On-Demand Webinar

The Road to Procurement Integrity:
Impact and Adoption

About the webinar

Procurement fraud is the second largest type of economic crime in the world and can be extremely costly for the business. Organizations need innovative ways to ensure they do not fall victim to procurement losses and advanced analytics and AI are leading the way to establish more effective integrity programs.

Join our in-depth conversation with Gerard McDonnell, Director, Fraud & Security Intelligence, ASEAN - SAS and Leslie Joseph, Principal Analyst, Forrester, as they share the key impacts of procurement fraud, ways to set up a robust procurement integrity program based on real-life use cases and the evolving area of explainable AI.

What you'll learn

  • Key impacts of Procurement Fraud
  • Best Practices to set up a robust Procurement Integrity Program
  • An introduction to the SAS Procurement Integrity solution and how SAS partners with organizations to achieve desired results
  • Evolving area of explainable AI and the trade-offs in risk, accuracy, and applicability when determining the level of explain-ability in AI

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About the Experts


Gerard McDonnell

Director, Fraud & Security Intelligence, ASEAN - SAS

Gerard has over 25 years experience providing software and security solutions for identity and intelligence management, particularly with governments and banks.

He moved to the South Asia region in 2015 having worked with SAS in the Middle East and Africa previously. Whilst with SAS Middle East, he focused entirely on sensitive government security related projects in the Arabian Gulf, Levant and East Africa. Since moving to South Asia, he has been involved in Fraud and Security related projects throughout the region and has gained an enormous insight into the local challenges, trends and best practices.

Prior to joining SAS, Gerard was the regional director for Cross Match Technologies who provide high-security biometric systems for the government, and banking sectors worldwide. Before Cross Match, he managed software business units for Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Novell, specialising in the security space.


Leslie Joseph

Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Leslie serves application development and delivery professionals. His research helps AD&D pros understand how to plan and prepare for the propagation of automated intelligence, with practical insights into technology, platforms, and sourcing strategy. Leslie covers applications, frameworks, and services around AI and robotic process automation. Leslie also helps clients understand the key dynamics in the application services market, focused on Microsoft technologies.

Leslie has worked in various marketing, CX, and strategy roles at service providers as well as digital agencies. Most recently, he was a product marketing leader at [247].ai, where he drove market strategy for chatbots, chat, natural language, and AI-driven customer engagement applications.

Prior to that, Leslie worked at Sapient, Wipro, and Infosys.

Leslie has an engineering degree and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.

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