• Explore the national outlook for local government digital transformation and the key enablers of success

• How Leeds City Council is embedding digital equity into city-wide services and strategy
• Upcoming digital inclusion initiatives and connectivity plans supporting inclusive growth

This session explores how AI and autonomous agents are transforming the Software Development Lifecycle—enabling rapid prototyping, accelerating delivery, and reshaping the roles within modern development teams. Discover how “Silicon Shoring” brings human creativity and AI collaboration together to redefine what’s possible in software delivery.

• Reply’s AI-driven model: combining technology, business, and innovation
• Accelerating development: Rapid prototyping generative and Enterprise solutions
• New roles and processes: hybrid team roles and AI-augmented workflows
• Business impact: faster delivery, cost reduction, and improved quality

• The surge of ransomware and social engineering attacks seen across retail, automotive manufacturing and most recently aviation in 2025 has highlighted how quickly threat actors adapt to exploit human and process weaknesses. While these campaigns have so far focused on private industry, the lessons are directly relevant to public sector departments seeking to strengthen resilience and meet the updated CAF 4.0 objectives.

• Discuss how LOTI is enabling London’s boroughs to collaborate on digital transformation projects that drive real impact
• Explore the policies, partnerships, and people needed to unlock the full potential of local government innovation

• Tackling the Digital Skills Shortage at a Local Level
• The Role of Culture and Leadership in Shaping Public Sector Tech Careers

• Questions and answers

• Explore how government and technology leaders can prioritise inclusion, ethics, and accountability in the AI age
• Understand the real-world impact of data breaches, algorithmic bias, and deepfakes on marginalised groups, and what local and national governments can do to protect citizens and rebuild trust.
• Discuss practical ways to involve underrepresented voices in tech policy, innovation, and skills development

• How DWP Digital is building scalable, secure, and interoperable data platforms to replace legacy systems and enable digital transformation at scale
• Using data to improve service delivery, ensure reliability, and support critical areas
• Developing skills, fostering collaboration, and embedding ethical and inclusive data practices across teams and departments

• 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, showing how to translate strategic goals into rapid, low-risk delivery cycles]
• Understand why rigorous process modelling is a critical lever for sustainable change. By mapping end-to-end journeys, councils expose waste, clarify ownership, and design a target operating model that technology can truly underpin
• Tackle the reality of modernising legacy estates - mapping technical debt and adopting cloud-ready architectures - before addressing the people dimension: developing multidisciplinary digital capability inside the council, embedding lean governance, and creating a culture where experimentation is rewarded and failure becomes a route to learning
• Questions and answers

• Explore the policy frameworks and institutional practices necessary to build truly inclusive digital environments across the public sector
• Examine the structural, social, and cultural barriers to digital participation, and how government bodies can design digital services and strategies that are equitable, accessible, and resilient
• Questions and answers

• How to build service design capability within local government teams
• Creating inclusive and accessible digital services through iterative design
• Practical lessons from digital transformation initiatives across North Yorkshire
• Overcoming legacy challenges to embed a culture of innovation
• Questions and answers

*programme subject to change without notice