Digital Jersey Annual Review
Friday 5 February 2021, 9.30–10.30 am INDEX’s Alan Brown is a guest speaker. Find out what Digital Jersey achieved during a very challenging year for all. How did we pivot and respond during lockdown, supporting the Jersey community and our members? With guests including PwC’s CI Climate Change Specialist Alison Cambray. Find out more on […]
Digital Scotland: Strategies for Government as a Platform
Tuesday 19 January 2021, 2pm Part of the DigitalScot.live webinar series Presenting on ‘Learning from Heart FM – How Radical Digital Thinking Can Preserve Our Public Services‘, INDEX’s Professor Mark Thompson explores what the public sector might learn from commercial sector digital business models notably a ‘Platform’ approach.
Call for proposals via DEAS Network+: Financial Services
The Digitally Enhanced Advanced Services (DEAS) Network+ has released a call inviting proposals for research that addresses the challenges of one of our industry partners from Financial Services (EHAB and HMRC). Proposals are invited up to £20,000 (Full Economic Cost) that address the call criteria. The call is of interest to researchers in Finance and […]
BSI’s Net Zero Week
Thursday 21 January, 9–10 am British Standards Institution’s Net Zero Week runs 18–22 January 2021. Each sector-specific webinar will provide high-quality insights, knowledge and advice on reaching net-zero in your sector by 2050. Our Alan Brown speaks about challenges for successful industrial digital transformation in achieving net-zero. The UK has a world-class reputation for engineering […]
Digital.ai’s Workplace of the Future
9 December 2020 Our Alan Brown helped deliver this webinar alongside Christine Ashton (CIO Cogventive Ltd), Danny Presten (Digital.ai’s Chief Methodologist) and Derek Holt (Digital.ai leadership team). Dropbox, Twitter, and Shopify have confirmed their employees will continue to work from home as long as they want, according to Forbes, while companies like Amazon, Zillow, and […]
AWS Digital Transformation for UK University Leaders
14–18 December 2020, 9am–12pm Virtual event eduweek.splashthat.com This week-long event is designed for UK university leaders to dive deep into how digital transformation can help their institutions better serve students and society overall. It brings together key voices who have been instrumental in their universities’ own transformations and offers practical ideas to take away and […]
E-Governments and Governing in the Digital Age (DIIESL Seminar)
Tuesday 24 November, 2 pm (GMT) Register on Eventbrite Governments and international organizations have increasingly been adopting digital technologies in the provision of public services in the last decades. The opportunities provided by digital innovations have hugely impacted the way the public sector has been transformed. E-government has been increasingly studied as a way to […]
International Internet Day on BBC Radio Devon
“Next to climate change, the internet is the single most defining factor affecting the shaping of modern society, modern business, all modern organisations, modern politics and the future of health”. Last week, our Professor Mark Thompson spoke to Caroline Cook for BBC Radio Devon. Their conversation centres around International Internet Day, wherein Mark succinctly covers […]
Festival of the Future – Free three day virtual event for Dorset
13–15 October 2020 Our Professor Mark Thompson leads a session on ‘Learning from Heart FM: How radical digital thinking can preserve our public services’ on 15 October, 11:00–11:45am. This brand-new virtual event combines fun and learning and helps us share the great things that are happening in Dorset. Think Bestival or Glastonbury, but with more […]
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 2025 ‘unconference’
On 27 August Prof Mark Thompson delivered the opening keynote to around 450 people at Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)’s first ‘unconference’: MHCLG 2025: agile, innovative, connected. In an innovative move, MHCLG’s unconference sought to bring together fresh, even provocative perspectives on local government reform from across the Department in an informal, collaborative event. Mark’s […]
