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Zip Forward Europe 2026: one day in London, a dozen sessions, a *thousand* incredible moments. Read our full recap from 22 Bishopsgate: https://lnkd.in/ey5vmqRF Huge thanks to our brilliant speakers: Laura Cook of Primark, Davinia Yanes of N26, Clare Cassano of Invesco, Arturo Torra of Flow Traders, Laura Hunt of Watches of Switzerland Group PLC, Christiaan van der Valk from Sovos, Joël Collin-Demers, and Sam Conniff, and our incredible partners: 4C Associates, excelerated, Deloitte, KPMG, The Hackett Group Inc., Navan, and PwC, you made Zip Forward Europe a smashing success, and we can't wait to do it again next time!

ZIP AI SUMMIT SPEAKER DROP: Kat Devlin of OpenAI and Michelle V. from Datadog are taking the stage in Brooklyn to show off what it looks like to deploy visionary procurement AI inside a visionary org. You'll see it from two perspectives; one early into rollout, and another with 20+ agents in production; live demos of their agents, followed by a candid panel on what's working, what they've learned, and where they're seeing the biggest business impact. Zip AI Summit is an exclusive gathering of executive leaders shaping the future of AI in procurement. *SPOTS ARE GOING FAST* Request yours: https://lnkd.in/erECRDRn MORE SPEAKERS DROPPING SOON!!

Most in-house legal teams are spending hours every week reviewing contracts that don't really need a lawyer. Objection!! Fortunately, Zip CLO Ryan Loh has a framework for fixing this problem, designed to finally get legal and procurement aligned on where both of their time and resources are best spent. Read: https://lnkd.in/et_9NvbV

The Dream: Automating the most painful parts of finance and accounting 😎 The Nightmare: Doing even more manual work just to make sure the automations run properly 😩 On May 5, join Sameer Syed, CPA and Ken Liu, Director Accounting Ops at Huntress, to learn how to evaluate your finance operations end-to-end and identify the most impactful opportunities for AI automation that actually closes the books. Save your seat: https://lnkd.in/exy9Bqnm Also, thank you to Controllers Council for hosting this exciting session!!

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation... 👀

How do you localize an entire AI platform with strings living across #Python, #TypeScript, #Thrift, and #Protobuf, while keeping translation workflows fast enough for a product that ships daily? Zip engineers Leo Bookey and Trevor Weng just published Part 1 of a new series on how we built Zip's i18n infrastructure from the ground up in early 2025, spanning React, Flask, Thrift, Protobuf, and a composite string registry that translates database-persisted content without losing dynamic context. Plus, an AI-assisted translation pipeline that keeps pace with our deploy cadence. If you've ever tried to localize a complex stack, you'll appreciate the tradeoffs they expertly walk us through! Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gsrj4VDr

Bandwidth Inc.'s procurement team was juggling redlines across multiple tools, acting as manual middlemen between vendors, legal, infosec, and requesters. Every version lived in a different system, every status check was a Slack ping, every end-of-month, predictably, was chaos. That was Bandwidth *before* Zip AI Contract Orchestration. Fast forward: (!) - 60% faster NDA turnaround (!!) ~2 hours saved per team member, per week (!!!) Full contract version history visible to every stakeholder in real time (!!!!) Procurement, legal, infosec, and privacy *finally* working from the same source of truth Plus AI agents surfacing vendor risk, breaking down SOC 2 reports, and benchmarking renewals automatically. Read the full Bandwidth Inc. story: https://lnkd.in/eSiC4bEE

Chicago, you are just tooooo good. What an amazing time we had at Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE! As the headline sponsor this year, the Zip team brought some unforgettable sessions and moments to stage. Jason Moore's keynote on how AI orchestration maximizes procurement strategic value creation, and what the next generation of advanced skills look like; live demos by the amazing Holly Pollack; Hands-on workshops by the inimitable Luhua Xu and Shane Polzin; along with an AI innovation debate panel, with Luhua tackling AI accountability in sourcing, predictive sustainability, and whether AI's costs actually outweigh the productivity gains... WHEW. And those was just the day's main events! All in all, truly one of the highlights of 2026 already. Thanks to everyone who joined us, asked the hard questions, and made this simply a perfect week in Chicago. Thank you Supply Chain Digital! Find out where the Zip team is headed next: https://ziphq.com/events

It's 2026 and 64% of invoices *still* need manual intervention? Sounds like you've got an architecture problem. Here's brand-new research from Andrew Bartolini of Ardent Partners on why unified intake-to-pay is the foundation AI actually needs to work, and six recommendations for procurement and AP leaders who are done dealing with the plateau. Access the report: https://lnkd.in/e3Xhg8it