From AI Anxiety to AI Advantage: The Future of Procurement Starts Here

Procurement has spent the last two years navigating an explosion of AI tools without clear guidance on what actually drives value. Many teams remain stuck evaluating generic copilots that generate interesting outputs but fail to translate into governed, repeatable execution. Just as importantly, AI has often been positioned as complex, opaque, or even threatening rather than as something that empowers teams.

On April 23, join us for a **live announcement and executive discussion **on a pivotal shift in the procurement technology landscape and what it means for your team. 

**What to Expect: ** 

• Dr. Elouise Epstein, AI expert and digital futurist, will open with a grounded view of AI’s current role in procurement and why leaders should reframe how they position it internally. When deployed with the right controls and business context, AI helps procurement teams reduce friction, make faster decisions, and focus more time on the work that drives greater strategic value. As Dr. Epstein recently put it, “To me, Sligo is JOY” because it brings greater clarity, momentum, and energy back to the work. 
• Scott Macfee, CEO of SpendHQ will then share the strategic rationale behind the acquisition of Sligo AI, and how this partnership accelerates SpendHQ’s vision to move procurement from data to value—faster and with greater precision. 
• Matt McCarick, CEO of Sligo, and Pierre Laprée of SpendHQ will demonstrate agentic procurement in action. You’ll see how AI agents—custom-configured to your organization’s data, taxonomies, workflows, and governance—deliver structured, defensible outputs across category strategy, sourcing, and contract analysis. Unlike generic AI copilots, these agents operate within the realities of enterprise procurement, with human oversight and control built in. 

**The result isn’t just faster execution—it’s a fundamentally better day-to-day experience for procurement teams. Less manual effort. Less uncertainty. More clarity, confidence, and impact. **

**This session is designed for CPOs and procurement leaders ready to move beyond experimentation—and start using AI in a way that is both powerful and practical. **

What you’ll learn: 

• Why procurement has been slow to adopt AI—and what’s changing now  
• How to shift the narrative from “AI as risk” to “AI as an enabler of better work”  
• The difference between generic AI tools and enterprise-grade, data-anchored AI agents  
• How SpendHQ + Sligo enables Agentic Enterprise Procurement (AEP) to move from insight to action  
• What real, production-ready AI looks like inside procurement workflows