Session topics
- How to regain public trust
- Public sector reform
- Sustainability
- Technology and people
Sameena Ali-Khan
Journalist and newsreader
Sameena anchors national bulletins for ITV at weekends, and throughout the week on Central Tonight in the Midlands, covering a wide range of stories across daily news and documentaries.
After studying physiology and chemistry, Sameena was drawn to journalism. She first started working on radio in Manchester, and first appeared on air on BBC Radio Lancashire. Sameena remained with the BBC, going back to Manchester before stints on the BBC Asian Network, BBC West Midlands, BBC London, and Radio 5 Live.
On TV (aside from a debut appearance made whilst living in Nigeria on the country’s equivalent of Blue Peter) Sameena presented and reported for Northwest Today, Inside Out, and Midlands Today before moving to ITV.
With a presenting style combining bright and approachable with authoritative, Sameena has won numerous awards during her broadcasting career, including three RTS Midlands Best Screen Personality Awards, for her work on ITV News Central.
Sessions
President's welcome and Chair’s opening remarks
President's welcome from Sir Mark Lowcock, Incoming CIPFA President and opening remarks from day one chair, Sameena Ali-Khan
Successful devolved approaches - the opportunities and challenges for metro mayors
The challenges we face are global in nature, and yet our key issues of poverty, public health and social care and security hit closer to home. Can devolution and pragmatic problem solving enable more successful city and region-based outcomes, spearheaded by strong Mayors putting local needs first?
What are the opportunities/barriers for closer collaboration between local government and frontline services in light of the UK devolution white paper?
One year in from a new UK government, frontline services are not only dealing with reductions in budgets (in real terms) and rising demand, but long overdue funding reforms and potentially generational reforms to organisations and institutional structures through devolution. How can we work more closely across regional and local structures to deliver positive outcomes to communities?
Balancing technology and human capacity in a changing world for public finance
The global workforce challenge that we face now and in the future will not be solved by technology and/or human capacity and capability alone. Tech can be used to replace roles, to enhance productivity, to make roles more attractive, and to innovate and create new roles – all of the above, but it also depends what we ask of it. How do we tackle the great service questions and balance human insight and experience vs the 'answer flavoured products’ that AI queries may give us? And ensure quality, accountability and the future of the profession are baked into the answers for these generational questions.
President's welcome and Chair’s opening remarks
President's welcome from Sir Mark Lowcock, Incoming CIPFA President and opening remarks from day one chair, Sameena Ali-Khan
Successful devolved approaches - the opportunities and challenges for metro mayors
The challenges we face are global in nature, and yet our key issues of poverty, public health and social care and security hit closer to home. Can devolution and pragmatic problem solving enable more successful city and region-based outcomes, spearheaded by strong Mayors putting local needs first?
What are the opportunities/barriers for closer collaboration between local government and frontline services in light of the UK devolution white paper?
One year in from a new UK government, frontline services are not only dealing with reductions in budgets (in real terms) and rising demand, but long overdue funding reforms and potentially generational reforms to organisations and institutional structures through devolution. How can we work more closely across regional and local structures to deliver positive outcomes to communities?
Balancing technology and human capacity in a changing world for public finance
The global workforce challenge that we face now and in the future will not be solved by technology and/or human capacity and capability alone. Tech can be used to replace roles, to enhance productivity, to make roles more attractive, and to innovate and create new roles – all of the above, but it also depends what we ask of it. How do we tackle the great service questions and balance human insight and experience vs the 'answer flavoured products’ that AI queries may give us? And ensure quality, accountability and the future of the profession are baked into the answers for these generational questions.
Chair
- Plenary (Chair)
Sameena Ali-Khan
Daniel Bruce
Chief Executive
Transparency International UK
Daniel joined Transparency International UK as Chief Executive in 2019. Under his leadership, TI-UK has helped to secure significant legislative reform to close down loopholes allowing dirty money, the proceeds of corruption, into the UK economy. He has overseen TI-UK’s forensic investigations of corruption in Covid-19 procurement, formally feeding into the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry. Daniel has served as an expert witness to the Committee on Standards in Public Life, along with committees in both Houses of Parliament, as part of work to increase integrity in politics. He is a regular media commentator on standards in government, political financing and global corruption.
Before joining TI-UK, Daniel served for nearly 6 years as the Chief Executive of the global media support organisation, Internews and has worked on transparency, governance and media initiatives across three continents for Article 19, Albany Associates, Fondation Hirondelle, UNESCO, the University of Pennsylvania and others. He spent his early career as a journalist, editor and broadcaster.
Sessions
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
- Plenary
Daniel Bruce
Marverine Cole
Journalist and broadcaster
Marverine Cole is a multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster from Birmingham. Her media and journalism career spans more than thirty years, as a reporter, producer and news anchor for many of the UK’s most watched and listened to broadcasters, including Sky News, 5 News, BBC 5 Live and BBC Radio 4. She also joined the presenting team at Good Morning Britain.
As a TV Newsreader, she’s presented bulletins for the BBC and ITV in the Midlands, and 5 News, live rolling news programmes for Sky News, and a corporate news show for ITN Productions.
As a radio presenter, Marverine has presented speech and phone-in programmes for BBC Radio WM, Up All Night on BBC 5 Live, co-presented Saturday Live with Reverend Richard Coles on BBC Radio 4, and presented afternoon shows on Classic FM. She has also presented several podcasts for BBC Storyworks, Vintage Books and BBC Good Food.
