Hear how Registers of Scotland (RoS) changed the culture of the organisation to enable the refactoring of a number of legacy digital products, and how by adopting a serverless first approach has enabled RoS to scale cost effectively, accelerate innovation and ultimately deliver a better user experience for Scottish citizens.

Speaker: Paul Christie, Head of IT Service, Registers of Scotland

In this fireside chat between UK Department for Works and Pensions (DWP), Met Office and AWS, learn how these organisations innovate to drive sustainability across their infrastructure, services, operations and the world. In this session, you’ll also learn how builders can accelerate the sustainability of their workloads through optimization and informed architecture patterns, and in particular, you’ll hear from Tony Sundworth, Her Majesty’s Government Sustainable Technology lead at the DWP on their latest IT sustainability strategies and initiatives. You’ll also hear from Jeremy Tandy, Principal Fellow at the Met Office on how Met Office strives to democratize access to climate and weather data for public good through proximate compute at scale. You’ll also hear from Mateo Dugand, Sustainability Strategic Lead at AWS on the recent AWS Water Positive announcement, a commitment to return more water to communities around the world than it uses in its direct operations, including how AWS plans to deliver on this commitment through a four-pillar strategy.

Speaker: Jeremy Tandy, Principal Fellow at the UK Met Office; Tony Sundworth, Sustainable Technology lead; DWP Maeto Dugand, AWS Sustainability

In this session, DVLA will share their migration approach to transform and migrate away from a legacy drivers system. They'll cover everything from how they did this, to where they started, and how are they are supported. We'll also share how AWS supported DVLA with their Migration Acceleration Programme and how financial management and optimisation is at the heart of architecture when it comes to moving IBM mainframe workloads.

Speaker: Tom Brewer, Head of Service Creation, DVLA; Katie Gifford, Migration Sales Specialist - UK, AWS; Kevin Long, Senior Financial Architect, AWS

In this session, NHS Scotland will share how they are building their national digital platform on the cloud, which they promise will lay the foundation for a health and social care revolution in Scotland. At its core, the platform will allow NHS providers across the country to bring their data to the platform and build applications on it

Speakers: Christopher Wroath, Director of Technology, NHS Scotland; Shabs Lorgat, Enterprise Account Manager, AWS

Learn how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning underpin an assertive and innovative approach to preventing serious harm, setting higher standards, and promoting positive change in financial services. Hear how this is done whist maintaining an ethical boundary with the use of data.

Speakers: Ed Towers, Head of Regtech & Advanced Analytics, FCA; Martin Bishop, Government CTO, AWS

In 2022, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) launched it's 2025 digital strategy. In this session, you'll hear directly from Gina Gill, Chief Digital & Information Officer at the MoJ share both the successes and challenges her team has encountered whilst implementing their digital strategy.

Speaker: Gina Gill, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Ministry of Justice

In this session, we'll discuss building a single view of the citizen/ patient and using that to plan for demand. We'll also discuss how using data and digital tools can facilitate wellbeing and reduce the burden on NHS.

Speakers: Nicky Murphy, Int'l Government Health Lead, AWS; Keith Burns, Head of Commissioning and Market Development, Merton Council; Nadine Hassler, Head of Transformation and Digital, Richmond & Wandsworth Council; Rose Taylor, Exec Director Healthcare Solutions, NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit

A fireside chat to explore the joint initiative between UCL and AWS to produce evidence-based, commercially sustainable technological innovations in Healthcare and Education. Encouraging other institutions and organisations who focus on entrepreneurship and innovation to submit ideas through the CDI to receive the support of both UCL academia and AWS aiming to deliver projects for societal benefit.

Speaker: Amanda Kiely, Head of Higher Edu (South UK), AWS; Professor James Heatherington, Director of the UCL Advanced Research Computing Centre; Nora Stern, COO, Affiniti AI; Professor John Kelley, Ethera Health

Hear from AWS on what we recommend an organisation does to upskill their organisation and plug those cloud skill gaps. Also hear from Hackney council and their methods of gathering the right kind of data to address the digital skills gap. Also hear from Westminster leadership on their success in delivering re/Start to address their digital skills gap.

Speaker: AWS: Cecilie Lowson Presenting, Nicola Gallen and Laura Addison on the panel. External Panel Members: Anya James, Hackney County Council; Alison Muggridge, Assistant Principal Curriculum and Quality, Westminster Adult Education Service

How can we transform infrastructure to be more sustainable, ultimately improving the level of service and infrastructure durability without compromising on speed of design and construction? This presentation presents a holistic road map toward sustainable transport infrastructure, accounting for sustainability’s four dimensions: environmental, social, institutional, and economic.

Speakers: Johan Hanekom, Principal BDM for Sust Innov , AWS; Rafi Addlestone, Sustainability Bus. Advisor EU, AWS

How can technology digitally enable social housing tenants to be more engaged? And how can data provide meaningful insights to better support tenants and those responsible for them? In this panel session, we explore what is possible now, as well as what digitally enabled social housing of the future may look like.

Speakers: Steve Normyle, Account Manager - NPO, AWS; Claire CarrExternal, Account Manager, AWS; Peter Howe, Director of Technology, Cloud and IT Security and Housing at Plus Group; James Lupton, CTO at Cynozure

Better understand advances of cloud technology and how they're transforming government operations and citizen services across the world. You’ll leave this session with more action-oriented thinking to help you better develop the value proposition of digital transformation in public services.

Speaker: Mike Beaven, Snr Mgr, Govt Transformation, AWS

Are you aware of the current landscape in the battle for cloud talent? In this session, you will be taken through a review of the latest reports, debates, and findings of cloud talent. You'll leave with practical considerations for developing an organisation that can optimise cloud ambitions starting with the right people.

Speaker: Claire Spiller, Sr Manager, AWS re/Start EMEA, AWS

Leadership involves making choices and managing trade-offs in times of uncertainty. Based on our experience, a good starting point to gain a perspective on delivering digital transformation is to highlight the key areas where tensions are increasing and questions are being raised. Our conversations and interactions over the past few years suggests that at the heart of digital transformation lie 5 fundamental dilemmas being faced today. In this session, we discuss how leaders can face these 5 main dilemmas.

Speaker: Dr. Alan Brown, Professor of Digital Economy, Exeter Business School

Even after years of investment, organisations continue to be challenged with building, integrating and scaling trusted AI and ML systems. How can you unlock AI and ML's potential at scale? Top experts from across these systems come together in a panel discussion to share their latest insights and key learnings throughout the years.

Panelists: Neil Mackin, Principal ML Strategist, AWS; Deepak Shukla, Analytics Specialist, EMEA-UK, AWS; Ruth McGuinness, Data & AI Practice Director, Kainos; Maria Axente, Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead, PWC. Moderated by Isobel Baylis, Enterprise Service Manager, AWS

Chief Digital Officer for London, Theo Blackwell, will outline the city’s practical and ethical ‘north star’ guidelines to the trialling and deployment of IoT and smart city technologies.

Speaker: Theo Blackwell, Chief Digital Officer for London

For public sector organisations, achieving compliance with the evolving data protection regulations and meeting digital sovereignty expectations are critical. In this session, you will understand how to meet your digital sovereignty needs, by diving into the AWS Sovereign-by-Design approach. Come learn how AWS will continue to expand our capabilities across data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, and resilience.

Speaker: Kathy Liu, BDM Privacy and Sovereignty, AWS