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By attending their Synergy conference May 12 \u2013 14, 2009 in Chicago, you will be given a certificate of attendance granting you 12.5 CEH\u2019s, preapproved to count towards the 32 CEH\u2019s required for SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> recertification.<br \/>\nWe are currently working to add more conference providers to our approved list. Approved conference providers will display on their Web sites a logo like the one below linked back to our Web site where you can verify that the event is approved.<\/p>\n<p>To continually check for new approved conferences, bookmark http:\/\/www.NextLevelPurchasing.com\/procurement-conference and visit regularly.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a technology provider, service provider, or other conference host and you would like us to authorize your conference for the award of CEH\u2019s that will count towards SPSM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Certification, please contact our External Relations Coordinator, Megan Tyrseck, at <a href=\"&#x6d;a&#x69;&#108;&#x74;&#111;:&#x73;&#117;&#x70;&#112;o&#x72;&#116;&#x40;&#110;e&#x78;t&#x6c;&#101;&#x76;&#x65;l&#x70;&#117;&#x72;&#99;h&#x61;&#115;&#x69;&#110;g&#x2e;c&#x6f;&#109;\">&#115;u&#112;p&#111;r&#x74;&#64;&#x6e;e&#x78;t&#x6c;e&#x76;e&#x6c;p&#x75;r&#x63;h&#x61;s&#x69;&#110;&#x67;&#46;&#x63;&#111;&#x6d;<\/a> or 1-412-294-1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Next Level Purchasing is rolling out a program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - 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