Summit about – Innovation in Health

Global Government Data Summit

London, United Kingdom

14 October 2026

Data is fundamental to the work of modern government. To support civil servants in maximising the value of the data they collect, and in harnessing its potential to drive developments in areas such as artificial intelligence, Global Government Forum is convening a by-invitation-only Data Summit, bringing together data and digital leaders from across the world.

This exclusive event features roundtable discussions designed to foster open, in-depth dialogue on overcoming key challenges and sharing global best practice. Developed in partnership with public servants internationally, the summit will explore how data can power the government of the future, focusing on the skills, capabilities, governance, and standards needed to ensure effective, ethical, and impactful data use.

Discussions will also examine how governments are leveraging data to improve policy outcomes and unlock the benefits of artificial intelligence, offering participants valuable insights into enabling smarter, more responsive public services.

Through closed-door, invite-only discussions, the Summit will explore:

AI data governance and regulations
Using data to improve delivery and democratic trust
Building and sustaining digital and data capability and talent
Improving data sharing in government
Data sovereignty

The Summit creates space for candid discussion on the key elements of government transformation in greater depth and the shared leadership challenges faced by governments and collaboration needed.

How It Works?

A Senior-Level Experience

The Data Summit brings together senior global government data leaders to discuss the key elements of government data usage in greater depth.

Chatham House Rule

These sessions are held under the Chatham House Rule to allow for frank and in-depth discussion of how to lead the implementation of transformation in government.

2025 Event Overview

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ATTENDING NATIONAL AND DEPARTMENTAL DIGITAL LEADERS

UK DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS REPRESENTED

COUNTRIES REPRESENTED

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Participants

Charlotte Williams

Deputy Chief Executive, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Charlotte is Deputy Chief Executive at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, a large NHS hospital organisation which she joined in May 2024. Her responsibilities include System Integration and working across Place, Strategy and Transformation, Digital Services, Improvement, Innovation and Organisational Development. Charlotte is also a member of the North Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Health and Care Partnership Board.

Prior to her current role, Charlotte was Chief Strategy & Improvement Officer at Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, a very large hospital group leading on quality improvement and innovation, digital services, system and service redesign, clinical service strategy, system-wide transformation, and strategic intelligence. When in Essex, Charlotte developed the successful and award-winning MSE Innovation Fellowship and partnered with Anglia Ruskin University and NHS England to deliver the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Training Programme, including launching the InSites network of adoption partners across England. Charlotte joined the MSE Foundation Trust in August 2017 from UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership where she held a number of roles working across discovery science, clinical research, and innovation. This included public engagement in service change, widening involvement in research, wealth creation and business development.

Charlotte was seconded for two years to NHS England’s Strategy Group, within national policy and strategy development, including supporting the writing 2016’s Next Steps on the Forward View and Programme Manager for the initiation of the NHS New Models of Care Vanguard Programme. As the founding Executive Director of the London Cancer Integrated Cancer System, Charlotte helped drive major system change in the capital between 2010 and 2014, after several years as a senior manager in acute hospital operations. Charlotte began her career as an NHS Graduate Management Trainee in 2001, after a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford.

Charlotte is an Associate Editor at the BMJ Leader journal and has works with the Proud2BOps Network and NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme to support future leaders in heath and care. Charlotte has won multiple awards for her work on the adoption of innovation into practice across healthcare, and patient and staff engagement in digital change, and has written and spoken on this subject for several years. Charlotte is a member of the Innovation Advisory Group for Alzheimer’s Society, an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, a Senior Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School, London and Chair of Ehlers-Danlos Support UK, a national charity supporting people with disabilities.

Sessions featuring Charlotte Williams:

Making digital deliver: Turning ambition into impact

Global Government Data Summit

How It Works?

A Senior-Level Experience

Chatham House Rule

2025 Event Overview

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