Channel Shift Live8 December 2011, BIS & House of Lords, London

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Introduction

This event will examine the challenges and opportunities presented by the Channel Shift agenda, which recognises that moving increasing numbers of services online can drive Government efficiency and generate significant economic savings.

The programme will explore in practical terms what organisations need to be doing to develop and foster a new culture where digital is at the heart of plans for service provision so that it is the ‘default’ option for interaction between citizens and government.

This event seeks to equip and inspire senior leaders from Government, not-for-profit organisations and the private sector with solutions and new partners for the practical realisation of digital Channel Shift, looking in detail at a number of core themes, including Digital Public Services; Assisted Digital Services; Social Housing and Communities; and Training and Skills.

Channel Shift Live is organised in conjunction with the Digital Leaders Whitehall programme, which brings together senior decision makers from Government, industry and the not-for-profit sector to engage with the latest policy, innovation and solutions for delivering ‘digital by default’ channel strategies. Further information about the Digital Leaders programme can be found at www.digitalleaders.co.uk.

“Channel Shift Live has been designed to provide a timely opportunity for leaders to really get to grips with what channel shift means in practical terms. Our excellent line of speakers will seek to get to the heart of the latest policy, solutions and best practice and to inspire a new generation of efficient, cheaper and more personalised services.

I hope that the day will help to build a high level, cross sector group of partners who can work together to build solutions and realise new opportunities for making the switch to digital in their organisations.” Robin KnowlesFounder, Digital Leaders Programme

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Background

In October this year, the Government published its ‘ICT Strategy – Strategic Implementation Plan’, which sets out how the Government intends to realise the policy of all public services provided ‘digital by default’ through a Channel Shift from traditional paper hard-copy or face-to-face to online modes of interaction with citizens.

The Government’s Channel Shift in public service provision is intended to make service delivery quicker, simpler and more responsive to user demand. Leading this change is the Government Digital Service (GDS), which plans to make services available whenever and wherever users want to access them through a range of digital devices, supported by a network of Assisted Digital channels to help those unable to access solely digital services.

This policy agenda has been defined in response to the ‘Directgov 2010 and Beyond: Revolution Not Evolution’ report by Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion to the Coalition government. Lane Fox explains that: “moving towards a service culture and treating government transactions more like those in the private sector which can be completed quickly, easily, and through a range of online providers, citizen (or consumer) experience will be considerably improved over traditional transactions and existing piecemeal online services.”

As Channel Shift rises up the political agenda, this conference will provide a timely opportunity to address the challenges it poses to both service providers and users, and to present service owners with take-away solutions and best practice for making the shift to digital within their own organisations.

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Programme

CHANNEL SHIFT LIVE | 8TH DECEMBER 2011, BIS AND HOUSE OF LORDS

8.45 Registration and Coffee

9.30 Plenary Session 1 | Digital Services for All

The opening plenary session will be an opportunity for delegates to address the wider context of the Channel Shift agenda: why it is important; what it means in practice; and how organisations can start on the journey to digital service delivery.

The session will include the latest plans and vision for Channel Shift within the context of the Government’s strategy for increasing the accessibility, simplicity, transparency and efficiency of public services through ‘digital by default’ delivery channels.

Delegates will be encouraged to consider the importance of Channel Shift in terms of providing a better quality experience for their customers through a more user-centric approach to service delivery, and the economic benefits of digital channels for both users and providers.

Contributors:

• - Chair: Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA• - Mike Bracken, HMG Executive Director for Digital, Cabinet Office• - Myrtle Lloyd, Network Services Director, DWP• - Kevin Seller, Head of Government Services, Post Office •

10.30 Coffee and Networking

11.00 Plenary Session 2 | Delivering a Channel Shift

The second plenary session will explore the opportunities and challenges on the ground for organisations making the Channel Shift to digital.

Contributors will showcase some of the latest solutions for making a user-centric, accessible and inclusive Channel Shift to digital service delivery, and present successful strategies currently being implemented by central and local Government.

The session will address the importance of integrating Assisted Digital services into channel strategies to ensure that services successfully reach all customers.

Matthew Taylor Mike Bracken Myrtle Lloyd

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Programme

Contributors:

• - Chair: Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, RSA • - Helen Milner, Chief Executive, Online Centres Foundation• - Phil Pavitt, Chief Information Officer, HMRC • - Stephen Baker, Chief Executive, Suffolk Coastal District Council and Waveney District Council

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Breakout Panels

The Breakout Panels will be an opportunity for delegates to break into smaller groups to engage with key themes of the Channel Shift agenda in more detail, and to hear the latest solutions and successful strategies from sector pioneers, technologists, social entrepreneurs, policymakers, project leaders and leading UK delivery agencies who will focus on how organisations can deliver cost-effective and replicable digital services.

Each panel will put forward solutions and best practice that will be made available to delegates and their organisations following the event as part of the post conference report.

