Bridging policy and digital: Collaborating for better public outcomes 

Effective government transformation requires a shared understanding between policy, delivery, and the transformative power of digital technology.

This session will bring together policymakers and digital and data professionals to discuss how to build a shared understanding of how policy and technology can work hand in hand.

Join this session to discuss how data, design, and delivery methods can strengthen evidence-based policymaking and how policy intent can be supported with data and digital services to improve delivery.

Together we will discuss:

• How digital and data teams in government can understand the frontline delivery challenges.
• How policy development can understand what digital can – and can’t – do to improve delivery of services.
• The potential for multidisciplinary teams to create shared understanding of requirements and delivery – and how they can be built and maintained for long-term delivery.

Civil servants can register here for free to attend this webinar

Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT): 11:00 – 12:15

Panel

Thomas Beautyman, Deputy Director, Digital Workforce & Capability, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Thomas joined the GDS in 2021 (now part of DSIT) and is responsible for transforming how Government grows capability in digital, data and cyber. This includes attracting, recruiting and building digital expertise, through to developing the many leaders in government who have specialism in other domains, but increasingly need digital and data confidence to deliver.

Thomas joined Government in 2019 from BT, where he led engineering workforce planning, apprenticeships and learning transformation. He is also a trustee at Good Things Foundation, the UK’s leading digital inclusion charity.

Webinar chair: Siobhan Benita, Moderator, Global Government Forum

Siobhan was a senior civil servant in the UK with more than 15 years’ Whitehall experience. She worked in many of major delivery departments, including Transport, Environment, Health and Local Government. She also had senior roles at the heart of government in the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, including supporting the then Cabinet Secretary, Lord O’Donnell, to lead work on civil service reform and strategy. Siobhan left to run as an independent candidate in the Mayor of London election. She subsequently joined her alma mater, Warwick University, as Chief Strategy Officer of Warwick in London and Co-Director of the Warwick Policy Lab.