Agents with agency: Building an AI workforce procurement can trust

AI agents don’t just assist procurement work anymore. They perform it. From redlining contracts against your playbooks to negotiating tail spend and coordinating requests end-to-end, your autonomous AI workforce is already here. But AI agents that act on your behalf are only an asset if they’re governed by the same permissions, policies, and audit trail as your people. This session unpacks both halves of that equation: what real AI automation looks like in practice and what it takes to safely scale with the governance & controls that high-stakes procurement workflows require.

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Speakers

A glimpse into who will inspire this conversation!

Jason Powell

Managing Director of Enterprise Transformation

Zip

Kimberly Dallas

Founder

The SourceCode AI 

Hannah LAzar

Fractional Procurement Leader & Advisor

speaker bios

Jim Czarnecki
Managing Director of Enterprise Transformation, Zip

Proven professional with 20 years of experience in process excellence, risk management, stakeholder relations and change management.

Kimberly Dallas
Founder, The SourceCode AI and Vice President, Procurement, US, Mapletree US Management

Strategic, highly accomplished and purposeful leader with experience developing and leading sourcing, negotiation, supplier management and digital transformation initiatives.

Hannah Lazar
Fractional Procurement Leader

Hannah Lazar is recent Head of Strategic Partnerships & Procurement at OnePay, where she led a team building the vendor portfolio that has powered the company’s growth from startup to a major fintech serving millions of customers. She previously built the procurement function at Movable Ink and spent nearly eight years at Goldman Sachs advancing vendor strategy and negotiations. Hannah brings deep expertise in procurement strategy, vendor negotiations, and scaling commercial partnerships in high-growth technology environments.