Where in the World is Arkestro? It’s Event Season 2025!

Spring and summer mark a season of innovation, connection, and momentum in procurement, as well as some of the industry’s biggest annual events. This year, Arkestro is right in the mix of it all — traveling, sponsoring, and speaking at key conferences and events across industries and continents. From AI to energy, we’re excited to connect, collaborate, and help shape what’s next in procurement.

At these events, Arkestro highlights how advanced AI-driven technology is revolutionizing procurement processes for companies across all industries, and how the power of Arkestro’s innovative three-sciences-based procurement platform is helping companies compete and thrive in the complex, tech-driven world of 21st-century procurement.

Here are four of 2025’s past events where Arkestro was a major presence.

Plug and Play Detroit EXPO 2025

Plug and Play is a global innovation hub that brings together startups, corporations, investors, universities, and governments. Plug and Play is all about sparking collaboration, fueling fresh ideas, and building connections — giving startups the tools they need to grow while helping established companies stay ahead through new tech and entrepreneurial thinking.

Plug and Play Detroit Expo 2025, held May 7, brought together leading innovators in mobility and manufacturing to showcase cutting-edge startups, discuss industry trends, and foster valuable connections. The event was attended by over 500 leaders in mobility, manufacturing, and government, and featured keynote presentations, startup pitches, and networking opportunities, providing a platform for collaboration and technological advancement.

Arkestro Chief Strategy Officer and Founder Edmund Zagorin led a discussion sharing how Arkestro’s predictive procurement platform helps streamline complex supply chains and has enabled companies to reduce costs and cycle times while significantly boosting productivity.

Agentic AI In Procurement, Menlo Park, CA

Held on May 8, 2025, the goal of the Agentic AI In Procurement event was to highlight the growing use of Agentic AI and how procurement is uniquely positioned to benefit from advances in generative and Agentic AI. It was attended by Sean Park of ARM, who represented Arkestro’s thought leadership in AI.

Agentic AI, or Autonomous AI, independently designs, executes, and optimizes workflows, marking a major shift toward AI systems that plan, reason, and act autonomously in complex environments.

Arkestro was uniquely positioned to speak as experts at this event, as Agentic AI is already operational inside the Arkestro platform. Our tech goes beyond suggestions or automation — it takes action on its own to orchestrate procurement results. We are also applying agentic AI to an enterprise-critical domain — spend and supply chain — which affects cost, risk, and margin.

This event also gave Arkestro an opportunity to validate to an audience of tech-forward execs, engineers, and investors Arkestro’s expertise and thought leadership in deep AI-driven procurement and how Arkestro’s agent-based architecture is already solving real business problems at a Fortune 500 scale.

Infor NAUG (Infor Midwest User Group)

The Infor NAUG/LN North America User Group (LN NAUG) Face-to-Face Annual Meeting 2025, held from May 13–15 in Naperville, Illinois, brought together Infor LN ERP users from across North America. This gathering provided a platform for attendees to connect, share experiences, and influence the future of their ERP systems.

Arkestro’s involvement in this event comes just a few months after the company announced a partnership with Infor Marketplace. It also gave Arkestro the opportunity to reinforce our alignment with Infor’s ecosystem and value for ERP-powered procurement teams. Both companies were sponsors of this year’s event.

Infor is a global enterprise software company offering Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions that help businesses enhance operations, drive growth, and stay agile. By integrating AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics, Infor enables smarter decisions and automation, making its partnership with Arkestro, the leader in AI-driven predictive procurement, a powerful combination for next-generation supply chain success.

What’s Next for Arkestro in 2025

EPC Show – June 11–12, Houston, TX

The Energy Projects Conference & Expo (EPC Show) 2025 is the largest global event for professionals working on major energy projects. The EPC Show unites 3,000+ engineering, commissioning, supply chain, and operations professionals to demonstrate how to operate and deliver major energy projects successfully in today’s complex and challenging environment.

Attending the EPC Show is a strategic priority for Arkestro as the company expands its reach into the oil and gas and industrial sectors, where innovation and transformation in procurement are long overdue. Arkestro offers these industries the innovation they need.

Arkestro supports oil and gas sourcing, materials management, and logistics planning, and not just indirect spend. It enforces target costing early in procurement stages, strengthening design-to-cost strategies for large capital projects. By influencing decisions in real time, Arkestro helps teams avoid cost overruns, labor shortages, and market disruptions before they escalate.

A key event highlight will be Arkestro SVP of Product Solutions Bill Seagrave’s panel, “Building a Resilient, Integrated and Technology-Driven Supply Chain.” He’ll join industry leaders to share insights on leveraging AI to boost efficiency, improve risk mapping, enhance vendor resiliency, and build smarter, more connected, and future-ready supply chains.

DPW New York – June 11-12, 2025

DPW New York 2025, happening June 11–12, is where digital procurement meets real innovation. Organized by Digital Procurement World (DPW), this year’s theme, “Put AI to Work,” focuses on harnessing artificial intelligence to drive innovation and transformative results in procurement. Arkestro will be on hand to discuss how to apply AI practically and profitably in procurement.

It’s no surprise Arkestro will be a major player at this year’s DPW event, which is considered the epicenter of the procurement world. Arkestro knows all about “Putting AI to Work,” as Arkestro is an expert at doing just that. Arkestro is one of the few procurement platforms that’s actually using agentic AI to not just analyze but act, influencing supplier behavior, enforcing suggested pricing, and accelerating cycle times.

Arkestro is also helping deliver tangible ROI: measurable cost savings, faster sourcing events, and improved supplier participation, powered by predictive intelligence. With Arkestro’s expertise, companies of all sizes are powering decision-making at scale without being buried in dashboards or reliant on manual follow-up. While others hype AI, Arkestro delivers it, driving results across Fortune 500 companies.

World 50: Chicago and London

World 50 is a private, invitation-only executive networking community that typically does not disclose event details publicly. Its primary goal is to create a confidential space where executives from Fortune 2000 companies can share ideas, experiences, challenges, and best practices with trusted peers.

World 50 is an important event for Arkestro, as it gives the company a rare opportunity to engage an executive core that controls billions in spend and organizational direction. These execs trust peer-to-peer recommendations and shared experiences from environments like World 50. Being in the room offers Arkestro a trusted platform to build relationships that can lead to enterprise adoption.

These conferences allow us to reframe procurement as a growth driver, not just a cost center. It’s a chance to show leaders how predictive, agentic AI can make procurement self-optimizing, aligning with top priorities like automation, efficiency, and innovation. It also reinforces that supply chain and procurement transformation starts at the top, and Arkestro is the partner that makes it happen.

In short, World 50 is not about just selling software. We’re attempting to transform the way executives think about margin, efficiency, and competitive advantage through AI-driven procurement.

See You On The Road!

From Detroit to New York, Houston to London, Arkestro is there where innovation happens. We’re proud to represent procurement’s future across industries and around the world. Follow our journey on LinkedIn or stop by and say hello at one of our upcoming events! You can learn how our predictive procurement platform reduces event cycle times by up to 60% while achieving an average of 18.8% savings on every $1M of spend.

Save the Date: Arkestro Optimal ’25

We’re heading to Houston this October 29–30! Join top procurement leaders at the Hyatt Regency for two days of bold ideas, breakout sessions, and game-changing strategies to scale your impact with Predictive Procurement. Full agenda and registration details coming soon.