Find the Right Use Cases
Where AI genuinely improves sourcing, supplier insight, and procurement workflows, and where it doesn't.
Build the Foundations
Fix fragmented spend data, disconnected systems, and the adoption barriers that stall agents.
Scale with Confidence
Ownership, governance, and operating models that turn pilots into everyday practice.
AI Agents in Procurement
How agents take on procurement workflows and support decisions.
AI Spend Intelligence
Turning fragmented data into insight that people and agents can act on.
Procurement Operating Models
Adoption and
Change
Getting buyers to actually use AI, and keeping them using it.
Past speakers, shown for reference. The 2027 lineup will be announced soon.
AI and automation promise quick wins, but the real challenge lies within the organization. This session goes beyond theory and shares real use cases in practice. Explore where automation truly creates value, what a digitally ready procurement organization looks like, and why change management and mindsets ultimately determine success or failure.
Elisabeth Backes
Peter Tasev
AI Spend Intelligence
Many procurement teams want to scale AI, but fragmented systems and weak data foundations hold them back. This session explores how procurement can improve data quality, harmonize processes, and reduce complexity; and where targeted AI use cases can create value faster than large-scale transformation programs.
Nicolaj Bruun
AI in Strategic Sourcing
How procurement teams can build the technical and data foundations for an AI analytics agent that enhances supplier analysis, identifies negotiation potential, and strengthens preparation. Drawing on a production AI system used in real procurement contexts, this session explores how internal and external data can be combined, how to create a lean but reliable data basis, and what it takes to scale a grounded AI use case in a controlled and decision-ready way.
Dr. Christian Haase
Supplier Risk Management with AI
Procurement data is often spread across disconnected systems, making it difficult to spot risks, understand interdependencies, and strengthen resilience early enough. This session shows how knowledge graphs can connect siloed data and how linking them with LLMs can create more reliable context for forecasting disruptions, assessing impact, and supporting better procurement decisions.
Stefan Franke
A Way to Judge AI Vendors
How peers separate real AI capability from repackaged features.
Use Cases that Scaled
Which procurement AI projects made it past the pilot, and what it took.
Data Readiness Check
What your spend and supplier data needs before agents can act on it.
Peers to Call Afterwards
CPOs and heads of procurement facing the same decisions this year.
Senior procurement and sourcing leaders from large enterprises and the industrial Mittelstand.
Al in procurement is never a procurement-only decision. IT owns the data, Finance signs off the business case, Security approves the risk, and Operations lives with the results. At ATS they're all in the same building, with their own tracks, so you can hear their side and build the alliances you need back home.
IT & Data
Your spend and sourcing agents run on their data and systems. Learn what IT leaders need from procurement before they integrate anything.
Finance
Every Al investment needs a business case. See how finance and business leaders measure Al value, so your proposals get approved.
Al vendors bring new risks under the EU AI Act. Find out what compliance teams check before they say yes.
Operations
Sourcing decisions land in the supply chain. Learn how operations leaders use Al to plan demand and inventory.
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