DigitalScotland 2023

DigitalScotland 2023

The Annual Conference for Public sector technology professionals

Date: Tuesday 21 November 2023
Venue: Edinburgh international conference centre
Timings: Conference 08:30 – 17:30

Ticket Prices (including admission to reception)

GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS: £45.00
NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS: £125.00
COMMERCIAL ORGANISATIONS: £250.00

The above prices are our second tier early bird ticket prices. As we get closer in time to the conference, the ticket fee will be increased further. 

DigitalScotland is the largest annual gathering of public sector technology professionals, where global govtech leaders share technology insights and lessons in digital transformation, leadership, skills, cultural change and data-driven innovation.

With 50-plus speakers from a diverse array of backgrounds, DigitalScotland is the leading forum to hear about how digital and data are transforming the way our public services operate and fulfil their mission to be modern, responsive and designed around the needs of citizens.

The full-day conference features a fantastic line-up of globally accredited speakers on topics as diverse as service design, ethics in AI, the internet of things, cybersecurity, 5G and much more.

With a growing global ‘govtech’ movement, DigitalScotland is a must-attend for technologists and policymakers delivering the next generation of government services.

2023 Speakers

More speakers to be confirmed soon


Head of Strategic Partnerships
Edinburgh Innovations

Permanent Secretary
The Scottish Government

Minister for Small Business, Trade and Innovation
The Scottish Government

Head of Digital Citizen Unit
The Scottish Government

Chief Executive
Central Digital & Data Office, UK Government

Digital Director
The Scottish Government

Deputy Director, Digital Connectivity
The Scottish Government

Data Transformation Lead
The Scottish Government

Professor of Applied Cryptography
Edinburgh Napier University

Chief Data Officer
The Scottish Government

Deputy Director for Cloud & Digital Services
The Scottish Government

Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh

Head of Digital Transformation Division
The Scottish Government

Clinical Director, North East of Scotland Breast Screening Programme
NHS Grampian

Chief Technology Officer
Digital Office for Scottish Local Government

Head of Business Intelligence
Glasgow City Council

Business Change Service Manager
Aberdeenshire Council

Head of The Scottish AI Alliance
The Scottish AI Alliance

Chief Information Officer
Research Data Scotland (RDS)

Director of Digital and Security
NHS National Services Scotland

Programme Director
Social Security Programme

International Market Development Partner
Netcompany

Digital Ethics Consulting Senior Manager
Sopra Steria

Deputy Chief Executive
Disclosure Scotland

UK Head of Healthcare
Amazon Web Services

Global Director of Mission Critical & Private Networks
Cellnex

Head of Intelligent Automation
Scottish Government

Head of Data & AI
Zühlke Group

Director
Glasgow City Innovation District

VP of Partnerships
CodeBase

Head of Public Sector UK & Ireland
UiPath

Head of IT Service
Registers of Scotland

Chief Solution Architect
Leidos

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

Programme Director - Digital Connectivity
Scottish Futures Trust

VP Product Architecture
Emergn

2023 Agenda

21 November 2023 | Session one: Transforming Scotland

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration & welcome refreshments

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM

Chair’s opening remarks


Kim McAllister
Chair
9:05 AM – 9:15 AM

Ministerial keynote


Richard Lochhead
The Scottish Government
9:15 AM – 9:55 AM

Technology transforming government fireside chat


Geoff Huggins
The Scottish Government

JP Marks
The Scottish Government

Megan Lee Devlin
Central Digital & Data Office, UK Government
9:55 AM – 10:15 AM

More information coming soon


Coming soon
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

The EU Digital Identity Wallet

Establishing the benchmark for secure and transparent digital identification for EU citizens, with data safety at its heart


Thomas Rysgaard Christiansen
Netcompany
10:30 AM – 11:05 AM

Panel discussion: The emerging role of AI on government services

When humans are fallible, how can ethics, trustworthiness and inclusivity be hardwired into generative AI platforms?