Breakout 1: Digital Public Services•

With the Government committed to delivering all public services ‘digital by default’ and the evident benefits of Channel Shift in terms of increased efficiency, transparency and accessibility over traditional methods of delivery, this panel session will provide a timely opportunity for delegates to hear the latest policy, vision and solutions from leading figures in central and local Government and service owners for implementing Channel Shift strategies in the public sector.

• Contributors will be addressing common barriers to Channel Shift and how to overcome them, and will present their experience and advice for leading organisational change inside and outside Government, looking at how best practice can be applied and delivered successfully.

Contributors:

• - Chair: Tristan Wilkinson, Head of Public Sector EMEA, Intel• - Simon Pollock, Head of Customer Services, Surrey County Council • - David Dinsdale, e-Government Product Director, Atos• - Robin Christopherson, Head of Digital Inclusion, AbilityNet

• Breakout 2: Assisted Digital Services

• Government services must be accessible to all who need them and the full economic benefit of a digital Channel Shift cannot be realised without enabling and encouraging all members of the public to switch from traditional forms of transaction to digital so that legacy services can be switched off.

• This theme’s breakout panel will address the challenge of ensuring access for all those who need to use ‘digital by default’ services by examining the Government’s policy of Assisted Digital, which aims to establish a network of assisted digital channels to help those who are currently offline access online services.

• Contributors will showcase successful Assisted Digital schemes, and offer inspiration and solutions for reaching the goal of universal online access. Contributors will explore how Assisted Digital can encourage change while making that change as easy as possible to make, so that financial, educational, and perceived cultural obstacles are not barriers to inclusion.

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Programme

Contributors:

• - Chair: John Fisher, Chief Executive, Citizens Online• - Richard Gutsell, Head of Business Development, Post Office• - Anne Faulkner, Director of Strategy, Online Centres Foundation• - Amanda Derrick, Programme Director, Connect Digitally

• Breakout 3: Social Housing & Communities

• Social housing residents comprise a large proportion of the UK’s offline adults and, being more likely to lack qualifications or employment, are less likely to benefit from the very applications of technology that could help them tackle their disadvantage, such as the availability of jobs, cheaper goods, and educational material on the internet.

• Channel Shift therefore presents both opportunities and challenges for social landlords and providers of key services in supporting residents to go online and interact digitally, when there is often a lack of motivation, infrastructure and skills.

• This panel will bring together registered social landlords with those delivering key customer facing services to explore the key solutions and best practice for delivering Channel Shift in social housing; aiming to inspire and equip delegates with lessons, strategies, and advice for helping both housing organisations and their tenants make the shift to digital channels.

• Each contributor will present a key solution and area of best practice for supporting social housing tenants online, looking at a range of issues including infrastructure, service design and the role of community programmes.

• Contributors:

• - Chair: Helen Milner, Chief Executive, Online Centres Foundation• - Ben Carpenter, Special Advisor, Race Online 2012• - Sam Pratley, Head of Business Excellence, WM Housing• - Debbie Ross, Community IT Programme & Relationship Manager, Sunderland Council

John Fisher Amanda Derrick Tristan Wilkinson

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Training and Skills

Channel Shift presents an educational challenge for policy makers and service providers as services cannot be made solely ‘digital by default’ until a basic standard of e-skills is universal. Providers therefore have a responsibility for ensuring that their users are equipped with the necessary skills for accessing their services.

• This breakout panel will examine strategies and showcase initiatives for up-skilling citizens to enable them to make use of and receive as much benefit as possible from using the internet. It will connect skills providers in the public, not for profit and private sectors with policy makers and service providers to help them formulate strategies and targets to ensure that a skills deficit is not an obstruction to Channel Shift.

• The session will be an opportunity for delegates to hear from and engage with skills providers, and hear about take-away strategies for delivering programmes in a targeted way to meet users’ needs.

• Contributors:

• - Mark Walker, Marketing Manager, AbilityNet• - Sal Cooke, Director, JISC TechDis• - Paul McElvaney, Director, Learning Pool• - Kevin McLean, Director of Operations, Online Centres Foundation

• 15.00 Breakout Panels Ends

15.30 Channel Shift Live Reception at the House of Lords, hosted by Rt Hon Lord Knight of Weymouth •

After the sessions at BIS, the group will be guided to the House of Lords for a reception, where delegates will be invited to join Rt Hon Lord Knight of Weymouth, former Minister of State for Schools and Minister of State for Employment, for afternoon tea and networking.

• The reception will be an opportunity for delegates to build a network around digital delivery in a more informal setting and to discuss Channel Shift themes and issues further with fellow attendees of the day’s sessions and those who have already made the shift to digital.

• Keynote Speaker:

• - Graham Walker, Government Director to the UK Digital Champion•

17.00 Finish

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Rt Hon Lord Knight of Weymouth

Graham WalkerNetworking

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Biographies

Stephen Baker, Chief Executive, Suffolk Coastal District Council & Waveney District Council

Having been Chief Executive of Suffolk Coastal since September 2005, Stephen became Joint Chief Executive of both Suffolk Coastal and Waveney District Councils in April 2008 at a time when there were just a few Chief Executives carrying out this shared role. Stephen has worked in local government since 1982.

