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Darshni Vaghjiani

Content and Conference Producer at The Government Transformation Magazine

Exciting things coming. An afternoon at No. 10 Data Science discussing our Agentic AI Workshop - more to share soon. Also met the chief mouser. Priorities firmly in order. Eoin Mulgrew Ayesha Peacock
Exciting things coming. An afternoon at No. 10 Data Science discussing our Agentic AI Workshop - more to share soon. Also met the chief mouser. Priorities firmly in order. Eoin Mulgrew Ayesha Peacock

Tommaso Spinelli

Cloud & Platforms Service Owner (UK Government)

Great to discuss Operational Delivery with cross-government leaders and industry peers yesterday at the Government Transformation event co-hosted by AWS and Snowflake. From high-profile AI projects to One log-in and traditional digital services, the transition from piloting to scaling remains a critical phase. It’s where key challenges around accountability, trust, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience often come to the surface. It was insightful to share lessons learned with colleagues across such diverse departments, including James Mitton, Kirstine Dale, Sumitra Varma, Jeremy Gould, Julia Howes, Matthew Lyon and Dimitris Perdikou. Massive thank you to Ayesha Peacock and Darshni Vaghjiani for organising another excellent session... and securing the best terrace in Westminster!
Great to discuss Operational Delivery with cross-government leaders and industry peers yesterday at the Government Transformation event co-hosted by AWS and Snowflake. From high-profile AI projects to One log-in and traditional digital services, the transition from piloting to scaling remains a critical phase. It’s where key challenges around accountability, trust, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience often come to the surface. It was insightful to share lessons learned with colleagues across such diverse departments, including James Mitton, Kirstine Dale, Sumitra Varma, Jeremy Gould, Julia Howes, Matthew Lyon and Dimitris Perdikou. Massive thank you to Ayesha Peacock and Darshni Vaghjiani for organising another excellent session... and securing the best terrace in Westminster!

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On Thursday, we were proud to sponsor Government Transformation Magazine’s Leaders’ Meet-Up in Westminster. It was an evening of honest, practical conversation about what it really takes to deliver meaningful change across government. A few themes stood out: • Embedding top technical talent accelerates delivery • Lasting impact depends on strong in-house capability, not heavy reliance on contractors • Moving AI from pilots to real outcomes requires better data foundations, clearer scaling pathways, and stronger cross-government collaboration • Many of the biggest barriers are structural and cultural, not technical It was refreshing to hear leaders focus less on hype and more on how to make transformation stick. Thanks to everyone who joined the discussion. These are exactly the conversations that move delivery forward. Amul Batra Stephen Dujakovic Betty Burrell Greig Dowling Ayesha P. James #GovernmentTransformation #PublicSector #DigitalDelivery #AI #Counter
On Thursday, we were proud to sponsor Government Transformation Magazine’s Leaders’ Meet-Up in Westminster. It was an evening of honest, practical conversation about what it really takes to deliver meaningful change across government. A few themes stood out: • Embedding top technical talent accelerates delivery • Lasting impact depends on strong in-house capability, not heavy reliance on contractors • Moving AI from pilots to real outcomes requires better data foundations, clearer scaling pathways, and stronger cross-government collaboration • Many of the biggest barriers are structural and cultural, not technical It was refreshing to hear leaders focus less on hype and more on how to make transformation stick. Thanks to everyone who joined the discussion. These are exactly the conversations that move delivery forward. Amul Batra Stephen Dujakovic Betty Burrell Greig Dowling Ayesha P. James #GovernmentTransformation #PublicSector #DigitalDelivery #AI #Counter

Timothy Spiers

Transformational CIO / Leading Digital Data & AI | Digital Transformation Specialist | Local-Central Gov Digital Change Leader / LGR SME Merging & Separating Services / Commercially Orientated / People Leader / Samaritan