When it comes to radio documentaries, Marverine conceived Luck Be A Lady Tonight about female gambling addicts for BBC Radio 4, Ladies with Lyrics – The Rise of the Female MC for BBC 1Xtra, and executive produced Where are All the Black Girls in Grime for BBC Radio 4. However, she is best known for Black Girls Don’t Cry, a BBC Radio 4 documentary that she produced and presented, and which earned her the accolade of Journalist of the Year at the Mind Media Awards.
Marverine is the resident Beer Columnist for BBC Good Food magazine and online, where she exercises her credentials as an accredited beer sommelier. As one Britain’s leading female beer experts, she’s often seen hosting live beer tastings on ITV shows like Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, and This Morning. She has also appeared on flagship Channel 4 shows Countdown and Steph’s Packed Lunch.
Marverine has presented lifestyle, food, technology, beauty, and fashion shows for Britain’s most successful and profitable shopping channel QVC. She was the channel’s first Black female main presenter in over twenty years.
Sessions
President's welcome and chair's opening remarks
President's welcome from Sir Mark Lowcock, Incoming CIPFA President and opening remarks from day two chair, Marverine Cole
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
Restoring public trust – holding our public institutions to account
After the year of democracy in 2024, which proved challenging for incumbents, again there is talk about a crisis of trust. Every year the headlines state ‘trust is at an all time low’ but is it a clear cut story? Trust in our public institutions is vital for democracy, providing and accessing services, encouraging compliance with the law, and facilitating reforms. Can our existing accountability mechanisms hold our institutions to account and help restore trust in the public sector and what does this mean for civil servants and public finance leaders?
Plenary keynote 6
Session to be announced
President's welcome and chair's opening remarks
President's welcome from Sir Mark Lowcock, Incoming CIPFA President and opening remarks from day two chair, Marverine Cole
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
Restoring public trust – holding our public institutions to account
After the year of democracy in 2024, which proved challenging for incumbents, again there is talk about a crisis of trust. Every year the headlines state ‘trust is at an all time low’ but is it a clear cut story? Trust in our public institutions is vital for democracy, providing and accessing services, encouraging compliance with the law, and facilitating reforms. Can our existing accountability mechanisms hold our institutions to account and help restore trust in the public sector and what does this mean for civil servants and public finance leaders?
Plenary keynote 6
Session to be announced
Chair
- Plenary (Chair)
Marverine Cole
Pippa Crerar
Political Editor
The Guardian
Pippa Crerar has covered Westminster and international politics for more than two decades, reporting on six general elections, seven prime ministers and major news stories from the Iraq war and the financial crash to Brexit and parliamentary scandals.
Pippa is a warm, witty, and authoritative speaker who has long experience of chairing, presenting, and speaking at events in the political world and beyond. She has trusted contacts right at the heart of government, across Whitehall and in the main opposition parties, so has a deep insight into what is going on in British politics and society.
Pippa is Political Editor of The Guardian, previously holding the same role at the Daily Mirror where she exposed the Partygate and Barnard Castle scandals. Before that she covered politics at the Evening Standard.
A regular on broadcast media including Sky News, ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC, where she is a presenter of Radio 4’s The Week In Westminster, she has also been portrayed in Michael Winterbottom’s This England, a six-part television drama about Boris Johnson and his government.
Pippa has won multiple awards including Journalist of the Year with the London Press Club, the Society of Editors, and the British Journalism Awards. She has won accolades including political journalist of the year, scoop of the year, investigation of the year, the Hugh Cudlipp Award, and Women In Journalism’s woman of the year.
Sessions
Restoring public trust – holding our public institutions to account
After the year of democracy in 2024, which proved challenging for incumbents, again there is talk about a crisis of trust. Every year the headlines state ‘trust is at an all time low’ but is it a clear cut story? Trust in our public institutions is vital for democracy, providing and accessing services, encouraging compliance with the law, and facilitating reforms. Can our existing accountability mechanisms hold our institutions to account and help restore trust in the public sector and what does this mean for civil servants and public finance leaders?
Restoring public trust – holding our public institutions to account
After the year of democracy in 2024, which proved challenging for incumbents, again there is talk about a crisis of trust. Every year the headlines state ‘trust is at an all time low’ but is it a clear cut story? Trust in our public institutions is vital for democracy, providing and accessing services, encouraging compliance with the law, and facilitating reforms. Can our existing accountability mechanisms hold our institutions to account and help restore trust in the public sector and what does this mean for civil servants and public finance leaders?
- Plenary
Pippa Crerar
Daniela Sota Valdivia
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Daniela Sota Valdivia is a Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based in Vienna, Austria. She works extensively on the implementation of corruption risk management processes in public institutions in several countries and coordinates general anti-corruption support for Latin America and the Caribbean. She specializes in countering corruption in climate action and the management of natural resources. Before joining UNODC, Daniela worked for the Peruvian Public Prosecutors’ Office and the Forestry and Wildlife Service. She is a lawyer and holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Erfurt in Germany.
Sessions
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
How public finance professionals can save the world: combatting corruption, fraud and waste
Billions of pounds a year globally are lost from public finances to fraud and corruption, leading to increased criminality, loss of services and poorer citizens. Public finance professionals are at the heart of efforts to curtail this waste, which is particularly rife in times of crisis, such as the pandemic, and global shocks. This session will hear from international examples of effort to improve assurance, governance and public trust.
- Plenary
