From AI to net zero: find out what governments are focusing on now

Governments around the world are engaged in a battle to keep pace with an ever-growing list of ambitions and demands. From implementing emerging technology like AI in public services to planning and implementing plans to reduce carbon emissions to zero, governments need to think and plan for the future while dealing with significant changes in how citizens want to engage with and receive public services now.
This Global Government Forum webinar brought together GGF experts to set out what you need to know about the key subjects shaping how governments are thinking both about immediate provision and future delivery – and what they mean for engagement with departments in the years ahead.
Join GGF executive editor Richard Johnstone and GGF event moderator Siobhan Benita to hear the latest insights in key topics and for a chance to be put your questions to the experts on topics including:
- Economy and finance
- Service delivery and procurement
- Sustainability, and
- AI and digital transformation
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Richard Johnstone, Executive Editor, Global Government Forum

Richard Johnstone is the executive editor of Global Government Forum, where he helps to produce editorial analysis and insight for the title’s audience of public servants around the world. Before joining GGF, he spent nearly five years at UK-based title Civil Service World, latterly as acting editor, and has worked in public policy journalism throughout his career.
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Siobhan Benita, Facilitator, Global Government Forum

Siobhan Benita was a senior civil servant with over 15 years’ Whitehall experience. She worked in many of the 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 the Civil Service 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.