Peter Kyle’s speech at Google Cloud Summit London

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Peter Kyle’s speech at Google Cloud Summit London

Thank you for having me, and thanks also for acknowledging the GOV.UK App, which I’m sure you’ve all downloaded. If you haven’t already, then you should be doing so now. And I don’t if you’re looking down at your phones while I’m speaking, if what you’re doing is downloading the GOV.UK App – which is already outselling the Bible on the app store, I’m reliably told. When I came into office a year ago, I was told to deliver an App, with a digital …

Google Cloud Summit London ‘25

Google Cloud assembled developers, cloud engineering practitioners, customers, partners and the wider virtualisation cognoscenti in London’s Tobacco Dock Google Cloud used its London-located summer 2025 event to explain where its platform has grown & how customers are using it.

Google and UK Government announce landmark deal to ditch legacy tech and train 100,000 civil servants in AI

The UK Government has today announced a landmark strategic partnership with Google Cloud aimed at modernising core public services, phasing out legacy IT infrastructure, and upskilling up to 100,000 civil servants in emerging technologies by 2030. Unveiled by Technology Secretary Peter Kyle at Google Cloud Summit London, the agreement will help central and local government bodies replace outdated systems that have long been described as the “bal…

New Google Partnership Will Help Rid Taxpayer of ‘Ball and Chain’ Legacy Tech and Aim to Upskill 100K Civil Servants in Tech and AI

New partnership sees Google Cloud agree to work with the UK Government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave...