What AI agents actually change in Procurement (and what they don’t)

With Tom Mills and Opella's CPO

AI agents can run compliance checks, draft contracts, and even support negotiations - but they can't manage a difficult stakeholder, read a room, or make the final call on a relationship that matters. As agents take on more of the manual work, the question is: How do you best combine your agent skills with your team skills?

Join Tom Mills, Panos Anastasiou (Chief Procurement Officer, Opella) and Michael Keller for a fireside chat to understand how they're splitting the work between agents and people - what to hand off, what to hold onto, and how that balance is playing out a year into agentic AI's rise in procurement.

What you'll take away:

• How Panos built his team around AI
• Why you should spend 6 months learning your company's digital stack
• What Tom and Panos think AI can't fix in procurement and what it can
• How Panos achieved 5x procurement performance improvement in the first year with the right process design
• How to build a team that plays to the strengths of both AI and soft skills

Who this is for:

Senior procurement and finance leaders who want to understand how to get the most out of their teams and their agents and how to create synergy between them.

Format: Live session with Tom Mills, Panos Anastasiou and the Vertice team, followed by Q&A.