Moderators & Speakers

The view from outside in — where Nordic companies are placing their bets over the next three years, and where the assumptions in many strategy decks no longer match what the data says.

What it takes to move from risk signals to action across supplier tiers, told from inside one of the Nordics’ most demanding supply chains. Presented with Alexandre Pougnaud.

The same keynote from the response side: what happens once a disruption is confirmed and a taskforce has to carry it. Presented with Vikram Kulkarni.

Mergers usually put procurement on hold. Her team treated Denmark’s largest-ever merger as the moment to rebuild instead — rolling out new technology while the organisation was still in flux.

UPM’s own operating model as the worked example, including a deliberate split of today’s category work into the third to stop or automate, the third to keep, and the third to add by 2030.

How AI moves from experimentation to measurable impact, why some initiatives scale while others stall, and how the workforce itself is being reshaped as agents arrive.

She opens the first stop and stays on stage as the room works — questions and conversation, not a second presentation.

Twenty-three years of technology waves on one page: what changed procurement, what never did, and what that means for the choices you face now. Enabled by Ivalua.

What such a company looks like from the inside, what has to be built underneath to keep it safe and governed, and which work is left for people to do.

Whether procurement is positioned to ask the design questions early on AI, make the trade-offs visible, and answer the CEO on what the function is getting back.

On the panel from between the business, IT and a fast-growing field of AI suppliers, bringing what his Day 1 lab surfaced.

How Orkla consolidated seven siloed risk processes into one across its legal entities, and how AI is now applied to run it at scale. Co-hosted with Isabel Carlebom.

Back on stage to share what his room converged on and where peers openly disagreed.

The same room from the process side: how to organise supplier risk so the design holds when the field keeps moving. Co-hosted with Nils Holm Andersson.

Back on stage with what her room worked through across both rounds.

A case-led room: the method shown with its actual artefacts, and an AI-enabled diagnostic that reads a live contract estate and flags exposure ahead of time.

On stage with what his room made of predictive value, and what stayed unresolved.

Who defines what a regulation means, who implements it, and who verifies it — an ownership question that normally gets discussed in four separate rooms.

On stage with what her room chose to work on, and where it split.

The table writes a real job ad: four or five capabilities you would genuinely put in a posting, each tied to a value and each something you could actually test.

Reads back what his Day 1 lab wrote for the 2027 hire, and turns it on the room.

How much data foundation to build before you move on AI, and how to find value along the way so it earns its keep before it is ever finished.

On the panel from within IT, where connecting procurement data and getting the master data right comes first.

She opens with a working case — an AI assistant for contracting at Yara, now scaling across contract types — then the room maps a process stage of its own choosing.

Reads back what her Day 1 lab surfaced, alongside the live case at Yara.

Negotiation playbooks agreed before execution, and the operational and financial value still sitting in agreements once the ink is dry — before any tooling is layered on.

Where Inter IKEA is on that journey: one process across categories, one digital solution, and the different realities it has to work in. Co-hosted with Ankit Shah.

Opens the room with Mårten Wennersten, then the tables compare how others have drawn the same lines. Co-hosted with Mårten Wennersten.

Opens the panel with a working agent, built from inside procurement, that guides colleagues to the right way to buy.

Moderated with Teodor Bretvold. Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Moderated with Ulrika Hallström. Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

Runs twice, same topic, new group.

He takes the room behind the evaluation: how nominations are assessed, and how independence and conflicts of interest are handled.

She opens both mornings, draws out on stage what the labs surfaced, facilitates the Day 2 working session, moderates the panel and closes the summit.