Why Attend

Against a background of deep financial challenges, a shrinking workforce and a lack of capacity digital transformation is the biggest opportunity for councils to drive public service reform and harness innovative solutions to improve service delivery for both residents and staff.

The aims of the event are:

To drive the debate on the future direction of digital transformation

To empower the senior leadership team to lead successfully in the digital age

To demonstrate how digital transformation can enable councils to deliver services which meet residents’ needs, are fit-for-purpose and efficient

To create a safe and conducive environment for knowledge exchange and case study sharing, with a focus on fostering collaboration and support among participants

To explore how councils can leverage digital transformation to ensure sustainability amid resource constraints and limited budgets

To explain how digital transformation can leverage the evolving landscape of technology in local government effectively

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£4 billion

local councils using digital transformation strategies have saved an estimated since 2010

£3 billion

to overcome the projected funding gap for 2023/24, councils are using digital transformation to improve cost efficiency

88%

of local authority officers believe that it is urgent that local government invests in and adopts digital technologies

Key themes:

Winning the mandate: from lip service to line item

AI that actually saves time: Copilot, casework and real financial benefits

Beyond integration: designing new services for LGR

Data foundations to prevention: from lakes to outcomes

Build, buy or reuse? scaling council-built products across the sector

Guardrails now: ethics, assurance and legal readiness for generative AI

Venue

The Kia Oval
Kennington
London
SE11 5SS


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