Cloud, Data & AI – Transforming Public Services 2024

Harnessing the potential of cloud, data and AI to modernise public services

Date: Thursday 21 March 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde, Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow
Conference Timings: 08:30 – 16:30

Ticket Prices

Government Organisations: Free of charge

Non-Government Organisations: £99

Commercial Organisations: £299

The above prices are for our early bird tickets. As we get closer in time to the conference, the ticket fees will be increased.

Public services are going through a rapid period of change. Superlative online experiences are no longer a ‘nice to have’, but an essential component of how we interact with services. Cloud, Data & AI – Transforming Public Services – is the go-to event for public sector officials looking to embrace the potential of technology and innovation to modernise the services they deliver. It brings together government and technology solutions providers to enable transformation to start to take hold, showcasing the latest cloud technologies, public sector data techniques, and stimulating debate on how to harness AI in ways that are trustworthy, ethical and inclusive.

Learning Objectives:

  • Global thought leadership on how cloud, data and AI can make government services more agile, responsive and smarter
  • Turning data into a productive asset for your organisation – bringing harmony and cohesion to disparate, siloed datasets
  • Understand the cloud deployments that are right for your organisation – working with managed service providers on sustainable, economic and scalable solutions 
  • How to get to grips with AI. Once our data is in a good place, how to make the best use of AI in ways that are trustworthy, ethical and inclusive
  • Show and tell: hear from practitioners from within the public sector, academia and industry on lessons learned from cloud, data and AI deployments
  • Securing buy-in: how to make a business case for using technology and innovation to change the way we do things 
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Cloud, Data & AI 2024 is fully accredited by The CPD Group, the largest accreditation body in the UK. If you attend you will qualify for 8 CPD credits. For more information click here.

2024 Speakers

More speakers to be announced soon


Service Owner for Cloud First Programme, Digital Directorate
The Scottish Government

Director
Centre for Data Science & AI, University of Glasgow

Director
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)

Innovative Technologies Programme Manager
NatureScot

Lecturer in Cybersecurity
University of Strathclyde

Chief Data Officer
Research Data Scotland

Service Delivery Manager for Data and Analytics
NHS National Services Scotland

Senior Technical Consultant for Data and Analytics
NHS National Services Scotland

Head of Innovation
Scottish Forestry

Chief Strategy Officer
MaidSafe

Deputy Director Digital Components and Infrastructure, Digital Directorate
The Scottish Government

Director
ETMAD Ltd.

Global Chief of Data & AI
Zühlke Group

AI Senior Policy Officer
The Scottish Government

Deputy Director - Digital Health and Care
The Scottish Government

Data Programme Manager
Argyll and Bute Council

Technology Director
Hippo

Chief Technology Officer, Citizen & Devolved Government Services
Sopra Steria

Digital Place Lead
BT Business

Principal Cloud Architect
Zühlke Group

Senior Sales Engineer
SentinelOne

Ethical Hacker
Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland

Conference Agenda

21 March 2024 | Session One: Transforming Public Services

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration & networking

9:00 AM – 9:10 AM

Chair's opening remarks


Alison McLaughlin
ETMAD Ltd.
9:10 AM – 9:25 AM

Maximising the value of data and using cutting-edge data science techniques to help solve global challenges


Professor Ana Basiri
Centre for Data Science & AI, University of Glasgow
9:25 AM – 9:40 AM

Fostering a vibrant ecosystem of data-driven innovation

Supporting collaborative partnerships to build new opportunities in a data-led economy


Professor Mark Parsons
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
9:40 AM – 9:55 AM

Improving Public Services: Users Need Information

Distinguishing between the Information required for organisational decision-making and the measurable Data at hand


Dan Klein
Zühlke Group
9:55 AM – 10:05 AM

Questions from the audience

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM

Expert panel: Digital transformation priorities for Scotland’s public services

How can we harness cloud, data and AI for the benefit of our organisations and wider society?


