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Event Agenda

MAIN EVENT - MARCH 10

  • 8:15 AM

Registration and Coffee

  • Welcome coffee 

  • Meet fellow attendees and kick off the day with introductions

  • 9:00 AM

Welcome to the Event

Constantine Limberakis, Founder & President, Liberis Consulting

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:10 AM

Agentic AI & Procurement At The Inflection Point

  • The new procurement operating model – outcome-driven
  • Agentic impact – from co-pilots to agentic workflows
  • ROI expectations
  • Essential infrastructure and transformation
  • Data, governance and trust – prerequisites for AI
  • The real state of AI In procurement (what’s working)

Chris Sawchuk, Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, The Hackett Group

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:35 AM

Intake, Orchestration & End to End Flow - From Rigid Workflows to Dynamic Information-Flows

  • Why this matters now

MAIN STAGE

  • 10:05 AM

How The New Model Works and the Role of Intelligent Agents in Modern Procurement

  • How we will collaborate – the interaction of intelligent agents with each other and with humans
  • AI readiness vs. AI stagnation
  • 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

Michael Shields, VP of Procurement, Tropic

  • 10:35 AM

Coffee and Networking

Live Demos from:

MAIN STAGE

  • 11:30 AM

Agentic Customer Case Study

Omnea & Customer Use Case

MAIN STAGE

  • 12:00 PM

Mini-Interviews - From Hype To Reality: Making AI Work

  1. Digital transformation starts with the heart and mind of people
  2. Embedding AI across intake, contacts, analytics and negotiation
  3. AI Employees – The Next Wave 

MAIN STAGE

  • 12:45 PM

Lunch & Networking

Live Demos from 12.30

  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Building AI Agents for Procurement: Live on Stage

Watch a live agent build from scratch in real-time. Using low-code tools to tackle a real procurement use case, showing the technical decisions, trade-offs, and issues that come up when you’re actually building these things. No slides, no theory — just building live and showing you what it really takes to go from idea to working agent.

  • 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

Change Management for Modern Procurement

How do you encourage and empower your team to use AI without producing low quality content. Training your workforce.

AI-native, fully automated procurement operating systems are no longer hype — they’re critical. But while the technology is accelerating, adoption isn’t. The real blocker isn’t tools, it’s change management.

  • AI-native procurement: why evolution is no longer optional
  • Why change management matters more than technology
  • Reducing fear by focusing on augmentation, not replacement
  • Creating momentum through small, visible wins
  • Moving from isolated AI usage to an embedded operating model
  • 2:45 PM

Coffee and Networking

Live Demos from 2.15

  • 3:30 PM

Building Trust: Data, Governance & Risk

  • 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
  • 4:00 PM

The Journey to Purposeful AI – Ideal State vs. What You Can Do Right Now

  • How to get your organization 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
  • Change management execution
  • Pilot vs. enterprise integration
  • AI to scale
  • 4:40 PM

Roundtable Discussions on Agentic AI Execution

Roundtable discussions to include:

  1. Supplier Intelligence 
  2. Tail Spend
  3. Intelligent Intake 
  4. Contracts
  5. Invoice & Payments
  6. Category Management
  7. Supplier Enablement & Management
  8. Negotiations
  • 5:30 PM

Close & Thank You & Drinks at the Bar!

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Testimonials

WHAT DO PAST ATTENDEES THINK OF OUR EVENTS?

    "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!"

        "An exceptionally valuable event; speakers and breakout sessions were exceptional and the hallway conversations alone were worth multiples of the cost."

          "It was an amazing conference and I’ve already been able to successfully put some of the negotiation tips and tricks into use. Thank you!"

            "The concentration of specialized expertise and experience was overwhelming, so much to learn from those in the room. I can’t wait to dive in again next year!"