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09:25 Chair’s Opening Address

Bryan Glick, Editor, Computer Weekly (CONFIRMED)

 

 

09:35 Opening Keynote Address: Creating Flexible, Open ICT Programmes

  • The role of strong leadership in driving ICT projects
  • Development of CloudStore - simplifying ICT procurement
  • Opening up CloudStore to new SME suppliers
  • Improving shared ICT services
  • Delivering transparency - increasing access to data
  • Big data and information management
  • The impact of Public Service Networks and cloud on the role of CIOs
  • Maximising open source software to reduce duplication and cost
  • Delivering better public services for less - £3.2billion in savings from the IT budget
  • Development of the CloudStore - improving procurement, saving £180 million by 2015
  • Open data - development of the Data Strategy Board
  • The opportunities for entrepreneurs to utilise public data - maximising revenue from Big Data
  • The challenges and benefits in moving to open source software
  • Utilising government buying power to drive down costs
  • The role of the Major Projects Authority in driving ICT projects
  • The potential for cloud to enable job creation

Andy Nelson, Government Chief Information Officer (CONFIRMED)

 

 

09:50 Question and Answers with Keynote Speaker

 

 

10:00 Plenary Address Delivered by BT

 

 

10:15 Public Service Networks for Leaner Government

  • Ensuring a resilient underlying network structure to run efficient public services
  • Interconnecting PSN service providers - reducing duplication
  • The role of Local Authorities and other service providers in PSN
  • Managing relationships between organisations in PSN
  • Information security in PSN - ensuring the network is GSi and GSx compliant

Craig Eblett, Programme Director, Public Service Networks, Cabinet Office (provisionally CONFIRMED)

 

 

10:30 CloudStore – Transforming ICT Procurement

  • Changing the way the public sector buys ICT
  • Development of CloudStore – creating a customer friendly experience
  • Supporting SMEs through CloudStore
  • Making financial savings across government through better buying and adoption of cloud services
  • Promoting open source and shared services across departments

Denise McDonagh, Director of IT, Home Office and Director, G-Cloud, HM Government (invited)

 

10:45 Case Study: Leading ICT Innovation in Local Government

  • Delivering Public Service Networks in local government
  • Driving consolidation, rationalisation and standardisation in ICT services
  • Moving operations to the Cloud - securing financial and environmental cost reductions
  • Sharing data centres to reduce duplication and costs - managing Big Data
  • Maximising interoperability - sharing ICT between services and agencies

Kay Brown, Head of IT, South Lanarkshire Council (invited)

 

 

11:00 Case Study: Programme Athena - Delivering Shared ICT Services in London

  • The vision behind Programme Athena – creating a single ICT platform for public sector organisations in London
  • Progress made and challenges in rolling out the programme
  • The potential for financial and efficiency savings in shared services
  • Improving data collection and management through the programme

Nadira Hussain, Programme Manager Athena, Capital Ambition, London Councils and Vice President, Socitm (CONFIRMED)

 

 

11:15 Digital by Default - Implementation of the Universal Credit

  • Development of online services - widening access to information and services
  • The impact of G-Cloud on digitalisation of services
  • Working within an agile development model 
  • Improving the online customer experience
  • Security in delivering the system - development of the Identity Assurance Programme
  • Real Time Information and the deployment of Universal Credit - partnerships between HMRC and DWP to develop the programme
  • Reducing barriers to digital inclusion

Steve Dover, Corporate Director, Universal Credit Programme Business & IT Solutions, Department for Work and Pensions (CONFIRMED)

 

 

11:30 Closing Morning Keynote: Development of the Greening Government ICT Strategy

  • The role of ICT in helping the public sector develop green solutions
  • Ensuring government ICT projects are environmentally friendly
  • Ensuring ICT procurement is sustainable and efficient
  • Building sustainability into service design, transition, operation and improvement
  • The role of the government apps store and G-Cloud in reducing duplication and making carbon savings
  • Reducing the environmental impact of ICT infrastructure

Jennifer Rigby, CIO, Department for Energy and Climate Change and Chair, HMG Green ICT Delivery Unit (CONFIRMED)

 

11:45 Questions and Answers Session

 

12:00 Chair’s Closing Remarks

 

12:05 Coffee and Networking

 

12:35 Seminar Session 1

 

13:35 Lunch and Networking

 

14:35 Seminar Session 2

 

15:35 Coffee and Networking

 

16:00 Afternoon Streams

 

Stream 1 – Adoption of Cloud Computing in the Public Sector

  • Ensuring the resilience of cloud services
  • Progress in moving towards the cloud - reducing the size of the public sector ICT estate
  • Developing secure, multi-tenant infrastructure spaces
  • Security in the cloud - reducing the number of entry points 
  • Simplifying End User Device management to reduce ICT costs
  • G-Cloud services - developing secure spaces for public services
  • Changing ICT solutions through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
  • CloudStore - accessing cloud services on a ‘pay as you go’ basis

Chair - Gary Flood, Editor, Public Technology.net (CONFIRMED)

Speakers:

Senior representative, Intellect (CONFIRMED)

Case Study - David Wilde, Chief Information Officer, Essex County Council (CONFIRMED)

Senior representative, HMRC (invited)

 

Stream 2 – Procurement of Agile, Flexible ICT Programmes

  • Improving access to the ICT Market Place
  • Ensuring contracted programmes are agile and respond to changing priorities
  • Improving government buyers awareness of SME products and services
  • Realising cost savings through ICT programmes
  • Reducing the time and cost of signing procurement fulfilment contracts
  • Limiting single project costs to £100 million - enhancing opportunities for SMEs
  • Development of Procurement Shared Services Centres
  • Strategies for reducing waste and project failure
  • Reducing the size of tenders to promote the role of SME providers
  • Improving transparency, managing costs - publishing the costs of ICT programmes

Chair: Rt Hon Alun Michael MP, Chair, Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (invited)

Speakers:

Dr Sally Howes, Director ICT and Systems Analysis, National Audit Office (CONFIRMED)

Marie-Helene Durif, ICT Category Lead, Government Procurement Service (invited)

Stephen Allott, Crown Commercial Representative for SMEs (invited)

 

Stream 3 – Big Data - Information Management in the Public Sector

  • Digitalising public services - delivering Government Digital Services
  • Centralising digital services
  • Consolidation of data centres - protecting the environment, reducing cost
  • Managing Big Data in the public sector
  • Big Data and the Economy - creating 58,000 jobs
  • Balancing open government with data protection
  • Empowering the community through access to data
  • Effective security within digital public services - Identity Assurance Programme
  • The potential for Big Data to add £217bn to the UK economy
  • Developments in record management systems
  • Trends in public sector data processing
  • Designing out human error - improving data protection policies

Chair: Tom Watson MP (invited)

Speakers:

Felicity Singleton, Head of Policy, Government Digital Service, Cabinet Office (invited)

Dr Simon Rice, Principal Policy Adviser, Information Commissioner's Office (CONFIRMED)

Katie Davies, Managing Director, NHS Informatics (invited)

 

17:15 Close