Innovation 2023 features speakers from the worlds of government and business, both in the UK and overseas
Alex Chisholm
Chief Operating Officer, Civil Service and Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Brian Abrahamson
Associate Laboratory Director and Chief Digital Officer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America
Ryan Alvin R. Acosta
Commissioner, Civil Service Commission, Philippines
Sapana Agrawal
Director, Modernisation and Reform, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Debbie Alder
Director General, People, Capability and Place, Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom
Derek Allison
Vice President, Public Sector, Aerospace and Defence, DXC
Gal Amir
Head, Governmental Procurement Administration, Ministry of Finance, Israel
Kamal Bal
Director, Digital, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom
Phindile Baleni
Director General, Department of the Presidency and Secretary of the Cabinet, South Africa
Thomas Beautyman
Deputy Director, Government Digital Capability, Cabinet Office, United Kingdom
Christine Bellamy
Director of Publishing, GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, United Kingdom
Siobhan Benita
Facilitator, Global Government Forum
Steven Boyd
Chief Executive Officer, Government Property Agency, United Kingdom
Lindy Cameron
Chief Executive Officer, National Cyber Security Agency, United Kingdom
David Carroll
Managing Director, Nominet
Ed Challis
Head of AI Strategy & General Manager for Communications Mining, UI Path
Margot Conrad
Executive Director, Chief Human Capital Officers Council & Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Personnel Management, United States of America
Kevin Cunnington
Former Director General, Government Digital Service (GDS), United Kingdom, and Expert Advisor, Global Government Forum
Stephan Dรฉry
Assistant Deputy Minister, Real Property Services Branch, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Canada
Megan Lee Devlin
Chief Executive, Central Digital and Data Office, United Kingdom
Joyce Dimech
Permanent Secretary, Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government, Malta
Rob Fawcett
Account Director, NHS Arms Length Bodies, Rubrik
Yvan Gauthier
Head, Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Laura Gilbert
Chief Analyst, Director of Data Science, 10 Downing Street, United Kingdom
Gina Gill
Chief Digital and Information Officer, Ministry of Justice, United Kingdom
Andrew Goodman
Director, Workplace Transformation, Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom
Ravi Gurumurthy
Chief Executive, NESTA, United Kingdom
Kemba Hendrix
Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of the Director, Office of Personnel Management United States of America
Luukas Ilves
Government Chief Information Officer, Estonia
Richard Johnstone
Executive Editor, Global Government Forum
Sana Khareghani
Former Head, UK Office for AI, United Kingdom
Kristiina Kivirand
Head, Procurement and Quality, Estonian Stockpiling Agency, Estonia
Andri Heiรฐar Kristinsson
Chief Executive Officer, Digital Iceland, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Iceland
Christina Lang
Chief Executive Officer, DigitalService, Germany
Martin Ledolter
Managing Director, Federal Procurement Agency, Austria
Ian McCormack
Deputy Director Government Cyber Resilience, National Cyber Security Centre, United Kingdom
Clare Martorana
Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of E-Government & Information Technology, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, United States of America
Paul Morrison
Chief Executive, Planning Inspectorate, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, United Kingdom
Sam O’Neill
Account Executive, Central Government, Rubrik
Gerard Orrock
Account Executive, Intelligent Spend Management, SAP
Mark Palmer
Vice President, Visa Government Solutions, Europe, Visa Inc.
Peter Pogaฤar
Director General, Public Sector Directorate, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia
Alison Pritchard
Deputy National Statistician and Director General for Data Capability, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom
Tom Read
Chief Executive Officer, Government Digital Service, United Kingdom
Andrรฉ Rogaczewski
Chief Executive Officer, Netcompany
Susan Scott-Parker, OBE Hond
Founder, Business Disability International
Louise Scott-Worrall
Government Managed Learning, KPMG in the UK
Alessia Sharma
Legal Director, Workday
KOK Ping Soon
Chief Executive Officer, Government Technology Agency (GovTech), Singapore
Adam Stewart
Head of Public Sector, UKI, Google Cloud
Dag Strรธmsnes
Chief Procurement Officer and Director, Division for Public Procurement, The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management, Norway
Francis Trudel
Associate Chief Human Resources Officer, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada
Aditya Udas
Vice President and Head, Digital Sales, Iron Mountain
Peter Vandenbruaene
General Advisor, Directorate General of Recruitment and Development, Federal Public Service for Policy and Support, Belgium
Nick Ward
UK Public Sector Lead, Qlik