From Strategy to Success – How does a CIO make a good transformation decision?

Establishing the right digital foundations and infrastructure will help you to ensure the security and availability of your critical IT systems and the services that you and your customers rely upon. Join Andrew Gale, CISO at UKCloud and Scott Heyhoe, VP of Product at Opsview as they explore the importance of event monitoring and how the health of your compute assets can be improved by focusing on the critical events that really matter.

Cybersecurity cannot be fixed overnight. The most secure organisations in the world get there by implementing a cyber maturity plan that aims to improve cybersecurity steadily over time. One of the most challenging elements of a maturity plan is getting started in the first place.
Join Stuart Avery, Strategic Partnership Manager at e2e-assure and Steve Russell, Data Consultant at UKCloud to break down the daunting task into simple, manageable, practical steps, starting with how to get a quick win to justify that hard-to-get budget.

The surgical waiting list backlog following the pandemic is an emergency situation in its own right. Recently published statistics indicate that 4.7 million individuals are still waiting for routine operations and procedures. The adoption of digital technology can be the saving grace to help Trusts effectively manage the backlog, enabling elective surgery to return to pre-covid capacity. Join David Price, Director of UKCloud Health, as he welcomes Michael Shenouda, Medical Director at Open Medical and the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust to explore the topic further.

Gartner says that 80% of IT governance programs that do not use consulting services for design and implementation help will fail and our recent poll said 50% of organisations need help devising their strategy.
Strategy seems so simple…. so how can you overcome the common challenges?

In this session, you will learn how to take your ideas from ambition to action including:
- How to improve the procurement process
- What the advantages of having an in-house think-tank are.
- Why you need to break it into manageable chunks..
- How to put a decision-making engine around governance, leadership and enablement.
- How to get funding for a transformation project.
- When good strategy enables data governance.

As a partner of UKCloud, you likely not only share our technology vision and commitment to public sector, but also a belief in the role technology can play in addressing broader societal challenges. These common values are integral to how we work and achieve success together. To further strengthen our partnership, UKCloud have teamed up with the Social Value Business to create a Social Value Charter. We believe the pledges within the charter are not just the right thing to do but make strong business sense. All UKCloud partners are invited to this workshop in which we will:

1. Launch UKCloud’s Social Value Charter and the rationale for doing so

2. Detail the Social Value Act and the new measures (Social Value Model) introduced from January 2021 and their significance

3. Discuss the numerous activities partners can undertake to align with UKCloud’s Social Value Charter as well as what other companies are doing outside of the tech industry

4. Detail how our partners can achieve a Social Value Quality Mark (SVQM) should they wish to enhance their Social Value credentials

In order to reveal insights from data, organisations historically had to share, move or pool data. Multiple regulatory, security and privacy barriers meant that organisations could not access the knowledge present in their data or in the data of other organisations they work with. Advances in technology have changed this. Data can now be available for analytics while remaining under the control of the data holder. This talk explores how next generation technologies such as privacy enhancing techniques and federated learning enable organisations to get the insight they need from their data and from other organisations’ data without ever sharing the data through a complete solution that can be tailored to their security, privacy, data compliance and data governance requirements.

A robust and resilient data foundation can only be achieved by doing the basics right. Join Mark Humphries, Head of BI and Analytics Consultancy and Chair of DAMA UK, as he discusses the importance of governance and architecture, data collaboration and how improving the data literacy levels amongst key decision makers has led to improved outcomes and better results for Civica’s public sector partners.

Digitalisation of the transport sector has inspired smart uses of data to improve infrastructure management, operational resilience and overall customer experience. Join CACI’s Jason Durk, Head of Transport and Matt Pierce, Head of Cloud, Managed Services and DevOps as they explore how digitalisation is helping to overcome the challenges faced in the transport sector, by a growing economy and increasing passenger numbers, as well as reflecting on how data can assist in getting passengers safely back onto public transport post-COVID.

