Agenda
Welcome to the Public Sector Show 2022
- Building back better, fairer and greener: The future of UK public procurement
- Deepening our impact to power the public sector
- Social value, carbon net zero, and the opportunities for reform
The ABC guide to successful contract management via capability uplift with a focus on a Case Study: How the Cabinet Office introduced the Contract Management Capability Programme to help driving Better Value, Better Performance and Lower Costs
Did you know that using a Chromebook can help reduce your carbon footprint, and that devices are designed with sustainability in mind? Learn how Chrome OS supports Google’s mission with an energy efficient operating system and sustainable hardware to deliver environmental benefits across the entire lifecycle of your device. Also discover how Chrome OS Flex can maximise the life of your existing device fleet. Find out how you can breathe new life into ageing PCs and Macs with a modern and fast operating system to reduce e-waste.
Your opportunity to make the most of the conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors and make meaningful connections
There is an ecological, moral, and legal imperative for government to use its public spend to deliver social value. Yet this is not without its challenges: it’s difficult to aggregate impacts across a policy area, there’s a lack of clear baselines, it requires deep supply chain relationships, and sustainability initiatives need to be put at the heart of delivery. There is a fantastic opportunity for the government commercial profession to build on the existing foundations to develop the culture, behaviours, and insights to maximise social value outcomes.
An update session for interested stakeholders on the progress of the Transforming Public Procurement programme including a summary of the bill, key proposals and the L&D that is planned to support contracting authorities and suppliers.
ROOM: Gielgud
- The impact of new procurement policies on framework agreements: threat or advantage?
- How to incorporate sustainability and social value in existing frameworks to meet government’s ambitious plan
- How to be more open and transformative in embedding sustainability and social value in public procurement practices: challenges and opportunities
- How to encourage key stakeholders to be more sustainable and still drive high-quality services
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
Attend this session led by Social Value expert, Snowia Hussain, and learn more on:
- How both central and local government are leading on the social value agenda
- How to successfully embed social value across the public sector to foster economic, social and environmental well-being
- Effective tools and approaches for measuring social value beyond the balance sheet
- Delivering social value through better supplier management
- How local authorities are integrating local expertise and joining up services to maximise the value of contracts
ROOM: Moore
Stay tuned for our CIPFA’s session
ROOM: Shelley
- Learn how operational fleets can effectively decarbonise to meet Government targets and maintain efficiencies
- Discover how the use of data and scenario modelling can facilitate to transition to low carbon vehicle solutions
ROOM: Moore
Join Martin Taylor, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at cloud contact centre provider Content Guru, to learn about:
- The connection between employee satisfaction and citizen satisfaction
- The true cost of employee turnover
- How to maximise your agents’ skills to support both employee and citizen engagement
- How to harness intelligent automation and workforce management for a better employee experience
ROOM: Wordsworth
- Discover how speech recognition can help alleviate the burden of documentation.
- We will go through a real life case study of a Public Sector workers who’s working life has changed indefinitely through the use of Speech Recognition.
- Learn all about Dragon Professional Software and how it can work for you and your employees.
ROOM: Gielgud
Local councils and other Public Sector IT teams can find themselves firefighting issues and getting distracted from day-to-day tasks rather than focusing on strategic, cost-saving initiatives.
Having the right insight into usage and user experience, enables organisations to better support their hybrid end-users whilst controlling IT asset costs. You can reduce the number of devices requiring replacement by analysing employee experience, not just the age of the device.
Dan will be discussing:
- A real-life example how Riverbed have enabled a local council to:
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- Overcome poor performance with business and governance critical social care applications
- Proactively troubleshoot IT issues to ensure social workers can input critical, time sensitive data when needed with no problems – reducing MTTR (mean time to resolution)
- Understand the true end-user experience of both citizens and end-users
- Controlling costs: Reduce your device and enterprise software IT spend with insights into employee experience and usage
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
Jointly hosted by Zellis and the University of Lincoln, that talk explored the relationship between numeracy, financial wellbeing and mental health. It looks at what public sector employers can do to support it both proactively and reactively. The University of Lincoln will introduce a case study of how they have successfully incorporated their financial education and wellbeing programme and how they have used technology through their payroll system, to successfully and significantly add value to the workplace offer.
Catch up with your peers at the conference during the lunch break.
Get to know the faces behind the innovations as you journey through the conference exhibition floor. This offers you the opportunity to meet providers who can help you kickstart your projects and improve efficiency within your organisations, by making the most of new products and services.
ROOM: Wordsworth
Government procurement and compliance teams are under pressure to deal with an increasing variety and pace of change and risk in the supply chain. From macro issues and regulations, to needing to scale and meet targets for SMEs, understanding risk exposure and building resilience in the supply chain is challenging. Furthermore, government departments must go beyond understanding the risk posed pre-award, to proactively monitor supplier relationships on an ongoing basis for changes in firmographics, regulation or beneficial ownership. During this session, attendees will learn:
- How to quality, structured data can help agencies to understand suppliers and the risk they pose
- How data can be used to improve the due diligence process and in entity resolution to provide a single view of a supplier cross-departments
- How automation and technology can be used to accelerate the contracting process and monitor change on an ongoing basis
ROOM: Gielgud
The needs and expectations of local government clients and employees has evolved rapidly over the last 2 years. End-user computing presents a significant opportunity for councils to make progress on their goals such as driving sustainability, fuelling economic growth, and ensuring better services and citizen welfare. Hear from Kingston & Sutton Councils and London Borough of Hackney on how they adopted technology to navigate this changing landscape. To fight climate change on a global level, we have to start in our home boroughs. Kingston & Sutton Council will share their story of how they switched to remote working seamlessly during the pandemic, and saved carbon footprint as a result, as benchmarked by sustainability consultancy, Px3
ROOM: Shelley
Lisa will introduce contractors and spend 20 mins asking them to share their 3 key challenges with regard to tendering construction projects, what they as contractors are doing to mitigate the challenges and what they would like to see clients do more of to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes when tendering. We will use the last 10 mins for a Q&A with audience members.
