Registration and morning coffee

Welcome to Day 2

By Nohrcon and the chair of the day, Dr Carri Ginter, Head of Dispute Resolution at Sorainen and Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu School of Law

Public procurement as a policy tool

Public procurement is increasingly used by the European Union to pursue goals far beyond the purchase itself: innovation, resilience, social objectives and industrial policy. But what does that mean in practice for the people who have to write the tender documents and evaluate the bids? The session looks at how policy ambitions translate into requirements and criteria – and where the legal and practical limits are.

Edgaras Markevičius, Sorainen

Procurement for social sustainability

Social sustainability is high on the political agenda – but turning ambitions into workable requirements and award criteria is where most organisations struggle. This session bridges the gap between the research and your next tender.

Speaker to be announced

Coffee break

Session to be announced

We are finalising this part of the program – stay tuned.

Lunch

AI in public procurement – the legal and strategic framework

Before you buy AI, use AI, or let AI anywhere near your award decisions, there are questions every procurement professional should be able to answer. One of Europe’s leading voices on procurement and digital technologies sets out the framework: what the rules require,what gaps remain in law and policy, where the real risks sit, and what a sensible AI strategy looks like for a contracting authority.

Albert Sanchez Graells, Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol

AI in practice at the European Medicines Agency

From framework to reality: how does a European institution actually work with AI in procurement? A hands-on case from the European Medicines Agency – what they have tried, what worked, what didn’t, and what they would tell other contracting authorities considering the same journey.

Alina Aalto and Ivo Xavier, European Medicines Agency

Coffee break

Meet Diella – the world’s first AI “minister”

You will not see this at any other procurement conference this year: a live, interactive conversation with Diella, the AI system appointed by the Albanian government with formal responsibility for public procurement and anti-corruption. What can an AI system actually do in a procurement process? Where does human oversight begin and end? And how far can – and should – AI realistically go in public procurement? Come with your questions, and form your own opinion.

Diella, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Albania

AI in practice – more cases to be announced

We are finalising this part of the program – stay tuned.

Goodbye and thank you for joining us!

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