Building the Smarter State

Registration & networking breakfast

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techUK Welcome

techUK closing remarks

Speaker: Megan Lee, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Cabinet Office

In this session we explore how to future-proof services (not creating next the legacy tech) for all UK citizens to sustain a smarter state. The panel will explore how public services can better utilise data and emerging technologies to meet societal challenges of net-zero and upskill the workforce to sustain and deliver digital services that meet the needs of citizens.

In this session we hear from digital leaders across public services on their smarter state vision and how we deliver on this, as well as hear first-hand their digital ambitions and visions in delivering smarter, more efficient and citizen-centric services. It is also an opportunity to hear about the challenges and opportunities they see going forward in securing our smarter state.

Moderator:

Georgina Maratheftis, Associate Director, Local Public Services, techUK

Panellists:

Paul Maltby, Chief Digital Officer, DLUHC Karl Hoods, Chief Digital and Information Officer, BEIS Nadira Hussain, Chief Executive Officer, Socitm Simon Bourne, Chief Digital, Data, and Technology Officer, Home Office

Rising to the changes in citizen’s demand and the challenges in recording ESG credentials, government and public sector needs to put sustainability at the heart of their digital strategy. During this session, KPMG will uncover the steps to a connected enterprise for public sector and when to know if optimisation or transformation is the right answer to drive digital sustainability. They will share insights on how to achieve a tech-enabled process that gives a centralised view to assess, report and provide low carbon solutions that can be implemented and maintained.

The government has set out a roadmap for digital and data to transform for the future. A key mission of this roadmap is on how the use of data can be improved to empower decision making.

We at Made Tech know that public sector organisations are unclear on where and how to start their transformation journey. So we will focus this session on the data challenges currently faced by central and local governments due to a lack of strategy and guidance on how to better harvest and use their data. By addressing the data challenges and breaking down the stages where digital transformation could happen, we can get some ideas on potential ways of solving them to evolve and thrive.

Key takeaways

• Digital and data challenges faced by local and central government departments

• How understanding these challenges can help transformation

• What steps to take

Speaker: Thomas Beautyman, Deputy Director Government Digital Capability, Cabinet Office

Moderator: Heather Cover-Kus, Head of Central Government Programme, techUK

Speaker: Tom Read, CEO and Director, Government Digital Service

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The challenges organisations face today are increasingly complex and ambitious. Multi-year programmes of work that deliver transformational visions require a clear plan and often changes to work practices. The journey from vision, to mission, to defined outcomes requires collaboration and common goals to ensure true transformation and realise the benefits of change and technological innovation. To truly accelerate the delivery of programmes and deliver outcomes that matter, how do teams need to adapt and think differently?

Panellists

• Angela Essel – Head of JSARC, Home Office

• Toby Jones – Head of ACE at Home Office

• Frank Lee – Interim CEO Institute of Collaborative Working

• Tim Crofts – Leidos

• Roz Barrance – Leidos