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Event Agenda

EVENT AGENDA

Tuesday 27 January 2026

  • 9:00 AM

Registration and Coffee

  • Welcome coffee and light breakfast

  • Meet fellow attendees and kick off the day with introductions

  • 9:30 AM

Welcome to Agentic AI!

Welcome and introduction to the day

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:40 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

MAIN STAGE

  • 10:10 AM

Fire-Side Chat: Use Case Manufacturing

This session explores a real-world use case of leveraging generative AI to address complex operational challenges, particularly in integrated demand planning where data-driven decision-making is essential for optimising outcomes across the entire organisation. Drawing on experience from a former automotive manufacturing environment, the discussion outlines how to approach these challenges through a clear understanding of the situation, identification of core pain points, and effective engagement of internal stakeholders. The session will highlights the importance of strong change-management practices, practical strategies for bringing stakeholders along the journey, and considerations for integrating AI workflows with existing ERP and IT systems to ensure seamless adoption and measurable impact.

Angela Qu, Sr Advisor, KKR

  • 10:50 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)

MAIN STAGE

  • 11:30 AM

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

 

MAIN STAGE

  • 12:00 PM

How Can we Rethink Automation? From Rigid Workflows to Dynamic Information Flows

Jash Patel, Coordinator – Processes and Automation Purchasing, Mainova

MAIN STAGE

  • 12:40 PM

What the New Model and Agents Mean for Procurement - and the Human -AI Interface

  • 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

Lutz Schirrmeister, Global Procurement Leader

Jafles Pacheco, VP Procurement, TAKKT

  • 1:10 PM

Lunch & Networking

Live demos run from 1.20 pm

MAIN STAGE

  • 2:00 PM

AI Literacy & Implementation Playbook

  • What is Needed to Make AI Work in the Business?

Fabian Lampe, Founder, Advance Procurement

MAIN STAGE

  • 2:30 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

  • 3:30 PM

Coffee + Live Demos

MAIN STAGE

  • 3:55 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

Brajan Gatys, Sr Manager, Procurement, Personio

Dhiliban Kandasamy, Sr Global Commodity Buyer – Digitalization, ZF Group

  • 4:25 PM

Challenge / Solution Roundtables

1. Data Readiness
2. Tail Spend
3. Intelligent Intake
4. Contracts
5. Requisitions
6. Invoice & Payments
7. Category Management – Lutz Schirrmeister
8. Supplier Enablement & Management

  • 5:05 PM

Close of Agentic AI - Followed by Drinks

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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!"