Livestream Agenda
| 9:40 AM - 10:00 AM | Opening Show & Welcome Remarks Terrance Lamonte Jr., Center Stage Host, DPW Matthias Gutzmann, Founder, DPW |
| 10:00 AM - 10:25 AM | RECODE: Building the AI Blueprint for the Next Decade Tiger Tyagarajan, Former President & CEO, Genpact |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Recoding Siemens with AI: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Klaus Staubitzer, Chief Procurement Officer, Siemens AG |
| 10:55 AM - 11:15 AM | AI Is Ready. Procurement Is Not: What 150 CPOs Told Us Saurabh Gupta, President, HFS Research |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Procurement’s Next Frontier: Orchestrating Enterprise Value with AI Theano Liakopoulou, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company |
| 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM | Selling the Story: How Primark Reimagined Their Procurement Operating Model Laura Cook, Director of Procurement, Primark |
| 1:05 PM - 1:40 PM | Talent in the Agentic Era: Building the Procurement Function of the Future Matteo Perondi, Chief Procurement Officer, BULGARI SPA Alison Jones, CPO Direct Materials, Philips Matthew Everett, Chief Procurement Officer, Regeneron Usama Asif, CPO Foods Business Group, Unilever Bertrand Maltaverne, Director Market Intelligence & Senior Analyst for Upstream Procurement, The Hackett Group (Moderator) |
| 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM | Real Gains: How Procurement Can Drive Measurable Business Value John Ferguson, Global Lead New Globalization, Economist Impact Group Gordon Donovan, Global VP Research Procurement, SAP Nikolaus Kirner, CPO, SAP |
| 2:10 PM - 2:30 PM | Source to Supply: How John Deere Is Recoding Supply Chain Workflows Gia Duke, Global Director Supply Chain Transformation, John Deere Geraint John, VP Research, Zero100 |
| 2:35 PM - 2:55 PM | Agentic Nations and Enterprises: What Happens to Us When the Hype Becomes Reality? Kaspar Korjus, Co-Founder & CEO, Pactum AI |
| 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Recoding Competitive Advantage in the Race for Growth Ard Verboon, CPO, Schneider Electric |
| 4:05 PM - 4:35 PM | The Future CPO Playbook Danielle Wells, Digital Procurement Transformation Lead, Diageo Andrea Sordi, Head of Global Procurement Indirect, dsm-firmenich Ashish Gupta, Director Digital Strategy and Transformation, The Clorox Company Chris Sawchuk, Principal & Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, The Hackett Group (Moderator) |
| 4:40 PM - 5:00 PM | Rebuilding Procurement at HEINEKEN Hervé Le Faou, CPO, The HEINEKEN Company |
| 9:15 AM - 9:20 AM | Opening Remarks Terrance Lamonte Jr., Center Stage Host, DPW |
| 9:20 AM - 9:40 AM | Firm Foundations: From AI Hype to Functioning Reality Nataša Vidmar, CPO, AstraZeneca |
| 9:45 AM - 10:05 AM | Mercedes-Benz: From Idea to Execution in Less Than 12 Months Philip Talis Caune, Director of Procurement, Mercedes-Benz Group Binayak Shrestha, Global Head of Services Delivery, GEP |
| 10:10 AM - 10:35 AM | Supply Chain Resilience: Navigating Disruption in a Volatile World Sara Rodríguez, President, Hermasa Canning Technology Javad Mohammadi, Group CPO, Mammut Group Frank Arendt, CPO, Barry Callebaut Dr. Maria Jesús Saénz, Director Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab, MIT (Moderator) |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Speed Wins: How Procurement Leaders Are Compressing the Sourcing Cycle Spencer Penn, Co-Founder & CEO, LightSourceAlessandro Boldrini, Procurement Technology & Data Analytics Specialist, Bridgestone EMEAAnya Korbut, Solutions Engineer, LightSource (Moderator) |
| 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM | Building Skills That Survive Every Hype Cycle Paula Martinez, CPO, Kenvue Robin Shahani (Moderator) |
| 12:25 PM - 12:50 PM | Resilience or Responsibility? Why Procurement Needs Both Svjetlana Jerkovic, Global Procurement Head Raw Materials, ICL Group Tjerry Fruhling, Global Procurement Director Beauty & Wellbeing, Unilever Bertrand Maltaverne, Director Market Intelligence & Senior Analyst for Upstream Procurement, The Hackett Group (Moderator) |
| 12:55 PM - 1:15 PM | Transforming Spend: How Danone Powers Global Procurement in the AI Era Apurva Gupta, VP Procurement, Danone Jeff Collier, CRO, Coupa |
| 1:20 PM - 1:45 PM | Why Procurement Is Moving Up the CFO Agenda Michaela Mayrhofer, Group CPO & Finance Transformation, Swisscom Valentina Fanni, CFO Tech & Operations, ING Chris Sawchuk, Principal & Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, The Hackett Group (Moderator) |
| 1:50 PM - 2:10 PM | From Pilots to Scalable Impact: Lessons from JLL Nitin Krishnakumar, Head of Digital, Data & Strategy, Sourcing & Procurement, JLL |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | The End of Source-to-Pay: Why Procurement Doesn’t Need a Seat at the Table Adam Brown, Co-Founder, DPG Labs |
| 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | DPW Awards 2026: Winners Revealed! |
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