NETWORKING & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Leaders' Night | Monday 23 June

100 senior leaders from across central and local government gather for our closed-door networking drinks and dinner discussion at the historic Church House in Westminster.

6:00 PM

Arrival & Networking Drinks

Unwind on the balcony overlooking Westminster Abbey with your government colleagues.

7:15 PM

Keynote Address:

The Road Ahead, by Christine Bellamy, Chief Product Officer, HM Government.

9:00 PM

Carriages

 

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Dinner

Take your seats and enjoy a three-course dinner with fellow public sector colleagues.

8:15 PM

Leaders' Panel

State of Digital Leadership in Government: From Technology to Transforming Outcomes

Panellists:
  • Honey Dacanay, Director General, Digital Policy, Government of Canada
  • Julian David, CEO, TechUK
  • Nick Bolton, CEO, Ordnance Survey
  • Richard Davies, UK Country Managing Partner, Netcompany

6:00 PM

Arrival & Networking Drinks

Unwind on the balcony overlooking Westminster Abbey with your government colleagues.

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Dinner

Take your seats and enjoy a three-course dinner with fellow public sector colleagues.

7:15 PM

Keynote Address:

The Road Ahead, by Christine Bellamy, Chief Product Officer, HM Government.

8:15 PM

Leaders' Panel

State of Digital Leadership in Government: From Technology to Transforming Outcomes

Panellists:
  • Honey Dacanay, Director General, Digital Policy, Government of Canada
  • Julian David, CEO, TechUK
  • Nick Bolton, CEO, Ordnance Survey
  • Richard Davies, UK Country Managing Partner, Netcompany

9:00 PM

Carriages

 

LEADERS' NIGHT

Those in Attendance

100 senior leaders from across central and local government gather for our closed-door networking drinks and dinner discussion at the historic Church House in Westminster.

Christine Bellamy

UK Government Chief Product Officer

Government Digital Service

Joanna Rowland

Director General, Customer Services Group

Home Office 

Emran Mian

Director General, Digital Technologies and Telecoms
 
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
 

James Mitton

Director General, Enterprise Transformation

HM Revenue & Customs

Liam Walsh

Chief Technology Officer

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Nick Bolton

Chief Executive Officer

Ordnance Survey

 

Julian David

Chief Executive Officer

TechUK

Shehroze Junejo

Executive Director and Chief Data Officer

UK Government Investments

Honey Dacanay

Director General, Digital Policy

Government of Canada

Keith Dargie

Chief Information & Digital Officer

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)

 

Katherine Williamson

Chief Data Officer

Department for Transport

Tom Smith

Director and Chief Data Officer

Deputy Prime Minister's Data Unit 

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

Simon King

Director of Public Sector AI Adoption

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Rizwana Parveen

Director/SRO, Fraud, Error & Debt Transformation programmes

Department for Work and Pensions

Laura Adams-Foskett

Transformation and Programme Director, Defence Medical Services

Ministry of Defence

Colin Shaw

Director of Service Transformation

Ministry of Justice

Ruth Studley

Programme Director of Workplace Transformation

Department for Work and Pensions

Esra Kasapoglu

Director of AI and Digital Economy

Innovate UK

Eddie Copeland

Director

London Office of Technology and Innovation

Simon Short

Director of Data and Analytics

Homes England

Dr Kate Marks OBE

Deputy Director

Environment Agency

Jeremy Gould

Chief Digital Officer

Homes England

Sarah Rose

Deputy Director, Digital Justice System

Ministry of Justice

Tim Ketton-Locke

Deputy Director of Digital Exploitation

Ministry of Defence

Lucia Webster

Deputy Director of Government Grants Management Function

Cabinet Office

Olivia Labonté

Deputy Director Performance and Assurance

Government Digital Service 

Carla Groom

Deputy Director and Head of Human Centred Design

Department for Work and Pensions

Madelaine Simpkin

Deputy Director, Corporate Transformation

Department for Work and Pensions

Richard Baines

Deputy Director, Digital Delivery

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Ivana Gordon

Deputy Director of Government Commercial and Grants Services

Cabinet Office

Tina Churcher

Chief Delivery Officer

The Driving Standards Agency

Martin Waudby

Chief Data Officer

London Borough of Camden

Fiona Murray

Deputy Director, Shared Services & Enterprise Resource Platform Implementation

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

Matthew Lyon

Chief Analyst

Government Digital Service

Euan Slack

Director of Central Digital Platform

Cabinet Office

 

