WEBINAR

Unite the Scattering: Transforming Fragmented Tools Into a Consolidated Set of Strategic Services

In this webinar, hosted by Field CTO and Ex-Civil Servant, Shaun Cooney, we’ll explore challenges faced within the public sector: from reducing complexity, doing more with less, and meeting citizen expectations that have evolved at Silicon Valley rates – all with limited funding, limited people, and with a huge [cyber] target on their back. The public sector has seldom had a more difficult challenge. We’ll draw out the differences we see in the public sector and draw on inspiration for successes and failures seen in the private sector.

As an ex-civil servant, I never came to work planning to do a bad job. But my remit was only so big and demands were high. It was often easier to make isolated or siloed technology, people and process choices to get the job done. However, this local thinking has led to a vast and often unmanaged proliferation of products, services and tools across the public sector. The consolidation of these tools may sound easy, but it’s anything but – shouldn’t we be asking “is it really worth it?”

In this session, we’ll examine the options available, try to pin-point some principles to guide future tool selection, explore some realities in balancing topics such as vendor lock-in, buy-borrow-build and cloud, and hear insights from two of our UK Government Department customers.

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Our Speaker

Shaun Cooney

Field CTO and Strategic Advisor
Splunk

Shaun is Splunk’s Field CTO and Strategic Advisor. He’s a business technologist who’s spent much of his career in intelligence, defence & telecommunications where he has experience in Cyber Security, IT operations & resilience, data and product development leadership roles. Until recently Shaun was the Head of Engineering at the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC). His role at Splunk sees him supporting organisations through their transformations and large change programmes, helping them to think more strategically or differently about their use of data and technology.

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