Event details
This webinar is addressing Public Services for the Digital Age, to understand how technology can help provide Public Services. This webinar is ideal for organisations that work with vulnerable areas of society and need help to scale out their services and innovate with the latest technology to help provide their services. Citizen expectations for quality public services are rising. The public wants the ease and convenience of digital delivery methods while also requiring personalised services according to their individual needs.
This discussion will focus on using technology to support the most vulnerable in society and provide tailored services to those who need them most and exploring.
- How technology can be used for good to help people get access to services they require.
- How technology such as Cloud, AI, and Machine Learning are within reach to help them delivery their services, innovate and reduce costs.
- How to invest in the right technology, processes and understand what is available to make the right choices and ask the right questions.
Presenters
Dan Westley
Director of Cloud Engineering for Public Sector
Oracle UK Ltd
Dan has spent 17 years between Microsoft and Oracle and he labels himself as customer obsessed. His career was born in the technical support world supporting Windows XP, Internet Explorer and Server 2003. He moved into a Technical Account Manager (TAM) role to help customers understand how their business goals can be achieved by implementing the right technology. Dan joined Oracle in 2017 within the customer success team to help drive a new offering called Oracle Gen.2 cloud. Dan now leads the UK public sector team of cloud architects who every day are helping the public sector achieve more from their technology.
Penny Syddall
Programme Manager - Skills and Adoption
Dorset Council
Penny has spent time as a writer and journalist, corporate communications professional, and university lecturer. She now leads the multi-award-winning digital skills and adoption team at Dorset Council, using networking and people-centred approach to build collaborations across the region. She started Dorset’s Digital Skills Partnership, works closely with health colleagues to build a digital inclusion approach for the Integrated Care Board and is investigating the role of culture in embedding a forward-thinking, digital mindset in business alongside Futuredotnow.
Helen Coomb
Cabinet Member for Resources and Transformation
London Borough of Redbridge
Helen has been a councillor in Redbridge in east London since 2010. From 2014 she has held several different Cabinet roles starting with Regeneration, Planning and Property and leading on the delivery of the Local Plan. Her current portfolio is Resources and Transformation which encompasses ICT, Digital, Customers, Procurement and more. This has given her an in depth understanding of the scale of the challenges facing the Council and the need for technology and innovation to deliver services to citizens efficiently.
Helen was a Primary school teacher until retirement. She is very keen on the digital skills agenda and improving connectivity across the borough.
Mark Hawthorne
Digital Champion for the LGA and Leader of Council
Gloucestershire County Council
Mark Hawthorne first got elected to Gloucester City Council in 1998 at the age of 23. In 2004 he became the leader of the city where he was instrumental in setting up the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company and attracting £200million of investment into the city including the Docks regeneration.
Mark was then elected to Gloucestershire County Council in 2009. The following year he became one of the youngest county leaders in the UK, and Gloucestershire County Council’s youngest ever when he took over the role at the age of 35.
Since taking over as Leader, Mark has been the driving force behind Gloucestershire County Council’s Meeting the Challenge project, delivering £120m saving programme. He has been instrumental in securing £1bn worth of infrastructure investment across the county – and the driving force in Gloucestershire becoming a key player in the Western Powerhouse.
Mark has also played a key role at the LGA, including being chair of the People and Place board for 3 years and currently undertaking the role of LGA digital champion.
Ali Mehmet
Head of Applications
Turning Point
Ali has over 30 years of experience designing and delivering technology solutions to the healthcare sector. These were solutions designed to support the treatment of and service delivery to some of the most vulnerable, underprivileged and underrepresented members of our society, and to do so in a way that supported the clinician in their activity with information and knowledge being a by-product of that activity. The advent of true cloud architectures led to a step change in his thinking on what constitutes a 21st century healthcare platform with a key focus on doing more with less given the ever-increasing demand for healthcare and a diminishing supply.