John Fitzpatrick

Director for Digital Operations

Government Digital Service 

Sarah Williams

Chief Customer Officer

Westminster Council

Ade Bamigboye

Chief Technology Officer

Kensington and Chelsea Council

Lee Dunn

Head of Digital and Data Profession and Scottish Digital Academy

Scottish Government

Alexis Castillo-Soto

Group Deputy Director, Digital Mission and Transformation,

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Department for Science Innovation and Technology

Eilidh McLaughlin

Deputy Director, Digital Ethics, Inclusion and Assurance

Scottish Government

Aravindhan Rajasekar

Principal Architect for Group Corporate Services

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Jenny Sime

Deputy Director

Cabinet Office

Andy Tyack

Deputy Director for Delivery

Department for Work and Pensions, Digital 

 

Julia Howes

Deputy Director of AI

Ministry of Justice

Fiona Murray

Deputy Director, Shared Services & Enterprise Resource Platform Implementation

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

 

Jonathan Cairns-Terry

Deputy Director of Insight Products

Care Quality Commission

Karen McLuskie

Deputy Director, Tech Adoption Review

Department for Business and Trade

Simon Navin

Head of Geospatial Services

Ordnance Survey

Patrick Rickles

Head of Digital Skills and Innovation

North Sea Transition Authority

Justin Placide

Head of Net Zero Governance, Ministerial Briefing and Fiscal Events

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Selina Holliday

Head of User Centred Design 

Greater London Authority

Heather Cover-Kus

Head of Central Government 

techUK

Adam Bricknell

Head of Advanced Analytics

HM Treasury 

 

Verity Hislop

Senior Project Manager

Digital Office for Scottish Local Government

Duncan Brown

Head of Software Engineering

Incubator for AI

Lara Pullen

Innovation Programme Delivery Manager

HM Treasury

 

 

Matt Goodman

Head of External Affairs

Ordnance Survey

Meera Nayyar

Head of Passenger Experience

Department for Transport

 

 

Sumitra Varma

Head of Engineering

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Claire Donaldson

Innovation Hub Co-Founder and Lead
 
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
 

 

 

Gus Tugendhat

Founder

Tussell

Chris Page

AI Research Engineer

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Graham Lewis

 Sales Director & Public Sector Lead EMEA North

Hyland: 

 

Steve Baird

EVP, Chief Revenue Officer

Hyland 

 

 

Chris Royles

Field CTO

Cloudera

 

James Underhill

Senior Government Account Director, Cloudera

Liz Whitefield

Director and Co-Founder

Hippo Digital

Kayliegh Sugden

Client Director

Hippo Digital:

Leona Chauhan

CEO

UK Oracle User Group

 

Fiona McAdoo

Transformation Director

Oracle 

Natasha Porter

Service Transformation Lead

Clarasys

 

Mark Dunwell

UK & US Head of Public Sector

Clarasys

Simon Ferriter

CEO

Anmut

 

James Miller

Director of Data and Analytics

Anmut

 

 

Dan Jones

Head of Government,

Adobe Digital Experience, UK

 

 

 

Bev Wright

Head of UK Public Sector, Digital Experience,

Adobe

 

 

Nico Iannotti_eightfold_Manager_Solution Consulting

Nico Iannotti

Manager, Solution Consulting

Eightfold

 

 

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Making a Difference

We are grateful to the members of our Leaders' Network - a group of exceptional public sector practitioners and thought leaders from the UK public sector and around the world - for their active counsel and support of our mission to enable transformational government outcomes.