Speakers

Government Data Summit sits you alongside our speakers as these Civil Service leaders and industry experts share their experience, thoughts on the future, and answer your questions. Who are you going to connect with and learn from?

2023 Experts

Sue Bateman

Interim Chief Data Officer

Speaker

Central Digital and Data Office

Eileen Vidrine

Senior Executive Service, Department of the Air Force Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer, the Pentagon

Co-Host

Executive Office of the President

Renata Oszast

Director General

Co-Host

Polish Financial Supervision Authority

Neil McIvor

Chief Data Officer, and Chief Statistician

Co-Host

Department for Education

Andy Gregory

Deputy Director, Data Services and Analytics at the Home Office

Co-Host

Home Office

Tom Wilkinson

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Scottish Government

Glyn Jones

Chief Digital Officer and Director of Analysis at Welsh Government

Contributor

Welsh Government

Siân Thomas

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Department for Business and Trade

Alan Howie

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Registers of Scotland

Nick Blewden

Chief Analytics Officer

Co-Host

Ofgem

Fernando de Pablo Martín

Director General, Digital Office Madrid

Co-Host

Digital Office Madrid

Rich Wentel

Deputy Director

Co-Host

Public Sector Fraud Authority

Jennifer Morse

Head of Data Strategy at Companies House

Co-Host

Companies House

Maria Dalhage

Head, Open Data Network, Swedish Civil Service

Co-Host

Swedish Public Employment Service

Barbara Engels

Senior Economist for Sustainable Digitalisation

German Economic Institute

Glen Hymers

Head of Data Privacy and Compliance at Cabinet Office

Co-Host

Cabinet Office

Bandhu Das

Head of Data Transformation at Defra

Co-Host

Defra

Richard Davis

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Ofcom

Aravindhan Rajasekar

Head of Data & Principal Architect

Co-Host

Cabinet Office

Reece Saint

Data Scientist

Co-Host

Houses of Parliament Restoration & Renewal

David Wilde

GM, Government Transformation magazine

Chair

Government Transformation

Charlie Boundy

Head of Advanced Analytics

Contributor

Department for Work & Pension

Sophie Bruggemann

Sr. Data Strategy & Engineering Lead, Pearson

Contributor

Pearson

Tammy Cheng

Deputy Head of Data and Analysis

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Chris Darriet-Jones

Chief Data Architect

Contributor

Post Office

Salah Hammouche

Fellow in Clinical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Co-Host

Medical Research Council - London Institute of Medical Sciences  Imperial College London

