The Agentic AI Procurement Masterclass: UK & Europe Edition

Agentic AI has moved past the roadmap stage in procurement. The question is no longer whether to build agents, but whether anyone knows how many are already running.

Teams are already building agents on low-code platforms without an engineering ticket, one afternoon at a time, and each one is easy to justify on its own. What accumulates is a shadow estate: agents with no central inventory, no named owner, and no shared context. With 73% of organisations still in the AI ideation or experimentation phase, the window to set governance before large-scale adoption is open now and closing.

In this session, Zycus and CIPS bring academic rigour and platform reality together. David Loseby sets out what agentic AI actually is and why behavioural maturity, not tooling, decides adoption. Raoul Gröning draws the line between isolated point agents and governed agentic flows. Anthony Gray shows why governance has to be architecture rather than policy, and how the Merlin platform builds every agent inside a governed flow by default. No isolated copilots. No governance bolted on after something breaks.

What you’ll see:

• A hype-free definition of agentic AI – how it differs from chatbots, RPA and traditional S2P suites, and what it actually needs to run
• Where agentic AI creates genuine value – and where it does not, from a behavioural science lens on adoption
• Point agents vs governed agentic flows – why the liability is isolation, not the number of agents you are running
• The four ledgers of agent debt – architecture, ownership, governance and economic, and how they compound at scale
• Five things every agent needs at creation – owner, scope, meter, log and kill switch, built in rather than retrofitted
• 50% of procurement technology providers fall short on governance – the Hackett Group data behind the five-layer agentic procurement architecture

Watch the full session on demand to see why the first move is not a purchase, it’s an honest count of every agent already running in your name.