Productive and enjoyable evening at the Government Leaders Meet Up exploring digital skills, operationalising AI and building inter departmental capacity. It was insightful to catch up with people I know, including Sarah Williams Eddie Copeland Greig Dowling and to meet new people such as Amul Batra and Stephen Dujakovic. Eoin Mulgrew invited departments to pitch collaboration opportunities and Counter was insightful in supporting and contributing to the discussion. I am keen to connect with teams working on cross department pilots or capability programmes and happy to share lessons from recent work and explore how we might collaborate. #DigitalSkills #AI #PublicSector #GovTech #Collaboration Eoin Mulgrew , Counter , Eddie Copeland Greig Dowling Amul Batra Stephen Dujakovic Government Transformation Magazine
Productive and enjoyable evening at the Government Leaders Meet Up exploring digital skills, operationalising AI and building inter departmental capacity. It was insightful to catch up with people I know, including Sarah Williams Eddie Copeland Greig Dowling and to meet new people such as Amul Batra and Stephen Dujakovic. Eoin Mulgrew invited departments to pitch collaboration opportunities and Counter was insightful in supporting and contributing to the discussion. I am keen to connect with teams working on cross department pilots or capability programmes and happy to share lessons from recent work and explore how we might collaborate. #DigitalSkills #AI #PublicSector #GovTech #Collaboration Eoin Mulgrew , Counter , Eddie Copeland Greig Dowling Amul Batra Stephen Dujakovic Government Transformation Magazine

Dimitris Perdikou

ex Government Chief Engineer

Great event run tonight by . My big takeaway was that AI is actively being used by lots of different organisations now, it's not just a prototype or idea anymore.
Great event run tonight by . My big takeaway was that AI is actively being used by lots of different organisations now, it's not just a prototype or idea anymore.

Emma Hewage
Congrats to all of you!!

Duncan Marsh
Excellent work James and Ed! 🍻

Alan Howie
Congrats all - you are all amazing !

Tommaso Spinelli

Senior AI Change Manager for the UK Government | AI Research Fellow (MMU)

Had a great day at #GovernmentTransformationNorth, co‑facilitating round tables on agentic AI and data with Nayyab Naqvi, PhD MBCS, William Dorrington 🤘 and John Foote (Kerv). Big thanks to Chris Bellamy for sharing sharp insights on building public trust in digital services, and to Andrew Western, Minister for Transformation (DWP), for his perspective on driving change across government. Great to hear Martha Bennett (Forrester)'s inspirational talk on AI and Amara's law. Lots of energy in the room and plenty of ideas to take forward! Thanks for another wonderful event!
Had a great day at #GovernmentTransformationNorth, co‑facilitating round tables on agentic AI and data with Nayyab Naqvi, PhD MBCS, William Dorrington 🤘 and John Foote (Kerv). Big thanks to Chris Bellamy for sharing sharp insights on building public trust in digital services, and to Andrew Western, Minister for Transformation (DWP), for his perspective on driving change across government. Great to hear Martha Bennett (Forrester)'s inspirational talk on AI and Amara's law. Lots of energy in the room and plenty of ideas to take forward! Thanks for another wonderful event!

Martins Olajide

Data & Analytics · Transforming raw data into actionable insight that drives change.

