James Stewart

x-Deputy CTO of the UK Government
 https://confengine.com/user/james-stewart

James Stewart is as an independent consultant supporting senior leaders in a range of sectors to embed modern technology and security in their strategies, and helping organisations with digitally-enabled transformation. He’s a regular speaker, appearing at events around the world covering topics from technical architecture and modern development techniques to digital transformation.

Previously James was a co-founder of the Government Digital Service and Deputy CTO of the UK Government. He was responsible for the technical architecture of the award-winning GOV.UK, building the acclaimed team behind it, supporting the delivery of dozens of projects across government and transforming the UK Government’s relationship with open source by “coding in the open.”

Working across government, he helped make the move toward a more user-centric and platform-based architecture for government services. He’s been instrumental in the UK government’s move to use of public cloud, reform of network policy and coordinating the network of senior technology leaders across government.

The technical work he has led has underpinned solutions that have won a variety of awards including the Design Museum’s Design of the Year and a D&AD Black Pencil. The work of GDS was described by O’Reilly Radar as “the default for how government should approach their online efforts in the 21st century”, has inspired similar initiatives around the globe and has been widely celebrated.

James has advised a number of startups, was a member of GitHub‘s Customer Advisory Board and represented the UK government at the W3C. Prior to joining the civil service James ran an agency providing websites, business tools and product development to a range of small businesses, charities and entertainment industry clients.

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All Sessions by James Stewart

  • Continuous Delivery and DevOps Day

    March 9th, 2018

  • 12:30  - 13:15
    As organizations embrace more and more cloud technologies, we're recognizing that many of our established approaches to security don't easily translate into the new IT landscape. And with so much attention around cyber threats, it's never been more important to be on top of your security. James Stewart shares techniques for considering the security of whole systems and explores ways of bringing together cross-disciplinary teams to collectively own secure designs. You’ll learn strategies for understanding the various types of bad actors, who want to break the systems and ways to help the whole team contribute to a conversation about how to address those issues and prioritize them against other user needs. You'll gain an overview of how to apply these techniques to modern cloud environments, both IaaS and SaaS.
    Continuous Delivery and DevOps
    Where
    Ball Room 1

  • 15:00  - 15:45
    Moving IT infrastructure to AWS services creates a model of shared responsibility between the customer and AWS. This shared model can help relieve customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the service operates. How can you create a frictionless on-boarding environment when each of the product must implement specific requirements based on the 1) type of products is offered and 2) country in which their products are sold. How do you create a secure cloud management layer between Application teams infrastructure as to ensure security in the cloud while balancing the developer productivity and enabling continuous integration? Take the operations team on a journey of automation and how the organization looks like after hiring engineers to develop those capabilities following SRE model. For each layer, the control objectives are defined. For each control objective, the necessary responsibilities & process controls are defined, including company policies and procedures to be followed i.e: Control Objective: IT third party can demonstrate the effectiveness of their operating model and control environment. Process Control: The CSP owner will annually review the effectiveness of the AWS operating model and control environment.
    Continuous Delivery and DevOps
    Where
    Ball Room 1

  • Digital Transformation Day

    March 8th, 2018

  • 09:00  - 09:45
    Governments the world over are beginning to recognise the need to embrace digital change and transform how they provide services. A pioneer of that was the UK which in 2011 began an ambitious programme of digital change, led by a new unit called the Government Digital Service. Over five years they transformed users' experience of dozens of government services, saved billions of pounds in the process, and embedded significant new capabilities across government. James Stewart was one of the founders of that unit and led much of its work on technology and security. He'll share some lessons from that journey and how they can be used for others on a similar journey in any complex organisation (not just governments).
    Digital Transformation
    Where
    Ball Room

  • Post-Conf Workshop Day 2

    March 11th, 2018

  • 10:00  - 18:00
    As organizations embrace more and more cloud technologies, we're recognizing that many of our established approaches to security don't easily translate into the new IT landscape. And with so much attention around cyber threats, it's never been more important to be on top of your security. James Stewart shares techniques for considering the security of whole systems and explores ways of bringing together cross-disciplinary teams to collectively own secure designs. You’ll learn strategies for understanding the various types of bad actors, who want to break the systems and ways to help the whole team contribute to a conversation about how to address those issues and prioritize them against other user needs. You'll then apply them to modern cloud environments, both IaaS and SaaS, and reflect on how to apply this new understanding in your organizations.
    Digital Transformation
    Where
    Cycad




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