As AI adoption accelerates, many organizations are facing a familiar challenge: innovation is moving faster than financial discipline.

Without the right controls, AI investments can quietly drive long-term IT spend inflation.

Join our experts, Michael Fuller, Tiffany Hague, and Prem Purushothamraj to explore how finance and IT leaders can take a more coordinated approach – using benchmarks and shared metrics to create transparency, identify inefficiencies, and fund higher-value AI initiatives.

What will finance look like in 2030 – and what needs to change now to get there? In an upcoming episode of Business Reporter’s AI Talk , Matthew Cartwright joins Colin Parselle of Fred Olsen Cruise Lines and host Kevin Craine to explore the shift toward AI-augmented finance.

Key topics include:

• Defining a mature AI-enabled finance operating model
• Laying the right foundation for scalable AI adoption
• Rethinking roles, skills, and team structure

A timely discussion as finance leaders look to avoid becoming too slow, too costly, or disconnected from the pace of the business.

Chicago, IL

What are the spend management strategies that distinguish high-performing procurement teams?

On April 22, join Chris Sawchuk, TR Kanna of Vantive and Deepti Khemka of Freehand for a panel examining best practices in controlling and optimizing spend. They’ll cover visibility, compliance, strategic sourcing, and more.

Procurement leaders are navigating a perfect storm in 2026: active conflicts are reshaping energy and commodity markets, a new wave of tariffs are redrawing global trade flows, and AI acceleration is restructuring supplier cost bases and pricing models.

Are your commercial strategies built for this environment, or for one that no longer exists?

We’re joining @CASME for a session designed for senior procurement leaders who want to move beyond reacting to volatility and start using it to create competitive advantage.
Expect practical insights on supplier power dynamics, cost challenge strategies, and the commercial disciplines that separate top-performing procurement teams from the rest.

3:30 PM – 6:30 PM ET

Agentic AI in procurement is generating real momentum – but adoption levels vary significantly across organizations. Where does your team stand?

Chris Sawchuk will present findings from The Hackett Group’s inaugural Agentic AI in Procurement Adoption Index at an exclusive executive briefing hosted with Zycus.

Aurora, Colorado

We’re looking forward to joining the procurement community at ISM World 2026.

Chris Sawchuk will be speaking in five sessions across the event, sharing perspectives on AI, supplier risk, and the evolving CPO agenda:

• AI Is Transforming Supplier Risk Management: Real Use Cases and Practical Advise for Implementing AI | April 27, 11 AM
• CPO Challenge: How Does Your Strategy Stack Up to Best in Class? | April 27, 3 PM
• Orchestration Companies vs. Source-to-Pay Providers: Friend or Foe? | April 28, 9 AM
• Develop a Competitive Advantage by Introducing AI Into Your Supply Chain | April 28, 11:30 AM
• Advancing Procurement Excellence: 2026 CPO Agenda by The Hackett Group | April 28, 2:30 PM

All sessions are sponsored by Synertrade in collaboration with Institute for Supply Management.

AI adoption in supply chain is moving quickly: 83% of organizations are deploying it in analytics and 70% in planning. But adoption and impact aren’t the same thing.

On May 6, The Hackett Group’s Erin Blair, Joshua Nelson and Martin Zamora will share top findings from our 2026 Supply Chain Key Issues Study – including where supply chain leaders are seeing real results from AI, where the gaps remain, and what it takes to move from momentum to sustained advantage.

We’re proud to sponsor Coupa Inspire 2026. As a Coupa Premier Partner, we bring together e-procurement implementation expertise and proprietary benchmarking insight to help organizations move faster toward Digital World Class^® procure-to-pay performance.

If you’re attending, stop by our kiosk to chat with our experts about how leading organizations are driving impact across procure-to-pay with artificial intelligence.

6 PM – 8 PM ET

What does it take to move from AI experimentation to decision-grade impact in procurement?

At Beroe LIVE NYC, Chris Sawchuk will join senior procurement leaders for a focused discussion on scaling AI-powered decision-making – particularly across category and supplier intelligence.

Hosted by Beroe Inc., this invite-only dinner is designed for candid, peer-level dialogue on what’s working – and what still needs to be solved.

Limited seats available.

Orlando, FL

We’re proud to be a partner of this year’s OneStream Splash in Orlando. Splash brings together the finance community for three days of keynotes, peer exchange and practical sessions on Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Performance Management and what’s next for the Office of the CFO. As a OneStream Software Diamond Partner, we’re looking forward to the conversations ahead. Visit us outside the Innovation Hall.

On Tuesday, May 19, at 9 AM, please also join our session to hear how Helen of Troy unified consolidation, planning and reporting across seven workstreams in just nine months. Partnering with The Hackett Group^®, the team integrated Oracle ERP and Power BI to create a single source of truth for 125+ global users – with automated workflows that accelerated close and improved scenario agility.