William Roper

Customer Insight Analyst and Performance Manager

Contributor

Wokingham Borough Council

Doug Ward

Deputy Director - Business Systems & Insight

Contributor

Innovate UK

Michael Sinclair

Head of Data, Analytics and Insight

Contributor

London Borough of Lambeth

Lindsay Mason

Head of Data Management, Governance and Capability Development

Contributor

UK Ministry of Defence

Jonathan Cairns-Terry

Head of Insight Products

Contributor

 Care Quality Commission

Eoin Mulgrew

Senior Strategy Lead

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Richard Browne

Assistant Director Data and Architecture

Contributor

Homes England

Jamie Corless

Senior Business Analyst

Contributor

North Sea Transition Authority

Noora Vainio

MI & Analysis Manager

Contributor

The Pensions Regulator

Shaun Lewis

National Lead - Data Integration

Contributor

Environment Agency

Taiwo Ross

Data Engineer

Contributor

Companies House

Asha Titus

Lead Researcher and Knowledge Manager

Contributor

University of Oxford

Robert Lee

Chief Data Architect

Contributor

HM Revenue & Customs

Elise El Nouchi

Research Analyst and Programme Manager at the Blavatnik School of Government

Contributor

Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Peter Beaumont

Director Strategic Accounts at the Satellite Applications

Contributor

Catapult

Lauren Petrie

Data Analytics Specialist

Contributor

Government Internal Audit Agency

Charis Doidge

Head of Data Science and Analytics

Contributor

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Katherine Wicks

Deputy Head of Data Governance

Contributor

Ministry of Defence

Jesus Barrasa

Head of Sales Engineering

Co-Host

Neo4j

Deepak Shukla

Data and Analytics Lead, AWS Public Sector, UKI

Co-Host

Amazon Web Services

Gus Tugendhat

Founder

Speaker

Tussell

Jon Roughley

Director of Data Strategy and Innovation

Co-Host

Experian

Susannah Matschke

Senior Data Engagement and Strategy Consulting

Co-Host

Sopra Steria

Fionn Tynan-O’Mahony

Head of Experience Design

Co-Host

Sopra Steria

Rich Buckley

VP Consulting Expert

Co-Host

CGI

Luke Unsworth

Global Lead of Operations

Co-Host

Dataminr

Jonno Evans

Advisor

Co-Host

Dataminr

Phil Newbury

VP Consulting Services

Co-Host

CGI

Alberto Villari

Data Governance Domain Expert

Co-Host

Informatica

Manos Samatas

Principal Solutions Architect, Analyticsminr

Co-Host

AWS

Paul Maltby

Director of AI Transformation in Government

Co-Host

Faculty AI

Robin Sutara

Field CTO

Co-Host

Databricks

Andy Burston

Director Consulting Expert

Co-Host

CGI

Richard Wilson

Public Sector Lead, Central Government UK

Co-Host

Databricks

Jason Tooley

Vice President North EMEA

Co-Host

Informatica

Fawad Qureshi

Global Industry Field CTO

Co-Host

Snowflake

Paul Mooney

Head of Industry, Public Sector, EMEA

Co-Host

Snowflake

Michael Down

D&A Specialist

Co-Host

Neo4J

James Piggot

Marketing Manager

Co-Host

Tussell

Damian Kenny

Director, Strategic Client, Public Sector

Co-Host

Experian

Ed McKeown

Director of Analytics at Experian

Co-Host

Experian

2022 Experts

Alison Pritchard

Deputy National Statistician & Director General Data Capability

Speaker

Office for National Statistics

Stephen Burt

Chief Data Officer

Speaker

Government of Canada

Sue Bateman

Interim Chief Data Officer

Speaker

Central Digital and Data Office

Caroline Bellamy

Director Chief Data Officer

Contributor

UK Ministry of Defence

Eileen Vidrine

Senior Executive Service, Department of the Air Force Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer, the Pentagon

Co-Host

Executive Office of the President

Richard Patterson

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Defense Security Cooperation Agency, US Federal Government

Ima Okonny

Chief Data Officer

Speaker

Employment and Social Development | Government of Canada

Tom Smith

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Po Tea-Duncan

Executive Director for Cyber Security

Co-Host

Office of the Chief Information Officer branch at Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Ming Tang

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Panellist

National Health Service

Keith Dargie

Chief Information Digital Officer

Co-Host

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)

André Loranger

Assistant Chief Statistician (Analytical Studies, Methods, Data Infrastructure), Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Statistics Canada

Johanna Hutchinson

Director of Analytics and Data Science

Co-Host

Department of Health and Social Care

Lien Bailey

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Intellectual Property Office

Siân Thomas

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Department for Business and Trade

John Seabourn

Chief Digital Officer

Co-Host

North Sea Transition Authority

Mark Azzam

Chief Data Officer, Head of Division, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Germany

Co-Host

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, Germany

Nic Granger

Director of Corporate

Co-Host

North Sea Transition Authority

Fiona James

CDO and Director of Data Growth

Panellist

Office for National Statistics

Alan Howie

Chief Data Officer

Co-Host

Registers of Scotland

Victoria Obudulu

Deputy Director of Statistics Production and Head of Profession for Statistics

Co-Host

UK Health Security Agency

Emma Gordon

Director - ADR UK

Co-Host

UK Research and Innovation, ESRC

Thusal Bennett

Data Scientist (G7 Lead)

Co-Host

Government Digital Service

Marta Lewandowska

Deputy Director, UX Team Lead

Co-Host

Education Development Center

Daniel James

Deputy Director of Data, Analytics & Surveillance & Innovation Fellow at 10 Downing Street

Co-Host

UK Health Security Agency

Nick Blewden

Chief Analytics Officer

Co-Host

Ofgem

Rich Wentel

Deputy Director

Co-Host

Public Sector Fraud Authority

Craig Martin

Fraud Analytics Lead & Head of Programme

Co-Host

Counter Fraud Data Analytics Service

Andy Letherby

Head of Monitoring

Co-Host

HM Revenue & Customs

Bandhu Das

Head of Data Transformation at Defra

Co-Host

Defra

Celio Oliveira

Lead Data Scientist at the Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch

