TransformGov Talks: October 2026

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 ​Derek Alton, Host & Chief Explorer at Civic Punks, on A Journey Into the Future of Government: What does 21st-century government that wo…

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 c…

Rachel Coldicutt, Careful Industries, on local government AI procurement and a new version of Consequence Scanning ​Katy Beale, Chief Delivery and Engagement Officer - Digital and Innovation, Westminster City Council, on Rethinking Local Government Technology

Our event from the 28th of January 2026. 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