Agenda

• Outlining the Government’s priorities for placing ICT at the forefront of rethinking, redesigning and rebuilding public services
• Reviewing the progress achieved from the launch of the Digital Strategy in driving digital adoption and capability
• Investing £1 billion of funding to improve the UK’s connectivity networks through the Government’s Superfast Broadband Programme
• Establishing the Digital Skills Partnership to tailor digital skills training to the needs of local communities and economies
• Introducing fully-funded basic digital skills training for adults lacking digital skills and investing £10m on funding the Future Digital Inclusion project run by the Good Things Foundation
• Delivering outstanding user centric technologies and delivering key tools to enhance user experience

• Delivering joined up end to end services by embedding good use of open standards, interoperable technology, shared platforms and reusable business capabilities
• Supporting the EU exit by building a strong cross government Digital, Data, and Technology (DDaT) workforce
• Regionalising GDS across the UK to enable technological developments at a local level
• Looking at how emerging technologies are being widely implemented and updates on future developments for government ICT professionals
• Engaging with the SME market post-Brexit for flexible contracts and more bespoke services

• The transfer of EU laws and regulation
• Assessing the impact on third party engagement and procurement frameworks
• Strategies to guarantee the required workforce: migration and future skills
• Responding in a period of reduced funding
• Potential impact on Cyber-security
• ICT as part of the whole: impact on wider local government services

• Helping public sector buyers procure Cloud, Digital, Cyber solutions that meet their service needs
• Providing insights from G-Cloud 10 services covering infrastructure, platform, software and specialist cloud services
• Investigating the buying/selling needs to improve the cycle of future procurement
• Providing quality assurance and testing for IT systems

• A close look at the DVSA’s digital, data and technology strategy and how it aims to transform its approach to ICT systems

• Aligning infrastructure and talent to harness the power of collaboration within government
• How can central government work with local to build digital, data and technology capability?
• Balancing the need for data sharing with data compliance and protection
• Creating opportunities for technology solutions to be scaled up across government
• The importance of joint procurement for securing and retaining board level buy-in
• Addressing the need for a knowledge sharing and training platform across public sector

A closer look at how these three disruptive technologies are already changing the landscape of ICT systems and how they could transform/are already revolutionising practices within government

• Incubating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to adopt a predictive business strategy
• Developing automation solutions that reduce customer enquiry processing time by 40% lowered costs by 80 per cent
• Building a live service support team to manage the infrastructure and oversee the steps we take for any changes that we make
• Ensuring that the robotic interaction with HMRC’s core system don’t impact robotic functions
• Aiming for more than 10,300 staff to be using automated tasks by 2018, and moving 350 employees out of clerical roles and into customer-facing positions

• Launching the Local Digital Declaration, a joint initiative from GDS and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
• Applying the digital culture, practice and technologies to local government to make public services work better for users
• Enhancing front and back office solutions at a local level to enhance citizens services
• Outlining 5 key principles for redesigning services around the needs of users and promoting good practice
• What will GDS offer to local authorities? From the GDS Academy, to Local Service Standards

• The status of cyber-attacks and how local and central government are protecting sensitive data
• How is GDPR shaping operations within government?
• Ensuring cloud platforms have end-to-end encryption
• Moving from DevOps to DevSecOps to identify risks of data breaches across tech infrastructure
• How do you effectively leverage budget and demand within Government ICT, two concepts seemingly moving in opposite directions?

• The ICT Digital Transformation Programme will support this transition by the Council through the provision of modern digitalised ways of working that are fit for purpose, use best practices, and enable the Council to have ‘one version of the truth’
• Culture change must cascade down – how this works in practice
• Instil a methodology of Continuous Service Improvement (CSI) for all staff
• Skills audit

• Placing collaboration and flexible working at the heart of the business transformation programme
• Introducing simultaneous group review and editing of documents, monthly performance meetings with shared data, video conferencing and instant messaging
• Utilising regional centres as enablers of collaboration, flexible working and optimisation of space
• Making better use of mobile technology to reduce demand on resources and increase efficiency and productivity