Campaign week: Building the Smarter State 2025 #techUKSmarterState2025

Welcome to Building the Smarter State Week 2025 running from the 8-12 September!

The Blueprint for Modern Digital Government, published in January 2025 lays out the vision for a comprehensive digital transformation of the UK public sector, addressing the gap between current service delivery and rising citizen expectations. With government eager to embrace the promise of technology to improve public service delivery, this year’s Building the Smarter State Conference, taking place on Wednesday 10 September, provides a fantastic opportunity to connect key public sector and industry stakeholders to collaborate on taking public sector From Blueprint to Brilliance. 

To support the conference, this week we will be hearing from members and stakeholders their visions for a truly digital state and how the technology industry is shaping today’s and tomorrow’s public services, from overcoming challenges posed by Legacy IT to harnessing the power of AI and acting as one, joined up public sector.

Please see below all the blogs from the week:

Blueprint to Brilliance

Visions for a truly digital state – what could it look like and how do we enable the five outcomes: easier lives, faster growth, firmer foundations, smarter organisations, and higher productivity.

 

Data

How can government strengthen and extend their digital and data public infrastructure and overcome the challenges posed by old and costly legacy systems

 

The power of AI

How can we harness the power of AI responsibly and safely to improve public service delivery and capability, what are the opportunities it presents

 

Joined up public services

Exploring how we act as one public sector – enabling next-generation public services, better supporting businesses, redesigning cross-organisation end-to-end service delivery, and ensuring services are consistently high standard.

 

You can also follow the campaign on techUK's LinkedIn - #techUKSmarterState


techUK's Building the Smarter State Week 2025 #techUKSmarterState2025

Welcome to Building the Smarter State Week 2025 running from the 8-12 September!

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Building the Smarter State 2025

Building the Smarter State is techUK’s flagship public services conference and the go-to event for public sector digital leaders.

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Financing the Future: Building a Smarter State Through Digital Public Services

This new report commissioned by techUK’s Public Services Board and written by Henham Strategy presents a strategic assessment of digital procurement across government and makes the case for a fundamental shift in funding for digital services.

Click here to access the report

 


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techUK members are transforming public services in the UK. Our community help to shape a smarter, digitally empowered public sector.

techUK drives public sector digital transformation by uniting the public sector and tech industry. Through early market engagement, efficient procurement, and innovative technology adoption, we help to modernise legacy IT, and enable efficient, secure, and personalised services.  

Get involved: We run a busy calendar of activity including events, reports, and insights that demonstrate some of the most significant digital transformation opportunities for the sector. Our Transforming Public Services Hub is where you will find details of all upcoming activities. We also send a monthly public services newsletter to which you can subscribe here.

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Georgina Maratheftis

Georgina Maratheftis

Associate Director, Local Public Services, techUK

Heather Cover-Kus

Heather Cover-Kus

Associate Director, Central Government and Education, techUK

Fred Sugden

Fred Sugden

Associate Director, Defence and National Security, techUK

Austin Earl

Austin Earl

Programme Manager, Education and EdTech, techUK

Robert Walker

Robert Walker

Head of Health & Social Care, techUK

Raya Tsolova

Senior Programme Manager, techUK

Cinzia Miatto

Cinzia Miatto

Programme Manager - Justice & Emergency Services, techUK

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