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🚀 That's a wrap on the LGA Technology Innovation Showcase! Working with The Local Government Association, we brought together a fantastic group of local government leaders and cutting-edge startups to explore the power of technology in transforming local services. With more than 80 attendees in the room and more than 150 joining virtually, it was a truly inspiring day of collaboration and innovation. "Today was a great example of how important it is for councils to share and learn from one another. It's about building trust and understanding while fostering innovation. We need to understand how to innovate effectively within government frameworks." - Keri Landau 👉 Missed the event? Check out our last post to discover the excellent startups who presented their solutions to expert panels in social care, local places, planning, and digital front doors. 💡 But that's not all! We also had a series of insightful talks from several great speakers, including Councillor Alex Coley, Eoin M. from 10 Downing Street, Mavis Machirori and Anna Studman from the Ada Lovelace Institute, and many more. 🙌 A huge thank you to everyone who participated and made this event such a success! Sarah Slate, Tom Hindmarch, Rebekah Wilson, Owen Pritchard, Alexander de Carvalho, Ryan Shea, Rona Harvey, Chiara Carlini, James Katz, Florence Mayo, Johnny Hugill, Disha Shanbhag, Léa Suazo, Zara Qadir Verna The Future Fox Genie AI Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC) Alchera Technologies Immense Podaris emma AI Lilli Starlight Futr AI Mortar Beebot AI Caroline Gadd Alison Tombs Smera Jayadeva Mark Durkee Bridget Wilkins Wei Yang #GovTech #LocalGov #Innovation #AISolutions #SmartCities #DigitalTransformation

💡 PropTech is already transforming the real estate sector, cutting transaction times, streamlining maintenance, and reducing carbon emissions. If adopted at scale, it could save 72K FTE hours per 1,000 property transactions and cut 13M tonnes of CO2 annually across English households. The opportunity is huge, are we ready to unlock it? 📄 Download the report here : https://lnkd.in/eYgzQcZ2

Joining everyone else posting about it - but today is the big day! 💥 Genuinely so exciting to see this finally happening, having been working with the Cabinet Office Government Commercial Function to shape this as part of their initial expert advisory panel back in 2019. I am - of course - most excited how the new Act can be a tool for driving innovation procurement. And how we can use it to modernise how we test and buy technology, especially AI. I have been working with friends from Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre (IPEC) Innovate UK and elsewhere to pull together some guidance on how the new Competitive Flexible Procedure can be used to make procurement more innovative, agile, and...flexible. We'll be sharing something on this soon 👀 👀 Well done to Lindsay Maguire and the rest of the team for reaching this milestone - I am so excited to see how the sector can shape new procurement tools and approaches. PUBLIC

Procurement Act 2023: Will ‘Competitive Flexible Procedure’ supercharge your public sector selling process? ⚡️ Johnny Hugill, Director of Commercial, Spend and Impact at our partner PUBLIC, calls Competitive Flexible Procedure (CFP) the “rockstar of regulations” and is the most significant change for suppliers in the new Procurement Act 🎸 The Act, set to go live on the 24th February 2025, will introduce the CFP, which gives contracting authorities the flexibility to design their own, more competitive, procurement processes 💡 The CFP will incorporate processes, commonly used in private sector sales processes such as negotiation at any stage (including pre-tender, open tender, or post-tender), an open risk dialogue with suppliers, or a product demo stage 🏎️ What’s changing under ‘Competitive Flexible Procedure’? ⚡ More flexibility for buyers: Contracting authorities can now design their own procurement processes, tailoring them to their specific needs and challenges. 🏆 More strategic competition: Buyers can limit suppliers at different stages, refine award criteria, and negotiate more effectively. 📉 Fewer procedural restrictions: Processes like Competitive Dialogue and Innovation Partnerships are being replaced, making procurement faster and more efficient. How should suppliers be preparing? 📖 Understanding buyer priorities: As buyers shortlist suppliers at different stages, suppliers must demonstrate value immediately and pre-engage opportunities early to stay ahead. 🛠️ Adapting bid strategies: Suppliers must prepare for multi-stage competitions, refining bids over time and engaging in negotiations to stay competitive. 📊 Leveraging new opportunities: With more flexible routes, suppliers who demonstrate value beyond cost will gain a competitive edge. How do you see CFP reshaping public sector procurement? Drop your thoughts in the comments👇 #ProcurementAct2023 #CompetitiveFlexibleProcedure #PublicSectorProcurement #GovernmentContracts

📖➡️🎙️ From Pages to Podcasts... Last week we launched our brand new "Opportunity for PropTech" report in partnership with PUBLIC and commissioned by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. This report explores the transformative potential of PropTech in addressing critical challenges within the UK real estate sector, while also providing data and insights into the total addressable PropTech market in the UK compared to other countries and use cases. So what if you could transform the insights from the report into a podcast in minutes? We have done exactly that using the Google Notebook LM tool which helped us transform key findings from the report into an audio format/podcast. If you have already got your hands on our report and are keen to explore the tool, try it here : https://notebooklm.google/ Alternatively if you would like to read the report and haven't downloaded it yet, you can do so here : https://lnkd.in/eYgzQcZ2

