Johan Mills is a procurement executive currently serving as Vice President of Product Strategy at Vertice. His background includes seven years at Thoughtworks, where he established the global procurement function and scaled operations across 18 countries. Previously, he led procurement consulting engagements for PA Consulting and data centre procurement programs across Liberty Global's portfolio companies.
Day 1 | 22nd September
9:20 AM Interactive Keynote Polling Panel: Adopting AI in Procurement: How can you integrate AI & agents with the right guardrails to drive greater efficiency and smarter decision making?
- How are you integrating AI into your organisation to capitalise on artificial intelligence and human intelligence?
- What AI projects didn't work and what did you learn from it to build success?
- How are you defining clear guardrails and fallback mechanisms for AI & agents in procurement to ensure clear risk management?
- What are the main savings from AI in procurement; real savings from better purchasing, or less labour overheads?
- What is the future of AI and how can procurement best prepare to ensure the business is ready to adapt in a rapidly evolving technological landscape?
2:30 PM Presentation: How Thoughtworks and Vertice Solved AI's Blank Cheque Problem
- How to build governance around accelerating AI adoption to maintain control without slowing innovation
- How to bring procurement discipline to AI investment to improve visibility and strengthen cost decision-making
- How to measure AI against business value to identify what to scale, improve or stop
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Johan.
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