in building and scaling a world-class small business sourcing program. Tiffany will share how they’re building a successful program and practical steps for how leaders at any stage can start, scale, or optimize their small business sourcing programs. 

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Expert Speakers

Tiffany Lovelace

SVP and Head of Local Sourcing @ Regions Bank

Tiffany Lovelace

SVP and Head of Local Sourcing @ Regions Bank

Daniel Dorr, VP of Marketing, Supplier.io
Daniel Dorr

VP of Marketing

Daniel Dorr has spent the last 20+ years leading marketing teams, launching new businesses, and developing winning campaigns. At Supplier.io, Daniel is responsible for connecting with Supplier Diversity leaders globally and helping them create and mature successful supplier diversity programs with Supplier.io’s industry-leading data, software, and services.

Daniel Dorr, VP of Marketing, Supplier.io
Daniel Dorr

VP of Marketing

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What you’ll learn:

How organizations are finding small suppliers

Including which geographies and categories they’re investing in.

Where companies are spending with small suppliers:

See how 447 organizations are investing in small businesses, which industries are capturing spend, and the state-level shifts shaping sourcing strategies.

How Regions Bank is scaling small business engagement

Hear from Tiffany Lovelace on how one of the nation’s leading financial institutions has built a best-in-class small business sourcing program.

Practical strategies to start, scale, or optimize your program

Learn actionable steps to improve supplier engagement, measure outcomes, and align sourcing goals with broader business objectives.

Proven approaches to overcome challenges

Discover lessons learned from the field, from driving executive alignment to ensuring accurate data and sustaining supplier participation.

Compelling ways to report program impact

How leaders across the sourcing space are translating dollars spent with small businesses translate into impactful downstream measures that resonate with stakeholders.

Who should watch this webinar?

Procurement, sourcing, and supplier program leaders looking to enhance their small business strategies and align them with broader business and stakeholder objectives. 

Why watch this webinar?

Tiffany Lovelace is widely recognized for her leadership in advancing corporate sourcing excellence at Regions Bank. She has successfully built programs that not only demonstrate compliance and accountability but also drive measurable value for the bank’s business units and the communities it serves. Tiffany’s perspective offers a rare, inside look at how financial institutions are shaping the future of small business sourcing and how your organization can do the same. 

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