Prof. Shannon Vallor
University of Edinburgh

Tom Wilkinson
The Scottish Government

Mark Watson
Leidos
11:05 AM – 11:30 AM

Networking & refreshments

21 November 2023 | Session Two: Parallel Masterclasses Sessions

11:30 AM – 12:40 PM

Masterclass stream 1 & 2

12:40 PM – 1:35 PM

Lunch, supplier showcase & networking

21 November 2023 | Session Three: Leadership Streams on Cloud; Enabling Connected Communities; Getting the Most out of Public Sector Data; Citizen Engagement

1:35 PM – 2:55 PM

Cloud

Harnessing the potential from cloud applications and data management to improve organisational efficiency and collaboration


Nia Lewis
The Scottish Government

Isaac Smith
The Scottish Government

Ann-Marie Gallacher
NHS 24

Kira Levy
Amazon Web Services
1:35 PM – 2:55 PM

Enabling connected communities

Digital infrastructure as the backbone for citizens, businesses and transformed public services across Scotland


Sarah Eynon
Scottish Futures Trust

Robbie McGhee
The Scottish Government

Steven Flockhart
NHS National Services Scotland

Mikko Uusitalo
Cellnex

Coming soon
1:35 PM – 2:55 PM

Getting the most out of public sector data

How a data maturity assessment can build new thinking in your organisation and transform its use of data


Steph Wright
The Scottish AI Alliance

Kimberley Hose
Glasgow City Council

Sally Kerr
The Scottish Government

Colin Birchenall
Digital Office for Scottish Local Government

Dan Klein
Zühlke Group
1:35 PM – 2:55 PM

Citizen engagement

Digital platforms and portals to enable citizens to better interact with services


Eilidh McLaughlin
The Scottish Government

Kenny Birney
Disclosure Scotland

Professor Bill Buchanan OBE
Edinburgh Napier University

Dr Kevin Macnish
Sopra Steria
2:55 PM – 3:15 PM

Refreshments & networking

21 November 2023 | Session Four: Leadership Streams on Innovation; Digital Transformation Journeys; Smart Services; AI and Automation

3:15 PM – 4:35 PM

Innovation

Utilising the potential of Scotland‘s data ecosystem to stimulate and scale innovation – creating jobs, attracting investment and improving services


Alisdair Gunn
Glasgow City Innovation District

Hugh Wallace
Research Data Scotland (RDS)

Coming soon

Dr Andrea Taylor
Edinburgh Innovations

Yasmin Sulaiman
CodeBase
3:15 PM – 4:35 PM

Digital transformation journeys

From scaling to agile development and the modernisation of public service delivery


Joy Bramfitt-Wanless
The Scottish Government

Lisa Baron-Broadhurst
Social Security Programme

Paul Christie
Registers of Scotland

Andrew Husak
Emergn
3:15 PM – 4:35 PM

AI and automation

Harnessing the power of AI and automation to drive transformational change in business processes, citizen services and healthcare


Steph Wright
The Scottish AI Alliance

Kjersti Fergusson
Scottish Government

Colleen Henderson
Aberdeenshire Council

Dr Gerald Lip
NHS Grampian

Philip Sheen
UiPath
4:35 PM

Conference close & networking

2023 Sponsors

Sponsor profile

BT is one of the world’s leading communication services companies, with a significant local presence in Scotland. This includes a £1.2bn 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. 

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Sopra Steria, a European tech leader recognised for its consulting, digital services, and software development, helps its clients drive their digital transformation to 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 50,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, the Group generated revenue of €5.1 billion in 2022.  

The world is how we shape it. 

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

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Leidos is a leading partner to the Scottish Government, helping to solve their most demanding challenges. We help to modernise infrastructure and applications by leveraging cloud technologies that provide speed and agility. We harness the power of data through enabling technologies that automate and analyse governments’ most strategic assets. Our people are committed to developing transformative technology programmes that deliver outcomes that matter.

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For 16 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 96 Availability Zones (AZs) within 30 geographic regions. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. The AWS cloud is uniquely positioned to provide scalable cost-efficient solutions for public sector customers to help them achieve their missions and increase collaboration across agencies and organisations.

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We are global digital business services firm with a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Forever. We help some of the world’s most respected businesses develop their most promising ideas into valuable digital products and user experiences, faster. Emergn’s experts work with clients to transform their business in three ways: helping to better define their thinking; developing their people; and delivering their outcomes by building user-centric products and experiences. Our game-changing approach to change – Value, Flow, Quality, or VFQ for short – combines the best of Agile, Lean, design and systems thinking. For more information, visit www.emergn.com.  

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Brightsolid is Scotland’s expert in colocation, cloud and cyber security solutions. We bring together brilliantly bright ideas with seriously solid solutions to meet not only our customers’ business needs, but also their ambitions. From custom-built colocation, to hybrid cloud expertise and the latest in cyber security technology, Brightsolid solutions are future-proofed with industry-leading performance, agility, and reliability – all at great value for money. At Brightsolid, our focus is not just on what we do, but how we do it and it’s this approach that ensures we’re there to help our customers make the right decisions every step of the way.

