Data Overwhelm in Procurement: AI as Your Best Ally

Pierre Laprée is the Chief Product Officer at the best-in-class strategic Procurement Platform SpendHQ. He joined SpendHQ with the company’s July 2022 acquisition of Per Angusta which he founded in 2012 and served as its CEO. He currently oversees the strategic product vision, innovation planning, and roadmap for the company’s spend intelligence and procurement performance solutions. Before turning entrepreneur, Pierre served as Procurement Director and right hand of the global CPO at The Adecco Group. He graduated from Kedge Business School (France) and Laval University (Canada) where he holds an MBA in eBusiness. He is a frequent speaker at procurement, finance, and industry events and contributing author for his subject matter expertise.

Erin McFarlane is the VP, Operations for Fairmarkit, the leading autonomous sourcing platform. Erin has over twenty years of experience in procurement and supply chain technology and is passionate about sourcing, contract negotiation, and spend analytics.

Allison leads the partner team at Fairmarkit, and brings over a decade of experience in the sourcing and procurement space from the angles of Customer Success, Sales, and Partnerships. Allison collaborates with Fairmarkit’s most strategic partners in a joint effort to increase the value and experience that procurement teams are able to recognize from their procurement processes and technology.