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Jim Stamp, Head of Technology at Made Tech and Sumitra Varma, Deputy Director for Data Engineering, Data Science and AI at the Ministry of Justice, explore what “agentic disruption” means for data strategy, public trust, and accountability. It will unpack how data quality, interoperability, and ethical governance form the foundation for safe and effective deployment of autonomous AI in public services, from digital assistants to complex decision-support systems.

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Join us for an insightful online event that uncovers the vital, often-overlooked role of clinical assurance in safeguarding digital health solutions. While technical assurance ensures systems work, clinical assurance guarantees they are safe and effective for patient care.

In this session, we’ll explore:

• What clinical assurance truly means: Beyond technical functionality, it’s about minimising risks and unintended consequences for patient well-being.
• Why it matters more than ever: From protecting patients and reducing risks for healthcare providers to ensuring compliance with critical standards like DCB0129 and DCB0160, clinical assurance is foundational.
• The challenges and solutions: Discover the complexities of embedding clinical safety, from specialised knowledge and continuous learning to balancing speed with accuracy, and how partnerships are raising the bar.
• Real-world impact: We’ll highlight examples of clinical assurance in action, such as securely moving patient records online and ensuring safe data exchange via direct care APIs.
• Shared responsibility: Understand why clinical assurance isn’t just for developers or regulators, but a collective effort crucial for everyone involved in digital health and care.
• The future of patient safety: How clinical assurance will evolve to address new technologies like AI, machine learning, and telehealth.

Digital transformation

Digital transformation is more than tools and buzzwords. Rethink how you deliver digital services to make them more accessible, efficient and better for users.

Health and life sciences

As patient numbers rise, digital technology can help you lighten the load.

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As AI adoption accelerates across government, public sector organisations face mounting pressure to develop and implement AI strategies. But is our data culture up to the challenge?

In this talk, we’ll walk you through the work being done at DCMS and how building robust data capability foundations can pave the way for successful AI adoption. We’ll share insights from our journey, touching on developing a comprehensive data strategy, implementing a data catalogue, and working towards a cross-sector data platform that enables effective data sharing.

We’ll explore:

• How a responsible, explainable, and accountable data strategy can unlock AI opportunities
• Practical steps for transitioning from basic data management to automated machine learning
• Strategies for building AI capabilities through effective workforce development and upskilling

Join us for a practical discussion on turning data readiness into AI readiness in the public sector.

Laying the groundwork for AI

Unlock your AI potential: Discover your archetype, master the 3 pillars of data maturity, and learn from real-world transformations in our latest whitepaper, Laying the Groundwork for AI.

Download the whitepaper

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This session will explore the hurdles Eric came up against, how he overcame them and the lessons learnt. The talk will touch on agile ways of working and how to harness diversity as a strength.

Participant takeaways:

• Insights into navigating career transitions and overcoming obstacles in the tech industry.
• Practical strategies for managing dyslexia (and not letting it hold you back!)
• How to balance work and family commitments.
• Inspiration to embrace diversity as a catalyst for personal and professional growth.

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How can a world-leading weather service adopt AI transformation solutions to process hundreds of thousands of user feedback submissions?

The Met Office and Made Tech came together to share their journey from forms and spreadsheets to a fully automated machine learning enhanced data processing pipeline. In this event replay you’ll hear all about:

• this project and the challenges we came across
• harnessing language models to analyse user perceptions of the weather
• the changes we made and the value it’s brought to the team and their users

Once you’ve watched the recording we recommend you check our data and AI services in more detail.

You can also read our expert James Poulten’s take on the state of AI in the public sector, with some tips for organisations to consider on their AI transformation journey.

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Over the three days, we spoke to hundreds of people across the housing sector, including housing associations, local authorities, suppliers, and residents. All were keen to learn more about Repairs, Voids and Evidence and we were understandably pleased to hear that our products are solving the everyday challenges of housing and repairs managers.

Did you take us up on the voids challenge?

People from many parts of the housing sector took us up on the Voids challenge, devised and manned by our Lead Software Engineer, Ben. For those of you who were keen to find out what happened to our dollshouse, it was donated to a local charity, Noah’s Ark Children’s Venture to be part of their new Little Flowers Club, an extra-curricular club for SEN children. 

Our pulse check at Housing 24 showed that many social housing providers are deeply uncomfortable with their current voids situation, with many citing that they didn’t feel “in control” of their backlog.

If you missed an opportunity to partake in the Voids challenge, we were asking everyone to prioirtise a set of homes based on their outstanding jobs and turn around times.

What struck us was the number of social housing providers prioritising backwards—doing the most difficult firstmost-difficult-first or, as it’s also known, first-in-first-out. 

Made Tech, by default, optimises your voids backlog to maximise the number of people housed. It can be set up to support (what we call) the “A-team model”, where the voids team goes around together in a van or as discrete jobs through a dynamic scheduler. In addition, the demands feature can enable teams to reprioritise based on high-priority housing needs from their social housing waitlists.

We deeply believe that the industry-wide goal should be to maximise the number of people in homes. We think the last 4 years, struggling with the effects of COVID, have created unique challenges in the voids space. These challenges can’t be tackled with the same approach that providers have always followed. We now struggle to see how providers can grapple with their backlogs and deliver on this without changing their approach. 

Our special guest, Laura Kennard

We were also lucky enough to be joined by Laura Kennard, Housing IT Programme Manager at London Borough of Redbridge. We’ve worked with Laura and her team over the past 18 months following the successful deployment of our Repairs product within their housing service area, which provides a self-service repair reporting option for residents.

Laura was on hand to answer delegate questions about working with us, and the results Repairs has achieved for Redbridge around increased resident satisfaction and improved first-time fix rates.

We are very grateful for Laura’s time and hope that she or one of our other clients will join us in the future at our upcoming housing events.

Connecting with partners and new suppliers

It was also great to see some familiar faces from partners we are working with on our other clients such as ROCC, MoreIQ and GovMetric – as well as meeting new suppliers who echoed our thoughts on how working together is the best way to serve our customers. We’re pleased that everyone agreed that open APIs and interoperability are key to serving our customers better, rather than building isolated systems.

Another hot topic was stock condition surveys in light of the Building Safety Act. 

We know missed appointments and scheduling them can burden providers working through their inspections backlog. Our Repairs product can meet these challenges by automating booking, resident engagement notifications and amendments to appointments. 

We’ll discuss how we’re tackling a few other challenges in this space very soon.

Looking ahead

If you didn’t get a chance to speak with us in person at Housing 24, we’ll also be at The Housing Community Summit in September and LGA in October. We look forward to continuing these important conversations and exploring new ways to innovate and collaborate within the housing sector. If you want to get in touch, email david.eaton@madetech.com

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