Buying and Contracting for New Technologies

In today's fast-paced technological landscape, it can be challenging to stay ahead of the curve when technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The constant influx of new technologies and advancements can make it difficult to know what tools and resources are available and which best practices to follow in the contracting process. This session will bring together industry experts to share and discuss the best approach to buying and contracting for new technologies.

Speakers and learnings include:

• Caroline Young, Senior Associate at Charles Russell Speechlys will be discussing best practice and demystifying contracting for new technology
• Kit Burden, Partner at DLA Piper will share how to negotiate with hyperscalers for enterprise cloud
• Andrew Rayner, CPO and Architect at Intelligent Automation Collective (IAC) will share how the emergence of entities such as collectives are bringing a portfolio of technologies into one contract
• Praveen Gupta, Senior Director at Neo Group will discuss how to source and contract for strategic transformations that leverage new technologies when there is no predefined outcome, as the outcomes get built throughout.