Get a whole year’s worth of meetings completed at just one show, with a vast array of organisations on the exhibition floor, including a Government Village. With the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), Government Digital and Data and Government Digital Service (GDS) all exhibiting, this is your chance to make connections, learn from colleagues and collaborate with new departments.

Let the matchmaking platform do the work for you, suggesting the best people to meet with. Book meetings with your peers in the TechConnect Lounge to help advance your career, share challenges and collaborate for future success.

For delegates attending Day 1 and Day 2, there will be a prize draw around 4pm on 25th September. The lucky winners will be notified via the app. Main prize is the Meta Raybans. Prizes for runners up include; Travel & Accommodation paid for next year’s event, and £100 Amazon Voucher!

Must attend both days of the event to be eligible.

Develop your skills with the support of The Open Data Institute’s expert trainers providing mini-courses to help get more value from data across Day 1 and 2!

Analyse your current approaches to data literacy, identify imbalances of skills, and address gaps in data literacy across your organisation. There’ll also be the opportunity to challenge your colleagues on their data skills by playing their popular game – Datopolis!

Across the 2 days, our partners at techUK are running 4 episodes of their ever-growing TechTalks podcast, with distinguished tech experts. As a delegate, you can stop by and listen in, but you’ll also receive the recordings post-event - for some listening on the go!

Socitm, the society for Innovation, Technology and Modernisation, are providing delegates an in-depth review of the challenges the public sector face alongside case studies from Local Councils which you can take away and use as a blueprint for your digital transformations.

This is your chance to directly plug into others’ project successes.

How accessible is your organisation’s website? Head over to see our experts, AllAble, near the Citizen Experience Theatre as they host a drop in Empathy Lab, which is a chance to get hands on with a range of assistive technologies and other disability support equipment as well as chat with our expert trainers on any and all accessibility questions you may have. This is an opportunity to have some serious 1-2-1 chats with our experts who can direct you to useful resources and support options for any accessibility needs.

Get practicing your swing and immerse yourself in the world of virtual reality by taking part in our VR Golf. Take some time to get the headset on and challenge your team to a round of golf but not as you know it!

Get everything you need to have a successful DigiGov Expo, in your pocket, with our event app.

Use the app to create a personalised agenda, set up meetings with delegates, speakers, and sponsors, be involved in voting and Q&A during sessions and much more.

The DigiGov Expo app will save you time, help you streamline your networking and supplier selection!

Share your thoughts and key ideas for the future of tech on our interactive post-it note boards - and read what others from across all levels and departments of the public sector also had to say!

Head over to stand C15 to meet the tmc3 team, where they’ll be offering delegates the chance to play an interactive challenge to solve their surprise and win a prize! They’ll also be offering the chance to win an impressive LEGO® set!

Head over to see Odigo on stand C26 as for every demo they do at DigiGov Expo, they’ll plant a tree!

Enjoy their state-of-the-art solutions and save the planet at the same time.

Swing by Stand D12 to visit Neem who have developed an AI self-portrait generator! You can draw a self-portrait (don’t worry you don’t have to be Van Gogh to take part) and you’ll watch AI generate an enhanced version – right in front of you! The best (or funniest!) one at DigiGov Expo will win an iPad!

They’ve also got some great giveaways, so make sure you get chatting to the Neem team!

Return to the Wild West by visiting Cloud Direct on Stand A23! Come and chat with them about how they can help you navigate the new frontier of digital transformation and take home your very own desktop cactus plant! They will also be hosting a happy hour, with saloon doors open between 1 pm and 2 pm. While you’re there, see if you have the fastest hand in the land on their Digital Whack-A-Mole game and you could take home a prize!

Stop by stand B13 to get a free barista coffee and chocolate with Appian! Once you’re suitably caffeinated, take part in their competition to guess the total number of sweets in the jar and be in with the chance to win some epic prizes including: a year-long membership to Everyman Cinema and a week’s worth of Hello Fresh Vouchers! While you’re there, get chatting to the team about the Appian Platform and to Coforge about their digital services and solutions.

The IT industry is a stressful one. We know how difficult it can be to switch off. The demanding, fast-paced nature of IT work, combined with long hours and sedentary work conditions, can lead to stress and burnout. From software programmers to infrastructure engineers and programme managers; the analytical brain is constantly on fire. This can easily lead to burn out and lengthy recovery times.

By incorporating mindfulness into daily routines, IT professionals can enhance focus, improve productivity, and reduce stress. Mindfulness helps to cultivate a more relaxed, present state of mind, leading to better problem-solving abilities and decision-making.

enCircle will be offering a 10 minute guided meditation booth for delegates to try out, with a free eye mask to take home. They’ll also be handing out wildflower seed bombs to help increase biodiversity and tackle climate change. Take part on stand A1.

Step right up with Goaco and immerse yourself in a world where technology meets magic! Prepare to be amazed by a spellbound performance by Andrew Murray that will leave you believing in the power of innovation. Come to stand D21 and engage with our experts about cutting-edge technologies shaping the future of your industry. Let's shape the future together, one spell at a time!

70% of IT projects fail to meet expectations, mainly because the methods and approaches used to date have not been specifically designed for optimising the value IT can bring to an organisation. CEO, David Jacobs, has run a 30-year research and development programme on IT business value maximisation that has yielded the uniquely powerful Business Value Maximisation Framework (BVMF)®.

BVMF® underpins other methods like agile, waterfall, wagile, Prince2, etc. making them hugely more effective, working with them rather than replacing them, that’s the beauty. MaxVal will be running a continual walk-in Advice Clinic where visitors can bring their IT and digital transformation challenges. On May 9th in the afternoon, David will present on BVMF®’s power in the Citizen Experience Theatre – hear how now is the time to reach for higher levels of return. Come and see BVMF® for yourself at MaxVal Consultancy’s stand (B3). Swing by to pick up some chocolate and speak to the team about your challenges on stand B3.