Welcome to Public Sector ICT 2010

A two-day residential learning and networking event dedicated to promoting ICT as the turn-key for cost-savings and business transformation in the public sector helping you to reduce your cost base, while improving frontline public services.

You are one of the senior public sector ICT professionals who has been tasked with cutting your share of £95 million from government IT spend in 2010-2011, as part of the Coalition’s pledge to cut £6.2 billion overall from the public purse. The Government agenda also demands that you demonstrate improvements to your frontline public service delivery, increase your citizen engagement levels and free up citizen access to public information. You know that the only way you can achieve all of this at the same time is to identify and implement cost-efficiencies throughout your back office. You also know that ICT itself, through many of the emergent communication technologies, in particular, has the potential to help you deliver some of these efficiencies, as well as your share of the desired £170 million overall cut in expenditure on public sector property. But where on earth does all of this leave you and your ICT projects right now?

Make your ICT budget go further

Save millions of pounds through an effective use of the right technology

Become a more intelligent customer: re-negotiate your service contracts and work more closely with suppliers and strategic partners

Use emergent communications technologies in mobility and unified communications to save on property costs and deliver cost-efficiencies elsewhere in the business

Get the business leaders on board as sponsors for your projects and initiatives

Communicate with citizens in the way that they want to hear from you

Give citizens appropriate access to government information whilst minimising information risk

You will leave with a full address book of peer-level business contacts that you can continue to share your experience and learning with over the following year

Save months of time when sourcing new solutions and upgrades by attending one-to-one consultation meetings with solution providers who have experience of similar projects

AND, providing you meet our qualification criteria and have projects that you can discuss with our participating solution providers onsite, attendance is FREE (including accommodation). To start an application for a delegate place go straight to registration otherwise, read on to find out more...

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Attendance is free of charge, providing you meet our qualification criteria, if you would like a place at this event start an application now. If you would like to make other arrangements for your attendance, want to attend with another colleague(s) or have questions, please contact us on 020 7549 2547 or email Richard Harmon.

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Learning

You can’t afford to miss this year’s event. The 2010 programme includes:

• 3 "C" level keynote speakers, all members of the Chief Technology Officer Council

• 5 award winning or shortlisted speakers

• Benefit realisation strategies: millions of pounds of cost-savings will be demonstrated across the case-studies

• Tips and techniques to help you get more for less

• A brand new supplier panel: your chance to quiz suppliers on how they plan to work with you to help you through the spending cuts

• A special focus on the technology investments that can reduce your overall costs – mobility, unified communications, social networking technology, cloud computing, virtualisation and open source technology

• A focus on outsourcing and right-sourcing as a way to reduce ICT overheads

• Strategies for getting the business to champion and adopt your cost-saving ICT initiatives

• A Big Society context: find out how customer service, citizen engagement and citizen access strategies are being aligned with the Coalition Government’s agenda

• Frontline technology implementations as well as back office ICT case-studies

• A senior speaking panel including ICT Directors and Heads from across the public sector including Central Government, Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs), Local Government, Housing, Health and Police organisations

Networking

During turbulent times, the opportunity to come together to share experiences with your peers about how your organisation is managing and responding to the change and uncertainty becomes all the more important. By attending Public Sector ICT you can find out how other government organisations are using ICT to drive down their costs, in response to the wide-ranging public sector spending cuts and the agenda of the Coalition Government.

Each year up to 90 delegates from pre-qualified public sector ICT projects as well as from market-leading technology suppliers come together for two days of networking including:

• A drinks reception and formal three-course networking dinner on the evening of Day One, included, along with accommodation, in your free of charge event pass if you have a qualifying project
• Interactive workshop sessions in which discussion is encouraged
• One-to-one consultative meetings with technology suppliers

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this FREE established annual residential learning and networking forum for public sector ICT, programme and project leaders which returns this year to help guide you through a period of cutbacks.