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Leapfrogging Legacy:

How Agentic AI and Cloud Are Helping Government Skip a Generation of Transformation

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Government has been locked into costly legacy systems and modernisation programmes that can't keep pace with citizen expectations. Agentic AI changes that equation - letting legacy organisations skip straight to a reimagined, digital-native model, without losing the institutional knowledge locked inside their systems.

But this shift raises difficult questions for the leaders who have to make it happen.

How do you modernise decades of legacy debt without the cost and risk of traditional transformation, while keeping humans in control, code sovereign, and quality high?

This Leaders' Lounge brings together senior women technology leaders in government to explore how agentic AI and cloud can deliver that pace without sacrificing governance or security.

But this transformation is human as well as technical. Agentic AI absorbs institutional knowledge that today lives with public servants - so leaders must also protect their expertise and safeguard citizen trust as legacy systems change.

Together we'll explore:

  • The shift from hands-on typing to hands-on control - how leaders set intent, architecture and guardrails while AI agents handle execution
  • How to keep code and citizen data sovereign and secure by design, with human review gates at every stage
  • The social risk of agentic AI - how to protect public servant roles and expertise, and safeguard citizen trust and experience, as legacy systems are re-engineered
  • What's already working: real examples of agentic AI and cloud modernisation already deployed across European governments and industry
  • How to build the case for modernisation when funding constraints and delivery timelines are tightest
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Event Details

The museum's London home started life as Bethlem Royal Hospital. The hospital moved out in 1930, and rather than demolishing the site, the central building was kept and given an entirely new purpose in 1936 as the Imperial War Museum. We're delighted to host this Leaders' Lounge dinner here, in a building whose grand central hall and dome remain one of London's most distinctive settings.

DATE: 7th Oct 2026

TIME: 18:30 – 21:20

VENUE: Imperial War Museum, SE1 6HZ

DRESS CODE: Smart Casual
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