Government Innovation Showcase Victoria
Elevating digital capability across government
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Event steering committee
Maxine Harrison
Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Luke Halliday
Executive Director, Technology & Digital Platforms, Digital Transformation, Department of Government Services
Emily Mailes
Chief eHealth Strategy Officer, Victorian Department of Health
Darshil Mehta
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Max Jacobs
Director, Digital and Analytics Service, Department of Government Services
Janet Rowe
Head of EM ICN, Commercial and Budget, EM Technology and Data, Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria
Dovid Clarke
The Victorian Government Chief Information Security Officer and Executive Director of Data and Digital Resilience, Department of Government Services
Maxine Harrison
Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Luke Halliday
Executive Director, Technology & Digital Platforms, Digital Transformation, Department of Government Services
Emily Mailes
Chief eHealth Strategy Officer, Victorian Department of Health
Darshil Mehta
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Max Jacobs
Director, Digital and Analytics Service, Department of Government Services
Janet Rowe
Head of EM ICN, Commercial and Budget, EM Technology and Data, Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria
Dovid Clarke
The Victorian Government Chief Information Security Officer and Executive Director of Data and Digital Resilience, Department of Government Services
Event overview
Public Sector Network is excited to partner with Cenitex for the Government Innovation Showcase Victoria 2025, part of Government Innovation Week Victoria. From 27-29 May 2025, we’ll bring together government executives for a week of conferences, networking, and masterclasses – all focused on creating public services that are better, fairer, and more accessible. Join us as we celebrate successes, share lessons learned, and explore new opportunities to keep driving innovation forward.
How can the public sector adapt to rapidly evolving technological advancements? The key is embracing transformation. Innovation is essential to shaping responsive, resilient governance. By leveraging smart technologies, data analytics, and AI, we can enhance service delivery, boost efficiency, and increase civic engagement.
But this transformation goes beyond adopting new technologies. It involves cultivating a culture of continuous improvement within public entities. The challenge ahead is integrating innovations seamlessly while safeguarding equity, privacy, and security. Public sector leaders must prioritise accessibility to effectively bridge the digital divide.
The next phase of public sector innovation will demand collaborative efforts across government, the private sector, and not-for-profit organisations. As we look to the future, leaders must not only embrace partnerships but also focus on empowering their workforce with the skills and training necessary to manage and implement cutting-edge technologies.
Our Government Innovation Showcase will explore actionable strategies across four core pillars: Digital and CX, Workforce and Skills, ICT Modernisation and Cloud, and Data and AI. Together, we’ll discover how to future-proof governance and shape a thriving digital economy.
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Who will be there?
Leverage digital innovation to deliver enhanced citizen services:
- Empower government leaders to activate, build and retain a solid connection with the citizen via digital innovation and intuitive service interactions
- Enable a better understanding emerging citizen needs and promptly cater to these
- Help design and deliver a simple, inclusive and accessible service that meets all needs and expectations
- Facilitate the adoption of emerging AI capabilities within the realm of CX
Define the strategy for modernisation to achieve agility, resilience and innovation.
- Modernise legacy ICT infrastructure to support innovation agility and meet the needs of continued digital advancement
- Enable the delivery of a flexible and adaptive ICT infrastructure to sustain agility and innovation
- Implement resilient network, cloud computing, and data centre strategies to strengthen government operations, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Unlock hybrid IT and Cloud potential to drive further efficiencies and enhanced service capabilities
Activate data and AI capabilities and harness emerging opportunities
- Inform where to deploy AI to drive operational efficiencies and innovations
- Help democratise secure AI deployment and generative AI tools into everyday activity
- Unlock the potential of emerging AI capabilities to drive responsible, transparent and explainable AI workflows, today and for the future
- Activate modern data and analytics engineering to accelerate trusted data delivery, continuous monitoring and improvements to harness the full capability of data and drive AI accuracy and impact
Unlock the potential of talent to deliver the next generation of public service
- Help navigate the talent lifecycle, facilitate internal mobility, improve retention and ensuring adaptability amidst evolving demands
- Empower Government to avoid ‘talent leakage’ to keep public sector skills inhouse by improving employee experience
- Inform on the evolving intersection between people and AI/technology, and how to align the two for the greatest efficiency, excellence, and productivity
- Enable strategic workforce planning through the use of technology and data to leverage talent more effectively
Tracks at a glance
Digital services & customer experience:
Empower government leaders to strengthen citizen connections through digital innovation and intuitive service experiences. Design simple, inclusive, and accessible services that meet diverse needs. Accelerate the adoption of emerging AI capabilities to transform citizen experiences.
IT modernisation and cloud:
Define strategies for modernisation to achieve agility, resilience, and innovation. Modernise legacy ICT infrastructure to support digital advancement and innovation agility. Implement resilient cloud, network, and data centre solutions, unlocking hybrid IT potential for greater efficiency and enhanced services.
Data, analytics & AI:
Activate data and AI capabilities to seize emerging opportunities and drive innovation. Democratise secure AI deployment, making generative AI tools part of everyday operations. Unlock modern data and AI workflows to ensure transparency, trust, and continuous improvements, boosting accuracy and impact.
Workforce, skills & capability:
Unlock talent potential to shape the next generation of public service. Navigate the talent lifecycle, enhance retention, and keep skills in-house by improving employee experience. Align people and AI/technology, using data-driven workforce planning to boost efficiency, productivity, and adaptability.
Why attend?
Uncover the strategic outlook for Victoria
Learn from executive Victoria Government leaders the priorities for the Victorian state over the next 5-10 years
Gain insights into data and AI integration in the Victorian public service
Participate in pivotal discussions that elucidate the transformative role of data and AI in the Victorian Public Service.
Learn from global leaders
Benefit from the unique perspectives of international keynote speakers on digital leadership
Expand your expertise with public sector pioneers
Enhance your knowledge through sessions led by top government leaders working towards delivering enhanced digital services
Build your professional network
Connect with peers and industry service providers, fostering valuable relationships and collaborations
Vendors boost your presence
The Government Innovation Showcase Victoria allows you to put two and two together, connecting you with quality solution providers to drive efficiencies, enhance your service capabilities, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for citizens. Join this collaborative gathering to evaluate what partnerships align with your needs, and explore what they can do for you. Our interactive event formats enable you to make informed and strategic investment decisions, analyze product capabilities, and forge a deeper alignment with partners to deliver on your Agency’s critical priorities.
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