Interactive Workshop | Government Transformation Summit

Interactive Workshop: Unlocking Efficiency with AI & Automation

Bishop Partridge Hall | 25 June 2025 | In partnership with Government Digital Service, AWS, and Snowflake

£36 Billion in Savings. 143 Million Opportunities. One Urgent Conversation.

The Government manages over a billion citizen-facing transactions each year. Around 143 million of these are complex and repetitive - making them ideal candidates for automation. According to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Feryal Clark, simplifying and automating public services could unlock £36 billion in savings.

Hosted by Government Transformation Magazine, this exclusive workshop convenes a targeted group of senior civil servants to explore how AI and automation can help realise this opportunity - improving productivity, reducing complexity, and delivering smarter public services at scale.

Please note that registrations for the Workshop are now closed.

Workshop Partners

What to Expect

Examine real-world deployments of AI and automation across government
Participate in hands-on roundtable discussions tailored to your department’s maturity level
Experience live demos of next-generation productivity tools from Amazon Web Services and Snowflake
Collaboratively identify priority areas for automation and define clear next steps for action

Why Attend?

Understand what’s possible – Learn how emerging technologies are already transforming public service delivery
Connect with peers – Engage in candid, cross-departmental discussions about shared challenges and opportunities
Shape your strategy – Identify automation priorities and leave with 2–3 actionable steps to drive progress
Stay ahead of the curve – Be part of the government’s growing effort to harness LLMs and automation at scale

Interactive Workshop Agenda

1:30 PM

Lunch

Sit down lunch provided by the award-winning catering team of Church House - with vegan options available.

2:45 PM - 3:10 PM

GDS Presentation: Broad Challenges and Opportunities in AI and Automation

Presenters:

Matthew Lyon, Chief Analyst, GDS
Dimitris Perdikou, Chief Engineer, DSIT
AWS and Snowflake

Topic to be discussed: Understanding the current landscape of AI and automation in government, highlighting specific potential for LLMs.

3:45 PM - 4:20 PM

Second Roundtable Discussion: Applying Automation and AI Solutions

Each table reflects back at their main barriers to adopting and scaling AI-driven approaches to productivity and works to identify mitigations and solutions. Questions to be discussed:

Question 1: What processes within your organisation could benefit most from automation? What would be the far-reaching benefits?
Question 2: How can immediate challenges to scaling AI-driven solutions be addressed?

4:40 PM - 4:50 PM

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Facilitator summarises the workshop outcomes
Participants share key takeaways and action points
Closing remarks and information on follow-up resources/support.

2:35 PM - 2:45 PM

AWS Welcome and Introduction

AWS introduction to the workshop theme and expected outcomes: leveraging automation and AI to enhance productivity and streamline operations.

3:10 PM - 3:45 PM

First Roundtable Discussion: Identifying Priorities for Automation

Each roundtable explores opportunities for automation in their organisations covering these two questions:

Question 1: What are the maturity stages of their organisation to AI and GenAI capabilities?
Question 2: What are organisation’s main barriers to adoption and scaling agentic AI solutions for productivity?

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

AWS & Snowflake Presentation: Case study presentation & Q&A

1:30 PM

Lunch

Sit down lunch provided by the award-winning catering team of Church House - with vegan options available.

2:35 PM - 2:45 PM

AWS Welcome and Introduction

AWS introduction to the workshop theme and expected outcomes: leveraging automation and AI to enhance productivity and streamline operations.

2:45 PM - 3:10 PM

GDS Presentation: Broad Challenges and Opportunities in AI and Automation

Presenters:

Matthew Lyon, Chief Analyst, GDS
Dimitris Perdikou, Chief Engineer, DSIT
AWS and Snowflake

Topic to be discussed: Understanding the current landscape of AI and automation in government, highlighting specific potential for LLMs.

3:10 PM - 3:45 PM

First Roundtable Discussion: Identifying Priorities for Automation

Each roundtable explores opportunities for automation in their organisations covering these two questions:

Question 1: What are the maturity stages of their organisation to AI and GenAI capabilities?
Question 2: What are organisation’s main barriers to adoption and scaling agentic AI solutions for productivity?

3:45 PM - 4:20 PM

Second Roundtable Discussion: Applying Automation and AI Solutions

Each table reflects back at their main barriers to adopting and scaling AI-driven approaches to productivity and works to identify mitigations and solutions. Questions to be discussed:

Question 1: What processes within your organisation could benefit most from automation? What would be the far-reaching benefits?
Question 2: How can immediate challenges to scaling AI-driven solutions be addressed?

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM

AWS & Snowflake Presentation: Case study presentation & Q&A

4:40 PM - 4:50 PM

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Facilitator summarises the workshop outcomes
Participants share key takeaways and action points
Closing remarks and information on follow-up resources/support.

Workshop Attendees

Matt Lyon

Chief Analyst

Government Digital Service

Dimitris Perdikou

Chief Engineer

UK Government

Fawad Qureshi

Global Field CTO, Platform Adoption

Snowflake

Martin Bishop

Chief Technologist for UK Public Sector

AWS

Paul Heather

Regional Director, UK & Ireland

Snowflake

Alastair Lloyd

Enterprise Account Manager- Central Government

AWS

Varun Khandelwal

Principal AI Specialist

Snowflake

Sushil Shah

Senior Solutions Architect

AWS

Lisa Allen

Director of Data

The Pensions Regulator

Julia Howes

Deputy Director of AI Adoption and Measurement

Ministry of Justice

Olivia Labonté

Deputy Director Performance and Assurance

Government Digital Service

Alexis Castillo-Soto

Group Deputy Director, Digital Mission and Transformation

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero and Department for Science Innovation and Technology

Tina Churcher

Chief Delivery Officer

The Driving Standards Agency

Richard Baines

Deputy Director, Digital Delivery

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Fiona Murray

Deputy Director, Shared Services & Enterprise Resource Platform Implementation

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

Ivana Gordon

Deputy Director Government, Commercial and Grants Services

Cabinet Office

Paul Warner

Principal Engineer

Home Office

Aravindhan Rajasekar

Principal Architect for Group Corporate Services

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Lee Dunn

Head of Digital and Data Profession and Scottish Digital Academy

Scottish Government

Jennifer Bruce

Head of Data Strategy and Data Governance

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Paul Thomas

Head of Technology Services

Department for Business and Trade

Justin Placide

Head of Net Zero Governance, Ministerial Briefing and Fiscal Events

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Patrick Haston

Head of Cloud Transformation

Cabinet Office

Lara Pullen

Innovation Programme Delivery Manager

HM Treasury

Saasha Nair

Senior Tech Policy Advisor (AI)

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Praveen Tomar

Head of Data Automation

Ofgem

Chris Page

AI Research Engineer

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Sumitra Varma

Head of Engineering

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

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.