ROOM: Moore
As sustainability targets continue to gain increasing momentum within business agendas, so too does the pressure from investors, shareholders, customers, and colleagues, for companies to push the sustainability agenda within their own supply chains — boosting the environmental, social, and economic performance throughout the entire lifecycle.
While incorporating sustainability and social value into your procurement process may feel like a challenging feat, failure to act could be the biggest risk of all.
Join Debbie Wall, Head of Responsible Business at OT Group, as she delves into ways to foster a sustainable supply chain for your public sector organisation, touching upon:
- Key ways to boast strong warehouse and logistics capabilities
- How to utilise smart procurement processes to support environmental and sustainable agendas
- The benefits of user restrictions
- Setting up preferred suppliers
- The power of procurement data
- An introduction to OT Group’s industry’s leading procurement engine, SmartPad
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
We aim to be responsible global citizens by understanding our impact on communities and on the environment. We strive to minimize any negative impact and maximize positive impact from our activities. The best way we can do this is by tapping into our technology, talent and time.
In this session we’ll be covering:
- Low Carbon Solutions
- Accessibility and Our Technology
- Safe and Secure for All
Choose the sessions that best suit your interests this afternoon, as we break out into three streams – Procurement Fundamentals, The Future of Procurement: Sustainability and Procurement Insights
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
The UK’s Net Zero Strategy has set a goal of decarbonising all sectors of the UK economy by 2050. Contracts, accountability vehicles common to every organisation on the planet, will help operationalise this ambitious agenda.
In this session, we will discuss:
- How government can decarbonise via a three-step maturity journey: the Paperless Office, the Distributed Enterprise, and finally the Accountable Supply Chain
- A deep dive on how government agencies can operationalise a net zero pledge using automation, AI and smart contracts
- How agreeing better, and better agreements, can make a difference not just for emissions, but for every lever of ESG
ROOM: Gielgud
Identity was honoured to deliver the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow – the largest event ever held by the UK Government and the largest COP ever delivered – attended by over 40,000 attendees, including 120 world leaders to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
COP26 extended beyond governmental meetings and negotiations to include press conferences, working spaces, a full media centre, bilateral rooms, a film screening amphitheatre, expo-style areas and exhibitor zones.
Gain valuable insights into how the teams involved worked collaboratively in a complex stakeholder environment to deliver a carbon neutral conference with concrete social value, achieving international ISO 20121 standards for sustainability.
Attendees will hear perspectives from client and agency stakeholders and how this major high-profile event differed from other government projects, looking at the principal challenges and tools developed to reduce environmental impacts and create long-lasting legacy for the city.
ROOM: Moore
- Data is a powerful asset if you can utilize its value in the organisation especially in times of change. Join this session to hear real world examples of organisations who have utilised data to be more efficient, transparent and sustainable
- Understand the strategies that enable a data driven organisation
- Hear real pitfalls to avoid from experienced partners
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
Attend this session led by CIPS CEO and learn more about:
- The importance of good procurement practices
- What these deliver in terms of value, sustainability, ethical practices
- The criticality of building capability and implementing best practices
ROOM: Gielgud
- How to transform the public sector culture and making it pro-innovation
- How procurement can be leveraged to encourage inclusive innovation and maximise benefits for UK regions and communities
- Becoming Market Makers and Innovation Leaders: How to use innovation procurement in responding to challenges, integrating social value, and stimulating public sector’s productivity and efficiency
ROOM: Moore
- What do we mean by full cost recovery and how significant is it in commissioning and procurement decisions for place-based services?
- Kent County Council’s practice in Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise commissioning
- Moving towards a new model of shared responsibility: how collaborative commissioning can streamline procurement processes, encourage exceptional outcomes and ultimately create the right conditions for sustainable and inclusive local marketplace
ROOM: Wordsworth
This session is by reservation only and is limited to 15 attendees.
Stay tuned for our Salesforce Roundtable session
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
- Analysing the impact of the pandemic and what this means for the future of procurement
- Outlining the four strategic drivers for a successful procurement and supply life cycle
- Standardising processes and documentation to accelerate procurement efficiency and speed
- Driving commercial capability and performance through upskilling and reskilling
ROOM: Moore
- Discussing the factors which contribute to modern slavery
- Modern Slavery Act 2015: Is this still fit for purpose?
- How far should public sector organisations be going in their third-party due diligence?
ROOM: Burton & Redgrave
- From Spend, Recovery, Audit to Data Analytics: Steps to spot and mitigate procurement fraud
- Building Cyber resilience in public procurement
- The role of technology, cloud and managed service providers in tackling F&C and delivering public services
- Next steps: A new national cyber strategy
ROOM: Moore
- Public Procurement: the solution or the problem to carbon emissions?
- Carbon reduction plans – Exploring Manchester City Council’s experience in innovative commissioning and procurement activity to reach net zero targets
Your opportunity to make the most of the conference, meet up with fellow delegates and exhibitors and make meaningful connections