The speaker panel, comprising central and local government representatives and a consultant, spoke For and Against the motion: "The best way to deliver consistent, efficient user-friendly services for the citizen is to establish a specialist digital service for local government and create a common technology platform for local government websites."

• Nicola Millard Customer Experience Futurologist, BT
• James Berge, Public Sector Digital, Deloitte
• William Barker, DCLG
• Mark Pope, Government Digital Service
• Julian Bowrey, DCLG and Local Digital campaign

• Jos Creese, CIO Hampshire County Council and Chair of Local CIO Council
• Peter Coates, Assistant Head of Transformation Sunderland City Council, Chair of the Local Government Contact Council
• Susan Attard, Deputy Town Clerk, City of London
• Geoff Connell, CIO of the London Boroughs of Newham and Havering, Chair of the Socitm London Region.

• David Wilde, Chief Information Officer, Essex County Council
• Lesley Hume, Executive Director, Fraud, Error & Debt, ERG, Cabinet Office
• Jon Williams, PSN Programme Director, Cabinet Office
• Bill McCluggage, Chief Technologist for the Public Sector, EMC

• Rebecca Kemp, Policy Team Leader, Government Digital Service - Cabinet Office
• Kit Wilson, Customer Services Manager, Newport City Council
• Martin Greenwood, Socitm
• Haydn Knight, Director, Capita Software Services

• Stephen McComb, Leader of the NI Connected Health Innovation Centre
• Richard Hallett, Head of Business Intelligence, Kent County Council
• Simon Chapple, Director of Product Innovation, Aridhia
• Bill McCluggage, Chief Technologist for the Public Sector, EMC

• Geoff Connell, CIO of Havering and Newham London boroughs
• Chris Ferguson, Deputy Director Identity Assurance Programme, GDS, Cabinet Office
• John Stubley, Operations Director, Public Services Network at Cabinet Office
• Bill McCluggage, Chief Technologist, Public Sector, EMC

• Denise McDonagh, Programme Director, G-Cloud/ICT Director, Home Office;
• Bill McCluggage, Consultant, EMC;
• Phil Dawson, Chief Executive Officer, Skyscape Cloud Services;

• Amanda Derrick, programme director, Connect Digitally, Department for Education and Hertfordshire County Council
• Lorna Peters, business improvement, Connect Digitally, Hertfordshire County Council
• Emer Coleman, deputy director for digital engagement, Government Digital Service

• Denise McDonagh, Director of ICT Delivery at Home Office and G-Cloud Programme Director
• Jos Creese, CIO, Hampshire County Council
• Mark Ferrar, National Technology Officer, Microsoft UK
• Paul Tomlinson, Managing Director, IEG4

• Felicity Singleton, head of digital policy at the Government Digital Service;
• Martin Ferguson, head of policy at Socitm;
• Matthew Stammers, director, Capita.

• Stephen Allott - crown representative for SMEs
• Andy De Vale - founding member of the Agile Delivery Network
• Mark Foden - director of Foden Grealy
• Mary McKenna - director of the Learning Pool

• Peter Jordan, Product Analytics Lead, GDS Delivery Team, Cabinet Office
• Nick Breeze, Senior Customer Insight Manager, GDS, Cabinet Office
• Alex Henry, online segmentation and personalisation expert, Adobe UK

• Chris Chant, Executive Director at the Cabinet Office and G-Cloud Programme Director;
• Tonino Ciuffini, CIO Warwickshire County Council;
• Andrew Tout, Consultant at Adobe UK

• Stuart Hill, BT vice president responsible for building the infrastructure and keeping communications flowing for the duration;
• Nicky Ward, head of travel advice at Transport for London and advocate of planning NOW for mobile and flexible working for the duration of the Games;
• And Geoff Connell, CIO of Newham, who gets to play with the communications infrastructure left behind next summer and explore its benefits and lessons for local government and other frontline services.

• Mike Brook, manager for architecture of Online Business Education, HMRC ,who is helping to develop new interactive learning objects to facilitate the customer journey through My New Business (launching in November);
• Paul McElvaney, director of Learning Pool, a company developing online learning aimed at building capacity in the third sector in support of the Big Society;
• Keith Quinn, senior education and workforce development advisor at the Scottish Social Services Council, who is developing mobile delivery of interactive learning to train Scotland's entire social service workforce

• Ron Rogowski, Forrester VP and principal analyst
• Paul Annett, design lead for the UK Government Digital Service
• Marcus Castenfors, user-centred design lead at SapientNitro, Sweden
• Ben Watson, from Canada and Adobe's lead customer experience strategist

• Geoff Connell, Chair of Socitm London Branch; Divisional Director ICT (Acting), London Borough of Newham & Head of Business Systems, London Borough of Havering
• Paul Taylor, Director of Change & Communities, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
• Ian Gates, Divisional Director of Capita Software Services

• Bill McCluggage, Deputy Government CIO and Director of ICT Strategy & Policy at the Cabinet Office
• Mark Brett, Policy & Programme Manager at Socitm
• Marc Straat, Adobe's European Head of Standards
• Helen Olsen, Managing Editor, UKauthorITy and IT in Use magazine

• Mark O'Neill, Head of Skunkworks at Cabinet Office
• Alan Banks, Managing Director, Adobe UK
• Helen Olsen, Managing Editor, UKauthorITy and ITU magazine

• Glyn Evans, Socitm President, Corporate Director of Business Change at Birmingham City Council and CIO Council member
• Peter Bole, Director of ICT at Kent County Council
• Alan Banks, Managing Director, Adobe UK
• Helen Olsen, Managing Editor, ITU and UKauthorITy