Jonathan Cameron
The Scottish Government

Kyle Usher
Scottish Forestry

Fiona Cameron (Chair)
Scottish Courts & Tribunals Service
10:45 AM – 11:20 AM

Networking & refreshments

21 March 2024 | Session Two: Masterclasses

11:20 AM – 11:50 AM

BT’s approach to Cloud - why we're changing and what are the drivers?

BT’s journey to cloud. An insight into what BT is seeing in the market in regards to Cloud, Data & AI, as well as some insights into BT’s own journey to cloud, which has not always been straightforward – learn from what worked and didn’t work for BT. There will also be some unique examples shared around AI intelligence and how BT have used data around Wembley football stadium to help the FA better plan for the movement of people – and how this links to the movement of people in Scotland’s public sector


Simon Haston
BT Business
11:20 AM – 11:50 AM

Exercise in a Box

Exercise in a Box is a non-technical workshop which helps organisations find out how resilient they are to cyber attacks and practice their response in a safe environment. It was developed by the National Cyber Security Centre and The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland team deliver Exercise in a Box to Scottish organisations by conducting practical workshops where we facilitate one of the scenarios


Tristan Verrier
Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland
11:50 AM – 12:00 PM

Transition

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

How to Build Cloud, Data & AI Skills in Your Teams

Moving to or transferring cloud providers? Lessons learnt and resources available for self learning


Iain Fielding
Zühlke Group
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Adapting to the Cybersecurity Revolution: Unleashing AI for Effective Defence

As the digital landscape undergoes a seismic transformation, navigating the complexities of the evolving cybersecurity terrain is becoming increasingly difficult. So how do you adapt to the Cybersecurity Revolution unfolding in front of us? Join SentinelOne’s Senior SE, PJ Norris as he explores the indispensable role of artificial intelligence in contemporary defence strategies and why organisations must embrace AI as a linchpin for fortifying their security posture


PJ Norris
SentinelOne
12:30 PM – 1:25 PM

Lunch & networking

21 March 2024 | Session Three: Leadership Sessions on Cloud; Data

1:25 PM – 2:45 PM

Cloud

Designing digital infrastructure to deliver scalable, responsive and sustainable services to citizens


Nia Lewis (Chair)
The Scottish Government

Isaac Smith
The Scottish Government

Jim Collinson
MaidSafe

Neil Anderson
Sopra Steria
1:25 AM – 2:45 PM

Data

Get your organisation’s data in the right place to innovate – building the foundations for a deep, data-led transformation


Alison McLaughlin (Chair)

Nora Cooke O'Dowd
Research Data Scotland

Philippa Viganó
NatureScot

David Murdoch
Argyll and Bute Council

Ed Hiley
Hippo
2:45 PM – 3:05 PM

Networking & refreshments

21 March 2024 | Session Four: Leadership Sessions – AI

3:05 PM – 4:25 PM

AI

Using AI and automation to deliver performance step changes for public sector organisations – supporting human decision-making to enhance service delivery


Alison McLaughlin (Chair)

Nils Krichel
NHS National Services Scotland

Simon Rogers
NHS National Services Scotland

Dr Ali Farooq
University of Strathclyde

Carolyne Thomson
The Scottish Government
4:25 PM

Conference close

Event Sponsors

Sponsor profile

BT is one of the world’s leading communication services companies, with a significant local presence in Scotland. This includes a £1.5bn GVA impact across Scotland, supporting over 12,000 jobs and providing the digital infrastructure to support organisations and people across Scotland, including key critical services. The solutions BT provide are integral to modern life and digital transformation. BT’s purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: We connect for good.

Sponsor profile

Zühlke is a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We’re trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow’s markets, customers, and communities.

Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. Our venture capital arm, Zühlke Ventures, provides start-up financing in HealthTech.

Sponsor profile

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact.

We combine data-informed evidence, human-centred design, and software engineering to deliver high-profile services that affect millions of lives every day across the NHS, Department for Work & Pensions, GAMSTOP, Ministry of Justice and the wider UK public sector.

With a team approaching 400 specialists across the UK, we build digital services that work for everyone.

