Smarter Sourcing with AI Agents: Redefining Procurement Efficiency
Join us for an exclusive fireside chat where we break down the difference between traditional AI and autonomous sourcing agents—and why this distinction matters. We’ll showcase real examples of sourcing agents in action, highlighting how they help procurement teams gain full visibility into spend, streamline operations, and deliver strategic outcomes faster.
Our panel features Joël Collin-Demers, procurement technology strategist and author of The Pure Procurement Newsletter; Shane Hetrick, VP of Product; Tiago Melo, VP of Solutions Consulting; and Kevin Frechette, CEO and Cofounder.
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is a procurement technology consultant and digital strategist who helps global organizations deliver on procurement strategies with strategic technology adoption. He's also the author of The Pure Procurement Newsletter, a weekly email that shares lessons from 13+ years of helping procurement digitalize the function with 10,000+ readers.
Shane Hetrick is the Vice President of Product at Fairmarkit, the leading AI sourcing platform. His background is in supply chain management and procurement. Shane began his career in strategic sourcing at Goodyear and Salesforce. He later transitioned into product management, becoming the first Product Manager at Scout RFP (now Workday Sourcing), where he worked with the company’s founders to shape the product. His most recent experience was building products at VMware (now Broadcom). As a passionate product leader, Shane brings a "voice of the customer" philosophy to his work, ensuring that customer insights directly inform product strategy and innovation. He’s thrilled to be building the agentic future of procurement at Fairmarkit.
Tiago leads the solutions engineering team at Fairmarkit, and brings over a decade of experience in helping businesses navigate digital transformation. With bilingual proficiency and deep expertise with Procure to Pay process and platforms such as SAP Ariba and Coupa, Tiago works closely with procurement leaders and their teams around the world to help them identify ROI-generating use cases for automation and AI.
Kevin Frechette is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fairmarkit, the autonomous sourcing platform. Since starting Fairmarkit as a tail spend automation solution, he has met with and learned from thousands of supply chain and procurement executives to understand where technology can transform procurement. Kevin’s current focus is on exploring the possibilities for AI and automation across procurement and supply chain processes, most recently Generative AI. He notably has led Fairmarkit to being ranked 159th fastest growing company in America by Inc5000. Most importantly, he’s a girl dad to two “spirited” daughters and just expanded the family welcoming his son Grady :)
