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| Contract Management Excellence: Maximising Outcomes Through Strategic Delivery
Public sector procurement teams across Australia and New Zealand are under increasing pressure to deliver better outcomes with tighter budgets, heightened scrutiny, and rising service delivery complexity. This webinar provides practical, real-world guidance drawn from global contracting experience—focusing on how strategic, outcome driven contract management can transform supplier performance, reduce risk, and maximise public value. Participants will gain actionable insights they can apply immediately, regardless of agency size, maturity, or category mix. Key Lesson Points • Designing fit for purpose, outcome focused contracts: Learn how to structure agreements that clearly articulate service outcomes, embed measurable performance expectations, and provide flexibility to manage uncertainty, innovation, and evolving public needs. • Driving value through strategic contract management: Explore proven techniques for managing contracts across the full lifecycle—strengthening supplier accountability, improving delivery performance, and ensuring benefits are realised over the term of the agreement. • Global lessons from the trenches: Hear what actually works in complex environments—how leading jurisdictions manage risk, govern suppliers, and prevent value leakage in long term service contracts. 10 Key Takeaways You Can Implement Immediately 1. Build contracts around outcomes, not activities. 2. Use performance frameworks that drive behaviour, not reporting. 3. Apply risk-based contract structures to match complexity. 4. Strengthen supplier governance with disciplined cadence and escalation. 5. Use early warning indicators to detect delivery issues sooner. and more... | 9/30/2026 | 10:00am AEST | 1 hour | Register |
| Artificial Intelligence in Procurement: From Experimentation to Practical Application
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping procurement, but most public sector teams are still navigating the shift from experimentation to practical, repeatable application. This webinar delivers real world, practitioner level guidance on how AI can be embedded into everyday procurement work—without hype, without unrealistic promises, and without requiring advanced technical capability. Participants will learn how global procurement teams are using AI to accelerate analysis, strengthen sourcing decisions, streamline contract development, and improve supplier engagement, all while maintaining probity, transparency, and public sector accountability. Key Lesson Points • Applying AI across the procurement lifecycle: Explore practical use cases for market analysis, category research, sourcing documentation, evaluation support, contract drafting, supplier communications, and reporting. • Building AI enabled workflows: Learn how to design repeatable, auditable workflows that integrate AI safely and effectively into procurement processes. • Effective prompting techniques: Understand how to craft prompts that improve accuracy, consistency, and decision quality—based on global lessons from teams already using AI at scale. • Governance and risk considerations: Gain clarity on how to manage confidentiality, data security, bias, and auditability when applying AI in public procurement environments. 10 Key Takeaways You Can Implement Immediately 1. Use AI to accelerate market and category analysis. 2. Generate first draft sourcing documents in minutes. 3. Standardise evaluation templates and scoring logic. 4. Build prompt libraries for repeatable procurement tasks. 5. Use AI to summarise supplier proposals quickly and consistently. 6. Apply AI to draft contract clauses aligned to outcomes. 7. Strengthen supplier engagement with clear, consistent messaging. 8. Automate reporting and benefits tracking. 9. Embed AI checkpoints into procurement governance. 10. Start small: pilot one workflow, refine, then scale. | 11/18/2026 | 12:00pm AEDT | 1.3 hours | Register |
| AI-Powered Contract Management: Enhancing Performance, Compliance and Value
Public sector organisations across Australia and New Zealand are increasingly turning to AI enabled contract management to improve performance, strengthen compliance, and protect public value. Yet most teams are still figuring out how to move from isolated pilots to practical, scalable use. This webinar delivers real world, practitioner tested guidance on how AI can enhance contract creation, review, monitoring, and supplier management—drawing on global lessons from jurisdictions already integrating AI into platforms like SAP Ariba and other enterprise systems. Participants will learn how AI can streamline contract drafting, accelerate review cycles, detect risks earlier, and provide deeper insights into supplier performance. The session focuses on practical application, not theory—showing procurement teams how to embed AI safely, consistently, and transparently across the contract lifecycle. Key Lesson Points • Leveraging AI across the contract lifecycle: Understand how AI is being integrated into CLM platforms to support drafting, clause analysis, compliance checks, obligation tracking, and supplier governance. • Unlocking insights through AI enabled tools: Learn how AI can identify risks, flag non compliance, analyse performance trends, and support better decision making. • Governance, probity, and public sector safeguards: Explore how to apply AI responsibly while maintaining auditability, transparency, and data protection. 