Procurement is an important element of technology adoption and digital transformation. For techUK’s Procurement Week 2026, we will explore several themes related to both public and private sector procurement, including sustainable procurement, social value and the impact of AI on procurement.
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This half-day workshop brings together AI vendors and procurement professionals to address the evolving landscape of AI procurement and due diligence.
What the workshop will cover
- Keynote address: Explore current challenges and best practices in evaluating AI solutions
- Panel discussion: Insights from vendors developing AI technologies and organisations implementing them
- Interactive workshop: Collaborative knowledge-sharing to identify critical questions shaping AI procurement decisions
- Facilitated discussions: Capture key concerns procurement teams raise during due diligence and common inquiries vendors face when selling AI solutions
The interactive workshop component focuses on collaborative knowledge-sharing, where participants identify and consolidate the critical questions shaping AI procurement decisions. Through facilitated discussions, we'll capture the key concerns procurement teams raise during due diligence and the common inquiries vendors face when selling AI solutions.
Why attend
Attendees will leave with:
- A better understanding of procurement expectations and vendor capabilities
- Practical frameworks for evaluating AI systems
- Insights to build more transparent and effective AI procurement processes
- Opportunities to align vendors and buyers on standards and best practices in the AI marketplace
Interested in getting involved? Contact the team below for more information.
Tess Buckley
Tess Buckley
Tess is a digital ethicist and musician. After completing a MA in AI and Philosophy, with a focus on ableism in biotechnologies, she worked as an AI Ethics Analyst with a dataset on corporate digital responsibility (paid for by investors that wanted to understand their portfolio risks). Tess then supported the development of a specialised model for sustainability disclosure requests. Currently, at techUK, her north star as programme manager in digital ethics and AI safety is demystifying, and operationalising ethics through assurance mechanisms and standards. Outside of Tess's work, her primary research interests are in AI music systems, AI fluency and tech by/for differently abled folks.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Website:
- tessbuckley.me
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/tesssbuckley/
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather is Associate Director, Central Government and Education at techUK, working to represent the tech supplier community to Central Government.
She started as Head of Central Government at techUK in April 2022 and was promoted to Associate Director in August 2025 supporting both the Central Government and Education programmes.
Prior to joining techUK in April 2022, Heather worked in the Economic Policy and Small States Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She led the organisation’s FinTech programme and worked to create an enabling environment for developing countries to take advantage of the socio-economic benefits of FinTech.
Before moving to the UK, Heather worked at the Office of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
Heather holds a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from LSE, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Macalester College.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-cover-kus-ba636538
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