This month we will hear from.

• Caitlin Wakeford, Product Manager, LNER, on ‘Fancy Sketches: how to use AI to prototype quickly, centre the user and not get stuck in magical thinking’
• ​Jagpal Jheeta, Chief Product Officer at the FCA

Expect practical insight, honest reflection, and a chance to connect with others working on real change across the public sector.

Come for the ideas — stay for the conversation and the 🍕

You can register now!

As always, a huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors Ceva | Government & Public Services Reform & Transformation, Anmut, State of the Future, TPXimpact | B Corp™, Holistic Agility, Public Digital, UKGovCamp, dxw

Our latest event took place at the MoJ in Whitehall (and online!) on Wednesday 29th April 2026.

Brought to you by our excellent sponsors GovCamp, dxw, TPXimpact, Public Digital, Ceva, Anmut, Holistic Agility — and State of the Future.

Our first speakers were Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come.

Following that was Jonathan Slater, Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL, on civil service reform.

If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch up on the event in more detail:

• Read the Gemini AI summary of the transcription of the event
• Video on YouTube
• Audio-only on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

At the end of the event, we included a few parish notices for other events and projects you might be interested in:

• National Conversations
• Civic Punks
• Data Bites
• UKCharityCamp
• Think Digital conferences next event : Digital Government, 19 May in London
• Help map public sector reform/civic renewal
• The National Strategy Project

You can also download this poster to put up in your office. If you do — please share a photo with us!

Let us know if you have an event you’d like us to publicise.

Finally, our next event is on Thursday 21st May at Public Digital in Holborn.

Our speakers will be:

• Caitlin Wakeford, Product Manager, LNER, on ‘Fancy Sketches: how to use AI to prototype quickly, centre the user and not get stuck in magical thinking’
• ​Another exciting speak to be announced soon!

➡️➡️➡️ You can register now! ⬅️⬅️⬅️

If you care about the future of local government, digital transformation, and how we make the state more effective in practice: you should be in the room.

📅 Wednesday 29 April
📍 Ministry of Justice, Petty France, Westminster

This month we will hear from.
• Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital local government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come

• The inimitable Jonathan Slater, former Department for Education Perm Sec and Visiting Professor at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London, sharing insights from his experience at the heart of government

A big thank you to our hosts and everyone supporting these conversations. Ministry of Justice UK

Expect practical insight, honest reflection, and a chance to connect with others working on real change across the public sector.

Come for the ideas — stay for the conversation and the 🍕

You can register now!

As always, a huge thanks to our wonderful sponsors Ceva | Government & Public Services Reform & Transformation, Anmut, State of the Future, TPXimpact | B Corp™, Holistic Agility, Public Digital, UKGovCamp, dxw

Our latest event took place at the MoJ in Whitehall (and online!) on Wednesday 26th March 2026.

Brought to you by our excellent sponsors GovCamp, dxw, TPXimpact, Public Digital, Ceva, Anmut, Holistic Agility — and State of the Future.

Our first speaker was Oliver Bruff, Ada Lovelace Institute, on Scribe and Prejudice? Exploring the use of AI transcription tools in social care.

This was followed by Owen Prendeville, Group Manager — Public Affairs (Parliament), Information Commissioner’s Office, on the ICO’s Better Records Together campaign to drive improvements for access to care records.

If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch up on the event in more detail:

• Read the Gemini AI summary of the transcription of the event
• Video on YouTube
• Audio-only on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

At the end of the event, we included a few parish notices for other events and projects you might be interested in:

• National Conversations: https://nationalconversations.org/
• Civic Punks: https://civicpunks.com/
• Data Bites: https://public.digital/data-bites-series
• UKCharityCamp: https://www.ukcharitycamp.com/
• Think Digital conferences, https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/
  AI, 22 Apr (London)
  Digital Government, 19 May (London)
• How might an FOI Network encourage the protection and expansion of Freedom of Information in the UK? 1 April https://luma.com/erlh5p2b
• LGA, Smith Square Debate: Local Government 2040: Where Did the Future Go? TOMORROW https://lgaevents.local.gov.uk/lga/frontend/reg/thome.csp
• Help map public sector reform/civic renewal: https://medium.com/kinship-works

You can also download this poster to put up in your office. If you do — please share a photo with us!

Let us know if you have an event you’d like us to publicise.

Finally, our next event is on Wednesday 29th April at the MoJ in Westminster.

Our speakers will be:

• Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come
• ​Jonathan Slater, Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL

➡️➡️➡️ You can register now! ⬅️⬅️⬅️

• Lara Groves, Ada Lovelace Institute, on Scribe and prejudice? Exploring the use of AI transcription tools in social care
• ​Owen Prendeville, Group Manager — Public Affairs (Parliament), Information Commissioner’s Office, on the ICO’s Better Records Together campaign to drive improvements for access to care records (https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/campaigns/better-records-together/)

Click here to register.

Our latest event took place at the MoJ in Whitehall (and online!) on Wednesday 25th February 2026. Brought to you by our excellent sponsors GovCamp, dxw, TPXimpact, Public Digital, Ceva, Anmut, Holistic Agility — and now joined by State of the Future.

We had a spate of technical issues which meant we ended up sending out multiple links so people could view the talks online. Sorry about that! We’ll prepare much better next time.

We had another good turnout both in the room and online.

Liam Hawkes, Principal Service Designer, and Violette Gadenne, Senior User Researcher, Policy and Innovation Lab (CoLab), Home Office, on setting the scene, not running the show: service design in a spending review.

