South West

Date & time

6 October 2023 10:00 - 13:00

Location

Exeter Science Park

Overview

Theme – Ethical, responsible and secure use of technologies and data

Location – Exeter Science Park

Our meetings can be face-to-face (with refreshments provided) or virtual (bring your own refreshments) and will be focused on Socitm’s policy themes. Within these themed meetings your regional committee is free to create an agenda that works best for you and your regional colleagues. If there’s something you would like to discuss or investigate with like-minded peers just let us know on hello@socitm.net and we will co-ordinate that with and for you.

Agenda

09:30 Registration Tea & Coffee
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10:00 Welcome & Introductions
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10:05 Cyber Security
John Finch, Information Governance Manager, Digital & Customer Experience, Plymouth City Council
10:25 Elevator Pitches
IP Performance | Veeam | IGEL
10:40 Greener Care Collaborative; Releasing time to care; time to be more caring
Key challenges facing society include health and care provision supported by a sustainable workforce and financial model. Through digital, data and collaboration the evidence shows the opportunity that exists to deliver thousands of hours of additional care, upskill the workforce, increase economic development, reduce demands on the health system and pay people through saving money. Too good to be true? Working in neighborhoods and building generative relationships between partners supported by quality digital infrastructure it becomes available in any area.

John Bryant, Head of Strategy and Development, Adult Social Care & Partnerships, Social Care Lead, Devon Training Hub, Torbay
11:25 Networking Break
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11:40 A stock take of digital priorities and challenges across UK councils
In this session, Leyre will give an overview of the work we are conducting with DLUHC to evaluate the impacts of their funding through the Local Digital Programme, as well as the results from our survey of councils on their digital priorities, challenges and areas of comparison.

Leyre Villaizan Herrero, Public.io
12:00 Generative AI - The future is here
You may have heard of generative AI; you will definitely have heard of things like “Chat GPT”, but what actually is it? And how can generative AI help – and threaten – the way we deliver public services? In this session we’ll discuss where Generative AI has come from, why it’s important, and talk about some of the opportunities and challenges surrounding the biggest tech advancement since the internet

Joe Reay, Executive Lead, UK Local Government, AWS
12:40 Autumn update from Local Digital

Local Digital Collaboration and Engagement Manager Tom Lowndes will be talking about the work of the Local Digital Fund and how they look to foster innovation, using some of the current projects as case studies. Tom will also share findings from the Future Councils pilot about the biggest challenges councils face and how you can get involved in the next phase of the programme

Tom Lowdes, Collaboration and Engagement Manager, DLUCH
12:45 Chair' Closing Remarks
Craig Wilkins, Socitm South West Chair
12:55 Networking lunch
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