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Episode 5: People do business with people

Episode 5: People do business with people

Shining Lights
• 31 min
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As technology evolves faster than traditional contracts and commercial models can keep pace, how should organisations rethink the way they buy, manage and fund IT? In Episode 5 of Shining Lights, Roc CTO Chelsea Chamberlin is joined by commercial technology specialist Mel Gomes, Head of IT Commercial Management and Contracts at Royal Holloway, to explore what needs to change. From building innovation into long-term partnerships and creating space for smaller technology providers, to data sovereignty, supply-chain volatility and the emerging challenge of AI consumption, they examine how organisations can balance certainty with the flexibility to evolve. They also discuss why stronger commercial capability is becoming essential to technology leadership – and how better partnerships can help organisations navigate what comes next.