I had the chance to attend the Government Transformation North Summit last Thursday in Manchester, and a few messages really stood out to me as a Data & Analytics professional in the NHS: 1️⃣ Data must be trusted and connected Strong governance, cleaner datasets and fewer siloes are essential for faster, safer decisions in healthcare. 2️⃣ Interoperability is non-negotiable Joined-up systems are the backbone of integrated, patient-centred care. 3️⃣ AI works best when it’s transparent and human-centred Responsible, explainable AI has huge potential but only with the right safeguards and clinical engagement. 4️⃣ Transformation only works when teams collaborate Analysts, clinicians and operational leaders need to shape change together. A great reminder of the direction we need to keep pushing in the NHS: better data, better systems, better outcomes. 🙏 Big thanks to the organisers,Government Transformation Magazine, and to all the speakers, Janet Hughes, James Mitton, Shaukat Ali Khan FBCS, Christine Bellamy, Richard Puttick, John Kelly, Sumitra Varma, Lee Dunn, Ade Bamigboye, Liam Walsh, David Swainston, Simon Short, Joanne Bradshaw, Chris Chambers, Colin Banno-Thornton, Simon Price, Ph.D., Lucia Webster, Kate Caulkin, Ruqaiya Isa ChPP MAPM, Malcolm Casimir, Phillipa Nazari, Frederica Nisha de Silva, Sara Bowley, David Dunbar, Situl Gajjar, Nayyab Naqvi, PhD MBCS, Neil Hall, Verity Hislop, Jane Brine, Dan Tippell MBCS CITP, Molly Adamat, Dean Paulley, Tommaso Spinelli, William Dorrington John Foote, Nigel Bennett, David Mitton, Pete Haddock and participants who made the discussions so insightful including and all those who joined the roundtable sessions.
I had the chance to attend the Government Transformation North Summit last Thursday in Manchester, and a few messages really stood out to me as a Data & Analytics professional in the NHS: 1️⃣ Data must be trusted and connected Strong governance, cleaner datasets and fewer siloes are essential for faster, safer decisions in healthcare. 2️⃣ Interoperability is non-negotiable Joined-up systems are the backbone of integrated, patient-centred care. 3️⃣ AI works best when it’s transparent and human-centred Responsible, explainable AI has huge potential but only with the right safeguards and clinical engagement. 4️⃣ Transformation only works when teams collaborate Analysts, clinicians and operational leaders need to shape change together. A great reminder of the direction we need to keep pushing in the NHS: better data, better systems, better outcomes. 🙏 Big thanks to the organisers,Government Transformation Magazine, and to all the speakers, Janet Hughes, James Mitton, Shaukat Ali Khan FBCS, Christine Bellamy, Richard Puttick, John Kelly, Sumitra Varma, Lee Dunn, Ade Bamigboye, Liam Walsh, David Swainston, Simon Short, Joanne Bradshaw, Chris Chambers, Colin Banno-Thornton, Simon Price, Ph.D., Lucia Webster, Kate Caulkin, Ruqaiya Isa ChPP MAPM, Malcolm Casimir, Phillipa Nazari, Frederica Nisha de Silva, Sara Bowley, David Dunbar, Situl Gajjar, Nayyab Naqvi, PhD MBCS, Neil Hall, Verity Hislop, Jane Brine, Dan Tippell MBCS CITP, Molly Adamat, Dean Paulley, Tommaso Spinelli, William Dorrington John Foote, Nigel Bennett, David Mitton, Pete Haddock and participants who made the discussions so insightful including and all those who joined the roundtable sessions.

Tiffany St James

CAIO, Leading AI & cultural transformation for social impact | Keynote Speaker | Positive Leadership Psychologist | Voted Top 25 women who shaped the British digital industry in the last 25 years | Global AI Council

Epic few days at Government Transformation North. On the panel at the Leaders Dinner and closing panel at the main event sharing our approach in Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to AI and Data strategy, Responsible AI and how I’m approaching strategic priorities as CAIO. Soooo good to give Janet Hughes a squeeze hello and hear her candid enthusiasm and meet new govt leaders delivering great transformation too. Trust came out as a key theme, great round table discussions on AI Case Studies and Responsible AI. I even managed to squeeze in a quick remote presentation to our LCR Innovation Board. Huge thanks to Government Transformation Magazine. More deliberation in my Weeknotes later this week. #AILeadership #ResponsibleAI #AIingovernment
Epic few days at Government Transformation North. On the panel at the Leaders Dinner and closing panel at the main event sharing our approach in Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to AI and Data strategy, Responsible AI and how I’m approaching strategic priorities as CAIO. Soooo good to give Janet Hughes a squeeze hello and hear her candid enthusiasm and meet new govt leaders delivering great transformation too. Trust came out as a key theme, great round table discussions on AI Case Studies and Responsible AI. I even managed to squeeze in a quick remote presentation to our LCR Innovation Board. Huge thanks to Government Transformation Magazine. More deliberation in my Weeknotes later this week. #AILeadership #ResponsibleAI #AIingovernment