His background is general management, being MBA qualified and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. Having started with Ipswich Borough Council he then moved to East Northamptonshire District Council as Chief Executive in 2002, before joining Suffolk Coastal District Council. He is closely involved with the developing ‘Transformational Government agenda’ and, after being part of the CIO Council, he is now vice-chairman of the Local Government Delivery Council. Previously he represented local government on various e-government initiatives, and maintains an interest in how technology can support service improvement and the transformation agenda.

Stephen is a member of the LGA Emergency Planning Advisory Panel and is the joint SOLACE representative, with a colleague Chief Executive, on Civil Contingencies issues.

Mike Bracken, HMG Executive Director for Digital, Cabinet Office

Mike Bracken was appointed Executive Director of Digital for Government in July 2011. He is responsible for overseeing and improving the Government’s digital delivery of public services.

Mike is leading on the work to transform public sector services to a ‘digital by default’ model by building and championing a ‘digital culture’ that puts the user first and delivers the best, low-cost public services possible.

Prior to joining the Government, Bracken worked at Guardian News & Media as Digital Development Director for nearly four years; co-founded e-democracy site “My Society”; and was a Director/Shareholder at technical services company Wavex.

Ben Carpenter, Special Adviser, Race Online 2012

Ben Carpenter is a Strategic Advisor at Race Online 2012, working with Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox on the campaign to forge a truly networked nation, where everyone in the UK can use the web. Ben joined Race Online 2012 with 10 years experience in the charity sector, working in corporate fundraising at Barnardo’s and Comic Relief.

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Robin Christopherson, Head of Digital Inclusion, AbilityNet

After Cambridge University, Robin worked as an IT instructor for the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) and became a founding member of AbilityNet in 1998. Now globally acclaimed as leading experts in the field, AbilityNet specialises in accessibility auditing and disabled user testing, as well as helping clients design attractive websites that are both accessible and easy to use by all.

Despite being blind, Robin uses technology very effectively using speech output to access computers, the internet, his iPhone and many other technologies to assist him in his work. A member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers, Robin has a first-hand appreciation of the importance of good web design and its impact on accessibility.

Robin also has courtroom experience as an expert technical witness in the area of assistive technology and in software, systems and website accessibility. In addition, he advises companies on their obligations under the Equality Act and the Disability Equality Duty – including the evaluation of case specific reasonable adjustment.

Robin’s current projects include raising awareness through a busy public speaking schedule in Europe and the US, and co-hosting AbilityNet’s ‘Tech for All’ podcast.

Sal Cooke, Director, JISC TechDis

Sal Cooke, the Director of JISC Techdis www.jisctechdis.ac.uk is keen to ensure that the tools, techniques and resources that this successful Advisory Service has developed over the past 5 years are exposed to and then shared by others working with an inclusion agenda. Sal’s background is in Schools, Learning & Skills and the University sector, frequently working with educational technology bringing a pragmatic approach to accessibility. Sal tries to ensure that JISC Techdis is able to provide useful tools and resources to practitioners, guidance to managers and strategic direction for policy makers.

Working extensively with the Independent Specialist College Sector, JISC Techdis has commissioned free and open source tools to specifically support assistive technology users and is now able to share this expertise with other providers and organisations working with users with similar needs.

Under Sal’s direction, the cornerstone of JISC Techdis has been keeping it simple, including advising on technology in the home, workplace, community space or learning provider and helping parents, carers, employers, support workers or tutors become aware of the accessibility benefits that are readily available and, importantly, often at no extra cost.Over one million downloads of Techdis materials are evidence of the success of this approach.

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David Dinsdale, E-Government Product Director, Atos

David is e-Government Product Director for Atos. As well as shaping the future, David is also responsible for the government’s online products that are delivered by Atos, including services such as Government Gateway.

Prior to this role David was the Serco Programme Director for the government’s Business.Gov, programme where he oversaw the implementation of government’s rationalisation programme that migrated almost all government online services for business onto businesslink.gov.uk. He has a special interest in innovation and intellectual property, and was the founder of a leading intellectual property software company, anaqua.com.

Anne Faulkner, Director of Strategy, Online Centres Foundation

Anne Faulkner is Director of Strategy at the Online Centres Foundation (OCF), a newly-formed staff-owned mutual and social enterprise. In November 2011, OCF won the contract for the management of the UK online centres network.

Prior to her current role, she worked at Ufi for eight years, initially as a policy specialist supporting the development of learndirect, one of the largest e-learning organisations in the world and then as Head of Policy and Business Development for the UK online centres division. In 2008 she was seconded to the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and was the lead author of the government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan.

Prior to joining Ufi, Anne worked for the National Extension College, an open and distance learning organisation, and she is also a founder member and Trustee of the Helena Kennedy Foundation, an educational charity which supports disadvantaged students to progress to higher education, and a Trustee of Digital Unite Charitable Trust.

