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Financial Resilience - Driving Continuous Improvement in Local Government
Council budgets face increasing pressure from inflation, rising energy costs and higher National Living Wage demands. Alongside growing service needs, effective solutions are more critical than ever. The transformation journey from moving services online to decommissioning legacy applications must focus on sustainable, long-term improvements.
Financial Resilience - Driving Continuous Improvement in Local Government will support local authorities to identify cost-saving opportunities and more ways to free up budgets for essential digital transformation.
Topics discussed will include Software Costs; IT Asset Value; Cloud Spend; AI and ways to proactively manage IT operations and identify and address digital friction.
| 10.30 | Welcome & Event Overview Adele Gritten, CEO, Local Partnerships |
| 10.40 | Taking a data-enabled approach towards financial resilience Joran Mendel, Senior Director-Data Analytics, Local Partnerships |
| 10.50 | Interactive Poll | 10.55 | Case studies: Identifying cost-saving opportunities to boost digital transformation Alison Young, Associate Director, Local Public Services, TechUK |
| 11.05 | Integrating Investment Priorities Into a Structured Roadmap
Terry Chana, Chief Technology Officer, XMA |
11.15 | Interactive Poll |
| 11.20 | Making the right purchasing decisions Tom Styles, LocalGovDigital Live! Presenter and public sector orgs consultant |
| 11.30 | Q&A session featuring today’s speakers plus interactive poll results |
Adele Gritten
CEO
Local Partnerships
Adele joined Local Partnerships as chief executive in November 2022, having spent the previous two and a half years as Head of Economic Development and Commercial Investments at South Cambridgeshire District Council. Highlights in that role included oversight of £43 million of COVID-19 grant funding.
Alison Young
Associate Director, Local Public Services
techUK
With a background in International Trade & Investment, experience in public, private and third sector, advising on international trade, new markets and inward investment, Alison has worked closely with UK cities and regions around investment into innovation, partnerships and technology.
Joran Mendel
Head of Data and Analytics
Local Partnerships
Joran is Senior Director at Local Partnerships, overseeing the Data & Analytics team, which he established in 2019. The team provides data driven tools, insight and analytical capability in areas such as energy and commercialisation to councils and central government departments.
Terry Chana
Chief Technology Officer
XMA
Terry is the Chief Technology Officer at XMA, where he leads a team of solution consultants and architects. His team specialises in helping organisations with their technology modernisation initiatives, spanning application modernisation, API and data-driven integration, cloud platforms, and artificial intelligence.
Tom Styles
LocalGovDigital Live! presenter and public sector orgs consultant
LocalGovDigital
Tom is an experienced strategic local government digital leader with expertise in service design, agile, DevOps, and development, with a track record of delivering rapidly developed, secure, user focused solutions across .net, web, and low code technologies.