This session took place on Wednesday 6 November, hosted by Gavin Freeguard. Speakers for this session include:

Craig Suckling, Government Chief Data Officer, Central Digital and Data Office, on the whole of system change for data sharing
Nicola Fulton, Deputy Head of External Affairs, Office for National Statistics, on the UK Statistics Assembly
Ryan Dunn, Head of Insight and Analytics, DWP Digital, on Developing a Value Framework to support Decision Making with Data as part of delivering the DWP Data Strategy
Philip Nye, Senior Data Scientist, Institute for Government, on the new IfG Ministers Database

Data Bites #50

Hosted on 4 December by Gavin Freeguard, our speakers for this session included:

Anna Trichkine, Data Quality Lead and Founder of a Data Practitioners Network, London Borough of Hounslow, on the benefits of Data Practitioners Networks for Local Authorities
Sian Basker, Co Chief Executive, Data Orchard on Data Maturity, are we there yet? A comparison of sectors and their progress
Ria Jones, Senior Project Manager, Place, Arts Council England and Jason Jones-Hall, Director of Development, Five10Twelve, on the new Culture and Place Data Explorer
Adam Evans, Lead for UK-wide Data Coherence, Office for National Statistics, on improving coherence of UK-wide data

Data Bites #51

Hosted on 6 February 2025 by Gavin Freeguard, our speakers for this session included:
Shona Nicol, Head of Technical Data Policy and Joyce Dalgleish, Data Innovation and Change Lead, Scottish Government, on the vision for public sector data in Scotland
David Canning, Head of Digital Knowledge & Information Management, Cabinet Office, on digital records management and how he conquered the digital heap
Matt Kerlogue, Senior Data Analyst, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, on the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration 2024: how do civil services compare to each other?
Luke Hounsome, Advanced Analytics Team Lead, UKHSA

Data Bites #52

Hosted by Gavin Freeguard on 5 March 2025, speakers for this session included:
Elliot Bridges, Senior Data and Insights Analyst, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, on the HFEA Dashboard
Duncan Brown, Head of Software Engineering, i.AI
Amanda Smith, Director, Public Digital, on Data Service Standards
Andy Dudfield, Head of Full Fact AI, Full Fact, on making facts part of the web

Data Bites #53

Hosted by Gavin Freeguard on Thursday 3 April, speakers for this session included:

Ishmael Burdeau, Lead Sustainability Business Architect, Department for Work and Pensions, on digital sustainability
Isaac Beevor, Partnerships Director, Climate Emergency UK, and a speaker from mySociety, on how we measure UK local authority climate action through our bi-annual Council Climate Action Scorecards
Liz Lutgendorff, Senior Digital Transformation Manager, North London Waste Authority, on why tracking waste is hard
Matt Fry, Environmental Informatics Manager, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, on data sharing in hydrological research, and beyond

Data bites #54

Hosted by Gavin Freeguard on 7 May, speakers for this session included:


Alex Blandford, DPhil researcher, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, and Principal Consultant, Public Digital, on you can't API your way out of politics: civic technology, open data and the next ten years

Laura Gilbert, Head of the AI for Government program, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, on ‘Transforming the public sector with data and AI’

Ed Humpherson, Head of the Office for Statistics Regulation, on ‘beyond mechanistic thinking’

Tom Smith, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics, MHCLG on the AI Directorate, Local Digital and Local AI