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EVENT AGENDA
Tuesday 27 January 2026
- 8:15 AM
Registration and Coffee
Welcome coffee and light breakfast
Meet fellow attendees and kick off the day with introductions
- 8:45 AM
Welcome to Agentic AI!
Welcome and introduction to the day from the event host
John Everett, VP, CPO, Novonesis
MAIN STAGE
- 8:55 AM
Opening Address: The Reality of AI & Where We Are Today
- The AI journey
- Let’s define Agentics – from a practical perspective, what it is and how it can work for you
- Essential infrastructure – what’s holding us back?
- Are you ready? Building a collaborative autonomous enterprise
Paul Mahlke, Partner, BCG
MAIN STAGE
- 9:25 AM
AI Literacy & Implementation Playbook
- What is Needed to Make AI Work in the Business?
Fabian Lampe, Founder, Advance Procurement
MAIN STAGE
- 9:55 AM
How Will Humans and Agents Work Together in The Future in Procurement?
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
- Identifying the risks and challenges
- 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
Nina Bomberg, CPO, Hamburger Energiewerke
Florian Geserich , Senior Account Executive, Pactum
Dhiliban Kandasamy, Sr Global Commodity Buyer – Digitalization, ZF Group
Lizza Parbst, Product Manager, Otto Group
Moderator: Jonas Schultz, AI & Procurement – Principal, Roland Berger
- 10:30 AM
Coffee + Live Demos
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. (15 mins)
HUB 1
10.35-10.50 Sponsor Demo
Alex Bloech, Senior Solutions Consultant at Pactum
10.55-11.10 Sponsor Demo
Florian Wolf, Principal Solution Engineer, Zip
HUB 2
10.35-10.50 Sponsor Demo – The end of procurement busywork: 6 AI use cases in operational procurement already delivering value – Natalia Parmenova, Chief Revenue Officer, BeNeering
10.55-11.10 Sponsor Demo
AskLio
MAIN STAGE
- 11:15 AM
Fire-Side Chat: Digital Transformation starts with the heart and mind of people
Real life experiences through stakeholders engagement
- How to identify a business case for digital transformation
- How to engage stakeholders ( peers, staff, customers, suppliers)
- How to ensure a successful implementation and achieve tangible results
Angela Qu, Advisor, Strategist and Former Chief Supply Chain Officer automotive
Host: Alberto Fabregat, Lecturer, IMD and SVP Sales and Strategy, o9 Solutions
MAIN STAGE
- 11:45 AM
Agentic AI During M&A Transformation
John Everett, VP, CPO, Novonesis
MAIN STAGE
- 12:15 PM
How Can we Rethink Automation? From Rigid Workflows to Dynamic Information Flows
Jash Patel, Coordinator – Processes and Automation Purchasing, Mainova
- 1:00 PM
Lunch & Networking
Live demos run from 1.30 pm
HUB 1
1.30-1.45 Agentic Workforce
Jonas Schultz, AI & Procurement – Principal, Roland Berger
HUB 2
1.30-1.45 Sponsor Demo
Get Dexter
MAIN STAGE
- 1:45 PM
Main Stage - AskLio
MAIN STAGE
- 2:05 PM
Use Cases Spotlight
Fast paced mini interviews with organisations who can give clarity on active use cases examples, covering topics on implementation, how to monitor, the business case and more.
Hear from:
Cedric Elmaleh, COO, Publicis Groupe
&
Pieter-Jan Cuvelier, Procurement Director, Lighthouse
Host: Damyan Grozdanov, Head of Procurement, Bitpanda
MAIN STAGE
- 2:35 PM
Building AI Agents for Procurement: Live on Stage
Watch us build a working AI agent from scratch in real-time. We’ll use low-code tools to tackle a real procurement use case, showing you the technical decisions, trade-offs, and gotchas that come up when you’re actually shipping these things. No slides, no theory — just two practitioners building live and showing you what it really takes to go from idea to working agent.
Brajan Gatys, Sr Manager, Procurement, Personio
Nils Brauckmann, Head of Procurement, Personio
- 3:25 PM
Coffee
LIVE DEMO
HUB 1
3.30-3.45 Sponsor Demo
Akiro Labs
MAIN STAGE
- 3:50 PM
Storytelling AI: How to Identify and Demonstrate the Value
Julian Beckers, Global Director GenAI & Automation, Ciklum
MAIN STAGE
- 4:15 PM
The Journey to Purposeful AI – Ideal State vs. What You Can Do Right Now
- How get your company ready to move forward with AI
- How to set a strategy and build bridges to transition your 2025 to your 2030 plan
- Questions you should be asking. What’s the goal? What do I want Agentic to do for me? Are we ready?
- What you need to kick-start agentic – cognitive architecture, software engineers? Building an actionable roadmap
- Pilot vs. enterprise integration
- AI to scale
- Build vs. Buy
Jaime Paiva, Global Head of Procurement Excellence, Zurich Insurance
Jacek Skowronski, Director, Global Procurement Systems & Controlling, Autolivl
Lasse Fehl, Head of Procurement, REHAU Global Business Services
Ludwig Hager, Procurement Excellence, SWMH
Nonet Muhring, Procurement Director, Corsearch
Moderator: Héloïse Szabó, Senior Account Executive, Zip
- 4:50 PM
Pain Point / Solution Roundtables
1. Trade Tariffs – Alberto Fabregat, Lecturer, IMD and SVP Sales and Strategy, o9
2. Negotiations – Oscar Fernandez, Founder, Procrewment
3. Intelligent Intake
4. Contracts – Pieter-Jan Cuvelier, Procurement Director, Lighthouse
5. Invoice & Payments
6. Category Management – Lutz Schirrmeister
7. Supplier Enablement & Management – Jacek Skowronski, Global Procurement Systems, Autoliv
- 5:15 PM