Schedule
Check out what's happening from Monday to Friday. Explore online talks or find in-person events near you each day. We couldn't be more excited about our line up. Which ones will you join?
2023/06/19
Breakfast and fireside chat with Chi Onwurah
Chi Onwurah MP
Labour MP for Newcastle Central and Shadow Minister Science, Research & Innovation, House of Commons
Refurbish, Rebuild & Upgrade or Remanufacture surplus IT equipment for the best ESG?
George Cook
Chief Executive, Computers 4 Charity
Shifting culture and practice in adult social care to really embrace technology for independent living
Irene Carson
Managing Director, Rethink Partners
Digital innovation and added value for council tax customers
Penny Mitchell
Service Manager – Council Tax at Salford City Council, Salford City Council
Artificial Intelligence v Artificial Sentience for Executive Coaching: The Dangers and the Dividends
Jazz Rasool
Director, Metaverse Coaching, Energy Diamond Consultancy
The advantages of a product approach to digital transformation in the public sector
Glen Ocskó
Head of Local Government, Made Tech
Developing a Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households With Children
Professor Simeon Yates
Professor of Digital Culture, Liverpool University
Minimize Disruptions - Continuity of Government IT on AWS
Tonis Pihlakas
Technical Business Development Manager, Amazon Web Services, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
Building Trust and Enhancing Experience – Cybersecurity and User Experience
Tech NExt
Closing the gap: £19 billion in unclaimed benefits and its impact on social outcomes.
Deven Ghelani
Director and Founder, Policy in Practice
Behind the headlines : how the Environment Agency is using digital and data to save lives
Kate Marks
Deputy Director - Digital Services (IM&R), Environment Agency
Digital Inclusion by Stealth; engaging people through creative digital media projects
Julie Nicholson
Managing Director, Digital Voice for Communities
Small wins, big gains: fostering user-centred design in Government
Coco Chan & Jessica Riley
Tech For Good - Innovation with Social Value
Jen Fenner
Managing Director, DefProc Engineering
Digital Transformation Defined
Alan Brown
Professor in Digital Economy, University of Exeter
Developing service design skills through apprenticeships
Richard Goodwin
Managing Director, The JGA Group
How DWP is utilising a two pronged offensive against cyber-attacks
John Keegan
DWP Head of Digital Security, DWP
Sustainability is having an unintended negative impact on accessibility.
Chris Winter
Ambassador, Digital Poverty Alliance
A Better Connected and Collaborative Digital City
Simon Cowen
Service Transition Manager, Leeds City Council
Why Mobile Connectivity Should Be At The Heart Of Digital Inclusion
Gareth Elliott, Beena Puri & Hannah Whelan
Inclusive Service design and Accessibility
Daniel Gale
Digital Inclusion Manager, GRCC
Technology and a manifesto for change
Jenny Hartley (Moderator), Cate Kalson, Dr Henry Kippin & Neil Ross
New ways to conceptualise digital exclusion: The Periodic Table of Internet Elements
Kat Dixon
Third Sector Lead / Data Poverty Lab fellow, Snook / Data Poverty Lab
The role of design innovation in digital health and care transformation
Don McIntyre
Design Director, The Digital Health & Care Institute
How can the public sector use data science to increase its impact?
Dulcie Vousden
Head of Data Science, DataKind UK
2023/06/20
Simple steps to protect your business in an online world
Edward Bissell, Danielle Phillips & Ian Todd
Limitless – Empowering, Enlightening, Enabling Women Everywhere
Ruth Harrison
Founder and Global Head of Industry Domains, Limitless
Digital placemaking for place management and leadership
Dr Jo Morrison
Director of Digital Innovation and Research, Calvium
ND2023: AI Day
Ken Banks, Daniel Cannon, Professor Keeley Crockett, Henry Grech‑Cini, Jack Greenhalgh, Jonathan Gregory, Jack Hanson, Roxane Heaton, Andy Lee, Professor Helen Margetts, Alison McKenzie-Folan, Polly Morgan, Emma Mulqueeny OBE, David Scott, Matt Wall, Zoe Webster & Tom Weeks
Fair Access to Technology Futures: How IN4 Group Is Pioneering the Future of Digital Skills & Innovation from the heart of the North West
Mo Isap
CEO IN4 Group, IN4
Local Digital Declaration discovery project - update
Pippa Savill
Communications Lead, DLUHC (Local Digital)
The potential power of synthetic data in government
James Poulten
Lead Data Scientist, Made Tech
Developing apps to aid culture change.
Scott Patterson
Senior UX Designer, Salford City Council
From Silos to Synergy: Unifying your IT Operations and Service Management in ServiceNow
Kieran Anson, Nicola Conquer & Ryan Duce
UX Strategy: Unlocking the true potential of design with a business like approach
Helena Hill
UX Strategist, Helena Hill Consulting
Shaping up areas of strategic investments for your business transformation and growth in the current economic climate
Lipi Sarkar
Director, ZenD Transformation Ltd
The Digital Skills Pathway for Shared Prosperity: What Works and What Next
Katie Heard
Head of Research and Data Insights, Good Things Foundation
Implementing Digital Health and Care Solutions in Scotland - Lessons being learned
Dr Margaret Whoriskey
Head of Technology Enabled Care and Digital Healthcare Innovation, Digital Health and Care Directorate, Scottish Government,
Empowering the excluded: Alleviating Digital Poverty in North West London - a panel discussion
Niall Reilly
Project Lead, Open Age
How to reach the next normal: Sustainable businesses
Orsolya Galantai
Co-founder, Leader, Spark Institute
Digital cancer care: how to empower patients beyond the hospital walls
Paul Landau
CEO and Founder of Careology, Careology
Open Innovation: How corporate-startup collaboration can turbocharge digital transformation
Mohammed Sijelmassi
Chief Technology Officer Sopra Steria, Sopra Steria
Generative AI in FS: where the rubber meets the road
Harry Keen
CEO and Co-founder, Hazy
How can digital improve grantmaking - for charities and funders?
Ellen Smyth, Dan Sutch & Liam Sweeney
How emerging tech can supercharge your digital transformation
Zoe Amar, James Stephens, Mark Stevens, Mike Stewart & Paul Thomas
How DWP Digital are transforming customer and agent facing services using composite architecture through a scaled test and learn approach
David Kibble & Jacqui Leggetter
Digital Transformation Enabled with Advanced Analytics
Marc Garcia
Global Leader - Solutions Architecture and Transformation, Amazon Web Services
Dignity in the context of digital technologies for older adults
Shuvarthi Bhattacharjee, Abraham S Kebede, Moonika Raja & Rada Sandic Spaho
Saving lives through innovative online interception
Alice Hendy
CEO & Founder, Ripple Suicide Prevention Charity
How to Build Resilience Through Emotional Intelligence
Rosemarie Wilson
Director, Pragmatica Coaching & Training
Building customer trust whilst moving services online
Joanna Finlay & Kerry Nicolaides
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Embrace Emergence
Piers Campbell
Head of Delivery, National Citizen Service Trust
Applying digital - transforming the arts and culture sector
Tiina Hill
Head of Delivery, Single Digital Presence for Libraries, The British Library
Back to the Future: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in the North East by 2030
Alasdair Greig, Edward Twiddy & Jo York
How to augment your teams for excellent project delivery - Best Practices
Holly Waite
Solutions Manager, Reed Professional Services
Leeds’ Digital Innovation Journey
Stephen Blackburn
Digital Innovation Lead, Leeds City Council
Embedded Sustainability: Unlocking Sustainability in Financial Services
Simon Harris
Chief Growth Officer, ekko
The Importance of Social Value Data in Sustainability and Retrofitting
Michael McLaughlin
Social Value Lead, HACT
Grow your own way: how to get into and stay in tech
Emily Allison, Sinéad Cummings, Hazel Dixon, Judith Esrome Rosario & Jill McKinney (Moderator)
Effect of A Smartphone Application Intervention on Improving Brain Functions: A Pretest-Posttest Pilot Study
Miaolung Shih
Main, OLLI UTMB
Losing sleep in an SME? Using data and insight to proactively improve the wellbeing of your SME staff and leadership.
