2026 Speakers & Co-Hosts.
Mark Ferguson
Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
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Zoe Goodwin
Chief Data Officer

Samantha Ulyatt
Chief Executive Officer

Colin Banno-Thornton
Chief Digital and Information Officer

Nagesh Reddy
Chief Portfolio Officer

Keith Dargie
Chief Digital Information Officer
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Sara Bowley
Digital Director Health and Disability
Joanne Bradshaw
Head of Place for North West, Director and SRO of the Risk Identification, Operations & AI Programme

Rizwana Parveen
Director/SRO Public Authorities Fraud, Error and Recovery Act (Delivery)
Daniel Keeley
Deputy Director, DDaT Strategy and Transformation, Digital and Infrastructure Group

Neil Hall
Product Director

Colin Shaw
Director of Service Transformation
Emma Presley-Abbott
Deputy Director, Head of Data Insight & Analytics
Jen Staves
Director for Test, Learn and Grow

David Swainston
Finance Director, CDIO Portfolio

Sumitra Varma
Deputy Director, Probations & Electronic Monitoring Data

Mark Thompson
Chief Product Officer

Chris Chambers
Programme Director (Transformation), Manchester Digital Campus, Government Property Agency

Cathy Dutton
Deputy Director, Service Design & Delivery

Eilidh McLaughlin
Deputy Director, Digital Ethics, Inclusion and Assurance

Ruqaiya Isa
Deputy Director Governance, Assurance & Partnerships

John Keegan
Deputy Director, Head of Digital Security & Intelligent Service Performance
Kate Caulkin
Director of People and Operational Management Insights
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Richard Baines
Deputy Director of Digital

Jane Brine
Deputy Director Bereavement Service and Tax Credits
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Matthew Lyon
Deputy Director of Data Science, Analysis and Economics

Debbie Blanchard
Head of Profession for Product Management

Dr Nayyab Naqvi
Head of Technology for AI Enablement,

Maryam Ahmad
Head of Data First Programme

Brie Cawthorne
Head of User Centered Design

Saleyah Miah
Head of BOLD Prevention

Alison Simpson
Head of Content
Tracy Poulton
Chief AI Office Delivery Lead

Bruce Prendergast
CDIO Operational Strategy Lead

Malcolm Casimir
Digital Service Owner

Tommaso Spinelli
Cloud and Platforms Service Owner

Mel Hume
Programme Delivery Manager

Chris Page
AI Research Engineer

Andy Wilson
Future Government Services Lead, Ordnance Survey

Dean Paulley
Head of Product, Ordnance Survey
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Past Speakers & Co-Hosts 2025
Andrew Western MP
Minister for Transformation
Shaukat Ali Khan
Executive Director and Chief Digital Information Officer, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Head of Place for Civil Service North West and Director & SRO of Risk Identification, Operations & AI Programme

Jenny O'Connor
Deputy Director End User Compute Services

Past Speakers & Co-Hosts 2025
Andrew Western MP
Minister for Transformation
Shaukat Ali Khan
Executive Director and Chief Digital Information Officer, NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board

Head of Place for Civil Service North West and Director & SRO of Risk Identification, Operations & AI Programme

Jenny O'Connor
Deputy Director End User Compute Services

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