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Event Agenda

EVENT AGENDA

  • 8:30 AM

Registration and Coffee

  • Welcome coffee and light breakfast

  • Meet fellow attendees and kick off the day with introductions

  • 9:00 AM

Welcome to Agentic AI!

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:05 AM

Opening Address: AI’s Evolution and Impact on Workplaces, Workers, and Society

  • The AI journey and its velocity
  • From Robotic Process Automation to Intelligent and Adaptive Automation and the state of the possible
  • What the AI Divide means for businesses and workers
    • Digital and AI Darwinism: the disparities between AI leaders and laggards, and the risks of falling behind
  • AI readiness vs. AI stagnation—how being unprepared impacts industries, governments, and supply chains
  • Global competitiveness: Why nations and organizations that fail to invest now risk irrelevance and who is investing e.g., MENA
  • Moving beyond capabilities to imminent disruptions—to jobs, markets, and the nature of work itself
  • The future as we now see it – investment | work and worker impact: preparing for a workforce evolution
  • Legislation, ethics, and leadership in the AI Age

Kieran Gilmurray, Chief AI Innovator, Technology Transformation Group 

 

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:35 AM

Fire-Side Chat: What the New Model and Agents Mean for Procurement, and The Interaction and Collaboration with The Workforce

  • Definition of Agentics
  • Introduction to the new model of Agentics and transformative automation
  • How the model works and the roles of intelligent agents in modern procurement
  • How we will collaborate – the interaction of intelligent agents with each other and with humans
  • Ethical considerations and trust-building in AI-human partnerships
  • How departments can develop and be ready for this change
  • What the future of procurement will look like – the integration of AI agents as true partners in decision-making, allowing employees to focus on strategy and innovation

Daniel Hulme, CEO, SATALIA and Chief AI Officer, WPP

Marie Toft, CEO and Co-founder, Emotionise

Nicolas Walden, Associate Principal, UK & Europe Practice Leader, Procurement Advisory, The Hackett Group

  • 10:15 AM

Coffee + Demos and Roundtables

10.25    Demo Hubs enable you to gather in groups and evaluate vendor products and services – with live demos, offering a unique opportunity to explore, compare and discover how peers might leverage the tech within their organizations. (20 mins)

Visit ORO Labs, Zip

Roundtable discussions for those not attending a demo.

10.30    Roundtable Discussions to Include:

  1. Infrastructure / architecture – James Meads, Founder, Procurement Software
  2. Data sources and data readiness – Susan Walsh, The Classification Guru
  3. Talent – skills gaps and organizational culture
  4. Measuring your agentic readiness – Lance Younger, ORO Labs
  5. Orchestrate the Procurement User-Experience with Agentic AI Processes & Workflows – Zip
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MAIN STAGE

  • 11:30 AM

AI: Building a Strong Foundation for Success

  • Establishing core foundations & why the groundwork matters
  • Understanding the primary subfields in AI to understand what’s relevant and beneficial for your objectives
  • How to establish strong data foundations to ensure AI can deliver meaningful outcomes
  • The tools and technologies that best support your AI initiatives
  • The knowledge to help you ask the right questions when engaging with suppliers
  • A quick look at skills and considerations for an AI-capable team
  • How to scale best practices

Lance Younger, EVP, EMEA GM, ORO Labs

  • 12:00 PM

Lunch & Networking

MAIN STAGE

  • 1:00 PM

Fire-Side Chat: The Journey to Purposeful AI - Ideal State vs What You Can Do Right Now

  • How to set a strategy and build bridges to transition your 2025 to your 2030 plan
  • Forging an actionable roadmap
  • Finding your biggest pain point and starting there
  • Pilot vs enterprise integration
  • AI to scale

Clare Cassano, Head of Procurement, Invesco

Milind Tailor, Global Head, Resale Products & Services Procurement, Diebold Nixdorf

Nikki Aladi, Digital Enablement Manager – User Experience, Roche

  • 1:40 PM

Roundtable Discussions on Agentic AI Execution

Roundtable discussions to include:

  1. Infrastructure / architecture – James Meads, Founder, Procurement Software
  2. Data sources and data readiness – Susan Walsh, The Classification Guru
  3. Talent – skills gaps and organizational culture
  4. Measuring your agentic readiness – Lance Younger, ORO Labs
  5. Orchestrate the Procurement User-Experience with Agentic AI Processes & Workflows – Zip
  • 2:25 PM

Coffee Break + Demos

2.30    Demo Hubs enable you to gather in groups and evaluate vendor products and services – with live demos, offering a unique opportunity to explore, compare and discover how peers might leverage the tech within their organizations. (20 mins)

MAIN STAGE

  • 3:15 PM

The Rise of AI Agents: Contracts, Compliance, and Control

  • Defining agentic AI and why it’s legally significant
  • Autonomy, Delegation, and Legal Responsibility
  • Contractual and Commercial Implications
  • Privacy and Security Risks
  • Regulatory Outlook
  • Compliance and Governance Strategies

Alex Sobosky, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

  • 4:00 PM

Close & Thank You

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Testimonials

WHAT DO PAST ATTENDEES THINK OF OUR EVENTS?

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    "It was an awesome gathering. Never been around so many IT Procurement Professionals from the buy side that shared best practices."

      "What a great opportunity to meet, engage, and learn both from and with Procurement colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds!"