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🌍 Shaping the Future of Human-Centric AI | akirolabs at IPAI 💡 Last week, our CEO Michael Pleuger joined the Executive Client Venturing Roundtable at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) in Heilbronn — Europe’s global home of human-centered AI. IPAI brings together leading innovators, enterprises, and researchers to shape how AI is applied responsibly and effectively across industries. For akirolabs, this connection strengthens our role within Europe’s premier AI ecosystem — and supports our mission to build the Agentic-AI Operating System for Strategic Procurement. Throughout the day, Michael Pleuger engaged with AI pioneers, investors, and corporate leaders on how Agentic AI is transforming enterprise decision-making — moving procurement beyond automation toward augmented intelligence and strategic orchestration. A big thank-you to Tom Villinger, D11Z. Ventures, Christian Hüttenhein, Pexus Ventures, and Moritz Gräter for the kind invitation and for leading such a dynamic exchange. akirolabs is proud to contribute to the IPAI ecosystem and to help advance the future of trustworthy, transparent, and human-centric AI in business. #AgenticAI #AITransformation

Procurement is still running strategies designed for a world where risk was predictable. From our recent webinar in collaboration Sourcing Champions, “Autopsy of a Zombie Category Strategy," Christian Herdelt calls them zombie strategies — strategies that create a false sense of control but no real business value. Can you spot when a strategy has lost its pulse? Watch the full take from Christian 👇 #CategoryManagement #StrategicProcurement 

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🌏 Event Highlight | Procurement Leaders Asia Pacific Congress 2025 🌏 Last week, akirolabs was featured in a keynote by Jorge Juan Munoz Fernández, Group CPO at Singtel, during the Procurement Leaders | A World 50 Group Community Congress in Singapore. 🧠 Reimagining Strategic Procurement Jorge shared how Singtel is redefining strategic procurement — and how akirolabs is playing a pivotal role in that journey. He described how akirolabs is evolving from the leading AI-powered Category Management platform into an Agentic AI–driven Operating System for Procurement — creating the strategic brain that enables intelligent orchestration across complex, global organizations. 🌐 A New Era for Procurement In today’s volatile and interconnected world, procurement’s role is expanding rapidly. It’s no longer just about driving efficiency — it’s about anticipating change, managing risk, and enabling innovation. Yet, most enterprise tech stacks remain transactional — focused on automation rather than intelligence. 🚀 Where akirolabs Comes In akirolabs brings the intelligence layer that connects data, decisions, and performance — turning category management into a living, learning process. Our platform empowers procurement teams to move beyond savings to value, driving resilience, agility, and long-term business impact. The vision Jorge shared reflects a broader shift among leading enterprises: procurement as a strategic command center, powered by AI and human collaboration. akirolabs is proud to be shaping this transformation together with Singtel, building the next generation of AI-augmented, strategy-driven procurement. #Procurement #AgenticAI #DigitalTransformation

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If you haven’t booked your seat yet — now’s the time! Join us today at 16:00 for a live autopsy of the Zombie Category Strategy — where we’ll dissect, analyze, and tear apart the lifeless practices still haunting category management with our friends and partners at Sourcing Champions. We’re also joined by our very special new guest ( aka doctor ), Christian Herdelt, Director of Customer Success at akirolabs, who has been on the front lines helping procurement organizations kill off zombie strategies and bring their category management back to life. ⚔️ 💡 Expect real insights. 🔥 Expect lively debate. 🧩 Expect to leave with a sharper, smarter approach to category management. Don’t miss it . #ZombieStrategy #CategoryManagement #Procurement r

70% of category strategies fail to stay relevant after 12 months. Why? Because most are written once — then never evolve. And the other 30%? They often fail the business. Because being “current” isn’t the same as being relevant. A strategy can be up to date — and still totally disconnected from enterprise goals. That’s the definition of a Zombie Strategy. Alive on paper. Dead in impact. and we figured it was finally time to take a hard look at that lifeless zombie category strategy. So join us and Sourcing Champions next Thursday as our three procurement specialists doctors — Sabrina Hueren, Michael Pleuger, and Robert Waalder — dissect what killed category management… and prescribe how to bring it back to life https://lnkd.in/ddRvVwD5 #Procurement #CategoryManagement #CategoryStrategy

Many are asking — “Zombie Strategies?” Really? Trust us — this isn’t a Halloween gimmick. It’s not a metaphor we cooked up for a marketing campaign. It’s something we’ve seen again and again — in hundreds of conversations with procurement and category leaders. And here’s what it feels like when the infection takes hold ( YES, these are actual quotes from our demos ) 1️⃣ “We’re still doing category strategy in PowerPoint and Excel… I think our ‘strategy’ is basically a deck.” — Global Category Lead, Manufacturing 2️⃣ “We create strategies manually, sometimes semi-manually — no real orchestration, no connected process.” — Procurement Excellence Manager, Insurance 3️⃣ “Every category strategy starts with the same question: how do we save? But it should start with: what does the business need?” — Head of Procurement Strategy, Consumer Goods These aren’t isolated cases. They’re symptoms of Zombie Strategies — cost-obsessed, disconnected, and unable to evolve. That’s why, this Halloween, we’re performing a live Autopsy with our partners from Sourcing Champions... to reveal what went wrong, how it spread across in procurement, and how to bring your strategy back to life. 🎙️ Join Sabrina Hueren, Michael Pleuger, and Robert Waalder 🗓️ October 30 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ddRvVwD5 Because this isn’t fiction — it’s a procurement infection. And it’s time to stop it. #procurement #categorymanagement #digitalprocurement