ORO is on a mission to simplify complex workflows and make procurement more efficient. In this session, ORO co-founders celebrate the company’s fifth-anniversary growth, highlighting global reach, award-winning UX, and industry recognition. They emphasize redefining procurement through digital orchestration, collaboration with partners, and customer-driven innovation.
This session outlines procurement’s four tech eras, predicting AI-native platforms will replace legacy suites. Future procurement will be automated “black boxes” managed by humans overseeing AI agents. Every employee will supervise multiple agents, demanding cultural reinvention and personal mastery of AI-driven productivity tools.
Interim research from Hackett shows early adopters of orchestration achieve faster onboarding, improved user satisfaction, and 25% cost savings. In this session, Chris Sawchuck connects integration and automation to measurable ROI and predicts agentic AI will transform procurement efficiency and strategy, urging ongoing participation in the longitudinal study.
Enterprises lag in realizing AI’s potential because of legacy systems, data silos, and cultural inertia. In this session, Shashi Mandapaty argues that procurement leaders must question core paradigms—prioritizing internal data, shifting from standardization to personalization, and focusing on outcomes—to unlock generative AI’s transformative potential.