10 Key Takeaways You Can Implement Immediately 1. Use AI to generate first draft contracts and clause options. 2. Apply AI for rapid clause comparison and deviation detection. 3. Automate obligation tracking and compliance alerts. 4. Use AI to analyse supplier performance trends. 5. Build risk scoring models for contract terms. 6. Strengthen governance with AI supported audit trails. 7. Use AI to summarise contract changes and amendments. 8. Apply AI to monitor delivery milestones and early warning signals. 9. Integrate AI insights into supplier review meetings. and more... | 3/18/2027 | 12:00pm AEDT | 1.3 hours | Register |
| Construction and Infrastructure: Delivering Better Project Outcomes Through Collaboration and Capability While Managing Pricing
Construction and infrastructure delivery across Australia and New Zealand is facing unprecedented pressure—tight labour markets, escalating costs, supply chain volatility, sharp price fluctuations, and increasingly complex risk allocation. This webinar provides practical, real world guidance from industry and government leaders on how procurement and contract management teams can strengthen delivery outcomes through collaboration, capability, disciplined commercial practice, and proactive strategies to manage price volatility. Participants will gain insights into emerging market challenges and learn proven approaches to improving project governance, supplier performance, commercial risk management, and contract execution. The session can be delivered as a panel or roundtable, enabling practitioners to hear truth from the trenches lessons from major projects and apply them directly to their own environments—including how leading agencies are responding to volatile input costs, fluctuating market conditions, and unpredictable escalation cycles. Key Lesson Points • Addressing emerging challenges: Understand how market pressures, workforce constraints, cost escalation, price volatility, and shifting risk profiles are shaping construction and infrastructure delivery—and what procurement teams can do to respond. • Strengthening contract management: Learn practical approaches to managing complex construction contracts. 10 Key Takeaways You Can Implement Immediately 1. Use market intelligence to shape sourcing, delivery strategy, and price volatility assumptions. 2. Apply risk aligned contract models suited to project complexity and cost movement exposure. 3. Strengthen contract governance cadence with clear escalation paths. 4. Use early warning indicators to detect delivery and cost escalation risks sooner. 5. Build collaborative supplier relationships grounded in transparency and open book cost dialogue. 6. Apply structured change control to prevent scope creep and uncontrolled cost drift. And more... | 5/19/2027 | 11:00am AEST | 1.3 hours | Register |
| ESG and Social Value: Delivering Meaningful Outcomes Through Procurement
Across Australia and New Zealand, public sector agencies are being asked to deliver more meaningful social, environmental, and economic outcomes through procurement—not just meet compliance requirements. This webinar provides practical, real world guidance on how to embed ESG and social value into procurement strategies, contracts, and supplier relationships in ways that create measurable, lasting impact. Drawing on global lessons from jurisdictions that have successfully shifted from “tick box compliance” to genuine value creation, the session focuses on what actually works in practice. Participants will learn how to design procurement approaches that support sustainability, social inclusion, Indigenous participation, and broader community outcomes. The session also explores how to build supplier capability, strengthen governance, and track social value delivery across the contract lifecycle. Key Lesson Points • Moving beyond compliance: Understand how to embed ESG and social value into procurement strategies, evaluation criteria, contract terms, and supplier performance frameworks. • Creating lasting community value: Learn practical approaches to driving social inclusion, environmental sustainability, economic participation, and Indigenous procurement outcomes. 10 Key Takeaways You Can Implement Immediately 1. Define clear ESG and social value objectives for each procurement. 2. Use outcome based evaluation criteria tied to community impact. 3. Embed measurable social value KPIs into contracts. 4. Require supplier reporting on ESG and social outcomes. 5. Prioritise Indigenous and diverse suppliers where appropriate. 6. Use procurement to drive local economic participation. 7. Apply sustainability standards to goods and services. 8. Co develop community impact initiatives with suppliers. 9. Track delivery through benefits realisation frameworks. And more... | 6/23/2027 | 11:00am AEST | 1.3 hours | Register |
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