AI has raised the ceiling for what AP teams can achieve, but it's also made the path forward less obvious. The build vs buy framing most teams start with turns out to be too narrow. There's a third option most teams overlook, the capabilities already sitting in their current stack. And even when the right path is clear in principle, the real costs across people, time, and ongoing maintenance rarely are.

With pressure to demonstrate AI ROI and an increasingly crowded vendor landscape, getting this decision wrong is expensive. This session brings together practitioners who've been through it firsthand, to share the frameworks and hard lessons that don't make it into vendor decks.