Government Transformation Show – Details, episodes & analysis

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.

We take a closer look at the work done by Chris and Ed as part of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 'Smart Environmental Regulation Programme' - and how this provides a model for collaborating on common problems across 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 transformative technology, while minimising the risk?

We're joined by KJ Lian, Global Head of Data at Amazon Web Services, and friend of the podcast, Deepak Shukla, Data and Analytics Lead for Public Sector at Amazon Web Services, to dig deeper into the promise of Generative AI.

We sit down with Charles Damerell, Senior Director of Sales for the UK and Ireland at SolarWinds to explore how organisational culture has a part to play in transforming an organisation and reflections on the recent Government Transformation Summit roundtable sessions.

Tune in to hear about how you can diversify your talent pool and encourage employee autonomy to deliver fresh innovation.

Mike Hoare, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for Public Sector at Fujitsu, joins our Managing Editor, Tim Coulthard, to reflect on his conversations with senior Civil Servants at the recent Government Transformation Summit.   

They discuss the biggest challenges and opportunities facing government as they seek to unlock new insights and ways of delivering public services through data interoperability and integration.

In this episode, we are joined again by Afshin Attari, the Senior Director of Public Sector & Unified Platforms at Exponential-e. We discuss how government organisations can both improve and transform service delivery to support better outcomes for citizens and tackle oncoming challenges in terms of cost and efficiency.

CloudSource's Chief Delivery Officer, Ed Pearce, joins our Managing Editor, Tim Coulthard on the Government Transformation Show to assess the current  effectiveness of digital transformation programmes in government.  

In a wide-ranging conversation they discuss: 

• Effective digital transformation through technology and organisational change. 
• Identifying the main opportunities to accelerate delivery 
• Equipping public sector leaders with the right skills and knowledge in the digital space

Neil Bacon, Principal Digital Strategist at Adobe, joins our Managing Editor Tim Coulthard to discuss the evolution of Citizen Experience as a key area of focus in public services.  

How have user needs and expectations changed and what kind of relationship are citizens looking for with Government?  

What are the main areas government can improve the Citizen Experience in the design and delivery of public services?

On the latest episode of the Government Transformation Show, Emma Charles, Director of Public Sector Delivery at Kin + Carta, joins us to explore how government organisations are currently tackling sustainability in the way they operate.  

Emma explains how a greater focus on environmental factors across technology, procurement and service design could make an impact, and discusses the importance of empowering Civil Servants to prioritise sustainability in their decision-making.

In this episode, we speak with Charles Damerell Senior Director of UK & Ireland at SolarWinds to explore how public sector organisations can adopt the "secure by design" approach to service delivery.

Deepak Shukla - Data and Analytics Lead for Public Sector at Amazon Web Services - joins us on the latest episode of The Government Transformation Show to look at the impact of data and technology in tackling public sector fraud.  

Speaking with our Community Director, Tim Coulthard, Deepak explains how government organisations can use their data capability to prevent, detect and resolve fraud without impacting the speed of delivery in public services.  

AWS is a Partner at Government Data Summit, hosting the discussion table on Fraud Detection.