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Date & time

  1. 23 August 2024 10:00 - 14:00

Location

  1. Perth and Kinross Council, The Chambers, 2 High Street Perth

Primary partners: AWS (Amazon Web Services) (opens in new tab), Iron Mountain (opens in new tab)

Agenda

  1. 10:00 Networking & Coffee

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  2. 10:30 Opening remarks

    Heather Robb, Scotland Chair

  3. 10:35 AWS Introduction

    Adrian Hanley, Account Manager, AWS

  4. 10:45 Alexa in Telecare Scotland

    In this session Stephen Milne from Censis and Ian Whitelaw from Falkirk Council will talk about their collaborative work with a number of councils. The work is focused on leveraging Amazon Alexa at scale to support the digital alarm receiving centres.

    Stephen Milne, Director of Strategic Projects, Censis
    Ian Whitelaw, Business Lead – CCTV/Digital Alarms Hub, Falkirk Council

  5. 11:05 AI Transformation of Document Translation

    Karin Hill will join us from Edinburgh to discuss the impact of how an AI based Document Translation solution has created efficiencies, reduced costs and improved inclusivity in Edinburgh.

    Karin Hill, Programme Manager, Customer Projects, Performance and Insights

     

     

  6. 11:30 Power BI Adoption at Perth & Kinross Council

    The session will provide an overview of progress made adopting Microsoft Power BI as the Council’s enterprise analytics platform, with a specific focus on the relationships between Power BI use cases, data architectures and data/analytics operating models.

    Ewan Walker, Data Services Team Leader, Perth & Kinross

     

  7. 11:50 Socitm Update

    Dave Sanderson, Director of Member Services, Socitm
    Matthew Fraser, Technical Consultant, Socitm

  8. 12:25 AGM

    Heather Robb, Scotland Chair

  9. 12:40 Lunch & Close

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