Government Transformation Show

Chris Cope, Digital Programme Director at the Environment Agency, and Ed Pikett, Director Central Goverment Technology and Transformation at Hitachi Solutions Europe, sit down with Editor Sam Birchall to discuss how public sector organisations can step away from building systems from scratch, and work to intelligently leverage and reuse work done by other teams within government.

Generative AI, popularised by ChatGPT, creates content by learning from a vast corpus of existing content and then using patterns from that data to generate fresh content - and has the potential to transform information retrieval across government data silos, and internal and citizen-facing customer service. But how can government organisations maximise the value of this transforma

Government departments are operating across multiple databases with different standards, architectures, security levels – a great complexity at a time where data plays an increasing role in decision making. Afshin Attari, Senior Director Public Sector & Unified Platforms at Exponential-e, returns to discuss how data teams can overcome these challenges - and maximise data inte

Friend of the podcast Deepak Shukla returns to talk with Sam about one of the hottest topics in government transformation right now - the role of AI in enabling better government delivery. Deepak leads on data and analytics for public sector at Amazon Web Services in the UK and Ireland, and will be helping to host a discussion on the value of Generative AI in the public sector at t

Data interoperability refers to the ability of different systems, technologies, or software to access and use shared data - something clearly crucial for government attempts to overcome silo-based decision-making and data collection, while respecting the circumstances under which data may have been collected from citizens. We sit down with CGI's Vice President of Consulting, Ri

What role will AI play in the transformation of public sector delivery - and how can government organisations responsibly manage the impact of this technology on citizens, businesses and public servants? Alex Jaimes, Chief Scientist and SVP of AI at Dataminr, joins Sam as we take a closer look at what AI is capable of doing today, and the opportunities of what AI could help the p

Government Data exists in a complex, ever-changing environment with many stakeholders - and against this backdrop Adaptive Data Governance is a way of managing data that emphasises flexibility and responsiveness to change. Just as an organisation's data landscape, business needs, regulatory environment, and technological capabilities change, so a department's data governanc

How can government departments best deal with the pressure to deliver transformational change at pace? James Buckley, Head of Practice for Digital Transformation at Made Tech, sits down with Sam to discuss some of the different approaches that can be taken to accelerate delivery, and they look at the impact of emergent and disruptive technologies, including digital twins and hyper

How can data be used to enable cross-government collaboration and service delivery? What kind of data sharing mechanisms and data infrastructure are necessary to support cross-government functions and services? We caught up with friend of the show, Deepak Shukla, Amazon Web Services' Data & Analytics Lead for Public Sector, to dig deeper into the approaches best suited for

Government will only be able to achieve transformational outcomes if it is able to leverage data from across departments, and with the private sector. To do this, while retaining citizen trust, places an emphasis on responsible data sharing. What are some of the considerations for data heads when planning how they will collaborate with other public sector data users? We sat down wi