ProcureTECH ’26
Australia & New Zealand’s Leading eProcurement Event
Thursday 26 March 2026 – The Pullman Hotel, Hyde Park Sydney
LIVE and in-person
The Programme.
& The Challenge of Buying Transformation
‘Live' from Boston, USA by ZOOM
The range of new challenges and opportunities facing the eProcurement landscape in 2026 includes better user experiences, adoption, speed and business outcomes while also improving supply resilience and pragmatic adoption of fast-changing AI technology. Insights will be drawn from practitioner research and advisory insights from The Hackett Group and Spend Matters.
Join Pierre Mitchell, Spend Matters' Distinguished Research Analyst, for a comprehensive guide to the current trends in the global procurement technology market.
North American and UK based Spend Matters is a market intelligence firm that powers critical technology, product, marketing and investment decisions for buyers, solution providers, consultants and investors in procurement, finance and supply chain.
Spend Matters, now owned by The Hackett Group, is a media content partner with PASA, sharing relevant news and insights with the PASA community.
Procurement leaders will be forced to rethink their organisational design and operating model approaches in the face of the opportunities that AI represents for their functions.
How do I prepare employees for a future where they will use AI as a strategic thought-partner?
How do I prepare for a future where procurement teams are made up of both human and AI agents?
How will leaders need to guide and support their teams to adopt the ways in which AI is changing work?
From Org Charts to Orchestration: The AI-First Operating Model.
Traditional intake is the new procurement bottleneck. This live demo showcases how Smart Intake & Orchestration serves as the "front door" for the modern operating model, guiding users and orchestrating cross-functional workflows with agentic AI. See how aligning people, systems, and data turns fragmented processes into efficient, compliant outcomes. Discover how to move work faster, reduce risk, and scale your team’s impact through live, end-to-end visibility.
Automate compliance, enhance real-time insights and analytics, and manage AI-driven early-payment discount negotiations that unlock working capital to reduce operating costs.
With Q&A interview with MC
6 unexpected side effects of AI in procurement
This session explores six unexpected side effects emerging as AI becomes embedded into everyday procurement work — not as theory, but as lived reality. We’ll look at how expectations, behaviour, and even the perception of procurement itself may evolve as intelligence becomes part of the operating model. We will be showcasing the latest SAP Ariba AI capabilities across Category Management and Source-to-Contract
How do you maintain supply chain control in a world with AI-enabled cybercrime?
- How do you maintain supply chain control in a world with AI-enabled cybercrime?
- Case studies of how businesses have been defrauded online
- Strategies that different sectors, including the government, banks, and private enterprises, are using to fight back
- The strengths and limitations of various approaches and technologies
- How to maintain supply chain and financial control in an AI world
- What procurement leaders should be asking right now?
JAGGAER One unifies your entire source-to-pay ecosystem into a single, connected platform—eliminating data siloes, reducing friction, and accelerating time-to-value. Discover how this approach enhances visibility, compliance, and spend control while standardising processes across the enterprise. See also JAI, JAGGAER’s AI agent, designed to empower buyers by automating routine tasks, analysing spend and supplier data in real time and recommending optimal sourcing actions
With suppliers driving 60–90% of commercial and ESG exposure, procurement is the only function with a near real‑time view of where operating risk is emerging - critical intelligence that strategic, legal and compliance teams will miss without proactive collaboration.
What is the problem today that a new contract management system solves? Which is the best option, home-made, AI, offshore provider, new mopdule on your main system? And how do you determine your best option? What criteria do you apply?
AI that moves your procurement forward. Agentic AI that plans, decides, and acts across your source-to-pay workflows, delivering faster decisions, fewer steps, and better outcomes. By unifying data, decisions, and execution into one intelligent system, GEP Qi replaces bottlenecks with continuous motion. Smarter. Faster. Frictionless agentic AI that will move your procurement forward.
AI isn’t just transforming the products your business buys—it’s transforming the way you buy them. As more SaaS vendors embed AI into their offerings, procurement leaders face a double challenge: evaluating the real value of AI features and navigating increasingly complex, opaque pricing models.
In this practical session, Jordan Tang will explore how procurement teams can leverage AI tools themselves to analyze, benchmark, and negotiate better software contracts. He’ll also break down key considerations when contracting for AI-enabled SaaS from usage and data rights to compliance risks and hidden cost escalators.
If you’re grappling with AI upsells, unpredictable consumption pricing, or vague promises of “AI-powered outcomes,” this session will give you a clear framework for assessing value, controlling spend, and negotiating agreements that protect your organisation’s interests.
Real AI agents built for procurement, real ROI
95% of AI pilots fail, but OpenAI’s procurement team will save 1400 hours of manual effort this year—with just a single Zip AI agent. Leading organizations are seeing measurable, quantifiable results with purpose-built procurement agents that go live in days, not months.
With this session, you’ll see a live demo of Zip and understand the full potential of agents when embedded on an AI procurement orchestration platform. You’ll learn how Zip customers are driving real ROI with each new agent deployed, and at scale–fundamentally transforming their operating model.
AI in Action: Turning Contracts & Spend Data into Commercial Intelligence and Practical Value.
Learn how to use AI to -
- Instantly extract commercial risk and obligations
- Connect missed opportunities across spend and contract data
- Surface value leakage and missed opportunities
- Track renewals and compliance automatically
- Create visibility across fragmented supplier portfolios
- Adapt to your procurement needs whilst limiting technical complexity
Plus, get an Argon & Co goodie bag & the opportunity to receive a free proof of value analysis using a snapshot of your contract and transaction data.
The merchant fees payments supply chain … how expensive is it for BUYERS truly? Who gets what, how much of the price is buried in fees, and what can you do about it? Are there really 7 steps in the financial card payments supply chain? How much could you save?
How to convince your stakeholders to invest in supply side technology. Gartner research revealed, tellingly, in February 2023 that fully 83% of eProcurement business cases for eProcurement technology budgets actually fail. But why? What is Procurement getting so wrong in applying for budget funding? What can we do to get it right ?
Your SaaS costs are too high. And you don't know what a 'fair' price should be. This is the fix.
SaaS is one of any business' largest areas of spend. And often procurement teams' largest area of waste.
As if annual price hikes and 'shrinkflation' weren't enough, procurement also faces surprise renewal dates, complex AI upsells, hidden spend, 'zombie' tools, and no price benchmarks.
And most teams are trying to manage all this with spreadsheets!
Discover how Vertice's AI-powered intelligent procurement platform solves SaaS visibility, underuse and overspend, with typically 7x ROI, 90 days payback, and guaranteed savings of 20%.
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What people say about our events.
The PASA conference was the best conference I had attended in many years – many practical advice and applications that my team and I can put to use straight away, a great investment of our time.
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