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Event Agenda

EVENT AGENDA

  • 8:00 - 8:50 AM

Breakfast Workshop

Workshop:

How will Procurement Leadership Evolve in an AI-Enabled Organisation?

  • What will procurement leaders actually be leading in five years’ time?
  • What responsibility do leaders have to help their teams become AI-ready?
  • How should procurement leaders be measured in 2030?
  • What capability will separate exceptional procurement leaders from average procurement leaders in an AI-enabled organisation?
  • Who should procurement report to in an AI-enabled enterprise: CFO, COO, CEO, or someone else?

Workshop Leader: Andrew Daley, Founder AgentIQ Procurement and Managing Director, Edbury Daley

  • 8:00 AM

Main Event Registration and Coffee

  • Welcome coffee and breakfast

  • Meet fellow attendees and kick off the day with introductions

 

Coffee Break Sponsor

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:00 AM

Welcome to Agentic AI!

Welcome and introduction to the day from the event host:

Madeleine Joubert, CEO and Founder, AI Augmented Consulting

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:10 AM

Procurement at an Inflection Point

Procurement stands on the edge of a new intelligent enterprise era, where agentic AI will not simply automate tasks but reshape how decisions are made, value is created and business ecosystems are orchestrated. This opening keynote will explore the future of procurement as an outcomes-focused, intelligence-led function, moving beyond procurement’s legacy measures of success toward productivity multiplication, business decision shaping and true enterprise influence and impact. Patrick will examine the mindset and strategic foundations leaders must build now to unlock the next generation of procurement performance. Framing transformation as a journey, this session will outline procurement’s role as a strategic partner in the future enterprise.

Patrick Foelck, Head of Strategy & Solutions Procurement, Roche

MAIN STAGE

  • 9:40 AM

From AI Ambition to Action: Building a Roadmap That Delivers

This session explores how organisations can adopt a tech-first mindset and reimagine their operating model around AI and modern technology. The panel will discuss how to move beyond experimentation: identifying high-value use cases, building practical delivery plans, and putting technology at the heart of how work gets done.

Attendees will leave with a clear view of how to turn ambition into action, reshaping not just the tools they use but the way their organisation operates.

James Belshaw, Founder, Procurement Code

Rupal Radia, Procurement Governance, Risk & SRM, Primark

Josephine Bonanno, Procurement Digital and Data Manager, Primark 

Moderator: Bob Booth, Founder, AI Ethicals

  • 10:10 AM

Coffee + Demos

Coffee Break Sponsor

 

 

+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 organisations. Hear from:

Sponsor Demo – ORO Labs
From Oversight to Orchestration: Agents Execute, Orchestration Governs, People Lead
Scott Farrance, Senior Solutions Consultant, ORO Labs

   

Sponsor Demo – Cotiss
The Truth Isn’t in Your Systems, It’s in Your Inbox
Harry Wilde, Co-founder, Cotiss

   

Sponsor Demo – Spendflo

Spendflo’s AI Procurement Workforce: Agent Orchestration in Action
Rajiv Ramanan, Co-Founder and CPO at Spendflo

    

Sponsor Demo – Zip

Inside Zip Superagents: The AI workforce that runs procurement for you
Kemley Chow, Lead Solution Engineer, Zip

 

MAIN STAGE

  • 11:35 AM

Board Expectations

AI solution providers as organisations navigate the journey from AI experimentation to enterprise adoption. Bringing perspectives from both sides of the enterprise adoption journey, I will explore how boardroom priorities are evolving, what distinguishes successful customer engagements from those that lose momentum, and how technology providers can better anticipate the realities of enterprise decision-making, avoiding common but costly activities that consume time and resources without increasing the likelihood of adoption.

Host: Janet Lung Standing, Board Advisor, former CPO

Seb Butt, Vice President, Specright

Rob Turner, Global Director, Procurement & Supply Chain, DoorDash

MAIN STAGE

  • 12:05 AM

Use Case Interviews

Customer Use Case 1
Agentic AI in Procurement: How SteelcoBelimed Transforms Its Procurement Organization Through Autonomous Agents and Joint Venture Integration

Zvjezdan Garic, Director of Supply Chain, SteelcoBelimed

Johannes Groll, Co-Founder & CEO, Tacto

Customer Use Case 2

Mira Bhadresha, Procurement director, ClearBank

  • 12:45 PM

Lunch & Networking

MAIN STAGE

  • 1:30 PM

Agentic AI: Build, Buy, or Both? Real-World Case Studies in Decision-Making and Implementation

As companies move from AI experimentation to scalable agentic AI adoption, one of the biggest strategic questions is whether to build in-house, buy external solutions, or take a hybrid approach. This discussion will explore how organisations are making that decision in practice, with real-world case studies from enterprise leaders who have navigated the build-versus-buy challenge and moved from strategy into implementation.

