The Ministry of Defence’s Digital Strategy outlines it’s digital ambition, building on the Integrated Review, and provides a holistic view of the Defence Digital Function, core equipment plan and wider transformation and change. Defence will value data as a strategic asset, persistently deliver transformative digital capabilities to enable sustainable military and business advantage, and ensure these capabilities are secure, integrated, easy to use and delivered at scale and pace to all in Defence.

At the heart of this ambition – alongside people, process and data – is technology. Defence Digital’s Digital Enablement team is working to bring it’s vision for architecture to life, embracing a mobile-first, innovative approach with clear ‘rules of the road’ for APIs and Cloud.

Sustainability is also of vital importance. Defence represents just over a third of UK Government ICT energy consumption. Our forthcoming Digital Sustainability strategy will outline what we can do – individually and collectively – to address Defence’s digital footprint, on the road to Net Zero 2050.

Defence Digital aims to create stronger partnerships with industry and academia as this will be an important part of helping Defence deliver winning capability for the UK. Join us to find out more about how we can work together to achieve the ambition for 2030 outlined in the Digital Strategy.

Agenda

1330: Introduction from techUK


Defence Digital Strategy – Director Strategy & Military Digitisation Major General Tom Copinger-Symes (& Air Commodore David Rowland or Cdre Chris Cook?)

1335-1405: Overview of the Digital Strategy

1405-1415: Digital Strategy Q&A


Defence Digital Sustainability Strategy – Sustainability Lead for Defence Digital

1415-1435: Overview of the Digital Sustainability Strategy

1435-1445: Digital Sustainability Strategy Q&A


Architecture update – Director Digital Enablement John Fitzpatrick

1445-1500: Overview of the Architecture vision

1500-1510: Architecture Q&A


Event ends

1510: Closing remarks from techUK

Fred Sugden

Fred Sugden

Associate Director, Defence and National Security, techUK

Raya Tsolova

Programme Manager, techUK

Jeremy Wimble

Jeremy Wimble

Programme Manager, Defence, techUK

Tracy Modha

Tracy Modha

Team Assistant - Markets, techUK