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Amanda Derrick, Programme Director, Connect Digitally

Amanda Derrick is Programme Director for Connect Digitally, a multiple award-winning programme, linking central and local government delivery, and supporting 152 local authorities in driving down the costs of service delivery, improving service quality and moving towards the ‘digital default’. From 2004 – 2007 Amanda was the driving force behind another successful and award winning national initiative: eAdmissions. Amanda has a strong leadership and delivery record in both the public and private sectors. Amanda’s vision is for all citizens to be able to access local authority services via digital technologies.

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Richard Gutsell, Head of Business Development, Post Office

Richard Gutsell recently joined the Post Office as Head of Business Development for Government Services. He is leading efforts to develop new relationships with Local Authorities and Central Government departments to deliver Front Office services. Prior to his position at the Post Office, Richard spent 10 years with BAE Systems Detica running their Central Government Security business after performing various business development and delivery roles across the company.

Richard is married with one daughter and lives in Hampshire. He graduated from St. Hughes College Oxford.

John Fisher, Chief Executive, Citizens Online

John Fisher joined Citizens Online, the UK’s leading Digital Inclusion charity, as Chief Executive in February 2000, after completing an MBA at the University of Bath. John was originally trained as an RAF fast jet pilot before joining Thamesdown Borough Council as Borough Leisure Officer. Following this, John was Director of Community & Leisure Services for the new Swindon Unitary Authority.

John was a member of the Government’s Digital Inclusion Panel and was adviser to the Government’s Minister at EU e-Inclusion Summits in Crete (2004), Riga (2006), Lisbon (2007) and Vienna (2008). He has advised the British Council in Moscow and is co-author of Digital Equality and two publications for the GLA as well as managing a number of research projects. He was a reference panel member for the National Audit Office study into e-services for older people and he is a regular speaker at national conferences and seminars. John is also a judge for the annual ISPA ISP awards, the Microsoft Community Learning Awards and the AOL Innovation in the Community awards. He is also currently an advisor to ICT in Schools and the Social Exclusion Unit, Inclusion through Innovation work. He is also a founding member of the “Drop the E Campaign”.

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Rt Hon Lord Knight of Weymouth

Lord Knight of Weymouth is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dorset from 2001 until 2010.

Lord Knight held several ministerial posts during his time as an MP including Minister for the South West and Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform. It was announced in the Dissolution Honours List on 28 May 2010 that he would be made a life peer.

He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2005-06. He then moved to become Minister of State for Schools in the Department for Education and Skills.

On 28 June 2007, when Gordon Brown disbanded the department, Lord Knight moved to the newly created Department for Children, Schools and Families, as the Minister for Schools and Learners. In October 2008 following the reshuffle, Knight became a member of the Privy Council. He was educated at Eltham College, an independent school in Mottingham in South-East London, followed by Fitzwilliam College at the University of Cambridge, where he studied Geography, Social & Political Sciences from 1984–87, gaining a BA Hons.

Biographies

Myrtle Lloyd, Network Services Director, Network Services Director, Department for Work and Pensions Myrtle’s work experience spans all aspects of business delivery – from blue sky thinking through change management and frontline operations. Over the last 15 years, she has increasingly been involved in technology enabled business change.

Prior to joining the Department, Myrtle spent over 10 years working in the private sector in North America and Asia. Her career portfolio includes roles within Financial Services, Travel, Automotive and Management Consultancy. She is passionate about the exploitation of technology for business change.

Myrtle joined the DWP in 2002, working on an innovative pilot for multi-channel contact centre operations. Since then, she’s worked in a variety of senior leadership roles ,predominantly in IT. She was recently appointed the Network Services Director with operational responsibility for DWP’s Contact Centres and Digital Channels. She sees the role of the DWP and her role in particular as key contributors to the government’s ‘digital by default’ strategy.

She lives in Chester with her husband and 4 year old son and her hobbies include reading and sewing. She is currently studying Mandarin Chinese, which will mean she will be able to write top-to-bottom as well left-to-right (English) and right-to-left (Urdu).

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Helen Milner, Chief Executive, Online Centres Foundation

Helen has worked in the online industry since 1985, working in the 1980s/90s in the private sector delivering a groundbreaking schools online service in England and Australia, and since the late 90s in innovating services to help community partners deliver learning, usually for adults who missed out the first time round.

Helen Milner leads the team which coordinates the UK online centres partner network of 4000 community organisations working to help people to use the internet for the first time.

In 2008 Helen was invited by Baroness Andrews to Chair the National Digital Inclusion and Social Housing Strategy Group. This role is ongoing.

During 2011 the UK online centres team set up a new organisation called Online Centres Foundation (OCF) - a social enterprise and staff owned mutual. On 1st December 2011 OCF took on the management of UK online centres.

Paul McElvaney, Director, Learning Pool

Paul is a founding Director of Learning Pool and works on our technology as well as strategic marketing. He was the driving force behind the Learning Pool DLE which has saved the public sector over £36 million to date and works closely with our community to continually improve it. Paul is currently working on the social networking aspect of our technology to continue building an online community that can make public sector improvement a reality. A project manager by profession and qualified Prince 2 practitioner, Paul worked on a range of high profile public sector IT projects before Learning Pool and began his career at EDS.

