National Digital Conference 2021: Chair’s Blog
On 15 June, I again had the honour of chairing the Digital Leaders National Digital Conference. Whilst preparing my opening remarks, I was struck by the sweep of change that digital leaders have discussed at this event over the past decade and a half. Beginning when ‘digital’ was a relatively new and exciting concept, our […]
AWS Executive Education in Digital Transformation for Public Sector
UK Local Government – Executive Education Programme in Digital Transformation for Public Sector Tuesday 8 June 2021, 9am–12pm BST Tuesday 22 June 2021, 9am–12pm BST Tuesday 6 July 2021, 9am–12pm BST Alan Brown is delivering a masterclass. Mark Thompson is delivering a keynote speech, Q&A and masterclasses. We are collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]
Public Policy Exchange – Digital Transformation in Local Government
Thursday 20 May 2021, 9.30 am – 1 pm Tear it all down: Why the UK needs a Localism in the Digital Economy Bill Mark Thompson’s talk is part of Digital Transformation in Local Government: Pursuing Post-Pandemic Strategies and Citizen-Centred Design Public Policy Exchange produces and delivers high-quality conferences and interactive seminars which provide an […]
Doing Digital Differently: Learnings on Data, Collective Action, and Social Value
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of chairing the Digital Leaders Third Public Sector Innovation Conference. It was a really interesting day: there was a palpable realisation by us all that something had changed during the pandemic, and that the need to accelerate digital and data-enabled transformation of public services was more universally accepted than […]
Serving the Public Sector: What Being an Infrastructure Provider Really Means in 2021
I recently keynoted Amazon Web Services’ EME Public Sector sales community awayday, as part of our ongoing partnership with AWS. There were over 600 people on the call from all over EMEA. The talk invited delegates to consider the unprecedented possibilities for delivering social value that are open to major cloud service providers, in helping […]
