Agenda

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• Building a new data-driven infrastructure to boost public sector transformation that will establish collaborative way of working and distribute authority to the frontline
• National Data Strategy: the latest updates and next steps in reforming Government’s relationship with data
• Establishing reliable digital ID services in the UK to unlock the UK’s digital infrastructure potential and digital identity economy – the latest consultation updates for a trust framework
• The impact of Covid on the digital strategies in the public sector

• National Data Strategy: using data to improve the citizen experience
• According to the latest public consultation what steps must be taken and how far are we with the creation of an appropriately safeguarded, joined-up and interoperable data infrastructure?
• What were the first steps taken by Data Standards Authority (DSA) to make data shareable and accessible across government services?
• How to leverage a shared data model and support an open and transparent data infrastructure across the government?
• How should the risks be managed to protect both internal and external data through a robust governance process?
• How to ensure the use of ethical open and consistent data to design better services around user needs?
• Updated Data Ethics Framework: How to ensure every proposed approach is proportionate and ethical? Is the proposed right for the purpose and better value than other solutions?

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• The power of data to improve outcomes for patients and service users
• Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 response
• Locking in beneficial change – areas of policy reform and review
• Legislative change to enable the safe sharing of data in support of individual care, population health and the effective functioning of the system
• The implementation plan to achieve the ultimate goal of a system underpinned by high quality, readily available data

• COVID-19 has accelerated digital communication, but regular security was left behind.
  • Communication with staff, partners, citizens, suppliers – it’s all gone electronic and has required volumes of data to be shared securely, often within existing email services.
• Secure digital communication can lower cost, increase efficiency and improve stakeholder satisfaction.
  • But only if it is intuitive, flexible and reflects how we work.
• Learn from use cases how international public sector organisations successfully embraced digital communication.
  • Planning, risk mitigation, cost control, take-up and end result of more secure collaboration.
• Learn what the ingredients are to a successful implementation and use of future proof digital communication.
  • Practical advice from organisations that have done it successfully, ‘warts and all’.

• How will the latest regulatory updates and new consumer protection legislation support the use of digital identities across the UK?
• What suitable privacy and technical standards should be in place to allow interoperability and establish individuals’ rights over the use of their digital IDs?
• What is IAX and will it solve the government’s need for a seamless, usable, secure, citizen identity and develop digital identity market in the UK?
• What digital identity projects local authorities are working on and what levels of expertise and further resources they would require sourcing to continue?
• How to build trust, transparency and clarity for those who want to trust digital identities and those who want to be creating them with their citizens?

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Choose the sessions that best suit your interests this afternoon, as we break out into three streams – Central Government, Local Government and Health and Social Care

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• What has the Covid experience taught us about the role of data in local government? How can data help fulfil our future vision for public services?
• What capabilities do councils most need to derive value from data; both individually and in collaboration with other organisations?
• What sources and uses of data should now be considered strategic priorities for councils?
• How can more ambitious uses of data be conducted in a way that is worthy of citizens’ trust?

• What lessons were learned from the unexpected change in strategic direction and what are the priorities for 2021?
• Sustaining public sector transformation beyond Covid-19 crisis: How to retain the speed of change and continue harnessing data, shifting processes and services transformation?
• How can governments best achieve progress on the data front taking into consideration the role of the centre and workforce capabilities?
• Digital healthcare enabling more care at home during the pandemic and beyond
• Continuing to build digital skills across the public sector for better decision making, effective working, better citizen outcomes

• Evolving your technology and digital approach from a focus on products to solutions, service and outcomes
• Achieving great value technology and digital outcomes through standardisation and aggregation
• Maximising your supply chain – understanding the role of channel partners in service bundling, consolidation and innovation

• How to increase digital maturity across education, innovation, health and social care, economic resilience, and sustainability in order to build a digitally enabled state?
• Has being digitally mature become a requirement of a good government that is able to leverage the use of data to address crises, such as the Covid-19?
• What standards of data governance are required for digitally enabled state?
• Keeping the momentum: What are the best practices in increasing adoption rates and political buy-in for new initiatives and technologies?
• Leading government technology labs: What core technologies are currently being used and developed by government technology companies?
• Cooperating internationally on digital governance issues: What code sharing, cross-border interoperability and cross-border services has been proven successful and how else can quick peer-learning and idea sharing be facilitated?

• How different departments adjusted to remote working and what worked to improve employee experience, productivity and create collaboration?
• What are the measures that government departments are implementing to boost digital education, skills and use of data?
• How to deal with employee resistance and build trust in the systems that are being used?
• Embarking on application modernisation initiatives across public sector is on the agenda for a few years ahead: How to close the skills gap and attract the right candidates to deploy new enterprise software in public services?

• Technology, data management and security, generational gaps, diversity and inclusion: How to build coherent organisational culture combining different dynamics?
• How to allow the entire authority to be innovative and what procedures should be in place to facilitate innovation?
• How to help people to operate in the fast-changing environment and create adaptive and innovative teams?
• How to review the essential staff skills for the emerging tech and revamped processes?