Share Scotland 2022

Sam Smith, Socitm President and Assistant Director of IT & Digital Services for Cambridgeshire County and Peterborough City Councils

Socitm President, Sam Smith will be chairing the final day of Share Scotland 2022. She will share her thoughts on the stimulating and inspirational sessions on today’s agenda with the focus specifically on data. The past two years has seen incredible work from local authorities, more of which you’ll hear about throughout today’s sessions.

Jenny Brotchie, Regional Manager – Scotland, Information Commissioner’s Office

Setting us off with a keynote speech on a subject close to everyone’s hearts no matter which service they work in, and this is data protection. In this session Jenny will look at some of the key Data Protection challenges and risks in the post covid world and set out what it means to protect citizen’s rights and deliver innovative data based services which improve lives.

Gordon Hobbs, Head of Information & Records Management, Scottish Parliament | Alyssa Blackburn, Director of Records & Information Management, AvePoint

If record and information management programs are not correctly updated and implemented within M365, organisations can experience sprawl, regulatory non-compliance, and increased risk associated with e-discovery, breach, and PRR.

During the session, Gordon and Alyssa will discuss:

– Why is records and information management so important in public sector?

– How can an organisation properly plan for records and information in Microsoft 365 and why is RM programs important in your M365 roll out?

– Why cross-functional collaboration needed is so necessary for RM programs to better aligned to business and technology road maps – what Scottish parliament have down to better align.

o Lets discuss some challenges when it came to setting up records management in M365 at Scottish Parliament
• embracing autocategorization and autoclassification to manage the digital information for multi policies , retention labels
• Long term preservation – Confidently transferring data to the Scottish archives
• Any more

– What’s next for Scottish parliament as they embark on securing data sharing externally ?

Andrew Rogers, Director, Socitm Advisory | Helen Trimm, Senior Consultant, Socitm Advisory

What’s new for ’22: Join this session to hear Socitm Advisory’s key insights gained from working with local authorities of all sizes in 2021. How will achievements last year influence our actions in the next 12 months and beyond? What opportunities are there to make a positive difference to people’s lives through digital, data and technology? And what risks are facing us? In what is sure to be another challenging year.

Chris Vaughan, AVP, Technical Account Management, Tanium

Returning to the office means IT teams are having to prepare for a distributed workforce. But hybrid working doesn’t come without its challenges, maintaining a complete and accurate inventory of every asset and achieving real-time visibility at speed and scale is more challenging than before.

During this session we will discuss how your IT organisation can utilise its current tools to confidently and quickly discover endpoints, gain accurate visibility and establish better hygiene.

Grab a tea or coffee, take a breather and the opportunity to virtually mingle and network.

Stuart Sharp, VP Product Strategy, One Identity | Chris Frewin, Solutions Architect, Quest Software

Providing secure and easy access to resources is more important than ever before, particularly when it comes to supporting care systems, and unifying local councils.

Quest Software enables you to realise the benefits of secure shared access to multiple resources by disparate organisations long before the process of formal consolidation is completed.  Leveraging modern authentication standards, One Identity’s Identity and Access Management solutions protect critical assets while enabling users to access shared resources leveraging their existing credentials and provides a simple self-service experience for ease of use. As a SaaS-delivered service, deployment is quick, efficient and therefore inexpensive, allowing your communities to realise the benefits sooner.

Sam Smith, Socitm President and Assistant Director of IT & Digital Services for Cambridgeshire County and Peterborough City Councils (Chair) | Tom McHugh, Strategic Partnerships Lead, NHS National Services Scotland | Dr Justine Gangneux, Research Associate, Urban Big Data Centre, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

With such great demand on local authorities, forcing them to adapt quickly and innovate in demanding times, hear from the panel who will discuss:
– Reshaping data governance
– Strengthening of data collaboration
– Decision making

Sam Smith, Socitm President and Assistant Director of IT & Digital Services for Cambridgeshire County and Peterborough City Councils