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02:19: Robots can make a difference - Kurt Frary, Head of IT & CTO and SocitmVice President, Norfolk County Council
Join us as Norfolk County Council share their RPA Journey, providing valuable insights and sharing what has really worked from real life experience. (Download slides)

13:49: Insight into DWP Digital’s Intelligent Automation Garage - Lianne Anderton, Intelligent Automation Garage Delivery Lead, DWP Digital
Created in 2017, the Intelligent Automation Garage (IAG) is a fast-paced and collaborative workspace, using agile working methods to continuously improve and design-led practices to test and explore innovative ideas. The use of automation in the IAG is about simplifying and streamlining the customer and colleague experience and, in the process, becoming more efficient. All while ensuring that automation supports but doesn’t take away human decision-making.The team working in the IAG are continuously innovating, industrialising, and scaling solutions to enable DWP Digital to deploy digital technology to automate routine tasks, industrialise these to increase productivity and scale them to support 20 million citizens. (Download slides)

25:23: DLUHC & Innovation Squads - Sarah Ward,Collaborations and Engagement Manager andUmar Sani,Delivery Manager,Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
A team at DLUHC has developed two chatbots to support its HR operations. In this session they will explain how the development of the bots has been the first project of the department’s new innovation squads approach to improve processes with further experiments and tests with AI chatbots planned. (Download slides)

39:16: The AI and Automation Journey in Leeds - Leonardo Tantari, Chief Digital & Information Offcier,NHS (Leeds) West Yorkshire ICB and Leeds City Council
Leeds has been on an automation and AI journey for some time.  Leonardo will share his experiences and learnings as well as the art of the possible for both the local authority but also within health and care.  He will also share the challenges we need to overcome if we are to make the most of this emerging tech. (Download slides)

52:44: Q&A and panel discussion - speakers (with Lawrence Hopper, Deputy Director for Digital Products, DLUHC)

 

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