Participants will share their decision-making process, the factors that shaped their approach, and the steps they took to deliver successfully.

Diego Alonso López, Head of Supply Chain AI & Transformation, DXC Technology

The case studies will be followed by an interactive audience Q&A exploring when organisations should build, when they should buy, and when a combined approach makes the most sense.

Host: Kieran Gilmurray, Chief AI Innovator, Technology Transformation Group

MAIN STAGE

  • 2:15 PM

How Staffbase Brings Agents to Their Procurement with Vertice

Workflows, MCP, Claude reviews, and AI Cost Optimization

Chris Barrett, Director, Group Business Operations, Staffbase

Ethan Elstein, Director, Data and Innovation, Vertice 

  • 2:35 - 3:20 PM

Choice of Workshop

Workshop 1:

Data Agents or Value Agents —Which One Is Your Organisation Actually Ready For?

  • Why are 95% of procurement AI pilots failing to deliver measurable ROI — and is yours one of them?
  • What’s the difference between a procurement organisation with AI tools and one with AI value?
  • What are data and value agents? And how should they be orchestrated together?
  • What does a procurement organisation that converts AI investment into real savings actually look like?
  • Where should CPOs be focusing in 2026: better AI, or better data?

Rasa Raoufi, Co-Founder, Mithra AI Solutions

Workshop 2:

Building Procurement AI Agents – From Assistant to Automation
For people already comfortable with AI basics, digital transformation leads, procurement ops, consultants, product managers, and technical-adjacent teams. Focus on agent design: goals, instructions, tools, data sources, guardrails, human approval points, and how to map an agent to a procurement workflow.

Workshop Leaders: Nils Brauckmann & Brajan Gatys, Founders, Enigma & Oscar Fernandez, Founder, Procrewment

  • 3:20 PM

Coffee + Demos

Coffee Break Sponsor

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 organisations. Hear from:

Sponsor Demo – Tacto
AI Agents for Procurement: From Savings Radar to Negotiation Win

Torben Hinrichs, Customer Value Manager & Procurement Expert

 


Sponsor Demo – Omnea
Omnea’s agenticOS – agents that keep getting smarter

Dan Ratcliff, Solutions Consulting, Omnea

 

Sponsor Demo – Nibble
Don’t just take our word for it—come watch autonomous negotiation in action

Rosie Bailey CEO & Co-Founder, Nibble Technology

 


Sponsor Demo – Vallor
Procurement Leader’s AI Coworker Playbook: How to Turn Contracts from a Liability into an Asset

Antonio Goncalves, Founder & CEO, Vallor

 

MAIN STAGE

  • 4:15 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

Bob Booth, Founder, AI Ethicals

MAIN STAGE

  • 4:40 PM

Operating Models, Headcount, Change Management

In this main stage panel, speakers will unpack what’s working today: the shift from copilots to agentic workflows, how AI is being embedded across intake, contracts, analytics and negotiation, and what it takes to scale adoption across the organization. We’ll explore the operating model patterns that enable agentic procurement, governance, orchestration, data trust, and role redesign so teams can move faster without losing control.

Milind Tailor, former Global Head Resale Products and Services Procurement, Diebold Nixdorf

Jaime Paiva, Procurement Excellence, former Zurich

Bola Naomi Soko, former Commercial Manager, Bank of England

Jason Powell, Managing Director, Enterprise Transformation Office, Zip

MAIN STAGE

  • 5:10 PM

Lessons from Today - And Thoughts on Where We Will Be in One Year's Time

Madeleine Joubert, Director, consulting CFO/CPO Agenda, BDO UK

  • 5:20 PM

Closing Solution Roundtables With Drinks!

  1. Supplier Intelligence
  2. Tail Spend 
  3. Intelligent Intake 
  4. Contracts
  5. Invoice & Payments
  6. Category Management
  7. Supplier Enablement & Management
  8. Negotiation
  9. Maturity – scaling AI
  10. Maturity – AI / change readiness 

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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!"