Schedule at a glance
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Prem Ramachandran, Global Senior Director - GPO Insights & Analytics, Mars |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | AI & The State of Procurement Transformation 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 & Senior Analyst for Upstream Procurement, The Hackett Group |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Sebastiano Finocchiaro, Global Procurement Category Manager, Booking.com |
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