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Phil Pavitt, Chief Information Officer, HMRC

Phil Pavitt, Director General for Change and Chief Information Officer of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for one of the UK’s most complex and extensive IT operations that touches every single individual, family and business in the UK. Phil is responsible for delivering many of the familiar tax systems combined with UK critical Customs systems that provided UK PLC with £468.9bn in 2010/11.

Phil, a board member at HMRC, has combined his IT leadership role with key additional corporate responsibilities including Chair of HMRC’s Change Delivery Committee, HMRC lead on process re-engineering and Government lead on IT for Smarter Government. Phil is also leading HMRC’s Change Programme with responsibility for the overall delivery of the changes required as a result of the Spending Review settlement.

A fellow of the influential British Computer Society where he was named the UK’s IT Leader of the Year in 2009, Phil has regularly been listed as a member of the UK’s Top 50 CIOs for influence and innovation. Phil has over 25 years experience in both private and public sector organisations and was previously CIO of Transport for London, where he led a major overhaul of the IT function. Prior to this he held positions as CIO at OneTel and NTL.

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Biographies

Simon Pollock, Head of Customer Services, Surrey County Council

Simon Pollock has been managing contact centres and customer services divisions for around 15 years in a variety of organisations, both inbound and outbound, in the public and private sectors. Simon currently manages the “virtual front door” services at Surrey including the council’s acclaimed and highly used website and their award winning 100 person strong contact centre, a centre with a customer satisfaction rating of over 95%. Simon has a reputation for innovation and improvising low cost solutions that drive performance.

Simon co-authored the Cabinet Office’s “Channel Strategy Guidance” as well as the Local Government Contact Council’s “Channel Strategy Template”, a document that has been downloaded over 500 times.

Simon holds a seat on the Local Government Contact Council and recently received the Judges Special Award at the CCF 2010 European Call Centre Awards.

Kevin Seller, Head of Government Services, Post Office

Kevin took up his current role in September 2006 and has responsibility for all Post Office business with national and local government bodies; this includes the new driving licence digital data capture service with the DVLA and the vitally important contract for the Post Office Card Account. In his previous role he had responsibility for the relationships with all of Post Office Ltd’s major financial services clients including the banks, NS&I and Government for the Post Office Card Account.

Previously, he was involved in the set up of the Post Office’s financial services venture with the Bank of Ireland, managing the interface with our Government shareholder and other key stakeholders. Before this he was one of the founders of the universal banking concept, working with the Banking industry and Government to launch universal banking services in April 2003.

Sam Pratley, Head of Business Excellence, WM Housing

Sam Pratley was appointed the Group Head of Business Excellence at WM Housing in October 2010. His responsibilities include overseeing WM Housing’s performance & benchmarking, regulation, customer feedback, customer insight, information and data protection, equality and diversity, customer excellence and communications.

WM Housing is a group of housing associations that provide homes and services to over 25,000 customers across the West Midlands and they are on a journey to provide better, locally accountable, services to customers, taking account of their current and future needs. They have run a digital inclusion programme for the past 18 months and are now in the process of putting together a business case to take their digital services to the next level.

Sam has been with WM Housing for the past nine years, and was previously responsible for a national award winning Supported Housing Project known as SHYPP. Prior to this Sam worked in Global Marketing with sportswear firm Reebok International.

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Graham Walker, Government Director for the UK Digital Champion, Martha Lane Fox

Graham held the post of Director for Digital Delivery at the Cabinet Office from August to December 2010 where he was heading up the Government’s policy and strategy work on digital delivery in the public sector, also looking at the role of digital to deliver efficient and transparent services.

Graham is now Director at Race Online 2012 supporting the policy and strategy work behind the office of the UK Digital Champion, working to deliver a 100% networked nation. Graham has previously been a Managing Partner for a consultancy business as well as a former Director of Strategy for the Office of e-Envoy at the Cabinet Office.

Mark Walker, Marketing Manager, AbilityNet

Mark Walker has been helping charities, business and Government to use digital technologies since the mid-90s, when he co-founded SCIP, a not for profit IT service based in Brighton. Mark has been on hand through each new wave of technology since then, helping to demystify, debunk and decode - from the first sightings of a web page to the puzzles of Twitter, Google Hangouts and beyond.

Mark’s most recent project is leading AbilityNet’s UK Technology4Good Awards, which celebrate the hard work of people who use computers and the internet to make the world a better place. Launched in 2011 the Awards are supported by BT and a host of business and not for profit partners.

His skills include marketing, digital communications and training, which he combines with a strong entrepreneurial streak and a knack for networking. Amongst other things he’s written books, run Virtual Festivals, built a municipal search engine and developed IT facilities for Big Issue vendors. He is also a marketing consultant and wrote a book about marketing and the web as far back as 2000.