Harneet Singh

Sr. Specialist Sales Lead | Data & AI Strategy | Analytics | UK Public Sector

Happy Monday . Last week, I had the opportunity to represent Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the Government Transformation North Summit in Manchester. What a great day !! I co-hosted the Cross Government Data Insights roundtable sessions with Chris Chambers from Government Digital Service, Simon Price, Ph.D. from HM Revenue & Customs, Pritesh Patel at Databricks alongside leaders from Government organisations. A brilliant discussion on how government can accelerate data and AI–driven transformations around Cross Government Insights . Here are the Top 10 Highlight topics of the day: 1️⃣ AI for Data Quality – automating detection of gaps and inconsistencies to build trusted data foundations. 2️⃣ Shared Insight Priorities – aligning on the cross-government metrics that matter most for impact. 3️⃣ National Data Library – a key enabler for consistent, safe, and scalable data sharing. 4️⃣ Amara’s Law – balancing short-term realism with long-term optimism about AI’s potential. 5️⃣ Clear Success Criteria – defining “good enough” early to accelerate delivery and evaluation. 6️⃣ AI Asset Visibility – knowing which models, datasets, and tools exist to reduce duplication. 7️⃣ Operationalising AI – strengthening pipelines, monitoring, and using synthetic data for safe testing. 8️⃣ Incentivising Data Sharing – building cultural and structural motivations to move from silos to collaboration. 9️⃣ Service Definition First – anchoring AI to clear user needs and service outcomes for citizens. 🔟 Improve Internal Data Flows – unlocking early value by fixing interoperability inside departments first. Start with internal Data sharing. A great reminder that transforming citizen services requires collaboration, shared ambition, and strong data foundations. Thanks to some of the great minds we met on the day . Matthew Bottomley Edward Kelly Simon McLellan Katie Goldsmith Lee Spratt Shaukat Ali Khan FBCS Paul Mooney Martha Bennett , and our wonderful AWS colleagues for preparations Joe Reay Deepak Shukla Jon Cook Faye Holt Amazing support from Greig Dowling Tabby Bilborough for being such wonderful hosts and Pritesh Patel for sharing great ideas throughout the day. Upwards and Onwards! 🚀 #aws #generativeai #analytics #databricks #datasharing #insights #publicsector
Happy Monday . Last week, I had the opportunity to represent Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the Government Transformation North Summit in Manchester. What a great day !! I co-hosted the Cross Government Data Insights roundtable sessions with Chris Chambers from Government Digital Service, Simon Price, Ph.D. from HM Revenue & Customs, Pritesh Patel at Databricks alongside leaders from Government organisations. A brilliant discussion on how government can accelerate data and AI–driven transformations around Cross Government Insights . Here are the Top 10 Highlight topics of the day: 1️⃣ AI for Data Quality – automating detection of gaps and inconsistencies to build trusted data foundations. 2️⃣ Shared Insight Priorities – aligning on the cross-government metrics that matter most for impact. 3️⃣ National Data Library – a key enabler for consistent, safe, and scalable data sharing. 4️⃣ Amara’s Law – balancing short-term realism with long-term optimism about AI’s potential. 5️⃣ Clear Success Criteria – defining “good enough” early to accelerate delivery and evaluation. 6️⃣ AI Asset Visibility – knowing which models, datasets, and tools exist to reduce duplication. 7️⃣ Operationalising AI – strengthening pipelines, monitoring, and using synthetic data for safe testing. 8️⃣ Incentivising Data Sharing – building cultural and structural motivations to move from silos to collaboration. 9️⃣ Service Definition First – anchoring AI to clear user needs and service outcomes for citizens. 🔟 Improve Internal Data Flows – unlocking early value by fixing interoperability inside departments first. Start with internal Data sharing. A great reminder that transforming citizen services requires collaboration, shared ambition, and strong data foundations. Thanks to some of the great minds we met on the day . Matthew Bottomley Edward Kelly Simon McLellan Katie Goldsmith Lee Spratt Shaukat Ali Khan FBCS Paul Mooney Martha Bennett , and our wonderful AWS colleagues for preparations Joe Reay Deepak Shukla Jon Cook Faye Holt Amazing support from Greig Dowling Tabby Bilborough for being such wonderful hosts and Pritesh Patel for sharing great ideas throughout the day. Upwards and Onwards! 🚀 #aws #generativeai #analytics #databricks #datasharing #insights #publicsector

