🌟 I'm thrilled to share that I’ve been named in this year’s Government Transformation Top 100 in the Transformation category! 🌟 I’m grateful to the Government Transformation Magazine for this recognition. It’s a privilege to be acknowledged alongside many inspiring colleagues who are driving meaningful change across government and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in public service. This award acknowledges the important work we’re doing at hashtag #CDDO to advance AI adoption, drive innovation, and make government services more effective, efficient, and future-ready. hashtag #GovernmentTransformation hashtag #PublicSectorInnovation hashtag #Transformation hashtag #GovTransSummit hashtag #CDDO

The Government Transformation Magazine Expo and the Data + AI Summit were such a dream. I was beyond delighted to learn that our Revenue Scotland and Office for National Statistics team won the recent Snowflake Public Sector Hackathon! ❄️ Thank you to Charles Baird and Fiona James, here in the photo with me, who I think are visionaries when it comes to government data sharing by enabling and supporting the organisation of events like this hackathon. I'm so proud of everyone in our Sugar Plumb Data Fairies team: Dana Seman Bobulska, Mary Cleaton, Shaurya Bhagat, Lucy Astley-Jones - we were the ultimate team.Thank you immensely to Andrew Newland MBA, Rebecca O'Connor, Timothy Parish, Simon Tobias, Janet Broome, Irfan Rasul, Flora Chu, Tony Hoad and everyone else at Snowflake who supported our team and myself both at the hackathon but also yesterday and today at the Expo - you guys are the GOAT. Last but not least, thank you Ayesha Peacock for giving me the opportunity to be a speaker at the Citizens Theatre and being so kind and helpful. You made my participation in the Expo and therefore my unexpected in person meeting with Duncan Hart possible! This Expo filled me with lots of hope for Data and Digital in the Civil Service. Networking with so many wonderful people, deepening those existing connections but also making new ones further strengthened my conviction that there are numerous do-gooders in our sector and we can achieve great results together to serve the citizens - ourselves - as well as we can!

Conferences have truly become the places where I get to reconnect with friends and engage with world leaders shaping the Data and AI transformation landscape. This morning, I had the privilege of meeting the Under Secretary of State for Transformation at the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Andrew Western, the wonderful Dr. Julia Borggräfe from Metaplan Germany, my friend Richard Patterson from the U.S. Department of State, Marten Kaevats from IEEE, and Ryan Hum from Service Canada. I had the honour to also speak to that crowd with Jason Bett, a few other colleagues from the Government of Canada, and many other countries driving change across the globe. A big thank you to the incredible team - James Smith, David Wilde FIoD, FBCS, Assoc CIPD, Ed Tillotson, Sarah Jeffery, Karolina Przeklas, Rafael, Ella, and staff - for bringing us all together at the beautiful InterContinental London The O2. Here’s to more inspiring conversations and connections! hashtag #AI hashtag #DataTransformation hashtag #Networking hashtag #Leadership hashtag #Innovation