Speakers
More speakers to be announced.
Professor Kerensa Jennings
Damian Collins
Emma Gooderham
Sebastian Hanley
Nick King
Faith la Grange
Paul Moorby, OBE
Lucy Powell
Ed Powell
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Emma is Commercial Director at Cloud Gateway, a networking and security services company providing the public and private sector with connectivity powered by their UK first, SASE platform. Emma is responsible for the sales and commercial functions within the business, working with clients to support their digital transformations, provide flexible solutions to drive change and deliver better outcomes. She is an Institute of Director's Chartered Director and has held various board positions in the energy, creative and software industries as well as running her own consultancy company. Emma is a member of techUK's Local Digital Capital working group and has been supporting the creation of the report along with the rest of the team.
With over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure, education and skills, healthcare and IT communications, Sebastian leads the Atos public affairs team in the UK, Northern Europe and APAC. Atos is a global leader in digital transformation and it’s purpose is to help design the future of the information space.
Sebastian is passionate about improving services for citizens and communities in every corner of the country and communicating the transformative benefits of technology to stakeholders across the world. His work includes engaging political audiences and influencers on how we can boost the economy by increasing digital skills and jobs across the UK.
Prior to working at Atos, Sebastian headed up communications and marketing at the WEA, a national adult education charity and as a senior vice president at international strategic communications agency, FTI Consulting.
Nick King is the Founder and Managing Director of Henham Strategy, a policy and public affairs consultancy with a particular specialism in economic development, local growth and levelling up. Nick is a former Chief of Staff to Sajid Javid and spent almost six years in Government (from 2012 to 2018) working in the Departments for Culture, Business and, from 2016 to 2018, Communities and Local Government.
Henham Strategy work with both private sector and public sector organisations on some of their most acute policy and political challenges. They have received policy commissions from central Government Departments, routinely partner with think tanks and work regularly with upper tier local authorities, pan-regional partnerships and Local Enterprise Partnerships. They worked with techUK to produce the inaugural index of Local Digital Capital in 2021 and this second version in 2022.
Faith joined Microsoft in October 2018, and leads the Government team at Microsoft UK, supporting Central and local government and Housing customers in England, and all devolved government customers in Scotland and Wales. The team’s goal is to help Government organisations harness the benefits of technology and digital transformation to improve services to citizens.
Prior to this, Faith worked for infrastructure services and solutions provider Computacenter, and has 25 year’s experience working with Public Sector organisations in the technology sector.
Faith is passionate about diversity & inclusion in all its forms and is the Public Sector D&I lead for Microsoft in the UK.
Faith lives near Edinburgh with her husband and 4 children.
Paul Moorby, Fellow Royal Society Arts, Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Freeman Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, Freeman of City of London, OBE (for Promoting UK Tech abroad), Department International Trade Tech Export Champion 2020-23, Associate Board Member England’s Economic Heartland, Board Member Western Gateway Pan Regional Partnership, advisor UK Tech Export Academy (spinning up within DIT), voluntary Chair Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership, CEO Chipside/MiPermit working with some 170 Local Authorities across the UK on digital transformation.
Paul has been asked to speak at numerous DIT trade missions over the years including tech missions to Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, USA and India as a part of the UK push to improve UK-India SME technology partnerships.
Lucy is the Labour and Cooperative MP for Manchester Central and Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture Media and Sport. She was delighted to take on the brief, with art, culture and sport all bringing joy and meaning to daily life, and bringing our nation together. Lucy leads on how digital, culture, media, sport and the creative economy can boost prosperity across our regions and nations, create good secure jobs everywhere, and how the Department can help make people proud of the places they live, and make places liveable.
Previously, she was Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, and Shadow Minister for Business and Consumers on Keir Starmer’s frontbench. Following the 2019 General election, Lucy was one of the Commissioners on the Labour Together Review into the 2019 General election which set Labour on a path back to power.
Lucy was elected in a by-election on November 15th 2012, becoming the first female Labour MP to represent a Manchester constituency and has campaigned on a range of issues through her time in Parliament, including on online safety, the cladding and building safety crisis, and education. Before entering Parliament Lucy worked for NESTA – the innovation agency for social good, helping to secure investment into Manchester.
Ed leads Cisco’s Healthcare, Education and Local Government practices. In this role, he is responsible for leading a national sales team focused on helping customers drive the digitisation of their organisation.
Formulating Cisco’s strategic direction across healthcare, education and local government, Ed is particularly passionate about transforming the delivery of health and social care through transforming infrastructure, securing data, and helping public sector customers re-imagine their applications. He works in close collaboration with government bodies, public and private enterprises to develop a healthy technology and partner ecosystem.
Ed joined Cisco over 20 years ago as a Systems Engineer. He has held various positions across the public sector organisation, from technical to sales leadership roles.
In his spare time, Ed is a keen pilot and enjoys off-piste skiing, mountain biking and sailing.
Antony Walker is deputy CEO of techUK, which he played a lead role in launching in November 2013.
Antony is a member of the senior leadership team and has overall responsibility for techUK’s policy work. Prior to his appointment in July 2012 Antony was chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the UK’s independent advisory group on broadband policy. Antony was closely involved in the development of broadband policy development in the UK since the BSG was established in 2001 and authored several major reports to government. He also led the development of the UK’s world leading Open Internet Code of Practice that addresses the issue of net neutrality in the UK. Prior to setting up the BSG, Antony spent six years working in Brussels for the American Chamber of Commerce following and writing about telecoms issues and as a consultant working on EU social affairs and environmental issues. Antony is a graduate of Aberdeen University and KU Leuven and is also a Policy Fellow Alumni of the Centre for Science and Policy at Cambridge University.