During the coming weeks, we will be devoting some space on our UK Gov Blog to information about the Worldwide Government Solutions Forum (GSF), taking place at Microsoft in London this April. Today, our colleague Per Bendix Olsen - Worldwide Public Sector EMEA Partner Lead, introduces this year's GSF...
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Microsoft partners do a great job building innovative solutions to support government organisations and provide them with efficient and affordable ways to make a real impact for the people they serve.
As in previous years Microsoft is hosting the annual Worldwide Government Solutions Forum,which is an opportunity for central, regional and local Government IT leaders to share how they deliver real benefits to their citizens and governments through the innovative use of technologies and cloud services from Microsoft and its partners.
This 6th event is taking place in London on April 24th to 25th at Cardinal Place, and will welcome several hundred of IT decision makers and government officials, mostly from Europe, but also from other parts of the world.
It is an excellent opportunity for Microsoft partners to engage with and present their new solutions directly to Public Sector representatives and to network with peers.
The theme of this year event is “Efficiency and Opportunity: How Cloud and Technology Innovations are Powering Digital Public Services”. It addresses a very central challenge for public sector today and as representatives of the IT industry, both Microsoft and partners have an obligation to highlight the best and most innovative solutions in the market today to local and regional governments to show how to best meet their demands, now and in the future.
During last year’s event in Rome, we welcomed partners like Accenture/Avanade, Capgemini, HCL Ergo, HP, ETT Solutions, Infusion, MediaKi, Siav, Siemens and Software Innovation. We had close to 400 attendees from more than 30 countries, who were present to share their story and learn more about how to make a difference to their citizens through the use of innovative solutions.
I do encourage you to seize this opportunity to attend, and capture the benefits of a conference that is gathering stakeholders from the IT industry and public administrations to share knowledge of the best solutions in the market today.
I am looking very much forward to seeing many of you in London in April.
Please go ahead and contact me if you have questions to the event on per.bendix@microsoft.com.
Posted by Per Bendix Olsen