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Are you ready for the next wave of disruption in procurement? Join Sourcing Industry Group CEO Dawn Tiura, CSP, CSMP, C3PRMP, for conversations on the sourcing industry landscape with innovators who embrace technology to improve, influence and inspire procurement professionals.
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Transformation Never Ends: Ken Smith on His Journey from Accenture to TekWissen (opens the original)
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Dawn Tiura sits down with Ken Smith, Chief Transformation Officer at TekWissen. Ken spent 27 years at Accenture, where he built its contingent labor program and led procurement for North America and LATAM. He talks about why he joined TekWissen after retiring in 2024 and about his "one team" approach to transformation across the company's global offices. His advice to his younger self: step out of your comfort zone sooner.
Podcast title: Visibility Isn't Control: Joe Postiglione on Making AI Deliver What the Business Case Promised (opens the original)
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Business transformation veteran Joe Postiglione , former CPO at Credit One and the NBA , joins Dawn Tiura to discuss his new book, Protecting Expected Outcomes in the Age of AI : Why Implementation Must Evolve and the Emergence of Commercial Control . Joe explains why AI implementations often fail to deliver results even when executed perfectly and introduces "commercial control" — building real-time monitoring into implementation plans so expected outcomes stay on track and issues get flagged b
Agentic AI Takes Over Procurement — with Vlad Keil, Co-Founder & CEO of Lio (opens the original)
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Dawn Tiura talks with Vlad Keil, co-founder and CEO of L io , whose multi-agent AI platform now runs procurement, finance, and logistics workflows for 200+ global enterprises . Vlad explains why single-purpose AI agents are already outdated, how organizations will shift from managing people to managing agents, and why humans stay in the driver's seat even as autonomy grows. The episode wraps with a preview of L io 's hands-on Bots & Buyers events in New York (Sept . 23) and Munich (Oct . 27–28),
SIG Summit Opening Keynote: Kevin Surace on How the Joy Success Cycle Improves the Workplace in an AI Revolution (opens the original)
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AI is reshaping the workplace — and for most people, that shift brings equal parts excitement and fear. Kevin Surace, a Silicon Valley inventor with 94 worldwide patents and named CNBC's Top Innovator of the Decade, argues the two don't have to be at odds. Join Kevin at the SIG Global Executive Summit, taking place October 25–28 at Navy Pier in Chicago, as he introduces the Joy Success Cycle — a methodology built on the idea that joy isn't the reward for success, it's one of the forces that crea
SIG Summit Workshop: Candiss Kumar on AI Change Management for Leadership (opens the original)
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Everyone's talking about what AI can do — but almost no one is talking about how to actually roll it out with people, not just technology, in mind. In her SIG Summit workshop, AI Change Management for Leadership: Leading Organizational Transformation with Artificial Intelligence , Candiss Kumar, a veteran of sourcing and procurement leadership, will make the case for treating AI adoption as a leadership and business transformation challenge rather than a tech rollout. Drawing on decades of exper
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