Kerv Digital for Digital Transformation

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Yesterday, our Chief Technology Officer, William Dorrington 🤘 and our Head of Sales for Central Government, John Foote, joined over 200 senior public sector leaders in Manchester for Government Transformation North. From digital innovation and data‑driven decision making to the role of AI in government, the conversations were all about one thing: creating positive change for citizens. We facilitated a set of round table discussions on Agentic AI adoption in the Public Sector, bringing together participants from across Government to examine trust and confidence, responsible AI frameworks, responsible architectural practices, barriers to adoption, and the role of improved data practice, including data access and sharing, in enabling meaningful use cases. For Kerv, it was inspiring to connect with peers to share ideas, and see how innovative collaboration, technology, and data are powering the next chapter of public service delivery. 👏 A huge thank you to the organisers and everyone we met for the engaging discussions - with a special thanks to our co-hosts Tommaso Spinelli and Nayyab Naqvi for helping make the sessions such a success. We’re excited to keep building on this momentum and supporting the public sector in its transformation journey. Government Transformation Magazine Katherine Mullard Sabina Kuzmiakova Gareth Dowsett #GovernmentTransformation #PublicSectorInnovation #AgenticAI #TechForGood #AIEnablement
Yesterday, our Chief Technology Officer, William Dorrington 🤘 and our Head of Sales for Central Government, John Foote, joined over 200 senior public sector leaders in Manchester for Government Transformation North. From digital innovation and data‑driven decision making to the role of AI in government, the conversations were all about one thing: creating positive change for citizens. We facilitated a set of round table discussions on Agentic AI adoption in the Public Sector, bringing together participants from across Government to examine trust and confidence, responsible AI frameworks, responsible architectural practices, barriers to adoption, and the role of improved data practice, including data access and sharing, in enabling meaningful use cases. For Kerv, it was inspiring to connect with peers to share ideas, and see how innovative collaboration, technology, and data are powering the next chapter of public service delivery. 👏 A huge thank you to the organisers and everyone we met for the engaging discussions - with a special thanks to our co-hosts Tommaso Spinelli and Nayyab Naqvi for helping make the sessions such a success. We’re excited to keep building on this momentum and supporting the public sector in its transformation journey. Government Transformation Magazine Katherine Mullard Sabina Kuzmiakova Gareth Dowsett #GovernmentTransformation #PublicSectorInnovation #AgenticAI #TechForGood #AIEnablement

Pritesh Patel

Public Sector Leader at Databricks

Leaving my ol' uni stomping ground in Manchester buzzing 🐝 A great couple of days at Government Transformation North discussing the focus on digital and data-driven transformation against the backdrop of the budget. Surprisingly, the B word did not dominate conversations, but it certainly brought into focus the acute need to deliver transformation of services delivered by digital, data and AI. It was a privilege to moderate an enlightening panel at the Leaders dinner with Tiffany St James, Rob Malcomson MBE Today, co-hosting Cross Government Data Insights with Chris Chambers, Simon Price, Ph.D., Harneet Singh, Matthew Bottomley, we were able to bring together views across a number of departments of the interventions needed to realise the compelling opportunities that lay before us to deliver the mission and transform citizen services. It's going to take a concerted effort across the ecosystem to deliver this... let's do it! Finally some great keynotes throughout the day... forgive me for calling out John Kelly & Chris Chambers for detailing what it requires to deliver digital and DATA programmes at scale. Government Transformation Magazine, Neil McIvor, David Mitton, Ignaz Chisuta Fischer, Edward Kelly, Kevin Gray,
Leaving my ol' uni stomping ground in Manchester buzzing 🐝 A great couple of days at Government Transformation North discussing the focus on digital and data-driven transformation against the backdrop of the budget. Surprisingly, the B word did not dominate conversations, but it certainly brought into focus the acute need to deliver transformation of services delivered by digital, data and AI. It was a privilege to moderate an enlightening panel at the Leaders dinner with Tiffany St James, Rob Malcomson MBE Today, co-hosting Cross Government Data Insights with Chris Chambers, Simon Price, Ph.D., Harneet Singh, Matthew Bottomley, we were able to bring together views across a number of departments of the interventions needed to realise the compelling opportunities that lay before us to deliver the mission and transform citizen services. It's going to take a concerted effort across the ecosystem to deliver this... let's do it! Finally some great keynotes throughout the day... forgive me for calling out John Kelly & Chris Chambers for detailing what it requires to deliver digital and DATA programmes at scale. Government Transformation Magazine, Neil McIvor, David Mitton, Ignaz Chisuta Fischer, Edward Kelly, Kevin Gray,

Dia Nag

Director of Digital, UK Public Sector, BetterGov I Product, Digital & Technology Leader I Sr Advisor, CO Women In Digital Network I Net Zero502024 I Women's Network Of Year2024 I Govt Transformation100 2024 I UNCSW69

