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The JustGiving page remains open for another week. Thank you so much for your support
The JustGiving page remains open for President Carol Williams’s chosen charity Capstone Care Leavers Trust. As does the Public Sector Challenge one raising money for Cancer Research UK.
Thank you so much for your support
Top 4 interesting and useful things for you this week:
- Read more about smart places, connected places and AI
- More free training with Microsoft
Change Agent (Manager) training is concluding on Friday while you read this. As soon as the next dates are confirmed I’ll share them with you.
But if you’re a woman in local public services register your interest for training coming in the autumn: TechHer for Government - Weekly webinars return next week, before taking a break for summer.
In this mini season you can learn how to: - There are 3 more Empowering Women courses this year and in July it will be in Exeter for the first time.
Watch Institute Director Sam Smith talk about its personal and professional impact on her
Take care. I hope you’re able to have a great weekend.
Best wishes,
Alex.
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This policy blog showcases some of our top resources, practical frameworks and tools, and examples of What Works – highlighting impact cases from your peers, our executive partners, webinars, and events.
You will need a user account on socitm.net to access member-only resources. Let us know if need any support.
VMware pricing: Understanding the impact
Join the LGA and CCS from 14:00 to 15:00 on Tuesday 16 July to understand the impact of Broadcom’s takeover of VMware.
Across the public sector, there are reports of increases of 500%, and this session will focus on council experiences, as well as sharing more information on VMware changes, routes to market and commercial guidance that’s available.
Further reading/watching:
Computer Weekly: Education sector facing huge VMware cost increases after Broadcom ends discounts
CCS webinar recording: VMware product and commercial update
For more information, please email cyberanddigital@local.gov.uk
Training
There are 3 more Empowering Women courses this year. Find the one nearest to you and register.
Watch Institute Director Sam Smith talk about the personal and professional impact of Empowering Women training.
How was your course? Tell us about it 🙂
Virtual workshops
- Tuesday 17 September How to be an Effective Coach | 1 point
- Tuesday 5 November Managing and Motivating Hybrid Teams | 1 point
- Tuesday 12 November Equality, Diversity and Inclusion | 1 point
- Tuesday 19 November Introduction to Emotional Intelligence | 1 point
In-person programmes
- Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 June: Top Talent | Essex | 4 points
- Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July Empowering Women | London | 3 points
- Thursday 25 and Friday 26 July Empowering Women | Exeter | 3 points
- Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 September Place-based Leadership | Birmingham | 4 points
- Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 September Empowering Women | Midlands | 3 points
- Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 October Top Talent | North East | 4 points
- Thursday 14 and Friday 15 November Place-based Leadership | Manchester | 4 points
Training places are included in your organisational membership – subject to availability and membership level. If you have any questions or would like further information, please email the training team.
TechHer is an initiative designed to inspire curiosity and excitement about technologies such as cloud, AI, data, low code/no code app creation and security.
The Teams sessions (1 hour per week over 5 weeks) are aimed at women without a technical background and are keen to gain confidence to learn more.
Join Canon UK in their London offices on Wednesday 26 June to learn more about the latest digital trends, cyber-security tactics and strategies for public services success.
One of the guest speakers is our Research and Policy Director, Martin Ferguson. He’ll be sharing an overview of the digital trends and technologies shaping delivery of better public service outcomes.
Events
Member-only meetings
Meet people for catching-up, problem sharing (and solving) and great networking.
- Friday 28 June Members’ Connection Hour
- Thursday 10 October Sustainable and Innovative Places in London
- Local meetings start again from September. Find your nearest one.
Free webinars and meetings hosted by Socitm
- Wednesday 26 June An easy way to manage the report it, apply for it, book and pay for it process
- Wednesday 4 July How to stop lateral movement and ransomware attacks…
- Wednesday 10 July The evolution of AI and learnings so far
- Friday 12 July The power of reflective practice
- Wednesday 17 July The data foundations needed for AI success
Free webinars and events hosted by partners and others
June
- Monday 24 June Neath Port Talbot Council: What does good look like?
- Tuesday 25 June
- 09:00 to 16:30 South West Connect Conference [Exeter]
Up to date digital, data and clinical policy updates alongside health and social care case studies. to network with new and old colleagues from across the region and to discuss the latest in digital healthcare policy and innovation in the NHS and social care.. - 13:00 to 14:00 General Election and the Impact of New Government Policies on Public Sector Technology
- 18:30 to 20:00 Town Hall 2030: local government for the digital era [London/Zoom]
- 09:00 to 16:30 South West Connect Conference [Exeter]
- Wednesday 26 June: Canon’s Public Sector Innovation Day [London]
- Thursday 27 June
- 11:00 to 12:00 Local Government CX Roundtable: Transforming your digital citizen experience with AI
- 13:00 to 14:00 Digital Futures for Good – General Election Special
- Friday 28 June Roundtable: Change Agent Programme
July
- Tuesday 2 July LocalGovDigital Live: Open referral standards (with Matt Jukes from TPX Impact)
- Wednesday 3 July
- Wednesday 10 July Dementia – AI and simple tech tweaks to help
- Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 July Smart Places & Smart Communities 2024
- Thursday 11 July Data-centric AI webinar: the data scraping challenge
Complete the ODI’s AI Data Sharing Survey - Tuesday 16 July VMware pricing: Understanding local government impacts
- Wednesday 17 July APIs for the public good
Complete UK Authority’s survey: How do we unlock the full value of APIs for the public good? - Friday 19 July Set your data free
September
- Tuesday 10 September Building the smarter state [London]
- Friday 13 September Northern WARP Annual Conference [Manchester]
- Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 September: DigiGov Expo [London]
Missed a webinar? Past recordings are available to watch in the resource hub.
Webinars are open to anyone in the public sector, membership is not necessary, so please do share them with your network.
Come and say hello
- Wednesday 26 June: Canon’s Public Sector Innovation Day [London]
Meet Martin Ferguson and talk to him about digital trends and technologies shaping better public service outcomes. - Tuesday 24 September: DigiGov Expo [London]
Join Nadira Hussain, President Mark Lumley and Sam Smith- Nadira is chairing the Citizen Experience stream. In which, at 15:25, Mark (Director of ICT and Digital at London Borough of Hounslow) is a panellist on Data-Driven Collaboration: Transforming governance through strategic partnerships and enhanced data sharing
- Sam is a panellist in the GovICT stream at 15:10 for Driving Transformation through an Effective Strategy: The pillars needed to achieve success
Thank you for reading (or scrolling) this far! Just one more thing…
For all you Content Design fans you might already have the second and updated edition. If not….get that to the top of your To Do list 🙂 Well, to be fair I bought the updated book but haven’t started to read it yet. That is probably the key part.