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Julian Patmore, Service Director Digital & Customer Access, Peterborough City Council

Hear more from Mark Van-Kerro who will be presenting on TESA – Tech Stack App – an app to support with IT/Digital stacks and contracts.

Mark Van-Kerro, Technical Solutions Architect, Peterborough council

Mark Brett, Associate Director Cyber Security & Resilience

How we can leverage the collaborative efforts resulting from LGR to deliver regional SOC and other security services.

Chris Major, Regional Sales Manager, Public Sector, Palo Alto

An overview of Milton Keynes City Council’s transition from traditional on-premises infrastructure to Azure-native hosting. This session covers our migration approach, including the use of Azure VMware Solution (AVS) as an interim platform, the retirement of AVS, key lessons learned, challenges encountered, and the benefits realised through a fully Azure-native estate.

Richard Lancaster, ICT Infrastructure & Security Manager, Milton Keynes

Infobase is used across the councils in Norfolk to share information regarding IT systems and contracts all in one platform. 

Tanya Allen, Head of IT Traded Services, Norfolk CC

Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) has prompted councils to take a closer look at how they operate, exposing challenges around fragmented technology estates, disconnected data, duplicated systems and the organisational barriers that make collaboration difficult.

But while the timetable for structural change may have shifted, the need to address these challenges hasn’t gone away.

Do councils really need to become one organisation to start working more effectively as one?

In this joint session, CloudClevr and Zoom will explore the lessons emerging from LGR so far, and how local authorities can use technology, data and more connected ways of working to strengthen collaboration across councils, regions and public sector partners.

From improving data accessibility and governance to enabling secure, seamless communication between teams and organisations, we’ll consider the practical steps councils can take now, regardless of what happens next with structural reform.

Ultimately, residents don’t experience local government through organisational structures. They experience services. And delivering better, more joined-up public services starts with making it easier for the people, systems and organisations behind them to work together.

Jared Richards, CloudClevr

Jeremy Stewart,CloudClevr

Dave Harrison, CloudClevr

Dave Mansfield, Head of Technology, Hertfordshire County Council

Emily Ball, Deputy Director for Government Digital Service, will present on how GDS is strengthening collaboration with local and regional government to support digital transformation. Emily will share an update on GDS Local and the wider approach to digital, data and AI across the public sector, alongside progress on the government’s Rewiring the State Delivery Plan due for publication in December and an early look at the types of commitments being developed. The session will also explore what councils need to build sustainable digital and data capability, with a particular focus on data, and invite participants to share their priorities, challenges and requirements to help shape future support and collaboration.

Emily Mahon Ball, Deputy Director, Service Transformation, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology