About this Event This roundtable will start a discussion on how Australian social procurement in the construction and infrastructure industry can be transformed from ‘ticking the box’ framework into a genuine, collaborative process of creating shared value with meaningful and sustainable social and economic impacts. Our guest speakers are from Transurban (Sustainable Procurement Manager, Deepen Somaiya), Ability Works Australia (AWA, CEO, Sue Boyce), Social Traders (Engagement Manager, Rebecca Green) and Apricot Consulting (CEO, James Natsis). In 2019, AWA and Transurban built on their existing relationship, establishing a Shared Value program to increase employment for people living with disability. This program now includes academics from RMIT University, Aurecon (design engineers) and Apricot Consulting (shared value project management). The program has clear KPIs and governance (including executive attendance), delivers in-kind training and consulting to AWA in research, strategy and communications/ government relations, resulting in AWA delivering a new accessibility consulting service. Together, this partnership has been awarded the Social Traders Social Procurement Partnership of the Year Award for 2020. The presenters will share their experiences and lessons learnt from this program and share their reflections and ideas on what creating shared value in social procurement means for them, how it can be enacted, and what challenges and opportunities for creating shared value in social procurement exist in Australia.