Coupa Inspire: What DevCon’s Debut Means for the New AI Era

At this year’s Coupa Inspire, DevCon is set to debut – a new technical forum designed to move enterprise AI from concept to execution. 

DevCon is part of the broader Inspire conference in Las Vegas and is aimed at builders who want to apply AI directly to procurement, IT and spend management workflows.

The introduction of DevCon comes as AI continues to further become part of architecture rather than being layered onto existing systems. 

At DevCon, the emphasis will be on agentic AI, where systems can execute complex tasks across platforms and legacy ERP environments.

The importance of DevCon

For procurement and IT leaders, agentic AI is a shift that really matters. 

This is because the challenge is now building intelligent systems that can triage requisitions, manage risk in real time and orchestrate workflows at scale, rather than purely improving efficiency with automation.

DevCon as a response to that need. 

The event is designed as a technical deep dive into how autonomous spend management can be built and deployed in practice, making it especially relevant for organisations trying to bridge the gap between AI ambition and operational reality.

AI innovation

DevCon is positioned to have an inclusive approach to innovation and is not just a space for seasoned developers. 

Citizen Developers, Coupa admins, solution architects and technical consultants are also part of the target audience.

This is because Coupa is leaning into no-code and low-code tools that open the door to a wider group of enterprise users.

In effect, DevCon is broadening the definition of who gets to build AI-driven solutions. It recognises that digital transformation increasingly depends on collaboration between business users, architects and IT teams.

DevCon’s three technical tracks

DevCon is organised around three expert-led tracks. 

The first focuses on building custom AI agents using Coupa’s Navi Agent Studio, allowing attendees to turn procurement problems into autonomous workflows.

The second track centres on intelligent orchestration through Coupa Orchestrator, with attendees learning how to design and deploy Source-to-Pay processes. 

The third explores platform expansion, with sessions on APIs, integration and real-time synchronisation between Coupa and existing ERP systems or data lakes.

When brought together as part of the wider picture, this approach reflects Coupa’s view that the next phase of enterprise AI must be built on connected, operational systems.

And, because DevCon is a practical event rather than a purely conceptual one, attendees will leave Coupa Inspire with working sample projects, code patterns and implementation ideas they can use straight away.

Coupa’s choice to debut DevCon at Coupa Inspire 2026 is a clear demonstration that the AI conversation in enterprise software has migrated from whether organisations should adopt AI to how they can build systems that act intelligently across fragmented environments.

For Coupa, this means putting builders at the centre of the conversation. 

DevCon is designed to show that autonomous spend management is something enterprises can start engineering now.