A great afternoon spent at the Government Transformation Magazine autumn event at the UK House of Lords. Alongside the intertesting conversations, with Emily M. speaking about spending review and the acceleration of AI and an insightful, honest and refreshing panel with Daljit Rehal FBCS MInstP MIET and Helen Wylie, it was good to catch up with old friends/acquaintances and make some new connections. Thank you James Smith for the invite, it was great meeting you again and Greig Dowling - great event! Karina Singh Adam Brocklesby James Stirling Edward Pikett Fiona McAdoo Dan Cook Daljit Rehal FBCS MInstP MIET Helen Wylie ⭐️ Sharon Moore MBE Sam Parker Ed Irving James Smith Greig Dowling Guthrie Holliday BetterGov Government Transformation Magazine Government Digital Service HM Revenue & Customs DWP Digital
A great afternoon spent at the Government Transformation Magazine autumn event at the UK House of Lords. Alongside the intertesting conversations, with Emily M. speaking about spending review and the acceleration of AI and an insightful, honest and refreshing panel with Daljit Rehal FBCS MInstP MIET and Helen Wylie, it was good to catch up with old friends/acquaintances and make some new connections. Thank you James Smith for the invite, it was great meeting you again and Greig Dowling - great event! Karina Singh Adam Brocklesby James Stirling Edward Pikett Fiona McAdoo Dan Cook Daljit Rehal FBCS MInstP MIET Helen Wylie ⭐️ Sharon Moore MBE Sam Parker Ed Irving James Smith Greig Dowling Guthrie Holliday BetterGov Government Transformation Magazine Government Digital Service HM Revenue & Customs DWP Digital

Simon Short
Great to meet everyone today and discuss all things AI and data. Thanks to both Mercator Digital and Chris Darriet-Jones for co hosting at the table and to all those at Government Transformation Magazine for organising the event.
Great to meet everyone today and discuss all things AI and data. Thanks to both Mercator Digital and Chris Darriet-Jones for co hosting at the table and to all those at Government Transformation Magazine for organising the event.

