PLaN 2026 - Procurement Leaders' Autonomous Narrative

World premieres

Index · Predictions · Live demo

Sessions, under three hours

One sitting · No slideware

Live global broadcasts

Americas · EMEA & India · APAC

24h

To your 2027 plan

Index score · Priority moves

Register

90 seconds with Merlin. Your answers open your file.

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Attend 18 Nov

Under three hours, live in your time zone.

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Get your plan

Index score and priority moves, 24 hours later.

What you take away

Leave with a deliverable, not a recording.

Built from your own answers on the day. Every session free to rewatch.

Report

Deliverable 01

Your 2027 Readiness Plan

Where you stand and the priority moves that close the gap and put you ahead. In your inbox in 24 hours.

Index

Deliverable 02

Your Autonomous Sourcing Index score

Your organisation on the Autonomous Sourcing scale Hackett launches live. Not an average. Your number.

Reveal

Deliverable 03

The predictions reveal

The community's ranking vs the analyst view, with your vote in it.

Speakers

Analysts. Practitioners. Platform builders. All in one room.

Crowdsourced on LinkedIn

Rank the 2027 predictions.

Vote and add your own on LinkedIn. The ranking is revealed live, mapped against the analyst view.

Tag @Zycus and use #PLAN2026 so your prediction makes it into the live reveal.

Add your prediction on LinkedIn ↗

#1 Agents will run over 30% of tail spend sourcing end to end 1,284

#2 Intake becomes the front door for all enterprise spend 1,102

#3 "Agent debt" enters the CPO vocabulary 967

#4 First CPO scorecard with an autonomous procurement KPI 841

#5 Category refresh cycles drop from yearly to weekly 778

18 November 2026 · Complimentary · Virtual

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✓ Every session free to watch live and rewatch
✓ Your Index score and 2027 plan within 24 hours of the close

Before you register

The questions people ask.

Or ask Merlin at the top of the page and get the answer in a sentence.

Is it really free?

Yes. Free to attend live, and every recording is published openly afterwards. No ticket, no paid tier.

Then why do I have to register at all?

Because of the plan. Your Index score and 2027 plan are built from your own answers, so we need them first. Just want to watch? The replays are open either way.

What is the Autonomous Sourcing Index?

A maturity instrument built with The Hackett Group. It scores your stack, your intake front door, your autonomy and your tail spend. The global results launch live in session one.

Can I attend if I cannot make the live date?

Yes. Register, complete the survey when the link arrives, and your plan is built the same way.

Is this a product pitch?

Five of the seven sessions are analysts, operators and customers. One keynote, one live demo, both labelled. You will know which is which.

Will my data be used to sell to me?

Your answers build your plan. We may follow up once to ask what you thought. You can opt out at registration and still get the plan.

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