Empowering the Skillsets of Diverse Digital Leaders

In this Fireside Chat session, we hear insights from Milica Zivanovic, Deputy Chief Digital Officer, Public Service Commission and Bill Moses, Chief Digital Officer, Public Service Commission on the digital skillset challenge, fostering a culture of learning by encouraging individuals to share their experiences throughout the digital career pathway, how to encourage sharing and collaboration across the public service, and how the skillset challenge can be addressed.

Cultural Transformation Leadership: Driving Digital, Data & Privacy Capabilities

In this Panel session, hear insights from Tracy Parsons, Chief Data Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Gary Baird, Partner, Technology Consulting, EY NZ, and Oliver Thompson, Data Strategy Lead, Callaghan Innovation on how to effectively identify where to prioritize investment to ensure capability building in data use, how to build practices and lift capabilities to meet privacy responsibilities, and the safest approach to managing risks in data collection and the use of generative AI to ensure the safety of citizens, information and strategic interests.

Leveraging Climate Data, Innovation & Public-Private Partnerships

In this Fireside Chat session, we hear insights from Jan Sheppard, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Environmental Science Research, and Heather Peacocke, Chief Advisor, Partnerships, Public Affairs, Climate Adaptation & Evidence, Ministry for the Environment, on how to use data strategically to accelerate progress in climate action, the value in Government and business partnerships in providing NZ with the data to inform and enable meaningful progress in addressing climate change, and how we can use data in innovative ways to partner with communities to ensure a real impact.

Creating & Sustaining the Digital Ecosystem: Navigating the Realm of Effective Partnerships

Join Elias Wyber, Programme Director, Data & Reporting, Ministry for the Environment and Kate King, Head of Data Operations, MInistry of Business, Innovation & Employment as they discuss how to leverage the ecosystem's expertise and align strategies and the most effective approach to collaboration between vendors, start-ups and government, how to create a vibrant digital economy and how digital leaders can effectively communicate existing and emerging requirements.

Security Transformation Leadership: Distinguishing Myth from Reality

Join Ruth Russelle, CIO, Office of the Maori Trustee as she discusses the vision and values of her department, how to prioritise investments in security capability to reduce risk, security culture transformation and leadership: values-based approach to security and embedding a continuously improving security culture, resilient to evolving security threats.

Delivering a Safe, Trusted, Integrated & Inclusive Data System for All New Zealanders

In this Government Keynote session, Dr. Craig Jones, Deputy Government Statistician & Deputy Chief Executive - Data System Leadership, Stats NZ, discusses New Zealand's data landscape and developing data ethics frameworks, the future of data and ethics, how to drive positive outcomes through an inclusive data system, and future strategic plans for the Government Chief Data Steward to ensure New Zealanders have trustworthy data they can use.

Cyber in the Age of AI: Risks & Opportunities

Join Vlat Jaegar, Senior Solutions Enginner, Escaler as he discusses AI, ML, machine vision and big data and their positive impact in government. On the flip-side, our esteemed speaker describes the malicious uses of AI and what to watch out for. Mr. Jaegar goes on to display the Labz 2023 Report and its findings on phishing attacks but he also reveals how to combat these attacks.

Putting the Dignity Back in the Data: Sovereignty, AI and their Impacts on Jurisdictional Risk in Aotearoa

Join Damian Pons, CEO, Spectrum Consulting and Madhavan Vasudevan, CTO, IBM Asia Pacific in this Partner session as they discuss the evolution of sovereignty's definition in technology and data collection, the importance of respecting data's significance to the Aotearoa people and how to make informed decision and gain reliable insights into the future leveraging the power of computing and sovereign AI.