Nayyab Naqvi, PhD MBCS
Wrapping up Government Transformation Magazine Summit on Data and AI with insightful topics on AI adoption in the UK Public Sector. An opportunity to hear our leaders at the leaders night. During the day, an interesting keynote delivered by Simon King (FBCS) bringing our AI opportunities action plan to life with his vision. I am honored for the opportunity to share my thoughts as a panel member on the practical questions around AI enablement and Scale in the Public Sector. Key highlights being: be pragmatic, take risk-aware and assured AI delivery approach where don't repeat yourself, but do it once, scale incremently and iteratively. Lean on our strategic commercial partners. Later, I hosted three roundtables on the topic of "Trustworthy AI" with very kind Diane Barlow sponsored by IBM, Mark Goossens and Giles Hartwright. Trustworthy AI is a difficult topic to navigate around when a few delegates being too strict around their expectations from the AI, where it shall be accurate 100% from the first pass or there shall be a silver bullet solving each and every bias, fairness and ethical challenge right away. I had a realisation that I might be living in a utopian world where my belief and learnings point me towards a way of carefully instrument trust while building an AI empowered application in a modular way and evlauate it for trustworthiness at every layer. But then having more delegates sharing their success stories where teams are taking pragmatic steps in building trust in the AI applications reassured me that it will indeed take time to get it right, we are on the right path. We discussed how do we precieve trust in domain-specific AI apps versus how it is perceived in the generic AI applications. We are carefully building trust in downstream specialised AI use cases by employing streamlined responsible Model for Innovation activities. The delegates shared many great insights around the process they are using that naturally mapped to the Responsible Model for innovation with the trustworthiness at its core given as: 1) Understand the use case requirements, 2) bring in the business domain expert early in the application development lifecycle, 3) Start with the user centered design right from the beginning 4) build transparency and explainability in your solutions 5) evaluate iteratively and incrementally to incrementally build trust 6) know what your AI application offers and what the limitations are 7) Educate and train your users 8) user behaviour and interaction is also important with a feedback loop addressing concerns from the end user. Gladly, networked with my peers in the public sector who are sharing the same energy driving AI adoption in the public sector Amanda S. Svensson, Duncan Brown, Diane Barlow, Tina Churcher, Shehroze Junejo. Catching up with Sumitra Varma is always a bonus. Thank you David Wilde FIoD, FBCS, Assoc CIPD, James Smith, Ed Tillotson.
Wrapping up Government Transformation Magazine Summit on Data and AI with insightful topics on AI adoption in the UK Public Sector. An opportunity to hear our leaders at the leaders night. During the day, an interesting keynote delivered by Simon King (FBCS) bringing our AI opportunities action plan to life with his vision. I am honored for the opportunity to share my thoughts as a panel member on the practical questions around AI enablement and Scale in the Public Sector. Key highlights being: be pragmatic, take risk-aware and assured AI delivery approach where don't repeat yourself, but do it once, scale incremently and iteratively. Lean on our strategic commercial partners. Later, I hosted three roundtables on the topic of "Trustworthy AI" with very kind Diane Barlow sponsored by IBM, Mark Goossens and Giles Hartwright. Trustworthy AI is a difficult topic to navigate around when a few delegates being too strict around their expectations from the AI, where it shall be accurate 100% from the first pass or there shall be a silver bullet solving each and every bias, fairness and ethical challenge right away. I had a realisation that I might be living in a utopian world where my belief and learnings point me towards a way of carefully instrument trust while building an AI empowered application in a modular way and evlauate it for trustworthiness at every layer. But then having more delegates sharing their success stories where teams are taking pragmatic steps in building trust in the AI applications reassured me that it will indeed take time to get it right, we are on the right path. We discussed how do we precieve trust in domain-specific AI apps versus how it is perceived in the generic AI applications. We are carefully building trust in downstream specialised AI use cases by employing streamlined responsible Model for Innovation activities. The delegates shared many great insights around the process they are using that naturally mapped to the Responsible Model for innovation with the trustworthiness at its core given as: 1) Understand the use case requirements, 2) bring in the business domain expert early in the application development lifecycle, 3) Start with the user centered design right from the beginning 4) build transparency and explainability in your solutions 5) evaluate iteratively and incrementally to incrementally build trust 6) know what your AI application offers and what the limitations are 7) Educate and train your users 8) user behaviour and interaction is also important with a feedback loop addressing concerns from the end user. Gladly, networked with my peers in the public sector who are sharing the same energy driving AI adoption in the public sector Amanda S. Svensson, Duncan Brown, Diane Barlow, Tina Churcher, Shehroze Junejo. Catching up with Sumitra Varma is always a bonus. Thank you David Wilde FIoD, FBCS, Assoc CIPD, James Smith, Ed Tillotson.

Tommaso Spinelli
🌟 I'm thrilled to share that I’ve been named in this year’s Government Transformation Top 100 in the Transformation category! 🌟 I’m grateful to the Government Transformation Magazine for this recognition. It’s a privilege to be acknowledged alongside many inspiring colleagues who are driving meaningful change across government and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in public service. This award acknowledges the important work we’re doing at hashtag #CDDO to advance AI adoption, drive innovation, and make government services more effective, efficient, and future-ready. hashtag #GovernmentTransformation hashtag #PublicSectorInnovation hashtag #Transformation hashtag #GovTransSummit hashtag #CDDO
🌟 I'm thrilled to share that I’ve been named in this year’s Government Transformation Top 100 in the Transformation category! 🌟 I’m grateful to the Government Transformation Magazine for this recognition. It’s a privilege to be acknowledged alongside many inspiring colleagues who are driving meaningful change across government and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in public service. This award acknowledges the important work we’re doing at hashtag #CDDO to advance AI adoption, drive innovation, and make government services more effective, efficient, and future-ready. hashtag #GovernmentTransformation hashtag #PublicSectorInnovation hashtag #Transformation hashtag #GovTransSummit hashtag #CDDO

