Click on the session titles to download the presentation slides we have permission to share from sessions at DigiGov 2026, which took place on 23rd and 24th September at Excel, London.

Digital Foundations Theatre

• The Human Side of AI Transformation: Alignment, Trust, and Impact

  • Niall O Beaglaoi, AVP, Mural

• From Data Sovereignty to AI Readiness: Know What Your Data Holds

  • Olly Haywood, Principal Technology Strategist, Everpure

• Starting from Scratch: Building Scalable Foundations for the Future of Local Government

  • Cllr. Ben Taylor, Leader of the Council, Blaby District Council

  • James Hickens, ICT Operations Manager, Blaby District Council

  • Lisa Boland, Assistant Director, Transformation and ICT, Blaby District Council

  • Mike Connell, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Blaby District Council

• From Digital Procurement Levers to Market Action

  • Victoria Cope, Commercial Director, Digital and Data, Ministry of Defence

• Legacy Systems: The Relatives We Can’t Uninvite

  • Gary McAllister, Chief Digital Officer for EMEA, Dell Technologies

• Trusted Infrastructure for Sovereign AI: Policy-Driven Automation for Secure and Resilient Government Services

  • Gerhard Kruger, Senior Director of Sales Engineering, Perforce Puppet

• HMRC’s Path case-study Pioneering faster transformation

  • Jane Watson, Programme Delivery Manager, Chief Digital and Information Office (CDIO), HM Revenue & Customs

  • Phil Scorer, Deputy Director CDIO Organisational Transformation, HM Revenue & Customs

  • Tom Skalycz, Chief Technology and Design Office (CT&DO) and Path Director, HM Revenue & Customs

• From Grassroots to System Value: Building Digital Infrastructure Around Resident Doctors

  • Dr Joe Hogan, Anaesthetics Registrar, London School of Anaesthesia

  • Dr Joe Lipton, Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead Consultant, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and Generic Professional Capabilities Hub

Citizen Experience Theatre

• Benchmarking Government Readiness for the AI Era

  • Simon Murray, Principal Engagement Manager, Digital Strategy, Adobe

• Citizen Engagement: From Reactive Cost to Proactive Experience

  • Benny Bowen, Portfolio Solutions Engineer, NiCE

• Orchestrating the Future: How Agentic AI Can Drive Smarter Public Services

  • Andrew Simpson, Head of UK Public Sector, Camunda

  • Richard Flint, Head of AI and Data, Casci

  • Toby Cook, Co-Founder and CTO, Casci

• Innovation from a City Perspective

  • Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer, Greater London Authority

• Citizens Don’t See Departments: Cross-Sector Ideas for Joined-Up Public Services

  • Alex Wodzicki, Head of AI Centre of Excellence, SEGRO

  • Jennifer Duffy, Head of Innovation & Platform Delivery, HCLSoftware

  • Sarah Corbridge, Head of IT and Digital Services, Regulator of Social Housing

• One Outcome, Many Teams: Delivering Driving Test Booking Reform through Cross-Government Collaboration

  • Christian Oreschnick, Senior Responsible Owner (SRO) for the Driver Waiting Times Initiative (DWTI), Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)

  • Olivia Roe, Senior Strategic Communications Manager, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)

  • Pete Hopkinson, Portfolio Delivery Manager, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)

  • Terry Walker, Head of Cyber Security Assurance, Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA)

• Governing in the Age of AI: From Ambition to Citizen Outcomes

  • Dr Matthew Howard, Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

    GovTech Theatre

• The Strategic Fork: Why AI Pilots Stall and What Comes Next

  • Chris Pannell, VP of AI, Data & Communication Platforms, Salesforce

• When Process Works, Public Services Work: How the Cabinet Office is transforming processes with Celonis

  • Ben McCrorie, Process Transformation, Shared Services for Government, Cabinet Office

  • Verity Buchanan, Account Executive, Celonis

• Agentic AI and Intelligent Automation: Unlocking Potential through Sharing

  • Lisa Allen, Director of Data Services, Digital, Data and Technology, The Pension Regulator

• From Overloaded to Empowered: Transforming Public Services Through Applied AI

  • Emma Ockelford, Founder and CEO, Outcomes Matter Consulting

  • Rajamani Saravanan, SVP Head of Engineering, HGS

  • Rob Irons, VP Public Sector, HGS

  • Shirley Ellis, Social Worker, Ealing Council

• Legacy Transformation Using AI in the Public Sector

  • Tarun Chawla, Senior Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• From Identifying the Problems to Using AI to Transform your Delivery

  • Rt Hon Lucy Frazer, Senior Advisor, Legora

  • Anthony Vittadini, Legal Director, TLT

• Frontier AI in Government: A Pilot-Led Approach to Procurement and Value

  • Louise Farnes, Software Category Manager, Government Commercial Agency (GCA)

  • Monish Mehmi, Commercial Lead, Government Commercial Agency (GCA)

    Cyber Security Theatre

• What If? Four Possible Futures for AI and What They Could Mean for Cyber Security in Public Sector?