Steven Pink
CEO, Verve Healthcare
Personal Branding in the Digital Age for Purpose-driven Leaders
Francine Beleyi
founder, nucleus of change
Myth busting: what working in tech really looks like
Srilekha Ganesan, Mark Hall, Ed Harrison, Kerry-Anne Kane & Khaled Nawaz (Moderator)
2023/06/21
Business Breakfast: The Future of Digital Technologies in Marketing
Anatoli Colicev, Kate Dalton, Steve Fairhurst, Hazel Kennedy & Tracy Mawson
How to transform services in Government
Alex Coomer
Lead Product Manager, DWP Digital
Your no bullshit guide to creating an innovation strategy
Louis Childs
Founder & Innovation Consultant, Harness Innovation
Working together to tackle digital exclusion
Hamish Laing
Chair, Digital Inclusion Alliance Wales
BCS Digital Skills Network - Reading
Somayeh Aghnia, Annette Allmark & Freddie Quek
Helping Salford residents become BetterOff
Steven Fry
Director of Digital & Customer Services, Salford City Council
Using data to drive the sustainable revolution in transport
Brian Roche
Director & Founder, BDR Management Consulting Ltd
Hack Attack Simulation: Preventing and responding to Cyber Security breach
Simon Gurney, Daniel Oates-lee & Martin Wilson
Creating Value for Taxpayers: A Different Approach to Public Sector Consulting
Siân Rodway
Chief Operating Officer, MDRxTech
Community Mapping - Utilising Tech for Good to Support Resilient Communities
Jaki King
CEO & Founder, If Everyone Cares CIC
A National Delivery Plan to End Digital Poverty
Tom Lowe
Head of Policy and Communications, Digital Poverty Alliance
Navigating the threat to data privacy of Generative Al
Faris Haddad
Data & Insights Lead (strategic Pursuits), Amazon Web Services
Delivering Digital Transformation: Understanding Data and Data-Driven Innovation
Alan Brown
Professor in Digital Economy, University of Exeter
Understanding The Value of Collaboration
Fraser Macdonald
Deputy Director, Data for Children Collaborative
Inclusion for advantage: customer inclusion, the Consumer Duties Act and organisational benefits
Christopher Gale
Business Development Director, We Are Digital
The Trust Framework and Its Role in the Digital Identity Ecosystem
Dion Allen, Victoria Baines, Shelley Langan-Newton & Mark Roberts
Digital twins for Towns to create a more enjoyable planning process.
Simon Mabey
Founder and CEO, DigitalUrban.place
Immediate Justice. Tackling Anti Social Behaviour with technology
Jonathan Ley
Founder, Make Time Count
How can generative AI solve the country’s housing crisis?
Paul Shepherd
Founder and CEO, Logicdialog
Ethics by Design: Futureproofing banking in approaching new financial service regulations
Wiktoria Kulik & Kevin Macnish
Next steps in Digital Sustainability - where we need to get to
Tony Sudworth
Sustainability Lead, DWP
How Digital Leaders and Their Teams can Become Unstoppable, Stop Wasted Effort and Finish Work with a Smile
Scott Fulton
Director, Digital Rebels
An Innovators Guide to a Discovery Workshop - the What, Why & the How?
Russell Kerr
Head of UX Design, Whitespace
AI and Diversity and Inclusion in Tech
Paulette Watson
Managing Director and Founder, Academy Achievers
A single shared Digital Well Being Directory of Services
Simon Dickinson
Programme Manager, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
2023/06/22
No-Code Arcade
Business and Law Building
Adam Hill
Founder, Tech for Good North East
#DigitalLives - The Human at the Heart of Digital Learning
Rich Burn
Digital Skills Partnership Manager, Digital Skills Partnership - Catalyst South
Get ahead of the game: Technology innovations that will impact digital transformation over the coming years
Neil Anderson
Chief Technology Officer, Sopra Steria
Joining up health and social care remote monitoring to create a truly person-centred approach
Sam Bassett
Digital Care and Innovation Lead, Suffolk County Council
Transforming a Digital Workplace at scale
Neil Owen
Collaboration and Communication Lead, DWP Digital
Balancing Creativity with Sustainability: A guide to Eco-Friendly Web Design
Ellie Barrett
UX Designer, Yoyo Design
Utilising linked data to accelerate research & innovation - Lessons from the Greater Manchester trusted research environment
Bradley Quinn
Associate Director of Insight, Health Innovation Manchester
Preparing future workforce in health and care for digital transformation
Dr Sanna Rimpiläinen, Jennifer Thomas & Dr Ann Wales
Cyber Resilience “The Salford Way”
Matt Wall
Technology and Architecture Lead, Salford City Council
Raising the Digital Maturity of a Region
Michael Gardiner
Digital Development Specialist, South of Scotland Enterprise
Data Skills and Literacies: building and maintaining talent during digital change
Tom Pieroni
Learning Manager, Open Data Institute
Future Directions in Delivering Digital Transformation
Alan Brown
Professor in Digital Economy, University of Exeter
Creativity for ‘future-proofing’ digital engagement
Dr. Josie Barnard SFHEA
Associate Professor in Creative and Digital Practice, De Montfort University
How do we return the UK Government to number 1 in the global digital rankings?
