Session Title: Digital Workers for the Physical Economy: Putting AI Agents to Work in Global Supply Chains

Abstract: For most large manufacturers, procurement is where the majority of costs live. Where teams of a few hundred are asked to manage tens of thousands of suppliers, billions in spend, and millions of decisions a year. The most ambitious teams building the future demand powerful new tools to succeed. AI has moved beyond assistants toward agents that own work.

Robin Van Aeken, co-founder and CEO of Magentic, joins Sequoia's Julien Bek to discuss building digital workers for the physical economy: why procurement is the wedge into a much larger story, what it actually takes to make long-horizon reasoning reliable inside the enterprise, and why the hard question is no longer whether the technology works, but how teams learn to work alongside it.