Dalia Gala, PhD
The Government Transformation Magazine Expo and the Data + AI Summit were such a dream. I was beyond delighted to learn that our Revenue Scotland and Office for National Statistics team won the recent Snowflake Public Sector Hackathon! ❄️ Thank you to Charles Baird and Fiona James, here in the photo with me, who I think are visionaries when it comes to government data sharing by enabling and supporting the organisation of events like this hackathon. I'm so proud of everyone in our Sugar Plumb Data Fairies team: Dana Seman Bobulska, Mary Cleaton, Shaurya Bhagat, Lucy Astley-Jones - we were the ultimate team.Thank you immensely to Andrew Newland MBA, Rebecca O'Connor, Timothy Parish, Simon Tobias, Janet Broome, Irfan Rasul, Flora Chu, Tony Hoad and everyone else at Snowflake who supported our team and myself both at the hackathon but also yesterday and today at the Expo - you guys are the GOAT. Last but not least, thank you Ayesha Peacock for giving me the opportunity to be a speaker at the Citizens Theatre and being so kind and helpful. You made my participation in the Expo and therefore my unexpected in person meeting with Duncan Hart possible! This Expo filled me with lots of hope for Data and Digital in the Civil Service. Networking with so many wonderful people, deepening those existing connections but also making new ones further strengthened my conviction that there are numerous do-gooders in our sector and we can achieve great results together to serve the citizens - ourselves - as well as we can!
The Government Transformation Magazine Expo and the Data + AI Summit were such a dream. I was beyond delighted to learn that our Revenue Scotland and Office for National Statistics team won the recent Snowflake Public Sector Hackathon! ❄️ Thank you to Charles Baird and Fiona James, here in the photo with me, who I think are visionaries when it comes to government data sharing by enabling and supporting the organisation of events like this hackathon. I'm so proud of everyone in our Sugar Plumb Data Fairies team: Dana Seman Bobulska, Mary Cleaton, Shaurya Bhagat, Lucy Astley-Jones - we were the ultimate team.Thank you immensely to Andrew Newland MBA, Rebecca O'Connor, Timothy Parish, Simon Tobias, Janet Broome, Irfan Rasul, Flora Chu, Tony Hoad and everyone else at Snowflake who supported our team and myself both at the hackathon but also yesterday and today at the Expo - you guys are the GOAT. Last but not least, thank you Ayesha Peacock for giving me the opportunity to be a speaker at the Citizens Theatre and being so kind and helpful. You made my participation in the Expo and therefore my unexpected in person meeting with Duncan Hart possible! This Expo filled me with lots of hope for Data and Digital in the Civil Service. Networking with so many wonderful people, deepening those existing connections but also making new ones further strengthened my conviction that there are numerous do-gooders in our sector and we can achieve great results together to serve the citizens - ourselves - as well as we can!

Celio Oliveira
Conferences have truly become the places where I get to reconnect with friends and engage with world leaders shaping the Data and AI transformation landscape. This morning, I had the privilege of meeting the Under Secretary of State for Transformation at the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Andrew Western, the wonderful Dr. Julia Borggräfe from Metaplan Germany, my friend Richard Patterson from the U.S. Department of State, Marten Kaevats from IEEE, and Ryan Hum from Service Canada. I had the honour to also speak to that crowd with Jason Bett, a few other colleagues from the Government of Canada, and many other countries driving change across the globe. A big thank you to the incredible team - James Smith, David Wilde FIoD, FBCS, Assoc CIPD, Ed Tillotson, Sarah Jeffery, Karolina Przeklas, Rafael, Ella, and staff - for bringing us all together at the beautiful InterContinental London The O2. Here’s to more inspiring conversations and connections! hashtag #AI hashtag #DataTransformation hashtag #Networking hashtag #Leadership hashtag #Innovation
Conferences have truly become the places where I get to reconnect with friends and engage with world leaders shaping the Data and AI transformation landscape. This morning, I had the privilege of meeting the Under Secretary of State for Transformation at the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Andrew Western, the wonderful Dr. Julia Borggräfe from Metaplan Germany, my friend Richard Patterson from the U.S. Department of State, Marten Kaevats from IEEE, and Ryan Hum from Service Canada. I had the honour to also speak to that crowd with Jason Bett, a few other colleagues from the Government of Canada, and many other countries driving change across the globe. A big thank you to the incredible team - James Smith, David Wilde FIoD, FBCS, Assoc CIPD, Ed Tillotson, Sarah Jeffery, Karolina Przeklas, Rafael, Ella, and staff - for bringing us all together at the beautiful InterContinental London The O2. Here’s to more inspiring conversations and connections! hashtag #AI hashtag #DataTransformation hashtag #Networking hashtag #Leadership hashtag #Innovation