Tristan Wilkinson, Director, Public Sector, EMEA - Intel Corporation

Tristan is the Director for Public Sector, EMEA for Intel Corporation and UK press spokesperson. He leads the engagement with several Government initiatives across the region focusing on how technology can transform the public agenda and create economic stimulus and job opportunities.

In recent years Tristan has been a passionate advocate for Digital Inclusion and the issues relating to demographic change, particularly in the Telehealth arena, speaking regularly on the issues and challenges facing policy makers and providers today.

Prior to Intel, Tristan was the Head of Marketing for PSINet a Global corporate ISP and Marketing Manager for Conduit Business Information, a supplier of database solutions.Tristan holds an honours degree in Architecture from the University of Portsmouth and is married with two children.

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Delegate list

Adil AbrarDirector, Sidekick VenturesKay Allen OBEDirector, Diverse Advice Ltd.Graham AndrewsIDF50Susan Attard Deputy Town Clerk , City of London Corporation Mike AttwellDirector for Regions, WEADamien Austin-WalkerHead of Digital, vinspiredTom Bagnall Head of Customer and Live Service, Serco - businesslinkStephen Baker Chief Executive, Suffolk Coastal District Council & Waveney District CouncilJarumi Baldeon Senior Community Regeneration Officer, Southern Housing GroupNick Batey Welsh GovernmentMark BennettDepartment of Finance and PersonnelMartin Bevis Director of Customer Services, London Borough of IslingtonMike Bracken Executive Director for Digital, Cabinet OfficeSarah Bridges User Experience Manager, Online Centres FoundationPeter Brook Transformation Manager, Kent County CouncilBen Brown Funding & Partnerships Manager, Online Centres FoundationPhil Buckingham CEO , Dot Advice LtdHarry Bucknall Marketing Advisory, Correspondent CorpAlun Burge Head of Digital Inclusion, Welsh GovernmentSusan Callaghan Global Head of Client Experience for HSBCnet, HSBCMartin Cantor Executive Officer to the Chief Executive, Barnsley CouncilSarah Carhart Channel Shift Lead, DWPBen Carpenter Special Adviser, Race Online 2012

Martina Chapman Partnership Manager, BBC Media LiteracyRanjan ChopraHead of eServices, AgilisysRobin ChristophersonHead of Digital Inclusion, AbilityNetGaynor Clarkson Rochdale MBC LibrariesSal Cooke Director, JISC Techdis Sharon Cooper Government Digital ServiceLiz CopelandLocal Government AssociationSiobhan Coughlan Programme Manager - Productivity , Local Government Group Gary Coyle CEO, Community InfoPointTerrie Creswell Director, csi10Pennie Cullen Personal Assistant, Haringey CouncilCarol Cutler Director of Business Transformation and Customer Service, London Borough of HarrowAndrea Da Gama Post OfficeBasil DavidsonDepartment of Finance and PersonnelAeddan Davies Head of Central Web Team, Welsh GovernmentLiam Davies Project Manager - Digital Review, HM Revenue and CustomsLouisa Day Director, HerdlDennis Dearden Head of Marketing, AbilityNetAmanda Derrick Programme Director, Connect Digitally DfE and Hertfordshire County Council PartnershipNigel Devereux E-Learning Co-ordinator, TPASJaqui Devereux Director, Community Media AssociationDavid Dilley Government Digital ServiceDavid Dinsdale e-Government Product Director, AtosLiam Donnelly Solution Architect / FCA, Cambridge UniversityMargaret Dunn-ParrantCommunications Lead, Connect Digitally Programme Hertfordshire County Council

Susan Easton Senior Officer, NIACEDiana Edmonds Greenwich Leisure LimitedJim Edmonds Community Capacity Building Project Coordinator, Great Yarmouth Community TrustChris EllisonGroup Regional Operations Director, CircleAnne Faulkner Director of Strategy, Online Centres FoundationCaroline Fawcett Director of Propositions, Business LinkMartin Ferguson Policy Director, SocitmJohn Fisher Chief Executive, Citizens OnlinePat Fitzsimons Chief Executive, Community Network.Patricia Forrest Director of eLearning and Innovation, Lewisham CollegeGerry Friell Senior Finance Analyst, HM Revenue & CustomsBob Gann Head of Strategy - NHS Choices, Department of HealthBrigette Giles Head of Resource Strategy, East Riding of Yorkshire CouncilTom Godfrey Partnerships Director, a4eWalker GrahamGovernment Director, UK Digital ChampionRichard Gutsell Head of Business Development, Post OfficeSarah Hamilton-FairleyChief Executive, StartHerePat Harding Acting Executive Director Community and Adult Serv, Cambridgeshire County CouncilToby Hart Director, SimplyUniteSimon Hills Business Development Director, StartHereDavid Hinkinson-HodnettSupply Chain Manager, NHS ChoicesPaul Hodgkin CEO and GP, Patient OpinionJason Hogarth Technology Policy Adviser, FE Skills Directorate, BIS

