Procurement magazine October 2025 | Page 100

AI LEADERS

Session: Put AI to work Discover why 20-person AI companies are set to outpace 400-person legacy vendors and why leaders must rethink AI beyond faster, cheaper workflows. This opening keynote dives into agentic AI and the shift to an era where business models, innovation and value creation are reimagined from the ground up for a truly AI-native future.
Kareem Ayoub VP AI Technical Strategy, Google DeepMind
Klemens Hjartar Senior Partner( QuantumBlack), McKinsey & Company
Elouise Epstein Partner, Kearney

SUSTAINABILITY

Katharina Stenholm Chief Sustainability Officer, dsm-firmenich
Pierre-Francois Thaler Co-Founder & Co-CEO, EcoVadis
Deborah Dull Founder, Circular Supply Chain Network
Session: Can AI ever be truly circular? From Turing ' s 1950s computational breakthrough to today ' s energyintensive AI systems, explore whether AI can achieve true circularity. This session breaks down AI ' s physical infrastructure – data centres, cooling systems and hardware – examining the energy, water and material costs of our digital transformation. Discover innovative circular solutions from companies disassembling servers in 3.5 minutes to paint that reduces building temperatures by 10 ° C.
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