Video
Procurement Summit 2025 | AI 101 MasterClass
21 minutes
Description
Curious about AI but tired of the buzzwords? Spencer Penn, former leader at Tesla and Google, delivers a crash course on AI live at Procurement Summit 2025 in Hamburg.
He covers a concise history of AI, a practical comparison of generative and agentic AI, how to future-proof your career, and a real model of applied AI in direct materials that shows how the theory turns into practice.
The message is clear: AI won’t replace you, but someone who knows how to use AI will.
Speakers
Spencer Penn
CEO & Co Founder
Key moments
What would you do with 1,000 interns?
How AI scales human potential, and why English might be the hot new programming language.
Why AI-native tools are the future
If tools aren't built AI-native, they're already outdated. The shift is coming in the next 18 to 36 months.
You don't need to be a coder anymore
For the first time, procurement teams can build their own tools without writing code.
See this sourcing workflow in practice.
LightSource is the AI-native sourcing platform for direct materials. See it on your own parts and suppliers.
