From AI Strategy to Execution

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform how governments operate, improve public services, and create better outcomes for Canadians. As AI adoption accelerates, leaders face an important challenge: how to maximize innovation and productivity while maintaining transparency, accountability, and sustainability. Drawing on global experiences across government and regulated industries, Doug Averill will share an industry perspective on the future of responsible AI, including the importance of trusted governance, efficient AI architectures, and sustainable approaches that deliver measurable public value. Join this thought-provoking session to explore how organizations can embrace AI innovation while building a future that is resilient, responsible, and designed for long-term impact.

This session will explore how government leaders are approaching AI adoption in mission-critical environments, focusing on the organizational, technical, and security foundations required to successfully operationalize AI.

• Moving from AI experimentation toward scalable government capabilities
• Establishing the operational foundations required for trusted AI adoption
• Embedding AI into public sector operations through strong governance, spending oversight, and digital leadership frameworks 

This session will explore how government leaders are approaching AI adoption in mission-critical environments, focusing on the organizational, technical, and security foundations required to successfully operationalize AI.

• Moving from AI experimentation toward scalable government capabilities
• Establishing the operational foundations required for trusted AI adoption
• Embedding AI into public sector operations through strong governance, spending oversight, and digital leadership frameworks

This session will feature a conversation between our key event partners and delegates within the audience. Pega will lead alongisde AWS and Oxaro a peer to peer discussion to understand what challenges government leaders are dealing with in getting AI off the whiteboard and into the field.

As AI becomes embedded in government operations, the challenge is shifting from experimentation to execution. How can departments securely connect data, people, technology and decision-making across organizational boundaries?

This discussion will explore how Government of Canada leaders can apply trusted AI and digital capabilities to improve multi-agency collaboration, accelerate decision-making, strengthen national security and resilience, and deliver better outcomes while maintaining human accountability, security and public trust.

AI should not be another disconnected technology layer in government. This session will explore how leaders can combine strong governance with enterprise orchestration to connect AI across legacy systems, data, workflows and people—so intelligence becomes part of how government work gets done.

• Preventing AI pilots, agents and models from creating new silos across government
• Establishing the governance, accountability and oversight needed to deploy AI safely in mission-critical environments
• Orchestrating AI across legacy platforms, workflows and human decision points to turn intelligence into measurable government outcomes