• The national picture of digital in local government, and how councils are responding to a changing operating environment
• The system-level challenges shaping digital progress across the sector 
• How digital can enable more effective, sustainable public services

• Explore how local authorities can move beyond strategy documents and into delivery 
• Discuss what successful digital leadership looks like in practice, and how councils can build the capability, culture and confidence to transform at pace 
  
  

• Understand what the National Digital Twin Programme is, and how it supports national ambitions for public sector modernisation and infrastructure transformation
• Learn how digital twins can improve strategic decision-making
• Identify practical first steps that councils and public bodies can take to align with the national direction of travel and prepare for future digital twin integration
• Questions and answers

• The UK's current answers, decoded. Compute, AI Growth Zones, sovereign capability, skills and governance - what each addresses, what it doesn't, and where the UK genuinely stands relative to Dubai, Singapore and the US.
• The whiteboard test. A practical decision tree for separating tasks that need an agent from tasks that need a workflow, a single LLM call, or just better deterministic code.
• Three real public-sector examples walked end-to-end - central, local and citizen-facing - and why most "agent" briefs are workflows in disguise.
• The instrumentation gap. Why agentic delivery in production lives or dies on evaluation, observability, cost-per-call and human-override rates, not on framework choice.
• A defensible UK commitment. What a measurable, falsifiable answer to Dubai's marker would look like - and why "10 services with published evidence" beats "50% in two years."
• Questions and answers

• Transforming end-user services at Defra by embedding sustainability into digital delivery while improving user experience, efficiency and reducing costs
• Balancing resilience, cost and sustainability across government digital estates
• Collaborating with industry, partners and academia to deliver on governments net zero and digital sustainability commitments

Join the team from North Yorkshire Council and Simpson Associates as we present and demonstrate how applying AI to the wealth of information buried within an organisation’s case management system can unlock actionable insights and value. Discover how to:

• Use data to free Social Workers up to spend more time with children and families.

• Help Social Workers find vital information using AI.

• Use data and AI to help keep children safe.

• Create the right environment to enable data informed decision making.

• Understanding the implications of quantum technologies for public sector systems, data and infrastructure
• Preparing for the transition to quantum-safe security, including the impact on encryption and cyber resilience
• Building organisational awareness and capability to support future quantum adoption
• Exploring early use cases and opportunities for quantum across public services and national infrastructure
• Questions and answers

• Explore how councils can escape the “incumbency trap,” reduce vendor lock-in, and build a more flexible, responsive digital ecosystem
• Questions and answers

• Explore how modern technology leadership becomes a catalyst for service-level innovation  
• Outline leadership behaviours that shift IT from a cost centre to an engine of value 
• Questions and answers

• Leading digital transformation across complex organisations and embedding digital, data and technology as a core strategic function
• Building high-performing digital teams and the capability to support long-term innovation and service improvement
• Balancing innovation, resilience and operational stability when modernising legacy systems and infrastructure

• What structures, governance and priorities are needed to drive transformation at scale across a complex authority?
• Preparing digital, data and technology functions for Local Government Reorganisation 
• Creating the foundations for sustainable transformation 
• Questions and answers

• Restructuring the organisation to enable transformation, aligning services, leadership and ways of working to deliver better outcomes
• Investing in workforce development and digital skills, equipping staff with the capabilities needed for a modern, digitally enabled council
• Improving staff engagement and organisational culture to support sustainable change and better service delivery
• Questions and answers

*programme subject to change without notice