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Zühlke is a global innovation service provider. We turn big ideas into working solutions that deliver positive and sustainable value. For people, planet, and profit.

A holistic growth partner to our clients, we close the gaps between strategic ambition, tech implementation, and operational excellence.  

Our multidisciplinary teams enable organisations to de-risk strategy and accelerate time to value – in a business environment that’s fluid, data-empowered, and collaborative.  

Together, we deliver innovation, software, and hardware initiatives in complex and regulated areas – across diverse industries and ecosystems.

Zühlke was founded in Switzerland and is a global team of 1,900 colleagues, with multiple locations in Europe and Asia.

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UiPath (NYSE: PATH) is on a mission to uplevel knowledge work so more people can work more creatively, collaboratively, and strategically. The AI-powered UiPath Business Automation Platform combines the leading robotic process automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities to understand, automate, and operate end-to-end processes, offering unprecedented time-to-value. For organizations that need to evolve to survive and thrive through increasingly changing times, UiPath is The Foundation of Innovation™.

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Fujitsu is one of the world’s largest global providers of IT solutions, with over 130,000 employees serving customers in more than 100 countries with a unique Japanese heritage. As a long-term strategic partner to government, particularly in tax, trade, defence and public protection, Fujitsu is committed to delivering radical change and partnering with our customers to help them achieve digital transformation successfully.

Building on our existing base working across the public and private sector in Scotland, we have ambitions to strengthen our relationship with the Scottish Government as a digital transformation partner and bring our global expertise in digital transformation and technology adoption to drastically improve public service outcomes to help Scotland realise its full potential in a digital world.

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Alcidion provides hospitals and integrated care systems with a modern, modular electronic patient record. 

Bringing together data from multiple systems, such as the PAS, EPMA, inpatient digital systems, pathology and reablement services using an open-standards data platform, clinicians have access to the full picture of care for the patient, supporting quicker decisions from admission to discharge and beyond. 

Alcidion unlocks value from existing technology solutions, showing real-time capacity and demand across entire systems, identifying bottlenecks, automating routine activity and providing clinical decision support along each patient pathway, reducing the cognitive burden on staff. 

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Inhealthcare is transforming healthcare with remote patient monitoring and virtual wards.  

With over 10 years of experience of working with the NHS, our digital health technology is tried, tested and proven. We support over 50 NHS trusts in England, the five Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland and we have a national agreement with National Services Scotland to deliver remote monitoring services across their fourteen health boards. More than 3 million patients across the UK have used our digital health technology. 

Our digital services enable patients to receive more healthcare in their home instead of hospital. By providing care outside of traditional settings, they help to cut costs and increase capacity in the NHS by easing pressures on clinicians, easing waiting list pressures, reducing hospital admissions and improving access to diagnostics and treatments. They also improve outcomes by enabling patients to take a more active role in the management of their health. 

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The Scottish Digital Academy is the Centre of Excellence for capability, skills and talent. We support the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology profession and we develop digital skills and leadership capability across the public and third sectors. We are part of the Digital Directorate, and we work in partnership with the Digital Recruitment Service, Digital Strategy and Policy Team and the Digital Finance and Purchasing Team. 

www.digitalacademy.gov.scot  

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ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloudbased platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com

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ELEKS is a trusted partner for guaranteed software engineering excellence, quality, and transparency every step of the way. The company has been providing expert software engineering and consultancy services for over 30 years. Its talent pool of over 2,000+ specialists, located across Europe, the U.S., and the U.K., covers niches from custom software development to product design and technology advisory, making it the partner of choice for many of the world’s leading enterprises, SMEs, and technology challengers. 

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CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern enterprise. A single agent solution to stop breaches, ransomware, and cyber attacks—powered by world-class security expertise and deep industry experience. With CrowdStrike, customers benefit from better protection, better performance and immediate time-to-value delivered by the cloud-native Falcon platform. 

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PDMS is a software engineering company with a focus on solving complex problems with great people and expertly engineered solutions. Our mission is to be our customer’s technology partner of choice and we provide full software development lifecycle services including business analysis, software development and testing, project management and ongoing live support and hosting.    