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Delegate list

Clive Holdsworth Director, Consultian LtdDarren Holmes Project Manager, The Ark TrustAdrian Housley Account Manager, Business LinkMark HowellsFounder, The IDA FoundationJane HoyBISGeorge HuffOpalSimon HughesAssistant Chief Executive, East Sussex County CouncilMargaret HughesFinancial Controller, Government Digital ServiceMark HumphriesAssistant Director - Infrastructure & Transactions, London Borough of MertonNorman HunterICT Tutor, MerseylearnJahanara HussainFinancial Inclusion Manager, The Hyde GroupPaul Jameson ,Camden Libraries Learning and Reader DevelopmentSarah JenningsHead of Digital Communications & Knowledge, Local Government AssociationAlison JessopCommunications Manager, DWPKevin JoyceProject Manager, Matching Village HallAniela KaczmarczykTraining Manager, Online Centres Foundation Bob KamallSenior Policy Adviser, Cabinet OfficeElizabeth KanterDirector Government Relations, BlackBerryDavid KellyRNIBAngus KerrSocial Inclusion Officer, Family MosaicJim KillockExecutive Director, Open Rights GroupNaomi KingsleyChief Executive, London Rebuilding SocietyJoanna LeungHead of Service Transformation, Cambridgeshire County Council

Nigel LewisChief Executive, AbilityNetRachel LewisWinkBallMartin LitterChairman, Inclusive Technology LtdMyrtle LloydDWPSean LockePost OfficeSusan MabberleyVolunteer, North Somerset TrainingColin MacKenzieContract Director, The Information StandardSam MarkeyHead of Insight, London Borough of BarnetNikki MarshHead of Digital and Online Services, DWPDavid McConnellCommunications Consultant, Post OfficeAnne McCrossan Founding Partner, Visceral BusinessPaul McElvaney Learning PoolMary McKennaLearning PoolScott McKinvenFinancial Inclusion Manager, Affinity SuttonKevin McLeanDirector of Operations , Online Centres FoundationIrene McWilliamsPartnership Development Officer, Westminster City CouncilSally Meecham Stakeholder Relations Manager, Post OfficeHelen MilnerChief Executive, Online Centres FoundationCarol MoonlightService Development Consultant, Citizens AdviceMartin MoranCommercial Director, Post OfficeJim Moran Senior Manager, CIPFADebbie Morris-GrayOperations Support Manager, Home Group LtdSara MoseleyDirector of Communications, Welsh GovernmentLouis MosleyAssistant, Rory Stewart MP

James MunroDirector of Research, Patient OpinionRachel NeamanDeputy Director, Digital Communications and Information, Department of HealthRob Neil Head of Business Change and Technology, Ashford Borough CouncilRebecca Nicholls Head of Content, Civic AgendaJane O’LoughlinGovernment Digital ServiceKevin O’MalleyBristol City CouncilBina OmareGroup Head of Sustainable Communities, Circle Housing GroupMatt OxleyCo-Founder, OpalIvi Paduim-Quan ICT tutor and Centre Manager, North Somerset TrainingNick PaskeDirector, Changing MediaNemash Patel Online Business Specialist, SovereignCarol PatrickHead of Kent Connects & Technology Transformation, Kent County CouncilPhil PavittChief Information Officer, HMRCLorna PetersBusiness Improvement, Connect Digitally Hertfordshire County CouncilTim Pitts Head of Consulting, AgilisysSimon PollockHead of Customer Services, Surrey County CouncilSam PratleyGroup Head of Business Excellence, WM HousingKeith PrinceLeader, London Borough of RedbridgeTrish QuinnStrategic Partnerships, Government Digital ServiceTim RaineyAssistant Executive Director, Tameside MBCVicki ReedDigital UnitePeter Reed-ForresterManaging Director, CommunityUK.net LtdPeter Richardson Financial Inclusion Programme Manager, The Hyde Group

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Delegate list

Ben RobinsonCustomer Service Operations Manager, Ashford Borough CouncilJohn RodgersDepartment of Finance and PersonnelRobin RogersHead of Corporate Programmes Unit, London Borough of SouthwarkJulie RogersCustomer Service Manager, Ashford Borough CouncilDarren ScatesCIO, Dept Communities and Local GovernmentKevin SellerHead of Government Services, Post OfficeIain ShawFundraising Manager, PeabodyBaljit SinghLibrarian, London Borough of LewishamFelicity SingletonHead of Policy, Government Digital ServiceNicola Smith Head of Marketing and Communications, Tameside MBCJez SmithChief Operating Officer, Capita HealthHayley SmithSenior IT Trainer, S&G TrainingTim SpiersTechnology and Delivery, Connect DigitallySarah StablerNetwork Manager, Online Centres FoundationEllie StonleyEllie Stoneley ProjectsAlan TaylorPost OfficeValerie ThompsonChief Executive, e-Learning FoundationNatalie ThorpeOnline Centres FoundationCatherine Togher Project Manager - Transformation, Hertfordshire County CouncilKaren ToonICT Co-ordinator, Peterborough Women’s CentreValerie Vamanrav WinkBallDavid VaseyVocational Skills Tutor (IT), Building Futures EastLindsay WakeFundraising and Partnership Manager, The Hyde Group

