2026 Speakers & Co-Hosts
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James Mitton
Director General, Enterprise Transformation
Lucy Vickers
Chief Data Officer
Annette Southgate
Head of S&T and ACE (Accelerated Capability Environment)
2025 Speakers & Co-Hosts
Andrew Western MP
Minister for Transformation
Department for Work and Pensions
Christine Bellamy
UK Government Chief Product Officer
Government Digital Service
James Mitton
Director General, Enterprise Transformation
HM Revenue & Customs
Honey Dacanay
Director General, Digital Policy
Government of Canada
Lucy Vickers
Chief Data Officer
Department for Health and Social Care
Anaïs Reding
Chief Digital Officer
Department for Business and Trade
Liam Walsh
Chief Technology Officer
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Mark Gray
Chief Transformation & Technology Officer
HM Land Registry
Katherine Williamson
Chief Data Officer
Department for Transport
Martin Waudby
Chief Data Officer
London Borough of Camden
Shehroze Junejo
Executive Director and Chief Data Officer
UK Government Investments
Nick Bolton
Chief Executive Officer
Ordnance Survey
Diane Barlow
Diane Barlow, Chief Information Officer
Food Standards Agency
Rich Wentel
COO and Director of Services, Public Sector Fraud Authority
Cabinet Office
Ade Bamigboye
Chief Technology Officer
Kensington and Chelsea Council
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Keith Dargie
Chief Information & Digital Officer
Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)
Katy Beale
Chief Delivery and Engagement Officer
Westminster City Council
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Charles Baird
Chief Data Architect
Office for National Statistics
Simon King
Director of Public Sector AI Adoption
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Sarah Ormerod
Programme Director, Passport Transformation Programme
Home Office
Euan Slack
Director of Central Digital Platform
Cabinet Office
Laura Adams-Foskett
Transformation and Programme Director, Defence Medical Services
Ministry of Defence
Colin Shaw
Director of Service Transformation
Ministry of Justice
Nic Granger
Chief Information Officer and Chief Finance Officer
North Sea Transition Authority
Sholthana Begum
Sholthana Begum, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Director - Technology and Digital
Competition Markets Authority
Lisa Allen
Director of Data
The Pensions Regulator
Jeremy Gould
Chief Digital Officer
Homes England
Dimitris Perdikou
Chief Engineer
HM Government
Ruth Studley
Programme Director of Workplace Transformation
Department for Work and Pensions
Sarah Williams
Chief Customer Officer
Westminster Council
Eddie Copeland
Director
London Office of Technology and Innovation
Dr Kate Marks OBE
Deputy Director
Environment Agency
Sarah Rose
Deputy Director, Digital Justice System
Ministry of Justice
Tim Ketton-Locke
Deputy Director of Digital Exploitation
Ministry of Defence
Dan Tippell
Deputy Director for Service Management
Home Office
Lucia Webster
Deputy Director of Government Grants Management Function
Cabinet Office
Olivia Labonté
Deputy Director Performance and Assurance
Government Digital Service
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
Justin Placide
Head of Net Zero Governance, Ministerial Briefing and Fiscal Events
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Matthew Lyon
Chief Analyst
Government Digital Service
Julia Howes
Deputy Director of AI Adoption and Measurement
Ministry of Justice
Sam Kinsey-Briggs
Chief Scrum Master, Deputy Director People Transformation
Ministry of Defence
Dr Carla Groom
Deputy Director of Human Centred Design Science
Department for Work and Pensions
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Rob Malcomson
Deputy Director of Data, Analytics and AI,
Public Sector Fraud Authority
Cabinet Office
Alexis Castillo-Soto
Group Deputy Director, Digital Mission and Transformation,
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
Department for Science Innovation and Technology
Chris Darriet-Jones
Chief Data Architect
Post Office
James Freed
Deputy Director, NHS Digital Academy
NHS England
Corrine Richardson
Deputy Director, Head of Data Engineering
Department for Education
Siobhan Dennehy
Deputy Director for Digital Competition, Analysis, and Smart Data
Department of Business and Trade
Kate Caulkin
Director of People and Operational Management Insights
National Audit Office
Andy Tyack
Deputy Director for Delivery
Department for Work and Pensions, Digital
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Fiona Murray
Deputy Director, Shared Services & Enterprise Resource Platform Implementation
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Cathy Dutton
Deputy Director, Service Design & Delivery
Department for Education
Simon Short
Director of Data and Analytics
Homes England
Lee Dunn
Head of Digital and Data Profession and Scottish Digital Academy
Scottish Government
Sam Rose
Sam Rose, Deputy Director Advanced Analytics
Department for Transport
Esra Kasapoglu
Director of AI and Digital Economy
Innovate UK
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
Chris Harvey
Head of Product and Services
Ministry of Defence
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Thomas Beautyman
Deputy Director, Government Digital Capability
Government Digital Service
Jonathan Cairns-Terry
Deputy Director of Insight Products
Care Quality Commission
Jennifer Bruce
Head of Data Strategy and Data Governance
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Praveen Tomar
Head of Data Automation
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets
Verity Hislop
Senior Project Manager
Digital Office for Scottish Local Government
Simon Navin
Head of Geospatial Services
Ordnance Survey
Patrick Rickles
Head of Digital Skills and Innovation
North Sea Transition Authority
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
Nayyab Naqvi
Principal Technologist for AI
Government Digital Service
Paul Thomas
Head of Technology Services
Department for Business and Trade
Sarah Lyons
Head of Transformation
Ministry of Justice
Duncan Brown
Head of Software Engineering
Incubator for AI
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Lara Pullen
Innovation Programme Delivery Manager
HM Treasury
Meera Nayyar
Head of Passenger Experience
Department for Transport
Patrick Haston
Head of Cloud Transformation
Cabinet Office
Caity Rice
Head of Data Access and Platforms
Department of Health and Social Care
Craig Martin
Fraud Analytics Lead & Head of Programme
Cabinet Office
Professor Eldrid Jordaan
CEO
Supple PLC
Sumitra Varma
Head of Engineering
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Wendy Stubbs
Head of Advanced Customer Support Transformation
Department for Work and Pensions
Making a Difference
