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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

📣 LESS THAN 3 WEEKS TO GO! The Local Government Innovation Showcase at The GovTech Summit is just around the corner on 19 March. Hear key insights from tech providers and local authority partners showcasing successful digital innovation case studies. Speakers include: ➡️ Owen Pritchard, Head of Cyber, Digital and Technology, Local Government Association ➡️ Sandy Tung, Principal Policy Officer, Innovation and Technology, Greater London Authority ➡️ Tom White, Innovation and Net Zero Director, Thames Freeport ➡️ Claudine Adeyemi-Adams FIEP, Founder & CEO, Earlybird ➡️ Matthew Brown, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Verna ➡️ Seb Barker, Co-Founder & COO, Beam From initial rollout to measuring outcomes and adapting solutions for different local authorities, learn how common challenges were overcome and effective partnerships were built. Spaces filling quickly! Find out more and register your interest -  https://lnkd.in/dnRqdFa 🗓️ 19 March 2025 📌 Central Hall Westminster, London #GovTechSummit #DigitalTransformation #AI #PublicSectorInnovation  #LocalGovernment #LocalGovernmentInnovation #WhereTheFutureUnfolds  #FoundersForumGroup  #PUBLIC Founders Forum Group | PUBLIC | Carolyn Dawson | Alexander de Carvalho | Lucy Huckle | Chiara Carlini

👥 Register your interest to join us at the Innovation Forum at QEOP! 👥  🗓️ 23 April 2025 | Plexal, London We’re convening a dynamic audience to discuss how innovation can source local solutions to national challenges. If you’re interested in exploring what effective innovation policy can look like on the ground, this event is for you! 🔷 Policymakers  – Gain insights into innovation strategies that tackle local issues and drive economic growth 🔷 SMEs & Entrepreneurs – Connect with potential partners and opportunities to scale your solutions 🔷 Industry Experts – Explore collaboration opportunities with emerging innovators and peers 🔷 Investors & Funders – Meet high-potential startups and scale-ups tackling major local challenges Don’t miss this chance to connect with leading minds in place-based innovation and be part of a movement shaping the future of our communities 🚀 Register your interest to join us - spaces are limited! ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eSscePWb Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, SHIFT , PUBLIC, #SHIFT #InnovationForum #PlaceBasedInnovation #UrbanInnovation #SustainableGrowth

📣 Calling all innovation enthusiasts - new event alert! 📣 It’s easy to talk about ‘innovation’. But how do we actually make it happen - on the ground, in communities, and across industries - to make a real impact on local challenges? Join the Innovation Forum at QEOP (Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park) on 23 April at Plexal to engage with fellow policymakers, innovators, investors and industry leaders around: 💡 How local innovation ecosystems can drive sustainable growth 📍 Lessons from London's innovation landscape 🌱 Success stories from the Future Industries Demonstrator (FID) and beyond PUBLIC is super excited to be partnering with our friends at SHIFT to plan this afternoon of bold discussions, practical case studies, and meaningful networking. 🚀 Spaces are limited - Find out more and register your interest below! https://lnkd.in/eSscePWb Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park #Innovation #InnovationForum #SHIFT #PlaceBasedInnovation #SustainableCities #Collaboration #FutureIndustriesDemonstrator - Ryan Shea, Johnny Hugill, Adam Sticca, Sam Mingoia, Florence Mayo

💡 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