Mark WalkerMarketing Manager, AbilityNetSarah WaltonPost OfficeJoan WatsonTrustee, V (Russell Commission)Robert WemyssHead of Accessibility, Royal MailAndrew Westoby Patrick WhifeSenior Consultant, Civic Agenda Jeremy WhiteDirector, csi10 LtdTristan WilkinsonHead of Public Sector EMEA, IntelJo WilliamsAssistant Director - Business Improvement, London Borough of MertonSally WilsonChannel Strategy Director, Serco Group plcMartin WilsonHead of Media Literacy, BBCSteve WoodGovernment Digital ServiceJoan WoodDirector of Online Service and Digital Development, HMRCJim WoodCVS Blackpool Wyre & Fylde Caroline WoodbridgeCommunications Advisor, DWPFiona WoodsDirector, SimplyUniteKeith WoolleyCIO, Home Group LtdDavid Wortley CEO and Founder, Immersive Technology StrategiesMike YoungChief Operations Officer, Post Office

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Forthcoming events

DIGITAL LEADERS ANNUAL LECTURE | THE ATTLEE SUITE, PORTCULLIS HOUSE

18TH JANUARY 2012, 17.00-19.00

The inaugural Digital Leaders Lecture will be delivered by Sonal Shah, a thought-leader who has led the debate at the heart of social innovation and societal transformation in the USA.

As Head of the Obama White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, Sonal served on President Obama’s Transition Board where she oversaw the Technology, Innovation and Government Reform working group.

During her time at the White House, Sonal Shah was responsible for the Obama Administration’s Social Innovation Fund, which was launched in 2010 with $50m in seed capital to identify the most promising results-oriented non-profit programmes and to expand their reach throughout the country. Her work has helped to identify some of the most challenging social problems in communities across the USA, provided growth capital for programmes working with them, and improved the use of data and evaluation to raise the bar on areas that the government funds.

Before joining the White House, she was Head of Global Initiatives at Google.org, where she managed and implemented two of the organisation’s global development initiatives: The first focused on increasing transparency and openness in East Africa and India; the second was centred on fostering and growing small and medium sized enterprises worldwide, including creating an investment fund, developing new innovative models for gathering credit information, and investing in prizes and challenges.

The Digital Leaders Annual Lecture is free to attend and by invitation only. Please note invitations will be issued by email in December.

Sonal ShahHouses of Parliament Portcullis House

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ND 2012

7TH NATIONAL DIGITAL CONFERENCE, 30-31 MAY 2012, OLD BILLINGSGATE, LONDON

ND 2012 will be largest gathering of the digital sector to date, bringing together over 2,500 attendees to explore the policy, leadership, innovation and collective action needed to support a truly digital nation.

Supported by Race Online 2012, the Online Centres Foundation, the BBC as well as Government Departments and leading technology businesses, this conference will examine how to promote digital growth and enterprise in the UK, delivering a Channel Shift in Government services to online, and the latest social action, vision and tools for supporting the last 8.7 million people online. Set over two days, the programme will include: Rolling Plenary Sessions; Demonstration Zones; an Exhibition; Digital Leaders Awards Dinner; and a Digital Champions Celebration.

Day 1 – Digital Growth and Enterprise:

The first day will focus on how to mobilise the nation’s growth and encourage enterprise through digital delivery, showcasing the latest innovation and solutions for delivering channel shift as well as reaching out to UK businesses, social enterprises and start ups to promote digital and encourage businesses online. Key themes include: Enterprise and Growth; Digital Public Services; Skills and Employment; Cybersecurity and Online Security; and Channel Shift. The day will culminate in the National Digital Leaders Awards Ceremony for 400 guests, celebrating digital best practice across the UK.

Day 2 - Digital Action:

The second day will explore the latest social action and vision for supporting the last 8.7 million people online. It will open up a dialogue between volunteers, Digital Champions and all those involved in supporting this agenda, including skills and training providers and Assisted Digital services. Key themes will include: Social Action; Digital Inclusion; Assisted Digital; Ageing Well; Social Housing and Skills and Worklessness. In the evening there will be a Digital Champions Celebration event with BBC talent, celebrities and musical entertainment.

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Further Information

ND 2012 is free to attend, and registration will open in early 2012. To enquire about sponsorship or exhibition opportunities please contact 0207 378 0422 or email robin.knowles@civicagenda.co.uk

Forthcoming events

Martha Lane Fox David Cameron Digital Leaders Awards Dinner

Mark Thompson Gloria Hunniford Jeremy Hunt

Contact Us Telephone: + 44 (0) 20 7378 0422 Fax: + 44 (0) 20 7357 8015

www.digitalleaders.co.uk www.civicagenda.co.uk

Digital Leaders Programme 21 Garden Walk Shoreditch London EC2A 3EQ