Staged in Las Vegas, the highly-anticipated 2026 edition of Coupa Inspire was a landmark gathering for procurement and finance leaders. This year’ s theme,‘ The Network Effect’, explored the powerful synergy between AI-native technology and a global community fuelled by Coupa’ s US $ 10tn dataset.
For the leaders in attendance, the event offered a definitive roadmap to move beyond transactional purchasing and embrace the age of agentic procurement. Staged at the Aria Resort, the sold-out event attracted 2,653 professionals from across industries – all eager to explore how community data, automation and digital agents can be strategically integrated to mitigate risk, accelerate growth and double savings across the spend lifecycle.
At the heart of the conference was the“ Network Effect” – the powerful convergence of spend dataset and an expanding digital workforce. The primary engine behind this shift is the newly-launched Coupa Compose. This product bundle introduces Navi Agent Studio for customising no-code digital agents, alongside advanced intake, orchestration and Navi Connect tools to enable seamless agent-to-agent collaboration.
To ease the corporate transition into this hybrid human-agent workforce, Coupa also introduced Coupa Catalyst, a five-step AI transformation service pairing organisations with embedded business strategists and forwarddeployed engineers.
A major talking point throughout the event was Coupa’ s acquisitions,
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