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The Challenge: Build modern, AI-ready services at high speed.

The Hurdle: Procurement rules that take months or years to complete.

The Result: By the time a contract is signed, the technology is already out of date.

For CIOs and Digital Leaders across Public & Institutional Services, including federal and regional agencies, city administrations, defence, healthcare, social security, and higher education, the gap between ambition and reality is growing. Today, you are caught between two opposing forces:

• The Sovereignty Squeeze: Heavy pressure from authorities to move away from global public clouds towards "local" solutions, often without a clear plan on how to maintain performance.

• The Procurement Trap: Strict legal rules that make changing suppliers an administrative nightmare. This leads to "Vendor Lock-in" and "Frankenstein systems" where new tools are awkwardly bolted onto old infrastructure.

The Agenda: Strategy, Not Paperwork

This is not a session for purchasing managers. It is a Leadership Clinic for those who must deliver a "Digital Decade" while following the letter of the law.
We will tackle the "nagging" questions head-on:

• The Agentic AI Pressure: How do you procure for "Autonomous Agents" when the technology evolves weekly, but your contracts are fixed for years? Can our current infrastructure even handle the power and data needs of AI-driven automation?
• The "Cloud-Out" Dilemma: How to follow the mandate for local data control without losing the massive computing power required for modern AI tools.
• Buying Outcomes, Not Specs: How to stop tendering for "boxes and wires" and start buying "innovation" through more flexible partnerships that allow for AI experimentation.
• Breaking the Lock-in: ways to design your systems so you can swap AI models or infrastructure providers without a two-year legal battle.

The Format: Candid & Confidential

• Strictly Peer-to-Peer: Only for Digital Leaders from public and semi-public bodies.
• Chatham House Rules: A safe space to discuss what actually happens when a project hits a wall or an audit looms.