With just 5 weeks to go until The GovTech Summit 2025, we’re announcing the next lineup of speakers leading the way in digital transformation: ➡️ Sarah Munby, Permanent Secretary, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology ➡️ Josh Simons MP for Makerfield and Chair of Labour Digital ➡️ Claudine Adeyemi-Adams FIEP, Founder & CEO, Earlybird ➡️ Vishal Marria, Founder, Quantexa ➡️ Tom Newby, Head of UK Office for Quantum, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Don’t miss your chance to join candid conversations with tech founders and government leaders building thriving public-private partnerships. 📣 Register your interest here -  https://bit.ly/40rtGeU #GovTech #DigitalGovernment #PublicSectorInnovation #FutureOfGov Founders Forum Group | PUBLIC | Carolyn Dawson | Alexander de Carvalho | Lucy Huckle | Adam Sticca

🌐 One month on from HMG’s ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’ - How can the Government become a better buyer of AI capabilities? We were excited to see Department for Science, Innovation and Technology's plan outlining the potential of AI aligned with the Government’s Five Missions, and last week our Managing Director Ryan Shea joined an expert panel at Prolific’s Winter Summit to discuss PUBLIC’s thoughts! In particular, we were pleased to see DSIT arriving at a similar conclusion as we did in our ‘Buying GenAI in Government’ report from last August, noting the usefulness of ‘Contemplation Clauses’ in Recommendation 43 of the Action Plan. 🔍 But what is a ‘Contemplation Clause,’ and why is it useful for AI in government? One of the concerns we hear from buyers is that AI technology is moving too fast, so they are uncertain when is the best time to invest. That’s where the ‘Contemplation Clause’ mechanism comes in handy! It can be used to agree with suppliers during procurement (by being included in all major commercial documents) that the buyer expects the service it receives to keep pace with the ‘state of the art’. This commitment by both parties to ‘contemplate’ changes to the contractual arrangement protects the buyer in a situation where capability has dramatically improved since the initiation of the relationship. We discuss this and further best practices in our ‘Buying GenAI in Government’ guidance - give it a read! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/efm5nBaG #AIinpublicservices #digitaltransformation #GenerativeAI #GovTech #Procurement #PublicSector #AI - Ryan Shea, Johnny Hugill, Andrew Cole, James Hutt, Alexander de Carvalho, Sam Mingoia, Adam Sticca

🌐 Today is #SaferInternetDay! Every year since 2017, the UK Safer Internet Centre has driven awareness around pivotal issues in online safety, highlighting the worrying acceleration of harms for young people online. 👀 This year, amidst the advent of generative AI, deepfake technology, and more, they are assessing the increasing maturity of scams online, and allowing young people to share experiences and ideas on tackling the problem at saferinternetday.org.uk. 💡 With major legislative and regulatory action on online safety coming into force around the world, the Safety Tech sector is also growing to meet the challenge, as governments and businesses look for innovative, technology-driven ways to keep people safe online. 🔎 With solution deep-dives on pages 42-47, you can learn more about Safety Tech innovators like Cyacomb, Reality Defender, Pinwheel Kids' & Teens' Phone and more! Read the full report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eBMtu-yb #safetytech #onlinesafety #govtech #innovation ✏️ Developed in partnership between Paladin Capital Group, PUBLIC, Perspective Economics, and Prof. Mary Aiken. Ryan Shea, Fernanda Ferreccio, Zixuan Fu, Christopher Steed, Ian Stevenson MBE, Iain Corby, Mason Allen, Deepak Tewari, Sasha Haco, Janet Matsuda, Dane W., OSTIA, Age Verification Providers Association

🗣️ £527 million in cost savings per year across planning and regeneration and a potential reduction of 13 million tonnes in CO2 emissions across residential retrofitting... this is what the use of PropTech could achieve! Our "Opportunity for PropTech" report in partnership with PUBLIC commissioned by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government serves as a pivotal step in driving PropTech adoption, providing a foundation for greater understanding, collaboration, and actionable progress. With rising demand for smarter, more sustainable, and efficient real estate solutions, PropTech is not just growing, it’s reshaping the built environment Hear from our Managing Director, Saminder (Sammy) Pahal and Director at PUBLIC, Johnny Hugill 👇 📄 Download the report here : https://lnkd.in/eYgzQcZ2

🚀 Check out our new monthly interview series, the Inside GovTech Spotlight! Introducing our first innovator, Kitsoft 🇺🇦! A Ukrainian GovTech scale-up developing digital services for government and business, including Diia - the Ukrainian state digital portal, used by millions of citizens. Over the last seven years, PUBLIC has worked closely with over 300 GovTech innovators that are transforming every part of Government and driving better outcomes for citizens. To our surprise, many of these stories have not reached a wide audience or crossed borders. So with this series, we want to: ⭐ ️Shine a light on European GovTech innovators to share their success stories and advice. 💡 Offer civil servants new ideas on how to tackle complex problems. 💭 Encourage innovators to consider their solution’s potential for public sector challenges. If you know an exciting innovator, or want us to consider your GovTech story for future spotlights, leave a comment or get in touch with zara@public.io! #govtech #startups #publicsectorinnovation #insidegovtech - Kitsoft 🇺🇦, Oleksandr Iefremov, Chiara Carlini, Zara Qadir, James Katz, Léa Suazo, Ryan Shea, Adam Sticca, Sam Mingoia