Digital transformation programmes can focus predominantly on replacing older processes, workflows and technologies with newer ones. However, the data that inputs to these new digital processes and technologies is the essential component. Important then that decisions on the future state of legacy architectures (both infrastructure and data) are modernised and multi cloud approaches are adopted in the light of requirements around data sovereignty and residency. This talk explores the areas that need to be considered to allow the transformative potential of data to be harnessed.

The unprecedented events of the last 12 months have led organisations in the public sector to appreciate the real value of the data they hold, and its vital role in allowing them to deliver services to an increasingly expectant and demanding public. But, while there is optimism around the ability of organisations to explore new technologies that will unlock the value of data, as well as confidence in the skills of their employees to maximise the opportunities it offers for innovation, the reality seems to be that the tools aren’t yet in place to enable this.
Join Leighton James, CTO @ UKCloud as well as Chris Feltham from Intel, Gavin Lloyd from Cisco, and Digital Reef as they discuss the key findings from the survey report and share their thoughts and insights on the road ahead for Data.

How can you get your transformation off to a confident start and address the common risks associated with complex healthcare solutions?

Join David Price and Mandy Griffin, CIO, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, they discuss how to overcome key blockers to the cloud and how the right capability and capacity can improve your digital maturity and drive significant operational efficiencies.

Key takeaways:
- Hear from one of the most experienced CIO’s in the NHS on the Delivery of a Digital Strategies
- Hear about the importance of cloud as part of a Digital Strategy from someone who, through her work with West Yorkshire HIS, has been delivering a form of cloud Service into the NHS for years
- Learn from the research that UKCloud Health have done what the thoughts and concerns of your Peers are relative to NHS Data and how it is stored and managed, and the importance of true sovereignty

As digital maturity increases across UK public sector, organisations are looking to leverage the cost and agility benefits of cloud native services. As such, they are looking to maximise the portability of their applications and services to ensure workloads are hosted in the most appropriate place, without sacrificing the experience to both developers and the end-user. In this session, we will explore how Red Hat OpenShift can assist organisations meet this requirement whilst also increasing rapid application deployment and accelerating digital/cloud native transformation.

Monitoring your IT estate has never been so crucial. The risks of not having the right digital foundations and infrastructure in place can lead to vulnerabilities from increased security risks and reduced availability of critical systems. Some of these challenges have been recently highlighted by the Solarwinds breach. Join Steve Lawrence, CGO at UKCloud as he welcomes Moogsoft and Opsview to discuss the importance of visibility across your IT estate.

UKCloud understands the challenges that public sector organisations are facing as they modernise
their operations. Discover how our new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Crown Commercial Service (CCS) offers you choice, assurance, and expertise through multiple cloud technologies whilst maintaining UK sovereignty - preserving the privacy and integrity of invaluable national datasets.

Join panelists from Cabinet Office and UKCloud on the 18th March at 10.30am to hear more about:
• Multi-Cloud – How to avoid lock-in by mixing-and-matching the right cloud technology, at the right classification level, for every workload (even the most secure and sensitive environments).
• Modernisation AND Transformation – How using cloud will drive efficiencies in existing applications and environments.
• Affordable value – Learn about UKCloud’s simple and transparent pricing and the discounts and strategic accelerators available as part of the CCS MoU.
• Why build when you can buy? – How UKCloud’s specialist partners can help you avoid the risks and complexity of building cloud native apps.

By combining our focus on cloud with your focus on improving outcomes, we can make your digital transformation happen – cheaper, faster and safer.

Panelists:
Adnan Qureshi, Head of Government Cloud Strategy, Cabinet Office
Leighton James, CTO, UKCloud
Nicky Stewart, Commercial Director, UKCloud

The continual growth in data gathering technology fuels a vision of operational and business value through leveraging data driven solutions. Many organisations are struggling to rapidly implement and harness this value. Join Professor Stephen McArthur as he describes the challenges and how AI itself can be used to overcome them, quickly and effectively, to deliver cloud-based data and AI-driven products.