Sami Nikula

Sami Nikula

Director, Product Marketing GEP
Sami Nikula

Sami is a B2B SaaS leader with 25 years of experience in electronic document exchange and financial process automation. He brings deep expertise in e-invoicing compliance and strategy — including global mandates, clearance models, and regulatory frameworks — alongside hands-on knowledge of AP automation and accounts payable processes. Sami excels at turning complex compliance and operational requirements into scalable, market-ready solutions that drive adoption across international markets.

Agenda Day 3

9:45 AM From E-Invoice Strategy to Intelligent AP with Agentic AI Orchestration

E-invoice mandates are accelerating globally — and how your organization responds will determine whether you simply comply or genuinely transform. Most companies treat mandates as a checkbox, plugging in a point solution and moving on. The result is fragmented systems, poor data quality, and stalled AP transformation.

This session lays out a different path: building a real e-invoice strategy that creates the clean, structured data foundation on which agentic AI orchestration in AP space becomes not just possible, but powerful.

You'll learn how AI goes beyond rules-based automation to handle for example validation, compliance checks, matching, encoding — autonomously, with no human touch. Advanced orchestration covers the full S2P cycle and connects to your existing systems without rip-and-replace. Your transformation doesn't have to wait for your IT roadmap.

By attending this session, you will learn:
  • The E-Invoice Imperative: Why global mandates are forcing action — and why compliance alone leaves value on the table
  • Strategy Before Technology: The foundational decisions that separate companies who get e-invoicing right from those who get stuck
  • Agentic AI in Practice: How autonomous AI orchestration can handle the full invoice lifecycle at scale
  • Build Your Own Agents: How GEP Qi Studio puts AP and finance teams in control of their own AI agents, without IT dependency
"Mandates force the discipline. Orchestration exploits it."