David Mann
CEO, dxw
How tech industry engagement is inspiring student changemakers
Freddie Norton
Acting CEO, Apps for Good
The Leeds tech community: investing in digital inclusion
Mike Quate
Chair of Leeds Digital Charity Ball, Leeds Digital Charity Ball & byDiffusion
Can agile project management practices really be applied to cross-organisational public sector digital transformation?
Kieran Smith
Digital Transformation Lead, Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Living in the Era of AI Democratisation
Tommaso Migliore
CEO & Co-Founder, MDOTM Ltd.
Empowering and mobilising employees in climate action
Hermione Taylor
Founder, Do Nation
ClearCommunityWeb - Our person-centred approach to Digital Inclusion
Caspar Kennerdale
Managing Director, ClearCommunityWeb
Using AI tools to innovate clinical veterinary practice and beyond
Scott Bowler & Dr Katie Ford
Tech for Good - building and scaling digital solutions that change lives
Dylan McKee
CEO, Nebula Labs
Empowering Introverts in the Digital Age: Navigating Inclusion, Unleashing Skills, and Unlocking Talent
Lesley Tait
Director & Coach, Her Supreme Self
Increasing participation and community action through digital innovation
Susan Rodaway
Director, Vocaleyes Democracy CIC
Data Localisation and Tech Evolution at scale with MongoDB
Paul Brennan
Head of Architecture, DWP Digital
2023/06/23
Reduce the carbon footprint of your digital marketing
Sue Keogh
Founder and Director, Sookio
Reusing IT equipment for social good - new research
Emma Stone
Director of Evidence and Engagement, Good Things Foundation
Digital transformation on a shoestring - what’s workable in a smaller charity?
Nikki Labrum
Tech Director, The Brilliant Club
Salford’s digital accessibility journey
Gary Norton
Content designer, Salford City Council
Why outcome-focused businesses win in the age of automation and AI
Pete Trainor
Consulting Partner, MMT
Levelling Up Life Science with Digital Clusters: The P4 Approach
Nathan McNally
Health and Life Science Director, Capital Enterprise
Digital Inclusion in Scotland and Nova Scotia: shared experiences
Silke Mehrgott, Shona Munro, Aaron Slater, Matt Spurway & Irene Warner-Mackintosh
Transforming access to financial support for individuals
Ren Yi Hooi
Founder and CEO, Lightning Reach
The Secrets to Designing an Intranet That People Don't Hate
Scott Fulton
Director, Digital Rebels
How digital transformation and digital maturity can help in improving efficiency in public sector?
Praveen Tomar
Technology Lead, Office for National Statistics
Getting buy-in from the top and why tech is a big step for leaders
Clare Morris
CEO, Rethink Partners
Scalable Approach to Vulnerability Via Interoperability Show and Tell
Paul Davidson
Somerset Council
Leadership with a difference
Scott Patterson
Senior UX Designer, Salford City Council
Inclusive innovation - new perspectives to new solutions
Christine Hemphill
Managing Director, Open Inclusion
Unravelling the complexity around digital exclusion and providing tailored solutions for Westminster’s residents
Curtis Horne & Neil Samson
Applied Research and Innovation for Net Zero: Smart Energy Context
Michael Short
Professor (Research), Teesside University
Inclusion in Delivering Digital Solutions
Yetunde Elebuibon
Director, Knowledge Pool
