Public Sector: From Product, To Platform, To Service

The Public Sector loves legacy. Huge, monolithic tools are regularly procured, built and released with a view to being the one tool needed to deal with all problems. Spoiler alert: they don't. In this talk, Glen Ocsko, Scott Logic's Head of Public Sector Sales, uses analogies ranging from Cliff Richard to Glastonbury via Beyonce and Battle-of-the-Bands to set out why this approach is wrong, and why instead we should all be thinking interoperability and compatibility for data, tools, services and platforms. Key takeaways: - The importance of unlocking your data - Investment feedback loops and how they can continuously improve services - Low-code tech and how it fits in - Reusability of tools - The importance of communities