Innovation 2025 event to showcase government transformation in action
Global Government Forum has today launched the agenda for the 2025 Innovation conference, with the event focusing on providing civil servants in the UK and beyond with the insights and skills they need to deliver high-quality services for citizens.
The annual conference, which will be held in London on 25-26 March 2025, is supported by the UK Government, Cabinet Office and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to bring together public servants from across the globe to explore the crucial field of government transformation.
The 2025 agenda is focused on three key themes: innovation in how government works; the skills and culture governments need to innovate; and reimagining service delivery. The agenda also includes masterclass sessions providing public servants with the right skills for innovation and to make the most of tools such as artificial intelligence. Insight will also be shared from the UK government’s One Big Thing initiative, which is focused on innovation.
Public servants can register for the conference today. Find out more here.
Building future-ready public services
“Innovation 2025 will share the best insights from those who are leading the reforms to build the public services of the future, with intelligence and information on both how and why to innovate, across all the topics that are vital to a modern government,” said Kevin Sorkin, the founder and chief executive of Global Government Forum.
“Building on the huge success of the 2024 event, this year’s programme is set to be bigger, more impactful and even more inclusive. The Innovation 2025 agenda has been developed with Global Government Forum’s community of innovators and leaders in governments around the world to provide timely, relevant and valuable insight to help promote and develop new approaches to policymaking, technology and service delivery.”
Sessions in the conference will include how to apply AI in government, how to build diverse teams and tackle groupthink, and how to make the right procurement decisions across the public sector.
There will also be dedicated sessions looking at how the UK government can realise its five missions, exploring: how governments around the world have focused on mission delivery; how the UK government is restructuring to deliver these priorities across departments; and the potential to join up public sector organisations across different levels of governance.
Sessions will also examine how technology such as artificial intelligence can lead to better service delivery, and spotlight international best practices for creating space for experimentation in government.
Speakers include leading public servants from around the globe
Conference speakers will include the most senior civil servants from across the UK government, as well as leading government innovators from around the world. Speakers from 2024 included:
- Cat Little, chief operating officer, Civil Service and permanent secretary, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
- Sarah Munby, permanent secretary, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, United Kingdom
- Jeremy Pocklington CB, permanent secretary, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, United Kingdom
- Beth Russell, second permanent secretary and Head of Darlington Economic Campus, HM Treasury, United Kingdom
- Fiona Ryland, government chief people officer, Human Resources, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
- Christine Bellamy, chief executive of the Government Digital Service, United Kingdom
- Mark Chivers, government chief property officer and director general, Government Property, United Kingdom
- Clare Martorana, federal chief information officer, Executive Office of the President, United States of America
- Taimar Peterkop, secretary of state, Government Office, Estonia
- Brian Epley, principal deputy chief information officer, Department of Energy, United States of America
Read more about the Innovation 2025 agenda and register to attend here.
About Richard Johnstone
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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