Procurement AI World Tour 2026

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

Agentic AI in Procurement:
From Insights to Action

Live from the World's Largest Honky Tonk.

You bring your view on procurement AI. We'll bring the Stockyards. Thirty procurement leaders in the kind of conversation you can't have on a webinar. Boots optional.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

4:30 – 7:30 PM CDT

Billy Bob's Texas, Fort Worth Stockyards

Invite Only · 30 Seats

Free
Event

Reserve Your Seat

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Uber Vouchers · Networking & Cocktails · Hackett Report Take-Home

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The Room

Who You'll Be In The Room With

Not keynotes. Not lectures. A curated room led by Zycus with our strategic partner IBM, where practitioners and leaders challenge your assumptions and keep the conversation honest, behind closed doors at a Texas landmark.

Matthew Keenan

Associate Partner, Supply Chain & Procurement

IBM

Leads supply chain and procurement transformation at IBM, and has driven IBM's own journey from operating-model reset to scaling agentic AI across sourcing and invoice reconciliation. He joins Arthur for a candid fireside on what actually works.

Arthur Raguette

Chief Evangelist AI

Zycus

More than 20 years applying enterprise technology, from middleware to AI, to complex procurement challenges. A relationship-first leader who helps global enterprises unlock the full value of Source-to-Pay transformation, and the voice of Merlin Agentic AI on the World Tour.

Alexa Bradley

Vice President

Zycus

Two decades leading enterprise sales across the procurement technology landscape, with senior leadership roles at Basware, Tradeshift, and GEP before Zycus. She works with North American enterprises on making Source-to-Pay transformation deliver in practice.

Seats Are Being Claimed

Chief Procurement Officer

Fortune 500 Financial Services Firm

Invited

SVP, Procurement Transformation

National Telecom Provider

Invited

VP, Strategic Sourcing & AI

Global IT Services Leader

Invited

Head of Procurement

Texas-Based Utility Major

Invited

Director, Indirect Procurement

$20B Real Estate & Infrastructure Group

Invited

VP, Source-to-Pay Operations

Enterprise Retail Group

Invited

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The DFW Briefing

An Executive Briefing.
Not a Conference.

A curated, invite-only evening for senior procurement leaders, co-hosted by Zycus and our strategic partner IBM. A candid fireside on how IBM scaled agentic AI inside its own procurement, an honest peer conversation, and a live read of the Hackett benchmark. The substance comes first. The Stockyards are the reward.

IBM × Zycus

IBM's Own Agentic AI Playbook

Matthew Keenan, Associate Partner for Supply Chain and Procurement at IBM, joins Arthur Raguette of Zycus for a candid fireside on how IBM scaled agentic AI across sourcing and invoice reconciliation. What worked, what to avoid, and why you don't have to fix all your data before you start.

$1Tr+

in spend processed
on the Zycus platform

Invite-Only

A Closed Room of Peers

Not a webinar. Not a conference. A curated session with CPOs, VPs, and senior procurement leaders who run real organizations at scale, engineered for candid peer dialogue.

senior procurement
leaders only

Anchored in Research

Peer Benchmarking

See exactly where you stand. The Hackett Group Agentic AI Adoption Index 2026 benchmarks 200+ procurement organizations, and you leave with a physical copy plus a clear read on where your organization sits on the maturity curve and what to do next.

86%

of CPOs ready for
autonomous AI agents

And when the briefing wraps...

The Venue

The World's Largest Honky Tonk. Ours for the Evening.

Billy Bob's Texas has hosted country music's biggest legends since 1981. On July 29, its private club hosts something quieter: thirty procurement leaders, one table, and a conversation about what governed, multi-agent AI actually changes.

We take over a private room inside the 100,000 square foot landmark in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards. The roundtable happens behind closed doors. The honky tonk is waiting when you're done.

1981

A Texas Legend Since

100,000

Square Feet of Venue

Seats at the Table

Worth the drive from anywhere in the Metroplex. Parking at the Stockyards is covered, and Uber vouchers are on us.

Billy Bob's Texas

2520 Rodeo Plaza, Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District

The Run of Show

Procurement's AI Playbook Starts Here.

Three hours engineered for senior leaders. No filler, no pitch decks, just the conversations that shape what comes next.

4:30 PM

Walk In, Grab a Drink, Meet Your Peers

Arrive to craft cocktails and curated introductions at the World's Largest Honky Tonk. Boots optional, the bar's on us.

4:45 PM

The Data Nobody's Talking About

Arthur Raguette and Alexa Bradley walk the room through the Hackett Index deep dive. 200+ organizations benchmarked. Where's the real adoption? Where are the gaps? Numbers, not narratives.

5:15 PM

Special Guest Fireside: How IBM Rewired Its Own Procurement with Agentic AI

Matthew Keenan, Associate Partner for Supply Chain and Procurement at IBM, joins Arthur Raguette for a candid fireside on IBM's own transformation. From operating-model reset and source-to-pay to scaling agentic workflows across sourcing and invoice reconciliation, plus the one lesson every leader needs to hear: you don't have to fix all your data before you start.

5:45 PM

Your Turn: The Real Conversation

Peer roundtable. No moderators running a script. You drive the topics. AI governance, change management, autonomous agents. Whatever's keeping you up at night.

6:30 PM

Cocktails, Connections, and the Honky Tonk

The best conversations happen after the formal ones end. Open bar, Texas-sized bites, and the World's Largest Honky Tonk at your feet. The venue's ours as long as we want it, so stay as long as you like.

Reserve Your Seat

This Is Your Invitation

We're not trying to fill a ballroom. We're assembling the right thirty people for one evening of real conversation about procurement AI, at one of the most storied venues in Texas.

30 seats only, curated for senior procurement leaders

$0 to attend, Hackett Index report included

Uber vouchers and parking covered, anywhere in the Metroplex

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026 · 4:30 – 7:30 PM CDT · Billy Bob's Texas, Fort Worth

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Agentic AI in Procurement:
From Insights to Action

Who You'll Be In The Room With

An Executive Briefing.
Not a Conference.

IBM's Own Agentic AI Playbook

A Closed Room of Peers

Peer Benchmarking

The World's Largest Honky Tonk. Ours for the Evening.

Procurement's AI Playbook Starts Here.

This Is Your Invitation

You're In.

Join Us Across the Globe

Agentic AI in Procurement:From Insights to Action

Who You'll Be In The Room With

An Executive Briefing.Not a Conference.

IBM's Own Agentic AI Playbook

A Closed Room of Peers

Peer Benchmarking

The World's Largest Honky Tonk. Ours for the Evening.

Procurement's AI Playbook Starts Here.

This Is Your Invitation

You're In.

Join Us Across the Globe

Agentic AI in Procurement:
From Insights to Action

An Executive Briefing.
Not a Conference.