Sponsor profile

Voice Technologies is an award-winning, employee-owned provider of speech recognition, digital dictation and information workflow systems.

Our mission is to help organisations in the public and private sectors to spend less time and money on creating and distributing high volumes of documents and correspondence, and more time and resources on their core services such as patient and client care.

As a Nuance Elite Partner, Voice Technologies empowers organisations to embrace AI powered speech recognition and digital dictation Dragon apps in ways that integrate with their existing systems, to generate communications such as reports, letters, notes and emails, quickly and securely.

We develop specialist apps in collaboration with the NHS that transform efficiency to free up clinical and admin resources, including the award-winning WinVoice document workflow management apps, and FormStream, simple-to-use, web-based forms for paperless documentation.

Find out more at voicetechnologies.co.uk

Sponsor profile

Sopra Steria, major Tech player in Europe recognised for its consulting, digital services and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. It provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a fully collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. With almost 55,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, the Group generated revenue of €5.1 billion in 2022.  

For more information, please visit our website www.soprasteria.co.uk  

Sponsor profile

SentinelOne is pioneering autonomous cybersecurity to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks at faster speed, greater scale, and higher accuracy than human-powered technology alone. The Singularity Platform empowers enterprises to achieve greater visibility of their dynamic attack surfaces, including endpoints, cloud workloads, containers, identity, and mobile & network-connected devices, and take action in real time with AI-powered automation and cross-platform correlation. Over 10,000 customers, including 4 of the Fortune 10, hundreds of the Global 2000, prominent governments, healthcare providers, and educational institutions trust SentinelOne to bring their defences into the future, gaining more capability with less complexity. 

Sponsor profile

An innovation network helping organisations tackle challenges for industry and society by doing data right to support Edinburgh in its ambition to become the data capital of Europe.  

The Data-Driven Innovation initiative has helped establish six hubs at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University – creating a regional power-house for collaboration with industry partners. The hubs house expertise and facilities to help 10 industrial sectors become more innovative through data. 

Sponsor profile

Amigoco provides Cloud Consulting Services to help organisations embrace cloud technologies in a safe and efficient manner. Since 2017, we have been providing high quality consulting services in the public sector to Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Department of Work and Pensions, Northumberland County Council and other government agencies.

We provide these services to our existing customers.

  • Cloud: Architecture, Securtiy, DevOps, GitOps, Strategy
  • Data: Migration, Analysis, Geospatial
  • Security: NCSC, CISSP, CCSP, Audit, Threat Modelling

Access our 30+ network of technical, UK based, BPSS checked consultants, with many SC/DV.

Sponsor profile

The CyberScotland Partnership is a collaborative leadership approach to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland. The Scottish Government’s key strategic stakeholders have come together in a formal partnership arrangement to drive the delivery of activities that will achieve the outcomes of The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

Sponsor profile

The Data Lab is Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI. The Data Lab was founded in 2014 as part of Scotland’s Innovation Centres programme. Our purpose is to change lives and make Scotland a more productive economy and a sustainable society by transforming how we use data. We foster innovation through collaboration, build skills and grow talent, and champion Scotland’s data science community; funding almost 1,000 graduate students and generating £319 million anticipated increase in business turnover and over 1,350 jobs to date. We want Scotland to become a global leader in applying data and AI innovation and skills development that benefits our economy and society. Our vision for the next ten years is to create the world’s most impactful data community: one where cross-sector conversations, creativity and collaboration ignite and sustain the sparks of ground-breaking ideas, products and societal advances.

Sponsor profile

Cybit is the one-stop-shop for digital transformation offering flexible tech that scales in line with your business growth.    We partner with your business to design, deliver and manage intelligent IT services, cloud migration, data and analytics and cyber security solutions.  

Our team of experts select from a network of industry leading vendors which means you get the best solution suited to your business, not ours. 

With Cybit you’ll get a national team of proven experts across the UK, who deliver customised technical support with insight, clarity and customer commitment.  

This level of expertise and experience means we can deliver a diverse skill set under one roof, that’s unmatched in the industry

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