With a focus on agile delivery and great UX, we drive improvements in productivity, deliver cost savings, improve customer satisfaction and employee experience.  We specialise in the agile delivery of complex requirements where solid software architecture excellence underpins creative design. Collaborating with our clients we provide clear insights and practical solutions – flexing to meet demand and sharing our knowledge widely.   

Our customers include Skills Development Scotland, Transport Scotland, Fife Council, Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands Council, NHS, Crown Commercial Service and the Department for Education.  

We are small enough to genuinely care and large enough to guarantee delivery. 

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Registers of Scotland (RoS) keeps public registers of land, property, and other legal documents in Scotland. Scotland’s land register is the oldest in the world and RoS is the definitive source of information on all property transactions in Scotland. It provides a publicly accessible register of property rights, underpinned by state guarantee. With a land register, you can prove ownership of what you are selling or borrowing against. This has vital benefits for the citizen and the economy. 

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Veritas Technologies is a leader in multi-cloud data management. Over 80,000 customers—including 95% of the Fortune 100—rely on Veritas to help ensure the protection, recoverability, and compliance of their data. Veritas has a reputation for reliability at scale, which delivers the resilience its customers need against the disruptions threatened by cyberattacks, like ransomware. No other vendor is able to match Veritas’ ability to execute, with support for 800+ data sources, 100+ operating systems, 1,400+ storage targets, and 60+ clouds through a single, unified approach. 

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We build software and services that help keep people safer, healthier, and better connected worldwide.  

With NEC Digital, you choose the path of no compromise. We provide industry leading expertise across the full scope of your project, giving confidence and security you will achieve great outcomes for your users.  

A partnership of the best-in-class software delivery of NEC Software Solutions, with the pioneering user-centred design services of Snook. We offer full end-to-end digital transformation expertise to the very highest standards from discovery to development and beyond, at a scale and quality unique in the market.  

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Denmark has experienced a unique and rapid digital transformation, putting the country at the forefront of governmental digitisation in the world – placed no.1 in the two latest UN e-government surveys. As a leading supplier of govtech, Netcompany has been key in this development, providing hundreds of society-critical solutions to the authorities, helping the public sector offer world class, user-friendly, digital services.

​Over the past 5 years this experience and knowledge has been applied to a growing number of governments in Europe, which in 2020 culminated with the launch of the Netcompany Govtech Framework.

​Delivering digital transformation programs through digital platforms, core systems and infrastructure services, Netcompany believe in agile, futureproof solutions, based on proven platform components that ensure full flexibility and opportunity for ongoing innovation. The company was founded in 2000 and has its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. Today, an international company with more than 3500 employees spanning 6 countries.

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Automated Document Services Ltd (‘ADS‘) specialise in digitisation services including heritage sector imaging, bulk scanning, data capture, response handling & data hosting.  Turning your paper securely digital.

ADS offer full range of digitisation services from postage stamps, photographs, all document types including HR, Health & Safety, engineering, registers, bound volumes up to 40cm spine depth & A0 size, to large format maps, drawings and paintings. 

ADS host a vast range of digitisation equipment, from stand alone Camera systems, A2 CopiBook to A0 Quartz, V shape cradles & vacuum plates, production scanners combined with an experienced team, purpose fitted facility, tried & tested processes and capacity to ensure a speedy turnaround with no compromise on quality or security, delivered both on customer sites and at ADS UK facilities.

ADS are exclusive UK partner with i2s. i2s, based in Bordeaux are world renowned manufactures of highest quality imaging equipment compliant with global imaging standards. 

ADS provide sales, support & maintenance of i2s solutions to institutions & archives across the UK. 

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The Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland is a more-than-profit, employee-first organisation that exists to ensure Scottish organisations are as resilient as they can be against cyber and fraud crime. In the eventuality of a cyber or fraud attack,  the centre and its partners can support organisations through it and help them resume operations.

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LapSafe® is the UK’s industry leading expert in providing innovative and proficient charging solutions such as self-service smart lockers, that transform how workplaces deploys assets. 

We are experts in our field and the name LapSafe® has become synonymous with safety and quality as well as being a trusted brand leader worldwide. 

We manufacture technologically advanced solutions that ensure assets are taken care of in volume with minimal staff interaction, creating flexible workplaces. Specialising in providing simple yet comprehensive software workflows for our self-service smart lockers that can be used in any environment. 

If you have any queries please contact our Locker Solutions Specialist Robert Tanner: Robert.tanner@lapsafe.com – 07725596539 

2023 sponsors

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