Agenda
We're still working on the 2021 programme. In the mean time here's a look at last year's agenda for a taste of what to expect.
The keynote address will provide updates and insight from BEIS with regards to the Department’s strategy for innovation and emerging technology, R&D roadmap, and how innovation and emerging technology can continue to aid the recovery of our economy and society post-Covid.
- Understanding the importance of future technology in a post-COVID-19 society: accelerating testing and development for the recovery of a post-COVID economy
- How emerging tech such as Big Data, AI, IoT and Blockchain can be deployed to manage the effects and mitigate the risks of COVID-19 on our economy
- Encouraging collaboration between government, academics and the private sector to engage on 4IR issues for economic success
- Realising the economic and societal benefits of truly embracing the 4IR – developing emerging technology to create better public services
- Promoting trust in AI and Data in order to help bolster the creation of long-term solutions to conquer COVID-19 – adopting a human-cantered approach and emphasising citizen priority
- Ensuring the right digital skills and infrastructure exist to support the safe and ethical innovation of AI, Machine Learning, RPA and data-driven technologies
- Fostering the AI ecosystem in the UK – encouraging a dialogue between industry, academia and government
- Supporting Government on the development of AI and data-driven tech: understanding the economic and societal priorities, opportunities and challenges
Your needs are diverse and specialist, and so you need to mix and match multiple cloud technologies and solutions. In this talk, Glen Oscko from UKCloud will discuss how to reduce the time, cost, and risk of modernising your existing IT so you can deliver innovative citizen services rather than merely maintaining or building IT systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is everywhere being leveraged by many industries such as healthcare, fintech, and e-commerce. But how does AI impact the security space? Join Maty Siman, Checkmarx Founder and CTO, to get both a white hat and black hat perspective to AI and security.
- Accelerate your digital transformation journey
- Automating the Public Sector to improve citizen services and operational efficiency
- Digital Workers – What does the future look like with Bots, and AI.
- Intelligent Automation AI & Bots in Action
- Innovative geospatial solutions and their benefits
- Encouraging collaboration between the government and industry
- The opportunities for improving UK data infrastructure
- Priorities for the future
If there were two impacts upon ‘Technology and Innovation’ caused by Covid19 they would probably be ‘pace of demand’ by users and the need for ‘innovative solutions’ by the providers.
Whereas in the past Technology was Innovating at a pace, it could be argued, aligned to the readiness of users to adopt new ideas (and the constraints of funding), almost overnight the world had to adapt and find new ways of working. Traditional barriers were removed in many cases and this saw Technology (and more specifically Innovation) at the centre of a world demanding solutions that could be adopted almost immediately.
In our session we will explore the factors involved in this and the need to adapt in the post Covid19 world.
- Testing and using new and emerging technologies to solve problems set by the business
- Developing proof of concepts to understand the tech and learn new skills
- Understanding how tech can create solutions to help design better citizen-centric services
- Exploring technology such as AI, augmented reality, chatbots, RPA, and machine learning
- Understanding what truly improves outcomes – helping the public sector to implement the right tech solutions
- Assisting with the safe and strategic adoption of AI by encouraging collaboration between the government and SMEs to generate shared ideas and solutions
- Upskilling the work force, navigating resistance and enabling internal cultural shift
- Truly understanding the user, the challenge, and the ROI to create more efficient and cost-effective services
- Assessing the value in investing in future tech and exploring the ways in which it has aided the response to the COVID-19 crisis across central and local government
- Embracing AI, RPA and Machine Learning in order to generate cost savings, improve citizen-centric services and transform the relationship between citizen and state
- Understanding how 5G and IoT can continue to aid in the Coronavirus response through improving infrastructure and connectivity
- Learning from those are leading the way in implementing emerging tech – is this always the right solution to improving outcomes?
- Delivering next generation of public services through IoT; healthcare, parking, environment, smart cities and smart communities, asset tracking etc.
