Hayley Addison leads the digital payment services team at DWP Digital, part of DWP. Her role involves ownership of live services and transformation of the digital systems and services that pay and account for £280 billion in annual DWP customer benefit and pension payments. 
 
Hayley has worked at DWP Digital for 10 years and previously led the implementation of the award-winning intelligent automation function. Prior to that she was involved with digital through a different lens, supporting the department with its commercial needs and roadmaps as a commercial specialist in DWP.

David Sarginson is a respected and trusted technology leader working at the front line of the Opencast business to scale architecture and engineering capabilities to help meet the needs of its clients – while nurturing strong new communities within and beyond the organisation.

‘Sarg’ is responsible for ensuring Opencast has the right capabilities to create bespoke software solutions that deliver the right outcomes for clients and their end users. He enables Opencast’s consultants to deliver quality outputs by forming high-performing teams of professionals who create accessible digital services that have real positive impact.

He loves programming and is a signatory to the agile and software craftsmanship manifestos. He is proud to be a guest university lecturer. He brings a passion, drive and clarity of speaking and intent that helps convey often-complex projects to wider audiences.

Sarg was born in the North East and graduated in 2003 with a first-class degree in computing for business and IT from Northumbria University.

Henry Rex is Government Relations Director at tech consultancy Opencast. In his role, Henry works to build our reputations and relationships all across government, ensuring more government departments understand our capabilities and our narrative. He helps them understand how Opencast can help them harness technology to tackle their most pressing challenges.

Henry previously worked in the central government team at Microsoft.

Before joining Microsoft he worked for techUK, running its government and health programmes. His role was to build relationships with government departments to get them engaging with the market more strategically, helping government become a more intelligent client for tech and make the most of the innovation across techUK’s membership, from large suppliers to the smallest SMEs.

For the past two years he has been proud to serve as vice chair of techUK’s central government council, working on behalf of members to help improve the partnership between government and industry.

Before techUK Henry worked for the University of Cambridge, building mechanisms for academic expertise to inform government policy making.