Livestream Agenda
| 09:55 - 10:00 | Center Stage Opening Remarks Vivianne Bendermacher, Host Center Stage Herman Knevel, CEO, DPW |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Put AI To Work Kareem Ayoub, VP AI Technical Strategy, DeepMind |
| 10:25 - 11:10 | Leadership in the Age of Disruption Paul Polman, Former CEO, Unilever Janelle Aydin, Chief Procurement and Sustainability Officer, Kraft Heinz Bertrand Conqueret, CPO, Henkel Pierre-Francois Thaler, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, EcoVadis (Moderator) |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Next-Gen Operating Models: Redefining Procurement Laila Dalla Torre, Global Procurement COE & PMO Director, Bekaert Michael DeWitt, CPO, QXO Elouise Epstein, Partner, Kearney Jennifer Moceri, CPO, Google (Moderator) |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | DPW Awards 2025: Early Stage Finalists Pitches |
| 13:25 - 14:05 | DPW Awards 2025: Growth Stage Finalists Pitches |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Navigating Supply Chains Amid Geopolitical Disruption Barbara Kux, Member of the Board of Directors, Henkel Geraint John, VP Research, Zero100 (Moderator) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Agents of Change: What 1,030 Procurement and Finance Leaders Reveal About the Future of AI, Talent, and Strategy Mithun Sharma, CPO, Block Felix Meng, VP & Co-Founder, Zip |
| 15:05 - 15:35 | The Next-Gen CPO Playbook Annette Martens, Procurement Lead Consumer Brands, Henkel Lainie Suarez Butler, VP Global Procurement, Bristol Myers Squibb Shashi Mandapaty, Former CPO, Johnson & Johnson (Moderator) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Building the AI Agent Economy: Inside Google Cloud’s MarketplaceDai Vu, MD Cloud Marketplace & ISV GTM Initiatives, Google Cloud |
| 16:05 - 16:45 | Evaluation Divide: How Investors vs. Corporates Assess Emerging Technologies Klaus Staubitzer, CPO & Head of Supply Chain, Siemens Nowi Kallen, MD, Salesforce Ventures Tomas Dostal Freire, CIO & Head of Business Transformation, Miro Natalie Lorberboym Mano, Global Tech Venturing & Innovation Senior Director, PepsiCo Shruti Tournatory, Partner, ICONIQ (Moderator) |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Reimagining Procurement: Exploring the Strategies and Mindsets That Will Move the Needle Mauro Antonio Erriquez, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company |
| 09:35 - 09:45 | DPW Awards - Winners Announced |
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Agentic AI: Moving Beyond Pilots to Enterprise Impact Klemens Hjartar, Senior Partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Driving Procurement Transformation in the Age of AI Dan Bartel, CPO, American Airlines Group Barbara Buttinger, SVP Procurement, Siemens Energy Bertrand Maltaverne, Director Market Intelligence, The Hackett Group (Moderator) |
| 10:45 - 11:05 | From Grind to Greatness: The AI-Native Advantage Alex Yakubovich, Co-Founder & CEO, Levelpath Stan Garber, Co-Founder & President, Levelpath |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Fast-Track to AI: Procurement's Roadmap for Effective Adoption Anne Eling, Head of Procurement Excellence, Tesa Ilona Piekoszewska, Global Head Indirect Procurement, Givaudan David Armstrong, VP Strategy & Sustainability Procurement, bp Andrew Bartolini, Founder & Chief Research Officer, Ardent Partners (Moderator) |
| 11:45 - 12:05 | Beyond Innovation: How Procurement Must Evolve in an Era of Disruption Patrick Foelck, Head of Insights & Enablement Procurement, Roche |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Make Agentic AI a Reality: Building Agents that Work for Procurement Nitin Kapoor, VP Global Procurement COE, GSK Lalitha Rajagopalan, Co-Founder, ORO Labs Sudhir Bhojwani, Co-Founder & CEO, ORO Labs |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | Resilient by Design: How Volvo Builds Future-Ready Supply Chains Yann Teste, VP Purchasing, Volvo Construction Equipment |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Creating Resilient Supply Chains While Revolutionizing Supplier Discovery John Ferguson, Global Lead New Globalization, Economist Impact Group Gordon Donovan, Global VP Research Procurement, SAP |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | Be Direct: The Future of Direct Materials when AI & Tariffs Collide Spencer Penn, CEO, LightSource |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | Can AI Ever Be Truly Circular? Deborah Dull, Founder, Circular Supply Chain Network Harald Friedl, CEO, Circle Economy |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | What Makes Procurement Sexy for the Next Gen of Procurement Leaders? Isabel Verhoeven, Buyer, bpostgroup Mikhail Sidorin, Strategic Procurement Manager, ARAG Veya Ayra Mandapat, Procurement Specialist, Adyen Sebastiano Finocchiaro, Global Procurement Category Manager, Booking.com (Moderator) |
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