  • Matt Saville, UK Government and Public Sector Cyber Lead, Ernst & Young LLP

  • Sarah Rench, AI, Security & Microsoft Alliances, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP

• Have you Prepared? The New Rules of Recovery and Resilience

  • Grant Dinning, Senior Manager Sales Engineering, Rubrik

• The Limits of the Mandate

  • Breandán Knowlton-Hung, Deputy Director for Cyber Solutions, Government Cyber Unit

• The Human Risk Blind Spot in Public Sector Cyber Security

  • Jas Purewal, Cyber Consultant, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

  • Luke Noonan, VP of Sales UK, MetaCompliance

• Dispatches From the Front Line in Cyber Security

  • Simon Clayton-Mitchell, Head of Cyber Security, Merton Council

• How to be Simply Resilient: Preparing for Recovery in the Ransomware Age

  • Pete Hannah, Vice President of Sales, Northern Europe, Object First

• Resilient by Design: Protecting the Data

  • Chris Roberts, Senior Director, Public Sector UK, NetApp

    TechShuffle Theatre

• AI-Ready Government Starts with AI-Ready People

  • Essam Elhalhuli, Senior Enterprise Account Director, Coursera + Udemy

• More Analysis, Less Waste: Reimagining EUC in Government

  • Emilie MacMullen, Cloud Based Analytical Service Product and Infrastructure Lead, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

  • Liam Birch, Head of Public Sector, Nerdio

• The Listening Gap: Turning Public Response into Public Proof

  • Nick Travers, Chief Operating Officer, SmartSurvey

• Beyond the Pilot: Six Steps to AI Transformation That Actually Stick

  • David Parkinson, Chief Executive Officer, Brave & Heart

• AI Native Telecoms: Building the Foundations of Trust

  • Dr Charles Turyagyenda, Principal Technologist, Future Networks, Digital Catapult

• Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty: How Open Infrastructure Secures and Funds Public Sector AI

  • Cédric Gégout, VP of Product, Canonical

• From Automation to Autonomy: How Agents Transform Public Procurement, From Requisition Intake to Goods Receipt

  • Jakob Reuschlein, Vice President Customers, Procure Ai

AI Theatre

• The Agentic State: Platform for AI in the Public Sector

  • Nadav Mordechai, Director of Product and Strategy, Elsewhen

• AI Won’t Fix Your PMO, but It Can Make a Good One Smarter: A fireside conversation with DFTO and Cheetah Transformation on building the foundations for smarter decision-making with Smartsheet

  • Tim Saunders, Head of AI & Technology, Cheetah Transformation (Smartsheet Elite Partner)

  • Sam Fowler, Head of PMO, Department for Transport Operator (DFTO)

• The AI Adoption Gap: What's Holding Public Sector Organisations Back?

  • Laura Watts, Marketing Manager, Verto

  • Natasha Osborne, Head of Client Success, Verto

  • Neil Pragnell, Head of Portfolio Delivery, NHS Business Service Authority

  • Ross Mardell, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, Verto

• From Spreadsheets to Systems: What AI Adoption Actually Looks Like in Public Sector Finance

  • Ivan Carbonel, Account Executive Government EMEA, DataSnipper

• AI to Algorithms: What's Actually Running your Network

  • Elliot Townsend, Enterprise AI GTM, HPE Networking

• Beyond AI Pilots: Redesigning Government for the Agentic Era

  • Cláudia De Gouveia-Macedo, Director, EMEA Customer Transformation, PwC Netherlands

  • Rob Howard, Managing Director, PwC UK

• Transforming How Governments Serve Citizens Through Voice AI

  • Oscar Lemmens, Deployment Lead, Eleven Labs

• How Far Should AI go in Public Sector Decision-Making?

  • Russell Goodenough, Head of Artificial Intelligence, CGI

  • John Keers, Director of the Centre for Legal Technology, Ulster University

Local Gov Hub

• Driving User-Centred Design and Digital Transformation with LocalGov Drupal

  • Jayvik Patel, Strategic Digital Services Manager, Luton Borough Council

  • Tim Hunt, Communications Lead, LocalGov Drupal

  • Will Callaghan, Product Lead, LocalGov Drupal

• Empowering Frontline Teams to Use AI to Increase Capacity and Improve Care

  • Amisha Chauhan, Digital Innovation Manager, Digital Strategy & Delivery, Lancashire County Council

• Accessibility at the Speed of AI

  • Will Sutton, Head of Innovation and Service Delivery, AbilityNet

• MHCLG Local Digital: An Interactive Session Exploring our Digital Work with Councils

  • Ellie Brown, Senior Product Manager, Local Digital (MHCLG)

  • Glen Ocsko, Supplier Engagement Specialist, Local Digital (MHCLG)

  • Kayleigh Thompson, Senior Product Manager, Local Digital (MHCLG)

  • Keiran Jones, Commercial Lead, Local Digital (MHCLG)

• Tapping into Talent: Driving Low-Risk, High-Impact Public Sector Innovation via the KCL AWS Impact Accelerator

  • Dr Johanna Walker, Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Informatics, King's College London

• Digital Tools in Planning: From Innovation to Delivery at Westminster

  • Annette Davis, Principal Whole Life Carbon Officer Town Planning & Building Control, Regeneration, Economy & Planning, Westminster City Council

  • David Wilkins, Chief Product and Design Officer, Westminster City Council

• Creating Inclusive Documents for Public Services in Local Government

  • Samantha Merrett, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Digital Accessibility Team, Ministry of Justice

  • Jon O’Donnell, Member of IAAP, Senior Accessibility Specialist, Accessibility Standards and Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions