The Infrastructure Behind Intelligent Procurement
Three sessions explored the operational foundations required for modern procurement
PROCURETECH LEADERS SUMMIT 2026
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF PROCUREMENT
Organised by Techsommet - Second Edition
Date: 21 May 2026
Leonardo Royal Hotel Frankfurt, Germany
About ProcureTech Leaders Community
A global community of procurement executives, innovators, and technology leaders shaping the future of procurement.
We bring together senior procurement decision-makers through executive summits, invite-only roundtables, virtual events, and thought leadership experiences designed to address the most critical challenges and opportunities transforming the procurement function.
Our community focuses on the forces redefining modern procurement from Artificial Intelligence and autonomous procurement to digital transformation, procurement technology, supplier innovation, strategic sourcing, risk, resilience, and the evolving role of procurement in business growth.
Through meaningful peer-to-peer connections, expert-led discussions, real-world insights, and access to the latest innovations, ProcureTech Leaders creates a platform where procurement leaders can share experiences, challenge conventional thinking, discover new technologies, build strategic relationships, and turn emerging ideas into measurable business impact.
Our vision is to build a truly global ecosystem where procurement leaders, technology providers, and innovators come together to rethink procurement, accelerate transformation, and shape what comes next.
Upcoming
Events
Where Ideas Turn Into Action
Why ProcureTech Leaders
From executive conversations to technology showcases, our platform is designed around real procurement challenges, practical insights, and meaningful business connections.
The second ProcureTech Leaders Summit brought together 183 procurement leaders from 120 organisations, with an 88% showup rate and 20% CPO representation.
The day explored AI, data, supplier resilience, sustainability and talent, centred on one question: How can procurement move from process optimisation to enterprise value creation? Key takeaway: Technology amplifies value, but data, talent, governance and ownership drive results.
Key takeaway: Technology amplifies value, but data, talent, governance and ownership drive results.
More Than an Event. A Connected Procurement Ecosystem.
The ProcureTech Difference
We bring together the people, technology, and conversations that are changing procurement. Our events are built to encourage genuine interaction, valuable knowledge exchange, and long-term professional relationships.
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The 88% show-up rate is particularly significant for a one-day executive event. The result points to a highly committed audience rather than a registration-heavy, attendance-light model.
Upcoming
Events
AI Procurement Panel Discussions
Date: 15 September 2026
Time: 13 CEST
Procurement Transformation Panel Discussions
Date: 24 September 2026
Time: 13 CEST
Procurment Technology and Innovation
Date: 12 November 2026
Time: 13 CEST
Procuretech Leadership Forum
Date: 9 December 2026
Time: 13 CEST
Hear from global procurement leaders
Meet peers, technology providers and innovators.
Explore AI and procurement technology.
Stay ahead of procurement trends.
Hear from global procurement leaders
Meet peers, technology providers and innovators.
Explore AI and procurement technology.
Stay ahead of procurement trends.
Event
Highlights
WHO WAS IN THE ROOM
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The Procurement Leader’s Playbook
Leonardo Lucatorto — Spendesk Moving from process chaos to intelligent control.
From Fragmented Connectivity to Full Control
Mathias Wengeler & Florian Donat — 1GLOBAL Connectivity as a procurement advantage.
Garbage In, Missed Value Out
Rasa Raoufi — Mithra + Anatoly Kibakin — STADA Arzneimittel AG The indirect data gap affecting procurement performance
SUPPLIER TRANSPARENCY & RESILIENCE
From Visibility to Resilience
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SUPPLIER TRANSPARENCY
Know what is happening across the supplier ecosystem.
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RISK
VISIBILITY
Identify risks before they disrupt the business.
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RESILIENCE
AT SCALE
Build resilience without slowing the business.
Sascha Ceylan — Head of Sustainability, Risk, Compliance & Procurement, Evonik — Head of Sustainability, Risk, Compliance & Procurement, Ev
Sustainability
From Reporting to Real Impact
Prashant Karadage
Cummins
Gopal Chaudhary
ZF Group
Andreas Schulz
Allianz / Helvetia
The underlying message was that sustainability must become a procurement responsibility with owners and measurable business consequences, rather than remaining a communications theme. The conversation moved beyond ESG reporting toward operational questions: supplier reality, regulatory pressure and commercial outcomes.
