Programme

26 September, Technology & Innovation Centre at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Public Finance Live Scotland 2024 


9.30 Welcome to the CIPFA conference

Speakers: Jo Brown, CIPFA in Scotland Branch Chair and Caroline Culley, CIPFA President  

Location: Auditorium


9.45 Keynote address

Speaker: Shona Robison, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government

Location: Main auditorium


10.10 Rewiring Scotland’s Public Sector

Speakers: Professor Jim Gallagher, Chair, Our Scottish Future

Location: Main auditorium


10.50 workshop sessions

Student conference

Speakers: To be announced

Location: To be announced

or

Digital transformation and solutions in the public sector

Speaker: To be announced

Location: To be announced

Sponsored by IBSS

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The effects of Misinformation

Speaker: Hannah Perry, Lead Researcher, Demos

Location: To be announced

More workshop details coming soon.


11.25 Refreshments & exhibition

Location: To be announced


11.50 Plenary session

Approaching an unbalanced budget and the path ahead

Speakers: John Cornett, Executive Director, Audit Scotland and Dr Greg Stride, Senior Researcher, LGIU

Location: Auditorium B

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Under Attack – Dealing with a cyber breach

Speakers: Stephen Bonner, Deputy Commissioner, ICO and Dr Ken Donaldson, Medical Director, NHS Dumfries and Galloway 

Location: Auditorium C


12.35 plenary session

Building a good food nation: Good food as an investment in our future  

Speaker: Sarah Gowanlock, Partnerships Manager, Soil Association

Location: Auditorium B

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Sustainable economy

Speakers: Professor Dieter Helm, University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford

Location: Auditorium C


13.10 Lunch & exhibition

Location: To be announced


13.55 Wellbeing refresher

Speakers: To be announced

Location: To be announced


14.05 The workforce challenge

Speakers: Richard Robinson, Senior Manager, Audit Scotland

Location: Main auditorium


14.40 Workshop sessions

Student conference

Speakers: To be announced

Location: To be announced

or

Workshop sponsored by Zurich

Speaker: To be announced

Location: To be announced

or

Workshop sponsored by Link Group

Speaker: To be announced

Location: To be announced

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Workshop sponsored by TechnologyOne

Speaker: To be announced

Location: To be announced

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Workshop sponsored by CCLA

Speaker: To be announced

Location: To be announced 


15.15 Refreshments & exhibition

Location: To be announced 


15.40 Scotland transition lab: Reconnecting food, health and nature for the wellbeing of future generations 

Speaker: Jyoti Banerjee, CEO and Co-founder North Star Transition

Location: Main auditorium


16.15 Being human in the digital age

Speaker: Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE, Paralympian

Location: Main auditorium


16.55 Conference close

Speaker: Jo Brown, CIPFA in Scotland Branch Chair

Location: Main Auditorium