We look forward to welcoming digital leaders from across the world, including from Germany, the USA, Brazil, Azerbaijan, Iceland, and the UK, to speak at AccelerateGOV here in Ottawa.
I’m so excited to host such an influential group of experts in Ottawa. These digital leaders will be sharing insights at the AccelerateGOV conference, providing a wonderful opportunity for public servants to discover how public service leaders around the world are realizing the potential of digital – and addressing the challenges we face in common. I encourage all public servants to register for this fascinating conference.
Stephen Burt, Chief Data Officer, Government of Canada
Agenda
Bringing together public service leaders from around the world, AccelerateGOV explores how public servants in all relevant disciplines and roles can best promote digitalization and transformation
Agenda 2023
3 October
All times provided are local (Ottawa, EST)
09:00 – 09:20
Welcome Address
Catherine Luelo
Chief Information Officer of Canada
09:20 – 09:50
Keynote Address
09:50 – 10:00
CHANGEOVER
10:00 – 10:50
Knowledge is power: deploying dataSpeakers: Nadia Ahmad Alexandra Dykes Gayan Peiris Alison Pritchard
Theme: Data technologies and management
Today’s information management technologies offer huge opportunities in government. Data has enormous potential to improve the analysis of social, economic and environmental challenges… |
Automation for the people: using rPA in public serviceSpeakers: Kathleen Butler Kyle Thomas
Theme: Artificial Intelligence and automation
While Artificial Intelligence algorithms evolve over time –making their operation unpredictable and sometimes opaque– robotic process automation is a much more… |
Train and explain: digital skills for everyoneSpeakers: Kevin Cunnington Vigdís Jóhannsdóttir
Theme: Skills for innovation
When in 2013 Kevin Cunnington became Director General of Business Transformation at the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, he soon realised he’d make slow progress… |
10:50 – 11:00
CHANGEOVER
11:00 – 11:50
Serving every citizen: adoption and accessibility in online servicesSpeakers: Vigdís Jóhannsdóttir Peter Kimaile Mark Vermeer
Theme: Public adoption of digital services
Digital technologies have the potential to improve service delivery for everyone. But if careful attention is not paid to inclusiveness… |
Data and you: what Canada’s new Data Strategy means for public servantsSpeakers: Stephen Burt Tom Dufour Kara Beckles Robb Sinclair
Theme: Data technologies and management
Canada’s data strategy for the federal public service envisages a data-powered future, with implications for most public servants. It explains, for example… |
Applying AI intelligently: use cases and risk managementSpeakers: CHANG Sau Sheong Benoit Deshaies Brian Epley Ima Okonny Trent Gray-Donald
Theme: Artificial Intelligence and automation
Artificial Intelligence technologies have huge potential to assist public servants – guiding decision-making, supporting analysis and targeting… |
11:50 – 12:00
CHANGEOVER
12:00 – 12:50
Transforming together: managing and commissioning digital projectsSpeakers: Marc Brouillard Sylvain Bélanger Angel Martin Anthony Sheehan
Theme: Smarter procurement and project management
Public servants working in fields such as finance, procurement and project management play as critical a role in transformation programmes as… |
Safe investments: cyber-security as a catalyst of business transformationMatt Davies Ann Dunkin
Theme: Cyber-Security
Public servants often struggle to secure capital investment to improve staff tools, strengthen back office systems and bolster service delivery. Elected leaders and service managers are… |
A helping hand: access for allSpeakers: Angela Copeland Fernando de Pablo Martín Dr Inshan Meahjohn Luyanda Ndlovu
Theme: Public adoption of digital services
Many of those most dependent on the public sector face particular barriers to accessing digital services, with older, poorer and more remote communities often lacking the necessary skills confidence or tools… |
12:50 – 13:00
CHANGEOVER
13:00 – 13:50
Adapt to serve: supporting public sector innovationSpeakers: Thomas Beautyman Franco Chirichella Innocent Muhizi
Theme: Skills for innovation
In today’s turbulent, fast-changing world, organisations thrive when they draw on the expertise and enthusiasm of every staff member, empowering people to recreate policies… |
Attracting an audience: the power of user-centred designSpeakers: Christine Bellamy Ryan Hum Aaron Jaffery Katja Väänänen Mark Sullivan
Theme: Public adoption of digital services
Digital services become popular and widely-adopted when they are easy to use, save citizens time, and improve the quality of service… |
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13:50 – 14:00
CHANGEOVER
14:00 – 14:50
Across and beyond government: working in partnership for the publicSpeakers: Dorothy Eng Isabelle Tanguay Paul N. Wagner
Theme: Open policymaking and shared service delivery
The era of stand-alone, ‘vertical’ public services, provided by organisations operating in glorious isolation, is coming to an end. To meet people’s… |
Cyber-security: a task for every public servantSpeakers: Nadine Boudreau-Brown Simon Llewellyn
Theme: Cyber-Security
Governments are experiencing a rapid rise in cyber attacks, with one report finding a 95% increase during 2022. Many are designed to extract money – either via infesting public systems with… |
Buying better: how to build a digital marketplaceSpeakers: Anna Wong
Theme: Smarter procurement and project management
In 2010, the UK government spent £16bn (C$27bn) on technology, 80% of it with 20 big companies. In 2014, it launched its Digital Marketplace… |
14:50 – 15:00
CHANGEOVER
15:00 – 15:50
Too clever by half? Deploying AI in the public sectorSpeakers: João Dias Joel Martin Vidya Shankarnarayan Eileen Vidrine
Theme: Artificial Intelligence and automation
Over recent years, public service leaders and technologists have been considering whether and how to deploy Artificial Intelligence in… |
Planning for uncertainty: a new approach to project managementSpeakers: Scott McNaughton Mehnaz Tabassum Len Bastien
Theme: Smarter procurement and project management
Traditional public service business planning, spending approval and project management processes typically require planners to define at… |
Staying close remotely: how to make hybrid working a successSpeakers: Mackenzie Lambe Darcy Pierlot
Theme: Staff tools
The pandemic prompted a wholesale shift to remote working, and the world of work will never be the same again. People now expect to split their time between office and… |
15:50 – 16:00
CHANGEOVER
16:00 – 16:50
Equipping public servants to succeedSpeakers: Meagan Collins
Chief, Enterprise Information Management, Corporate Services Sector, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Canada Karl Hoods
Group Chief Digital and Information Officer, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero and Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, United Kingdom Erica Ren
Chief Data Officer, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Theme: Staff tools
“Public servants face ongoing challenges accessing the tools necessary to do their jobs,” says Canada’s data strategy for the federal public service. While governments have invested in public-facing services… |
Incentivising alignment: forging a united leadership teamSpeakers: Liz McKeown Honey Dacanay Chris Thorn
Theme: Open policymaking and shared service delivery
Cross-government initiatives can fall flat when organisational leaders have diverging priorities, so some governments are introducing reforms to align their… |
Radical retail: forging new relationships with private suppliersSpeakers: Brandon Lee
Theme: Smarter procurement and project management
Recognising that traditional systems of procurement don’t always get the best out of the private sector, governments are exploring new ways to access… |
16:50 – 19:00
Networking Reception
19:00