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Programme
08:30 Registration
09:20 Opening Address by Chair:
Tony Collins, Executive Editor, Computer Weekly (CONFIRMED)
09:25 Opening Keynote Address: Transformational Government – Where are we now?
  • Transformational Government update
  • The Power of Information Task Force
  • The future for green technologies and the public sector
  • The technology to join-up and share services
  • Web 2.0 and the public sector
  • Customer service excellence
  • Capturing the skills and talent needed for change
  • The Service Transformation Agreement
  • Moving public services to the next stage of reform
Speaker invitation extended to: John Suffolk, Chief Information Officer
09:40 Sponsor presentation by EDS, details tbc
9:55 The FCO and Value-added Communications Systems
  • The Ocean Programme and the Transformational Government Agenda
  • Access to value-added communications services
  • Flexibility in the use of IT telecommunications
  • Flexibility and scope of procurement
  • The public sector network strategy
  • Changing ways of working
Philip Macpherson, Chief Technology Officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (CONFIRMED)
10:10 Local Authority Case Study tbc
10:25 Data Handling and Security
  • Data Handling Procedures in Government: Final Report
  • Governance, risk and compliance
  • Effective use of information – central to the challenges facing the Government today
  • Improving data handling in Government
  • Conducted in parallel with independent reviews
  • Restrictions on the use of electronically removable data
  • External threats – e-crime
  • Security and fraud prevention
  • A culture that properly values, protects and uses data
  • What measures have been put in place?
Owen Pengelly, Head, Central Sponsor for Information Assurance, Cabinet Office (CONFIRMED)
10:40 Next Generation Broadband: Essential for the UK’s Future Economic Success
  • BERR and long-term service transformation plans
  • The independent review of next generation broadband
  • Ultra-fast broadband and the opportunities arising from rapidly developing technology
  • Possible barriers to new models of investment
  • A framework for investment
  • New infrastructure options within the non-domestic rating system
  • The Broadband Stakeholders Group and the economics of fibre deployment
  • Digital technologies to transform the way we live and work
Speaker invitation extended to:Stephen Carter CBE, Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting, BERR
10:55 Questions and Answers
11:10 Coffee and Networking
11:40 Seminar Session One
12:40 Lunch
13:40 Seminar Session Two
14:40 Coffee and Networking
15:10 DWP and the Exploitation of Innovative Technology to Improve Public Services
  • The vast potential of innovative technology to improve public services
  • How DWP is transforming IT delivery for successful business innovation
  • Transforming supply arrangements and delivery efficiency
  • Real examples of delivery

Jobcentres
Customer information

Advanced telephony

  • Supporting the DWP change programme in transforming customer delivery
  • Working cross-Government to deliver service transformation

Tell us Once

Directgov

ID management

Government Gateway

Dean James, Chief Operating Officer, Department for Work and Pensions (CONFIRMED)

15:25 Sponsor Presentation
15:40 The Environment Agency: Leading the Green Agenda Across Government
  • The Green IT Working Group and the CTO Council
  • The most sustainable IT contract in Government
  • Sustainability and green impact embedded in every business case
  • Power management and efficient air conditioning
  • Smart and flexible contracts
  • Shared information and shared applications
  • Recycling of redundant PCs and IT equipment
  • The Pitt Review - data and information management
Dave Williams, Head of Technology and Innovation, The Environment Agency (CONFIRMED)
15:55 Closing Keynote Address: The Operational Efficiency Programme – Back Office and IT
  • The Operational Efficiency Programme
  • Building on the SR04 Efficiency Programme and CSR07 value for money programme
  • Finance and human resource functions
  • Achieving better value out of large IT projects
  • The potential to deliver large savings
Martin Read, Lead Back Office and IT Strand of the Operational Efficiency Programme, HM Treasury (CONFIRMED)
16:10 Closing Panel Session
Invited speakers:
  • Gary Ashby, Chief Executive, NHS Choices (CONFIRMED)
  • Bert Provan, CLG, Chair, Digital Challenge (CONFIRMED)
  • Adam Thilthorpe, Head of Professionalism at BCS (CONFIRMED)
  • Catalina McGregor, Ministry of Defence DE&S DSA, Chair Cabinet Office Green IT Delivery Unit  (CONFIRMED)
  • Phil Pavitt, Chief Information Officer, Transport for London (CONFIRMED)
  • David Smith, Deputy Commissioner, Information Commissioners Office (CONFIRMED)
Subject areas:
  • NHS Choices: Your Health, Your Choices
  • Future focus - where is green IT heading around the world
  • Professionalism
  • Website content management
  • Data security
  • Beyond transformational government
  • Local Government Transformation
  • The Power of Information Taskforce
  • Next generation networks – broadband review
  • Shared services
  • Digital Inclusion
16:50 Close of Conference
16:50 Drinks Reception
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