2026 Speakers & Co-Hosts
Government Transformation Summit brings together senior executives from across central and local government in a unique, award-winning discussion table format.
Samantha Jones
Permanent Secretary
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Chief AI Officer
Helen MacNamara
Former Deputy Cabinet Secretary
Richard Patterson
Chief Data and AI Officer, Bureau Of The Comptroller And Global Financial Services, US State Department
Cleo Watson
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to Boris Johnson
Katherine Williamson
Chief Data Officer
Jade Ackers
Director of Digital Transformation
Dr James Cook OBE
Director of People Transformation
Tina Churcher
Chief Digital and Information Officer
Chief AI Officer
Jeremy Gould
Deputy Director, Public Sector AI Delivery
Simon Price
Director of Insight, AI & Innovation
Nayyab Naqvi
Principal Technologist for AI Enablement in the UK Public Sector
Richard Baines
Deputy Director for Digital Delivery
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Digital Delivery Director
Chief Technology Officer
Sumitra Varma
Deputy Director, Probations Data
AI Research Engineer
Chief Data Officer
Sam Olsen
Executive Director Change and Innovation
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.
