Federal Supply Chain Management SME and patent-pending inventor Mark Hijar will provide both general and specific considerations when using Artificial Intelligence to help manage your procurement processes. After exploring the basics of AI and its potential for greater documentation quality and process efficiency, attendees will learn about several specific opportunities for near-term adoption of emerging technology to increase productivity and reduce mistakes when meeting various reporting requirements and documenting different stages of a compliant federal procurement activity.

​Mark Hijar has acted as the POC or SME for more than 175 CPSRs and currently serves as the managing partner of ProcureLinx LLC. Along with supporting the Philly Startup Leaders nonprofit as an operations officer and serving as a Senior Fellow for the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC), Mark is a recent inventor with a patent pending in cybersecurity methods for AI platforms focusing on prompt integrity and learned data access and security. The latter method uses the “memorization” process of AI models to ensure covered data (including CUI, CDI, and HIPAA data) is properly handled, stored and/or rendered useless to hackers and other unauthorized parties after platform task completion.