Business Design Centre, London, 15 October 2026
Public Service Data.AI is Global Government Forum’s annual event for public servants working on data and artificial intelligence across government and the wider public sector, hosted by HM Government. The 2026 conference opened with Aimee Smith, Government Chief Data Officer, and a fireside chat with Jake Richards MP, Minister for Sentencing, Human Rights and Technology.
I moderated three of the panel sessions.
Panel sessions #
Building a vocabulary and infrastructure for data sharing across public services #
- Ayub Bhayat, Director of Data and Analytics, Deputy Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England
- Phil Disbury, Commercial Director, Hippo
- Tim Faber, Director (Programme) of the Dutch Government Data Strategy, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands
- Toby Hayward-Goulding, Deputy Chief Data Officer, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
- Su Morgan, Head of Digital & Technology OPG, Ministry of Justice
Measuring citizen satisfaction with public services #
- Phillip Bland, Global Government Advisor, Qualtrics
- Vesa Lipponen, Chief Information Officer, Ministry of Finance, Finland
- Ally McAlpine, Chief Statistician, Scottish Government
- Jenny Murray, Product Manager, Citizen Event Analytics (Data & AI), Department for Work and Pensions
Building a more resilient and cyber secure state with AI #
- Tina Clapham CBE, Director Trusted Data & Technology, Chief Data Officer Group, UK Health Security Agency
- Richard Henderson, Assistant Deputy Minister and Corporate Chief Information Officer, Government of Alberta, Canada
- Toby Livesey, Head of Cyber Operations, UK Government Cyber Coordination Centre
- Michael Wilkinson, Lead Security Architect, Adaptive Security Programme, Department for Work and Pensions