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# The New Buying Committee: How L&D Decisions Are Made in the AI Era

Getting a learning tool evaluated, approved, and rolled out now takes a lot more sign-offs than it used to. Watch this session to learn how to get everyone aligned and your employees learning faster.

July 20, 2026

**What this session covers** 

* Delivering personalized learning often requires new tools. But getting those tools approved is now more complicated, because today, more stakeholders are involved in the decision making.
* In our new research, we surveyed 950 senior IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Compliance leaders.
* What we found was 88% of IT leaders, 82% of Finance leaders, and 83% of Legal leaders say they're meaningfully more involved in learning tool decisions than they were two to three years ago.
* This session breaks down who those stakeholders are, what they're evaluating, and how HR and L&D leaders can get ahead of it.

**What you’ll walk away with:** 

* A deep understanding of the structural shifts making personalized learning harder to execute in large organizations (and how to overcome it)
* The exact things IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Compliance teams use to evaluate learning technology (and what you can do to get buy-in earlier)
* Practical strategies for building cross-functional alignment and accelerating more confident learning technology decisions in the AI era

**Meet your speakers:**

* **Al Dea** Founder, The Edge of Work
* **Sarah Budd-Katz** Director, GTM Strategy, Go1
* **Ann Hussey** Director of Product Marketing, Go1

## Want the numbers behind every point? Grab The New Buying Committee report

We surveyed 950 senior IT, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Compliance leaders about learning technology decisions. Get the full breakdown of what each function evaluates, and how to get ahead of it before your next stakeholder meeting. 

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