As founder and CEO of Modern Democracy, Siobhan is a highly motivated, award-winning professional with over 20 years’ experience in the elections industry. She has led the delivery of major elections projects in the UK and Europe and been at the forefront of testing and trialling new innovative ways of managing the delivery of elections and the voting process, such as the electronic voting and counting modernisation pilots in 2007 and the UK managed service deliveries from 2008 – 2013. Also, Siobhan was instrumental in the delivery of the electronic counting project in Scotland in 2012, when all 32 local authorities successfully delivered an election in one day. Siobhan is recognised as a leader in the elections field, is passionate and enthusiastic about democratic services and has presented at numerous international conferences, always pushing forward the boundaries and addressing the challenges that exist in our current election and voting processes.Proven at scale recently, the Modern Democracy platform, Modern Polling, was successfully deployed across 3,250 polling stations at the May 2024 local government elections. It has been shown to significantly reduce the administrative burden and labour intensity for those managing elections, dramatically reduce the risk of human error, and is the only digital solution that allows returning officers to finish their election reporting on election night through automated reports!See more: https://moderndemocracy.com/modern-polling/