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

As agents take on more of the manual work, the question is: How do you best combine your team and soft skills with AI agent skills?

What Panos and Tom Mills will share with you:

  • 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

About the speakers

In This Video
Tom Mills
Procurement Protagonist and Public Speaker, and author of the Procure Bites newsletter.
Tom is a Procurement lynchpin, who's experience in procurement is only matched by his passion for it. He's best known as the author and driving force behind the highly popular Procure Bites newsletter.
Michael Keller
Director of Procurement, USA
Michael is an expert in creating global procurement strategies and helping companies make smart financial decisions to enable growth. He leads the US procurement team for Vertice.
Panos Anastasiou
CPO at Opella
Panos has clocked 20 years in procurement, after cutting his teeth in supply chain. He now leads Opella's 100+ strong procurement function, with a sharp focus on agentic AI, org design, and building teams that play to the strengths of both people and machines.

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