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Friday 3 February 2012
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Tuesday 31stJanuary 2012
SMEs, Agile and the Public Sector in this Age of Austerity

Is the public sector serious about working with SMEs? Is it serious about Agile? What are the benefits SMEs could deliver? And how successful has the drive to get SMEs involved been?

On the ITU Live panel:

  • Stephen Allott - crown representative for SMEs; appointed by David Cameron with a goal to help SMEs win more public sector contracts.
  • Andy De Vale - founding member of the Agile Delivery Network, which in 2011 completed its first project for Government Digital Service (GDS); the government e-petitions service, which replaced the old Number 10 petitions website.
  • Mark Foden - A change management specialist with a background in IT-related government programmes and a particular focus on helping government organisations to become more agile - a director of Foden Grealy.
  • Mary McKenna - director of the Learning Pool, an SME providing online learning for the public sector and finalist in the Cabinet Office's Innovation Launchpad.
       
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