Five For Friday - Sept 18th 2026 Readout

Public Procurement Change Agents Dustin Lanier reviews the curated procurement and public sector news of the week in audio, and also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-lanier-cppo/

Dustin adapts an article from his current speech on ai for procurement conferences, reviewing the foundational competencies that let you describe and communicate about AI, fluency you have to build yourself, and the next frontier of where this technology is rapidly evolving.

Public Procurement Change Agents Dustin Lanier reviews the curated procurement and public sector news of the week in audio, and also at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-lanier-cppo/

Dustin reviews the current priority to reexamine and redesign socioeconomic programs that affect public procurement across the country.  He goes through at what has changed, where the momentum points, and how to take action.  This is an audio companion to an article published in the "Public Pr…