Coupa Inspire 2025, Las Vegas: Driving Financial Success
Coupa Inspire 2025 is aimed at equipping procurement, supply chain and finance practitioners with game-changing strategies that allow them to navigate ongoing global disruption.
Hosted at the ARIA Resort in Las Vegas from 12-15 May, the four-day event will provide insight into how Coupa’s solutions can boost operational efficiency across the board.
Crucially, Coupa Inspire is set to examine how the ‘Margin Multiplier’ is arming the finance function with cutting-edge tools that transform its ability to innovate and maximise value.
Here, Supply Chain Digital takes a look at some of the key sessions for finance professionals.
Building finance resilience
Global finance leaders, alongside their co-workers in procurement, continue to grapple with a new set of internal and external challenges.
Juha Taipalinen, CPO at Finnair Oyj, and Josh Waldron, VP Finance and Accounting at Scale AI, will share how partnering with Coupa has helped them navigate troubled waters and redefine their finance and procurement operations.
This session will reveal how AI can transform traditional workflows, driving efficiency and profitability while preemptively addressing geopolitical uncertainties.
AI-Enabled Finance & Procurement: Building Resilience in Uncertain Times will take place on 13 May at 11am PT
Maximising ROI
How do leading organisations make the most of their spend management technology?
This session will explore how best-in-class Coupa customers are using the platform as a strategic business enabler.
Matt Edgar, Director of Procurement at Texas Capital, Randal Izzard, CPO at CMC, and Michael Garner, Business Systems Administrator at UChicago Argonne will tell Coupa’s Liz Alderman how thoughtful platform configuration can drive IT operational excellence and help finance and procurement teams meet strategic objectives.
Maximizing ROI Through Strategic Configuration: Aligning Technology with Business Outcomes will take place on 13 May at 1.30pm PT
AI-powered transformation
AI is, undoubtedly, transforming the workplace – and its role in finance is becoming increasingly important for improving efficiency, driving innovation and supporting growth.
Kevin Permenter, Research Director for Financial Applications at IDC, will examine how AI can streamline routine financial tasks, optimise workflows and support real-time, data-led decision-making.
He will also share the latest AI trends and highlight practical applications, such as fraud detection and invoice automation, that can deliver tangible benefits to finance teams.
Transforming Finance with AI: Accelerating Efficiency and Margin Growth will take place on 13 May at 1.30pm PT
From procurement to profit
Global communications provider JT is well placed to share how automation and procurement have transformed its finance function—boosting efficiency, cutting manual processes and improving financial visibility.
Experts from JT will explain how close collaboration between procurement and finance helped the business accelerate decision-making, enhance forecasting and support stronger profitability.
Hannah Mitchell and James Singleton from JT will also offer practical insights into addressing operational challenges, standardising systems and using technology to streamline financial workflows.
From Procurement to Profit: Driving Financial Success will take place on 14 May at 4pm PT
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