That was followed by James Plunkett, Kinship Works, on the energy at the edges — and how the centre can spread it.

If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch up on the event in more detail:

• On YouTube
• Also available as audio-only on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

At the end of the event, we included a few parish notices for other events and projects you might be interested in:

• Help map public sector reform/civic renewal: https://medium.com/kinship-works
• Civic Punks: https://civicpunks.com/
• UKCharityCamp: https://www.ukcharitycamp.com/
• Data Bites, https://public.digital/data-bites-series
• Connected by Data, https://connectedbydata.org/events

Power and participation in public tech, 6 Mar (Manchester)

Data and AI Public Engagement Community, 11 Mar (online)

• Think Digital conferences, https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/

Women in Digital Government, 17 Mar (London)

AI, 22 Apr (London)

Digital Government, 19 May (London)

And let us know if you have an event you’d like us to publicise.

Finally, our next event is on Wednesday 25th March at the MoJ in Westminster.

Our next speakers will be:

• Lara Groves, Ada Lovelace Institute, on Scribe and prejudice? Exploring the use of AI transcription tools in social care
• ​Owen Prendeville, Group Manager — Public Affairs (Parliament), Information Commissioner’s Office, on the ICO’s Better Records Together campaign to drive improvements for access to care records

You can register now!

You can also download this poster to put up in your office. If you do — please share a photo with us!

• Liam Hawkes, Principal Service Designer, and Violette Gadenne, Senior User Researcher, Policy and Innovation Lab (CoLab), Home Office, on setting the scene, not running the show: service design in a spending review
• ​James Plunkett, Kinship Works, on the energy at the edges — and how the centre can spread it

Click here to register.

Our latest event took place at the TPXimpact in Whitechapel (and online!) on Wednesday 28th January 2026. Brought to you by our excellent sponsors GovCamp, dxw, TPXimpact, Public Digital, Anmut and Holistic Agility.

We had our best attended event to date with over 50 attendees in person and around 20 online.

Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O’Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping

The were followed by Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London, on what we’ve learned from 25 years of research on government effectiveness.

If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch up on the event in more detail:

• Our blog post round up
• On YouTube
• Also available as audio-only on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
• Session notes generated by Google Gemini
• Google’s NotebookLM AI generated podcast based on the Gemini notes
• Matt and Linda’s slides
• Patrick’s slides (including suggested further reading)

You can also download this poster to put up in your office. If you do — please share a photo with us!

At the end of the event, we included a few parish notices for other events and projects you might be interested in:

• Policy Camp! A new unconference based on Gov Camp is being developed for policy professionals — see policycamp.org.uk
• FOI Fest 2026, 19 Feb (London/online) — https://pretix.eu/mysociety/foifest2026/

Connected by Data — https://connectedbydata.org/events

• 1) Data and AI Public Engagement Community, 11 Feb (online)
• 2) Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium, 17 Feb (India/online)
• 3) Power and participation in public tech, 6 Mar (Manchester)
• Public Digital Data Bites — https://public.digital/data-bites-series

Think Digital conferences — https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/

• 1) Women in Digital Government, 17 Mar (London)
• 2) AI, 22 Apr (London)
• 3) Digital Government, 19 May (London)

And let us know if you have an event you’d like us to publicise.

Finally, our next event is on Wednesday 25th February at the MoJ in Westminster.

Our next speakers will be:

• Liam Hawkes, Principal Service Designer, and Violette Gadenne, Senior User Researcher, Policy and Innovation Lab (CoLab), Home Office, on setting the scene, not running the show: service design in a spending review
• ​James Plunkett, Kinship Works, on the energy at the edges — and how the centre can spread it

You can register now!

• Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O’Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping.
• ​Patrick Diamond, Professor in Public Policy, Queen Mary, University of London, on what we’ve learned from 25 years of research on government effectiveness

Click here to register.

Please share! Thanks 🙏

Our latest event took place at the TPXImpact in Whitechapel (and online!) on Wednesday 10th Dece,ber 2025. Brought to you by our excellent sponsors GovCamp, dxw, TPXimpact, Public Digital, Anmut and Holistic Agility.

First up was Caroline Star, Operations Director at School of International Futures, on Governing Beyond the Now: Why Policy Needs a Long View and How We Get There.

She was followed by Derek Alton, Host & Chief Explorer at Civic Punks, on A Journey Into the Future of Government: What does 21st-century government that works for people and the planet look like?

If you weren’t able to attend, you can catch up on the event in more detail:

• Video is available on YouTube
• Also available as audio-only on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
• AI generated notes
• AI podcast generated from YouTube subtitles

You can also download this poster to put up in your office. If you do — please share a photo with us!

At the end of the event, we included a few parish notices for other events and projects you might be interested in:

• You can sign up for details of the Data Bites event series (Public Digital) which highlights interesting data projects in the public sector — 2026 details to follow. In the meantime, catch up on the November event on StatsWales, the Statistics Code of Practice, the Data for London Library and the 2031 Census
• The next Data and AI Public Engagement community of practice (Connected by Data) takes place online on 14 January (notes and video from previous events available, or sign up for updates)
• And… Kinship Works are mapping what public sector reform communities (like TransformGov Talks) exist — read more here and here, add to an open Google Sheet, or fill in the survey (Google Form, Microsoft Form).

And let us know if you have an event you’d like us to publicise.

Finally, our next event is on Wednesday 28th January again at TPXimpact in Whitechapel. Speakers will be:

• Matt Wood-Hill, MHCLG, and Linda O’Halloran, TPXimpact on public service market-shaping.
• ​Second speaker to be announced soon!

You can register now!