Previous Speakers & 2022 Agenda

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2022 Speakers and agenda 

Day One	Wednesday, 9th March
	Georgina Maratheftis, Associate Director - Local Public Services, techUK Powering Public Services through Partnership and Place
	Murat Dilek, Network & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity Operation Team Leader, Falkirk Council Hybrid Cloud & Hybrid Workplace
	Andrew Puddephatt, Director - UK Public Sector, Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index: cloud trends in UK Public Sector
	Robert Franks, Managing Director, WM5G Limited Scaling-up benefits from digital health trials
	Q&A / panel discussion

Day Two	Thursday, 10th March
	David Burrows, Public Sector Industry leader, UiPath Automation accelerating the digital transformation of Public Services
	Dave More, Service Owner, Digital Robotic Automation Centre of Excellence, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Digital Robotic Automation Centre of Excellence
	Rob De Felice, Business Development Director, IEG4 Creating a single council view
	Natasa Patterson, Director of Resident Experience and Digital, London Borough of Lambeth Lambeth's Digital Customer Platform
	Q&A / panel discussion

Day Three	Friday, 11th March
	Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology & Innovation How Covid has shaped London's digital transformation journey
	Ian Bell, Chief Executive, Police Digital Service Digital Policing of the Future
	David Price, Director, Public Sector Cloud, Rackspace Technology We all understand that out lives are complex
	Jonathan Tapping, Enterprise Specialist - Azure, Microsoft  Microsoft ICS HLD
	Q&A / panel discussion

2021 Speakers

• Colin Cook, Digital Director, The Scottish Government
• Stuart Bland, Infrastructure Lead, Shropshire Council
• Andrew Puddephatt, Director UK Public Sector, Nutanix 
• Joanne Delap, Team Collaboration Product Owner, Department for Work and Pensions
• Owen Powell, ICT Director, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
• Simon Bennett, CTO EMEA, Rackspace Technology
• Joseph Langford, Chief Technologist, Public Sector, VMware (formerly Chief Digital and Information Officer, Surrey and Sussex Police)
• Mattie Yeta, Head of Sustainable IT, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Martin Ferguson, Director of Policy & Research, Socitm
• Sam Smith, Assistant Director for IT & Digital Services, Cambridgeshire County & Peterborough City Councils. Also Socitm President
• Rob McNally, Head of IT Strategy & Solutions, Leeds City Digital Partnership
• Alison Hughes, Assistant Director ICT, Digital and Customer, Liverpool City Council

2020 Speakers

• Eddie Copeland, Director, London Office of Technology & Innovation
• Joel Samuel, Enterprise Architect, Cabinet Office
• Rhys Sharp, Public Sector Solution Director, Rackspace
• Geoff Connell, Director of IMT & Chief Digital Officer, Norfolk County Council 
• Mattie Yeta, Head of Sustainable IT, Defra
• Nathan Rhodes, Government Lead, Hable
• Andy Grogan, Head of Enterprise Technology, The Orbis Partnership (Surrey, East Sussex, Brighton and Hove councils)
• Andrew Puddephatt, Director UK Public Sector, Nutanix
• Simon Clifford, Director of Digital & Data, Police ICT Company
• Nick Chapallaz, Managing Director, GeoPlace
• Lee Sirdifield, Strategic Director - Transformation and Change, South Kesteven District Council
• Ed Mitchell, Director and Lead for Intelligent Automation, EY
• Rhodri Rowlands, Head of Programmes Community Solutions, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
• Owen Powell, CIO, Central and North West London NHS