‘Partners will spend more on AI tokens than employees’ – 19 UK channel partner CEOs on how the channel will evolve in next 5 years

Alan Paton

CEO, Beyond

5-year channel prediction:

“One of the biggest shifts over the next five years will come from agentic AI – businesses moving beyond basic automation into systems that make decisions, take actions and reshape customer and operational journeys in real time. That raises the bar for the channel: clients will need partners with the engineering depth to deploy this safely, at scale, and with clear commercial value.”

Read Paton’s full Partner Leaders Q&A here, or visit the Oxygen Partner Leaders hub here.

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