Session One - Wednesday, 10 March
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- 01:08: The Transforming Scotland’s public Services - Colin Cook, Digital Director, The Scottish Government
Colin Cook describes how the Scottish Government and local government are working together to update Scotland’s national digital strategy and ensure that the country is recognised as an ethical digital nation. This provides an opportunity to redesign public services and transform the organisations that deliver them, through a comprehensive, national approach to service design, new ways of working with industry and the development of common platforms as part of the country’s critical national infrastructure (Download slides)
- 13:08: Transforming Digital Public Services with Hybrid Cloud - Stuart Bland, Infrastructure Lead, Shropshire Council
Stuart Bland talks about Shropshire Council’s early steps into a hybrid cloud set up to align with its 'Cloud where appropriate' approach to delivering IT services; how this approach stood them in good stead to deal with the changing work patterns brought about by the pandemic, and how they are looking to evolve the model over the next few years in the post-Covid arena (Download slides)
- 31:30: - Adopting hybrid cloud to deliver digital public services - Andrew Puddephatt, Director UK Public Sector, Nutanix
Andrew Puddephatt shares examples of public sector organisations that have worked with on their journey to cloud including Birmingham City Council, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (Download slides)
- 42:13: DWP Digital with Purpose during a pandemic - Joanne Delap, Team Collaboration Product Owner, Department for Work and Pensions
Joanne Delap discusses the challenges that DWP were faced with during the pandemic and how they responded as an organisation. Within the context of the pandemic, how they adapted to new ways of working, the scaling of infrastructure and services to meet unprecedented demand, the Digital transformation during this period and plans for the future (Download slides)
- 58:25: Q&A / panel discussion
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Session Two - Thursday, 11 March
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- 01:00: Don’t Go it Alone: Accelerate Digital Transformation with the Right Tech Partnerships (Part One) - Owen Powell, ICT Director, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
The pandemic has driven the public sector to adapt and innovate at speed. Owen Powell discusses how CNWL achieved around three years of transformation in three months and how the right technology partnership can enable innovation, scalability and security in the cloud (Download slides)
- 14:12: Don’t Go it Alone: Accelerate Digital Transformation with the Right Tech Partnerships (Part Two) - Simon Bennett, CTO EMEA, Rackspace Technology
Simon Bennett talks about the role can Rackspace play to help organisations accelerate transformation, some of pitfalls faced, the impact of Covid and what digital transformation actually means (Download slides)
- 32:05: Don’t Go it Alone: Accelerate Digital Transformation with the Right Tech Partnerships (Part Three) - Joseph Langford, Chief Technologist, Public Sector, VMware (formerly Chief Digital and Information Officer, Surrey and Sussex Police)
Joseph Langford shares his experience of being a Chief Digital and Information Officer during 2020 and the importance of having a trusted partner (Download slides)
- 46:20: ICT impact on CO2 emissions – a macro perspective - Mattie Yeta, Head of Sustainable IT, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
ICT has the potential to reduce emissions by 15%. Mattie Yeta discusses the three major ways in which ICT can be expected to affect CO2e emissions. The direct effects are mainly caused by energy consumption in production, distribution and use of ICT
- 1:06:00: Q&A / panel discussion
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Session Three - Friday, 12 March
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- 01:30: Local government post-Covid recovery, the digital perspective (Part One) - Martin Ferguson, Director of Policy & Research, Socitm
Local government will be at the forefront of people, community and place-based recovery following the Covid pandemic. Social and economic regeneration and environmental sustainability will be central to their efforts to rebuild resilient, cohesive and thriving communities. Martin Ferguson explores the key findings from Socitm’s Digital Trends 2021 report and their relevance to these recovery efforts (Download slides)
- 22:08: Local government post-Covid recovery, the digital perspective (Part Two) - Sam Smith, Assistant Director for IT & Digital Services, Cambridgeshire County & Peterborough City Councils. Also Socitm President
Following on from Martin Ferguson's presentation, Sam Smith introduces initiatives that are already taking shape in localities (Download slides)
- 33:18: Rob McNally, Head of IT Strategy & Solutions, Leeds City Digital Partnership
Rob McNally gives a whistle-stop tour around the approach taken in Leeds to bring together the Council and local health partners to deliver the ‘City Digital Partnership’. This includes standardisation around estates and moving NHS partners to a shared cloud platform supported by Leeds City Council (Download slides)
- 50:10: Respond and recover, the role of digital and technology - Alison Hughes, Assistant Director ICT, Digital and Customer, Liverpool City Council
Transformation against a backdrop of the pandemic/ public service for our new normal/ customer services and how this has impacted on our digital strategy for the future (Download slides)
- 1:02:10 Q&A / panel discussion
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