Watch Zycus Founder & CEO Aatish Dedhia reveal why procurement must evolve from workflows to outcomesโand how agentic AI makes it possible today.
Procurement is entering one of the most important architectural shifts in its history. In this exclusive PLAN keynote, Aatish Dedhia, Founder and CEO of Zycus, breaks down why traditional Source-to-Pay systems have reached their ceilingโand what comes next.
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Aatish opens with an uncomfortable truth: procurement doesnโt need more experiments. It needs impact, and it needs it now. Organizations are demanding faster decisions, shorter cycle times, and more consistent compliance. Yet most teams remain trapped in a landscape of tools that require humans to continually route requests, interpret data, and close operational gaps.
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This keynote introduces a new paradigm: Intake-to-Outcome (I2O).
Instead of stitching workflows together, I2O uses agentic AI to interpret intent, reason across data, and orchestrate sourcing, contracting, and invoicing autonomously. The result is a fluid operating system where humans set directionโand intelligent agents execute the work.
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Aatish demonstrates why this shift matters. The traditional S2P model was built for process control. The I2O model is built for business velocity. When intake, sourcing, contracting, and invoicing operate as a connected chain, procurement eliminates the swivel-chair effort that slows organizations down.
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Most importantly, this is not theory.
Aatish shows real I2O flows running in production todayโagents reading documents, comparing supplier responses, coordinating negotiations, generating contracts, and triggering downstream actions without manual effort.
Whether you lead procurement, finance, supply chain, or enterprise transformation, this keynote offers a clear view of what comes nextโand why organizations adopting agentic platforms early will define the next decade of business performance.
