Opening Welcome
This year's Festival centres on Responsible Strategic Sourcing — redefining what responsibility means in a rapidly evolving, AI-driven world
It is about being accountable for business growth and reputation, investing in people and skills to thrive alongside AI, and embedding sustainability and ESG into every sourcing decision. As organisations move faster and expect more from their partners, the agenda explores how responsibility and innovation must go hand in hand to shape a more resilient, ethical, and future-ready sourcing ecosystem.
Keynote
From Good to Great to Excellent – Procurement's Journey
Motability's journey to building a fast-growing procurement function that brings accessibility, sustainability and risk together in one team.
Charting Motability's procurement transformation, the lessons learned and the milestones ahead, this keynote explores why procurement teams need to broaden their horizons, evolve fixed mindsets, and bring sustainability and sourcing together as equal priorities.
Critical Panel
The New Responsible Sourcing Playbook
High-growth disruptors including Monzo, Vitality and Motability reveal how they are redefining strategic sourcing — balancing speed, innovation, and accountability while raising expectations of service providers.
Best Practice Session
AI and Agile Sourcing – Reinventing the Model with Accountability
A practical look at how organisations are embedding AI into sourcing today - streamlining processes, accelerating RFPs, and ensuring adoption enhances both performance and accountability.
Debate
Are Service Providers Falling Behind and Failing to Transform Fast Enough?
As enterprise buyers evolve rapidly, are traditional service providers keeping up or are legacy models holding them back?
Insight Talk
The Reinvention of Advisory in a Responsible AI World
With AI augmenting insight and analysis, what is the future role of advisors in guiding organisations responsibly through transformation?
Insight Talk
Outcome-Based Contracts – Are They Really Happening, and What Do They Look Like?
A grounded look at the shift towards outcome-based contracting — whether it is genuinely taking hold across the industry, what these arrangements look like in practice, and how buyers and providers can structure agreements that align incentives around results rather than effort.
Panel
AI-to-AI Contracting – Why Standard Terms Are the Safe Path Forward
As organisations begin using AI to draft contracts and negotiate terms, the risk of complexity, inconsistency, and unintended outcomes increases. This session explores why industry-standard contracts provide a more reliable, transparent foundation in an AI-driven negotiation environment — and how they help safeguard trust, compliance, and long-term value.
Session
Data, Control, and Digital Sovereignty
Why responsible data ownership, governance, and jurisdiction are now central to sourcing strategies — and essential to building trust and resilience.
Keynote
If AI Writes Code, Why Do We Still Need Developers?
Exploring the evolving role of software development companies and the responsibility to balance automation with human expertise, creativity, and accountability.
Session
The Rise of the Autonomous Enterprise
This keynote explores the rise of the Autonomous Enterprise and how AI, agents, automation, and connected enterprise data are reshaping the future of work and operating models. It covers the shift from isolated AI use cases to end-to-end autonomous value streams, the evolving balance between human and machine decision-making, and the governance required to scale AI effectively. Using real-world examples and maturity models, the session highlights how organisations can move from experimentation to enterprise-wide transformation while unlocking productivity, operational efficiency, and new business value through autonomous systems and AI-enabled operations.
Session
Responsible AI… with More Than Equal
Avenga and the global motorsports initiative More Than Equal partnered to develop FutureLap — a standardised intelligence platform designed to find and develop the first female Formula 1 World Champion. The system uses AI and data science to objectively track, compare and nurture emerging race talent, removing unconscious bias from motorsport scouting and helping talented women break into the highest tiers of motor racing.
FutureLap aggregates official race results from karting and junior championships, merging this data with psychological profiles and physical testing. Avenga provides the AI, machine learning, and digital product engineering to turn fragmented, early-stage race data into comparable performance intelligence.
Keynote
The Marathon Mindset: Responsible AI for the Long Run
Why responsible AI and technology adoption is a marathon, never a sprint, with lessons from leading technology and product transformation at scale.
Responsible AI adoption is a marathon, not a sprint. This session explores why organisations must build for endurance over hype, deploy AI in ways that genuinely enhance human expertise and accountability, and ensure their people, not just their technology, are ready for what comes next.
Insight Talk
AI Adoption Is a Culture Problem, Not a Tooling Problem
A practitioner's view on where AI fits, and where it doesn't, in the future of cross-border sourcing performance.
AI adoption is a culture problem, not a tooling problem. This session looks at why AI stalls at pilot stage, what moves it into repeatable daily practice, and how cultural friction between cross-border teams and AI adoption friction within them compound each other.
Closing Panel
The Future of Responsible Sourcing – Faster, Smarter, Bolder
Industry leaders share what's next — and how organisations can lead with responsibility across growth, talent, and sustainability in an AI-first future.
Confirmed Speakers
- ● Kerry Hallard — CEO, Global Sourcing Association
- ● Chris Wilson — Sourcing Director, Vitality
- ● Karl Fuhrmann — Senior Procurement Manager, Monzo
- ● Gary Slade — Chief Commercial Officer, Teleperformance
- ● Hemant Puthli — Co-founder, Aokah
- ● David Jones — Founder, Clausify
- ● Egil Fujikawa Nes — Chief Technology Officer, 99x Group
- ● Pavlo Yalovol — Vice President, Intetics
- ● Rakesh Parameshwara B — Director, ISG – Information Services Group
- ● Mark Fisher — Chief Commercial Officer, Avenga
- ● Megan Paul — Partner, Charles Russell Speechly
- ● Bhavesh Vaghela — Chief Product, Technology & AI Officer, London Marathon Events
- ● Lisa Thorne — Founder & CEO, TogetherGlobal
- ● David Rickard — The Knowledge Group
- ● Harinder Bansal — Head of Procurement and Third Party Risk (TPRM), Motability
- ● Imran Syed — Partner, DLA Piper
✦ Evening — Racing & Entertainment (4pm onwards) ✦
Networking
Networking & Evening Racing
Private balcony overlooking Sandown Park Racecourse · Racecards & hostess service included
Dining
Three-Course Buffet Dinner
Including cheeseboard, tea & coffee served post-dining
Entertainment
Live Performance: Billy Ocean
An unmissable live set from legendary recording artist Billy Ocean
