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As an ISM member, you have access to exclusive, free webinars on topics that focus on hot trends, challenges and issues in supply chain. They feature leading subject matter experts, offering insights and ideas that you won’t find or hear anywhere else. Webinars are all about timely, relevant information that arm you with valuable knowledge for success.
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Webinar topics focus on hot trends, challenges and issues in our profession. They feature leading subject matter experts, offering insights and ideas that you won’t find or hear anywhere else. Webinars are all about timely, relevant information that arm you with valuable knowledge for success.
This member benefit allows you to keep your pulse on the latest news, information, trends and updates that impact our profession. If you can’t make the webinars live, they are also available to members on-demand.
Member-Only Supply Chain Webinars
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September
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2026
Almost every procurement team has AI running somewhere. Very few have managed to scale it.
Most organizations have landed in the same place: automated workflows with a human checking every output. That is real progress, and it is where the majority stall. Scaling is not a matter of adding more agents. It is a different problem with a different answer.
This session is a candid conversation for teams ready to move past that plateau. Our panel discusses why individual task-specific agents rarely scale, and why what scales is a governed workflow rather than a standalone agent.
From there, the discussion turns practical. The panel shares a six-part test they use to decide where AI should be deployed first, separating a use case that will scale from one that stalls after the pilot, and works through real examples of agentic AI running in procurement today.
The conversation closes on governing it: where a human should stay in the loop, what guardrails need to exist before an agent acts on its own, and the signals that tell you when it is safe to widen the boundaries. Plus the step most teams skip, which is what to baseline before you deploy, so results can be attributed and the next phase can actually be funded.
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October
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2026
MEMBER WEBINAR
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This webinar provides knowledge regarding the many benefits that come with being a part of the ISM community. Join us and learn about the essential tools, vibrant community, and exceptional learning that enhances your professional development. You'll also gain insight into the array of programs, services, and resources that are available to you through your membership.
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This live Zycus Masterclass on Agentic AI in Procurement runs as two 30-minute sessions. Every enterprise is quietly accruing "agent debt," the compounding cost of AI agents that get built, bought, embedded, and wired together faster than anyone can govern them. The agents that approve a purchase order, touch the supplier master, or burn tokens in a retry loop often sit outside any inventory, ownership, or control.
In Session 1, The Hackett Group frames what Agentic AI actually is, how it applies to procurement, and how isolated point agents differ from orchestrated, governed agentic flows.
In Session 2, procurement thought leader Omid Ghamami explains why DIY and studio-based agent approaches create agent debt, akin to technical debt, and why enterprise-grade architecture matters. Together they separate two ideas most teams fold into one: the agent estate (what you have) and agent debt (what holding it costs you in risk, rework, and spend). We close on what good looks like: a governed estate where every agent is owned, scoped, metered, logged, and stoppable by default. Isolated agents do tasks. Governed, multi-agent flows take procurement from Intake to Outcomes. This is the practical playbook for putting your agent estate back on the books before the interest rate climbs.
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