FOR
PARTNERS
Put your brand in front of procurement's decision‑makers. Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities across the 2026–27 manifest are limited by design every partner is matched to the audience, not just given a booth.
What the Community Said
In Their Own Words
I joined the panel "Procurement 2030 - Navigating the evolution" last week at TechSommet in Frankfurt to share my vision for the next 5 years based on 20 years of procurement leadership across Europe and Asia. Our panel discussion was unfiltered and provocative, and I really felt a synergy with my fellow panelists Hanna Pradera, Dario Kulić, Willem Vermeulen, Kai Nowosel & Michael Schnerring. Looking forward to the next CPO roundtable in Frankfurt in Octoler 2026!
Shaping the future of procurement at the Procuretech Leaders Summit 2026. Great discussions, inspiring keynotes, and valuable conversations around AI, resilience, and sustainable supply chains. We were thrilled to join the summit in Frankfurt as a Gold Sponsor and connect with so many leaders driving procurement transformation forward. Thanks to TechSommet for organizing such a great event. See you next year.
Some panels discuss the future. The better ones expose the present. At the Procure Tech Leaders Summit 2026 in Frankfurt,
the conversation around the future of procurement made
one thing very clear to me again.
The future of procurement is not only digital.
It is designed. And design starts with ownership.
A real privilege to attend the 2nd Annual Procuretech Leaders Summit Conference in Frankfurt last week. In a calendar full of large, polished, high-production events, this one felt refreshingly different, more personal, more open, more real. The kind of environment where conversations actually land, rather than just pass through. I had the opportunity to speak about "The Empty Chair" a topic that's been on my mind for a while
Its a wrap and amazing event Procuretech Leaders Summit yesterday at Frankfurt Spot on content, great people, lovely thought leaders. Stoked by the fierce Christine Reith with her brilliant storytelling on AI journey - needs a special mention for her to be so open to critique on coffee chat and her forward thinking about the consequences of growing dependency on AI! Many thanks to Latha Nair and @techsommet for inviting me to this forum. Loved it to bits!
Today I had the pleasure of joining negotiation expert Pia
Kleiber on stage at the Procuretech Leaders Summit in
Frankfurt for a fireside chat: "Progress over Perfection:
Negotiation SPEED."
Thank you, Pia, for a fun and dynamic conversation and thank
you to the entire ProcureTech Leaders Summit team for the
invitation and the excellent organization!
I joined the panel "Procurement 2030 - Navigating the evolution" last week at TechSommet in Frankfurt to share my vision for the next 5 years based on 20 years of procurement leadership across Europe and Asia.
Our panel discussion was unfiltered and provocative, and I really felt a synergy with my fellow panelists Hanna Pradera, Dario Kulić, Willem Vermeulen, Kai Nowosel & Michael Schnerring.
Looking forward to the next CPO roundtable in Frankfurt in Octoler 2026!
Shaping the future of procurement at the Procuretech Leaders Summit 2026. Great discussions, inspiring keynotes, and valuable conversations around AI, resilience, and sustainable supply chains. We were thrilled to join the summit in Frankfurt as a Gold Sponsor and connect with so many leaders driving procurement transformation forward.
Thanks to TechSommet for organizing such a great event. See you next year.
Some panels discuss the future. The better ones expose the present. At the Procure Tech Leaders Summit 2026 in Frankfurt,
the conversation around the future of procurement made
one thing very clear to me again.
The future of procurement is not only digital.
It is designed. And design starts with ownership.
A real privilege to attend the 2nd Annual Procuretech Leaders Summit Conference in Frankfurt last week. In a calendar full of large, polished, high-production events, this one felt refreshingly different, more personal, more open, more real. The kind of environment where conversations actually land, rather than just pass through. I had the opportunity to speak about "The Empty Chair" a topic that's been on my mind for a while