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Battle of the Bidders
Room: Restaurant
Host: Jack Dillane, AVP Value Consulting
Step into your suppliers’ shoes in a competitive bidding simulation. In teams, you’ll bid for business across several rounds using Keelvar Sourcing Optimizer, uncovering how optimization boosts smarter decisions and win-win results.
Recommended for: Sourcing Optimzer Users
Introducing AI Sourcing Agents
Room: Cambridge
Host: Keelvar Professional Services & Alan Holland, CEO
Discover the best use cases for automation and how to leverage AI agents to learn, adapt and improve automated sourcing events.
Recommended for: Senior stakeholders, center of excellence, those interested in automation and agentic AI
Drop in Q&A Zone: Meet the Product Team!
Room: Lomax
Host: Tara Dixon, VP Product & Chris Walsh, Principal Product Manager
Get dedicated time with the product team to answer questions or delve into the roadmap in more detail
2:20pm - 3:05pm
Intake to Insights: Integration & Automation Stories
Room: Restaurant
Host: Dylan Alperin, Chief Customer Officer
Hear how Keelvar customers are connecting intake, sourcing, and reporting using tools like SAP Guided Buying, Salesforce, Power BI and more. From benchmarking to ESG data, discover how integrated workflows are enriching sourcing events and driving better outcomes.
Recommended for: those interested in touchless, automated sourcing, senior stakeholders
Designing AI Sourcing Agents: From Rate Management to RFP Execution
Room: Cambridge
Host: Chris Walsh, Principal Product Manager & Keelvar Prof. Services
In this interactive workshop, map out how AI agents interact with your data, define their inputs and outputs, and identify tasks to delegate—from managing rates to launching RFPs. Collaborate in small groups to whiteboard end-to-end sourcing workflows and walk away with a clear, actionable plan for setting up your own AI sourcing agents.
Recommended: existing Keelvar users, those interested in automation, agentic AI and rate management
Drop in Q&A Zone: Meet the Value Consulting Team!
Room: Lomax
Host: Toby Burton, VP Value Consulting & Jack Dillane, AVP Value Consulting
Get dedicated time with the value consulting team to identify how to unlock and prove value.
3:05pm - 3:20pm
3:20pm - 4:20pm
Partner Workshops:
3:20pm - 3:50pm
Why Procure-to-Pay isn't enough: The Case for Intake and Orchestration
Zip
Room: Cambridge
3:20pm - 3:50pm
Simplify Complex RFPs with Freight Benchmarking
DAT
Room: Restaurant
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Building Resilient Supply Chains: Innovating for Sustainability and Business Growth
EcoVadis
Room: Restaurant
3:50pm - 4:20pm
Sourcing Automation meets Intake and Orchestration
excelerated
Room: Cambridge
Customer Roundtable Discussions:
Informal practitioner led roundtables to share experiences, challenges & best practices
3:20pm - 4:20pm:
Integration & Automation Use Cases
Room: Music Hall (main stage)
3:20pm - 4:20pm:
Driving Adoption & Change Management
Room: Lomax
4:20pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 6:30pm