Agents at Work: How Tom Mills and Opella's CPO pair AI Agents with people skills

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 isn't whether to use AI. It's what you do with the time and headspace it gives back.

Join Tom Mills, Michael Keller (Director of Procurement, Vertice) and Panos Anastasiou (CPO, Opella) for a candid look at how they're actually 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:

• Where AI agents are genuinely earning their keep in procurement workflows today
• Which tasks are still (and will stay) firmly human - and why
• How freeing up time from manual work is changing what "good procurement" looks like
• How to build a team and workflow that plays to the strengths of both

We'll also be showing a few of Vertice's AI agents in action - real examples of automation running inside procurement workflows, from intake through to contract review.

Who this is for:

Senior procurement and finance leaders who want to make the most of AI agents in their workflows - and are thinking about how to keep building the skills and judgment that agents can't replace.

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