Agenda - Day 1

Gain insight into today’s sessions so you can get the most out of your conference experience.

• Preview the strategic and technical themes shaping the conference.
• Understand how the tracks fit together.
• Identify the sessions most relevant to you.

Public sector organizations are under pressure to accelerate AI adoption while also navigating evolving regulation, increased public scrutiny, and rising expectations around transparency and accountability. Create a roadmap to:

• Bolster governance frameworks that enable innovation rather than slow it down.
• Increase your transparency, explainability, and performance in high-stakes environments.
• Master organizational alignment across your legal, policy, privacy, and technical teams.

Deliver quality citizen outcomes by scaling AI with confidence.

Grow your network by meeting like-minded individuals to share your latest ideas and projects with:

• Enjoy a quick icebreaker, exchange LinkedIn information, and build lasting business relationships.
• Achieve your conference networking goals in a fun and agile fashion.
• Join a community of big data leaders and gain invaluable support.

As Canada accelerates investment in sovereign AI infrastructure there are challenges. Identify how to reduce dependence on global technology providers without slowing innovation. Walk away with a blueprint to:

• Optimize the trade-offs between sovereign infrastructure and global cloud platforms.
• Advance investments in computers, trusted data, and AI capability across government.
• Align municipal, provincial, and agency AI strategy with national policy, security, and economic objectives.
• Perfect resilient ecosystems that can rapidly adjust to change.

Design an AI strategy that strengthens national capability while enabling innovation at scale.

Governments are known for being “slow” to make decisions, but today’s challenges require operational awareness in the moment. Event-driven architecture, streaming data, and real-time monitoring make decision-making faster. Source practical tips to:

• Master event-driven data architectures that support live decision-making.
• Increase streaming data across policy, operational, and service environments.
• Heighten real-time monitoring to improve resilience, coordination, and responsiveness.
• Master how to transition from retrospective reporting to proactive operations.

Deliver faster, smarter decisions by building the technical foundations for real-time government.

• Explore the latest data analytics technology and strategies with our industry-leading sponsors.
• Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
• Schedule one-to-one meetings for practical advice on your most pressing data, platform, governance, and AI priorities.

Discover how to build the governance, operating model, and internal confidence required to move from your experimentation to real deployment while maintaining accountability and value. Develop a blueprint to:

• Bolster your privacy, legal, security, and ethics functions early in the lifecycle.
• Amplify teams up for success by measuring impact, adoption, and ROI in practical terms.
• Heighten the controls needed to scale responsibly without losing momentum.

Move beyond your pilots and deliver real, measurable value from AI without sacrificing trust or control.

AI is rapidly evolving from assistive tools into autonomous systems capable of completing workflows, retrieving information, escalating exceptions, and supporting decisions. Walk away with a blueprint to:

• Perfect where AI agents can create practical value across internal workflows and service delivery.
• Achieve agentic systems in trusted data, business rules, and access controls.
• Optimize human-in-the-loop models to boost accountability and oversight.
• Master autonomy, reliability, and governance.

Transform AI from a promising tool into a controlled, high-value operational capability.

Real-time government depends on more than dashboards — it requires systems that can react to events, orchestrate action, and support decisions across all environments. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:

• Master event streaming to connect systems and reduce delay between signal and response.
• Heighten time-sensitive decisions in services, operations, and emergency contexts.
• Optimize architectures that scale while preserving auditability and governance.
• Transform real-time data into operational workflows.

Build the architectural foundations for public services that can sense, respond, and adapt in real time.

AI may dominate the conversation, but it is the underlying data that determines whether systems are fair, reliable, and useful. Walk away with a blueprint to:

• Perfect data quality where it matters most for AI and analytics outcomes.
• Strengthen sourcing, stewardship, and transparency.
• Eliminate bias and improve reliability through better data foundations.
• Align human judgment with technical controls.

Strengthen your AI outcomes by investing in the data foundations that enable trust, reliability, and accountability.

Government teams are under pressure to share more data faster and with better quality. It’s about shifting away from ad hoc sharing to accountable and reusable delivery. Walk away with a plan to:

• Amplify your data ownership, service expectations, and accountability.
• Enhance your critical datasets with quality and usability in mind.
• Optimize how you reuse data across departments.
• Excel interoperability and scale by combining governance with product thinking.

Move from fragmented data sharing to a more reliable and scalable operating model for government data.

Review the key solutions and takeaways from today’s sessions. Optimize essential action points you can start using immediately. Discuss tomorrow’s highlights!