Antal Kamps

Principal Director – Strategy & Consulting, Accenture

Carl Claughton-Wallin

Sales Account Director, Coupa

From Efficiency Gains to Operating Model Shifts – What Agentic AI Actually Means for Procurement Leadership

Most organizations are still approaching AI as incremental improvement. But agentic AI – autonomous, decision-capable – opens a different question entirely: what does modern procurement actually look like when the technology can think, act, and create value alongside you?

Antal Kamps (Accenture) and Carl Claughton-Wallin (Coupa) work across organizations navigating this shift. Their perspective: this isn’t about deploying technology. It’s about reshaping how procurement thinks, acts, and creates value – and that demands reinvention, not optimization.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, and accelerate revenue growth. A talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 801,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Learn more at accenture.com.

Coupa is the leader in AI-native total spend management. Using its trusted, community-generated $7 trillion dataset, Coupa brings autonomous AI agents, a network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers, and leading apps together on one unified platform. Learn more at coupa.com.

Martta Tenhu

Solution Consultant, IntegrityNext

Angela Menillo

Sustainability Expert, IntegrityNext

Reimagining Supply Chain Resilience: AI-Driven Risk Management in Action

Global supply chains have entered a period marked by ongoing changes, expanding regulations, and rising expectations for transparency and accountability. Traditional, fragmented approaches to risk management are no longer sufficient. The IntegrityNext team will walk through understanding today’s rapidly evolving risk landscape, and building scalable, data-driven risk management processes powered by automation and AI.

IntegrityNext, a global leader in supply chain sustainability software, stands at the forefront of corporate sustainability and compliance. Since 2016, businesses have trusted IntegrityNext to simplify ESG compliance and reduce risks. IntegrityNext addresses critical challenges like due diligence, decarbonization, and sustainability reporting. With over 500 customers and 2 million suppliers across 190 countries, IntegrityNext is transforming supply chains into engines of transparency and sustainable growth. Learn more at integritynext.com.

Sveds-Hjalmar Söderlund

AVP – Global Program Lead Procurement Digitalization

ABB

As Little as Possible, As Much as Necessary – Leading Procurement Transformation Across a Decentralized Organization

ABB is a $33 billion multinational with 170 production sites across 100+ countries – deliberately structured as roughly 20 mid-sized companies. When the organization moved to decentralize, the CPOs divided responsibilities among themselves. What was left on the table? Digitalization. It touched everyone, so nobody could own it alone. That’s where Sveds-Hjalmar Söderlund’s program was born – a four-year effort to standardize, harmonize, and transform procurement across all divisions, leading a global team of 70 people in 22 countries. The scope stretches from sourcing and supplier qualification through risk management, contracting, and quality assurance all the way to invoicing. Notably, it was actual compliance incidents that made the strategic elements non-negotiable – supplier qualification and risk management had to become centrally governed when different units handling them differently created real exposure. His guiding principle for navigating that tension: touch as little as possible centrally, but as much as is necessary. The real challenge was never choosing processes or systems. It was getting diverse units to adopt them – when everyone has their own reasons for doing things the way they’ve always done them.

Nils Holm Andersson

Director – Digital Procurement and Development

Orkla

From Digitalization to Decision-Making: Building Risk Capability Across a Decentralized Organization

Orkla operates across multiple countries with several portfolio companies – each with their own suppliers, categories, and ways of working. With regulatory demands around supply chain risk and due diligence increasing, the challenge is to navigate efficiency in managing risk while neither leaving suppliers out of the process nor reaching decision paralysis. Nils Holm Andersson has spent over a decade at Orkla working with procurement digitalization and process development. That experience influences how they approach risk mitigation – enabling local teams to act and take decisions based on a framework.

Luba Weissmann

AI & Data Director

Epiroc

Start with the Problem, Not the Feeling: Building AI Capability That Actually Delivers

Luba Weissmann has spent 20 years in data and AI – back when it was called “big data mining” and nobody knew what a data scientist was. Now leading AI, data, analytics and governance at Epiroc, she’s built a demand-driven model where her team owns platforms and frameworks while business owns the solutions from day one. Her perspective cuts through the noise: AI isn’t a purpose, it’s a tool – and the leaders who succeed are the ones asking better questions. Not “how do we do AI?” but “what problems are we actually solving, and is the way we’re solving them still the best way in 2026?”

Henrik Järleskog

Co-founder and Managing Director

Lead with AI

From Overwhelmed to Augmented: A Leader’s Journey into the Co-Pilot Economy

In senior leadership roles, the constraint is rarely ambition. It is time, throughput, and decision quality under pressure. As Head of Future of Work at Sodexo, Henrik Järleskog saw how traditional ways of working struggle when complexity rises and the pace of change accelerates. He began rebuilding his operating system around AI: not as a productivity add-on, but as a practical “co-pilot” capability embedded into daily workflows. Framed by the World Economic Forum’s “Co-Pilot Economy” scenario, Henrik translates the shift into what matters for procurement leaders: faster cycle times without sacrificing control, better synthesis across stakeholders, and stronger governance in how AI is used across sourcing, contracts, and supplier management.