Co-Host

Health Canada

Aravindhan Rajasekar

Head of Data & Principal Architect

Co-Host

Cabinet Office

David Wilde

GM, Government Transformation magazine

Chair

Government Transformation

Louis Mosley

Head of Palantir UK

Speaker

Palantir Technologies

Paul Roberts

Central Government Lead

Co-Host

Palantir Technologies

Harry Tayler

Deployment Strategist

Co-Host

Palantir Technologies

Harkirat Singh

Technical Director of UK Public Sector

Co-Host

Palantir Technologies

Chris Darriet-Jones

Chief Data Architect

Contributor

Post Office

Shaun Collings

Regional Sales Director UK Public Sector

Co-Host

Pure Storage

Nick Ward

UK Central Government Lead, Qlik

Co-Host

Qlik

Afshin Attari

Director of Public Sector and Unified Platforms

Co-Host

Exponential-e

Doug Ward

Deputy Director - Business Systems & Insight

Contributor

Innovate UK

David Weaver

Business Development Director

Co-Host

Hitachi Solutions

Simon de Timary

Head of Data & AI

Co-Host

BJSS

Lindsay Mason

Head of Data Management, Governance and Capability Development

Contributor

UK Ministry of Defence

Richard Browne

Assistant Director Data and Architecture

Contributor

Homes England

Jessica McEvoy

Principal Consultant

Co-Host

Scott Logic

Tony Stranack

Adobe Chief Technologist for UK and Ireland

Speaker

Adobe

Neil Bacon

Principal, Digital Strategy Group

Co-Host

Adobe

Matt Boyd

Head of Futures and Innovation at BAE

Speaker

BAE

Ruth McGuinness

Data & AI Practice Lead at Kainos

Co-Host

Kainos

Chris Stanley

Head of Data & AI solutions

Panellist

Kainos

David Vaughton

Senior Solutions Architect

Speaker

Hitachi Solutions

Blake Griffin

Consulting and Delivery Director

Speaker

Digital Modos

Doug Guthrie

Lead Architect

Co-Host

Digital Modos

Holly Armitage

Principal Strategist

Co-Host

BAE Systems

Alice Keating-Withers

Central Government Lead

Co-Host

Palantir Technologies

Deepak Shukla

Data and Analytics Lead, AWS Public Sector, UKI

Co-Host

Amazon Web Services

Paul Squires

Lead Identity Strategist

Co-Host

SailPoint

Alex Fiddes

Head of Digital Operations

Contributor

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Paul Lodge

Chief Data Officer

Panellist

Department for Work and Pensions

Christina Finlay

Director, Data & Analytics

Contributor

Nest Corporation

Andrew Newman

Head of Data and Information Access

Contributor

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Diana McAuley

Head of Data and Information Governance

Contributor

Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Jacqui Leggetter

Deputy Director, Head of Integration

Contributor

Department for Work and Pensions

Doreen Grove

Head of Open Government

Contributor

Scottish Government

Ian Knowles

Deputy Director, Data, Insight and People Analytics Division

Contributor

Department for Transport

Danielle Hudson

Head of Data Strategy and Data Improvement

Contributor

Ministry of Justice

Alexis Soto-Castillo

Deputy Director of Digital and Data

Contributor

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Andy Thompson

National Data Repository Manager

Contributor

North Sea Transition Authority

Andrew Christopherson

Chief Data Officer

Contributor

Cabinet Office

David Dorrell

Director of Data Science

Contributor

Competition and Markets Authority

Alex Longden

Head of Data Strategy and Standards

Contributor

Ordnance Survey

Kevin Vernon Ault

Senior Strategy Adviser and Lead Horizion Scanner

Contributor

HM Revenue & Customs

Winston Joseph Ward

Technical Architect

Contributor

Ministry of Justice

Jan Heslop

Chief Data Architect at UK Intellectual Property Office

Contributor

Intellectual Property Office

Dean Wanless

Service Owner at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Contributor

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Kevin Keenoy

Technical Architect at Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Contributor

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Joe Cuddeford

Deputy Director, Sectors and Market Policy

Contributor

Geospatial Commission, Cabinet Office

Atul M. Bhusari

Senior Strategy Delivery Manager

Contributor

Department for Work and Pensions

Brice Dassy

Joint Head of the Analysis and Insight Unit at Cabinet Office

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Hoang Phuoc (Philip) Le

Sr. Data Scientist | Machine Learning & Operations Research

Contributor

 NHS Digital

Jags Parbha

Head of Digital - Equality Hub

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Ivana Gordon

Deputy Director, Digital & Expert Risk Services

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Gesche Schmid

Deputy Director Data Exploitation and Capability

Contributor

Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

David Bourne

Head of Data, National Security Risk Unit

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Sanjay Kumar

Data Strategy and Governance TOM Design Lead

Contributor

HM Revenue & Customs

Tor Steenson

Senior Product Manager

Contributor

Government Equalities Office

Justin Placide

Head of Net Zero Governance and Fiscal Events

Contributor

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Michelle Reynolds

Service Delivery Director

Contributor

Animal and Plant Health Agency

Claire Laws

Principal Data Governance

Contributor

The Pensions Regulator

Islam Ibrahim

Head of Data Analytics Products

Contributor

HM Revenue & Customs

Charles Baird

Head of Data Architecture

Contributor

Central Digital & Data Office

Corinne Richardson

Deputy Director, Head of Data Engineering

Contributor

Department for Education

Calum Barnett

Head of Data Engineering

Contributor

Ministry of Justice

Arsalan Hussain

Head of Data Analytics

Contributor

Government Internal Audit Agency

James Lai

Clinical AI Fellow and Emergency Medicine Specialty Registrar

Contributor

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Des Oliver

Commercial Function - Markets and Suppliers

Contributor

Cabinet Office

Jonathan Dalton

Head of Portfolio - Digital Apprenticeship Service

Contributor

Department for Education

Ginta Salava

Lead Data Analyst Apprenticeship

Contributor

Department for Education

Aurelie Mascio

Senior Manager - Data Science

Contributor

National Crime Agency

Pragya Singh

Data Engineering Lead

Contributor

Department for Education

Elaine Elliott

Project Lead

Contributor

J Hub Defence Innovation

Shaid Karim

Senior Delivery Manager

Contributor

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Gergely Raccuj

Principal Product Owner

Contributor

Highways England