Agenda - Day 1

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Please note that all times listed are EDT (-4:00 UTC).

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Data Analytics Public Sector Summit | Day 1:

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7:45 am

NETWORKING BREAKFAST: BUILD COMMUNITY CONTACTS

  • Start your day off right and connect with data analytics leaders.
  • Get to know your public sector peers and colleagues over breakfast.
  • Source practical tips, discuss best practices, and prepare for a day focused on sovereignty, trust, modern platforms, and the practical realities of AI adoption in government.

8:40 am

OPENING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

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.

9:00 am

PANEL: INNOVATION VS REGULATION

Can Government Move Fast Without Breaking Trust?

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. 

9:30 am

SPEED NETWORKING: MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS

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.

10:00 am

KEYNOTE: SOVEREIGN AI

How to Build Canada’s Sovereign and Innovative AI Future

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.

 

10:30 am

INDUSTRY EXPERT: REAL-TIME GOVERNMENT

How Real-Time Data Helps Government Respond Faster and More Efficiently

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.

11:00 am

EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE

  • 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.

11:30 am

CASE STUDY: RESPONSIBLE AI ADOPTION

How You Can Make Data Work Better in Government

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. 

12:00 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT: AGENTIC AI

How to Deploy AI Agents in Government Operations

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.

12:30 pm

NETWORKING LUNCH: DELVE INTO INDUSTRY CONVERSATIONS

  • Meet interesting speakers so you can pick their brains on the latest industry issues.
  • Expand your network and make connections that last beyond the conference.
  • Enjoy great food and service while engaging with your D&A colleagues.

1:30 pm

EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & WIN PRIZES

  • Browse through different sponsor booths and test drive new technology.
  • Enter your name for a chance to win exciting prizes.
  • Take advantage of event-specific offers and special content.

1:45 pm

PANEL: MODERN DATA ARCHITECTURE

TRACK 1 – TECHNICAL

How to Cut Through the Noise to Understand a Modern Public Sector Data Stack

Public sector teams are under pressure to modernize legacy systems, support AI, and deliver better access to data — often across hybrid environments with significant regulatory and operational constraints. Walk away with a roadmap to:

  • Optimize scalable architectures that support analytics and AI.
  • Amplify cloud, on-premise, and hybrid components.
  • Heighten flexibility, interoperability, and security.
  • Achieve pragmatic infrastructure choices.

Build a future-ready architecture that supports AI and analytics while remaining practical, secure, and governable.

1:45 pm

PANEL:

TRACK 2 – STRATEGIC

How to Use Real-Time Data to Run Smarter Municipal Services

Municipal services often operate in environments where delays can be costly, and citizen expectations are immediate. Optimize how you use real-time data to improve responsiveness. Walk away with strategies to: 

  • Bolster live data to strengthen operational awareness. 
  • Achieve practical integrations between service systems, sensors, and reporting environments. 
  • Improve decision speed. 
  • Optimize real-time insight into more responsive and reliable services. 

Use real-time data to move municipal operations from reactive reporting to faster, more coordinated decision-making 

2:15 pm

CASE STUDY: PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

TRACK 1 – TECHNICAL

Future-Proofing Emergency Care: Using Predictive Analytics to Transform Paramedic Operations

As emergency medical services face rising call volumes, increasing patient complexity, and growing pressure on healthcare resources, traditional planning approaches are no longer sufficient to meet evolving community needs. Leading organizations are turning to advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and simulation.  Transform operational planning, optimize resource deployment, and improve system performance through evidence-based decision-making. 

Develop a blueprint to: 

  • Apply predictive analytics to forecast future service demand and support long-term capital and workforce planning.  
  • Use geospatial analytics to optimize deployment strategies, infrastructure planning, and community coverage.  
  • Leverage simulation modelling to evaluate operational scenarios and inform strategic investment decisions before implementation.  

Build a proactive, intelligence-led operating model that enables emergency services to improve performance, optimize resources, and prepare for future demand with confidence. 

2:15 pm

CASE STUDY: DATA INTEROPERABILITY

TRACK 2 – STRATEGIC

How to Turn Data Governance into Innovation and Value

Data governance can often cause friction. But in high-trust public sector environments, governance done well can accelerate access, enable better decisions, and allow for innovation. Adopt best practices to: 

  • Enhance governance models that balance access, accountability, and operational speed. 
  • Transform reactive control to proactive enablement. 
  • Bolster trust through transparency, stewardship, and clear decision rights. 
  • Amplify governance as the foundation for responsible AI. 

Turn governance into a strategic enabler that increases trust while unlocking greater value from public data. 

2:45 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT: DATA OBSERVABILITY

How to Develop Observability Disciplines in Mission-Critical Systems

As public sector organizations rely more heavily on automation, analytics, and AI, data quality failures become operational risks. Create a roadmap to: 

  • Improve how you monitor freshness, lineage, and anomalies. 
  • Master quality issues before they affect outcomes. 
  • Enhance observability into governance and platform operating models. 
  • Achieve confidence in the data used for public sector decisions. 

Improve trust in your data ecosystem by making quality, reliability, and lineage visible at scale. 

3:15 pm

REFRESHMENTS BREAK & EXHIBITOR LOUNGE VISITS

  • Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of data analytics innovation firsthand.
  • Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
  • Brainstorm solutions and gain new perspectives and ideas.

3:45 pm

CASE STUDY: EVENT-DRIVEN GOVERNMENT

How to Design Real-Time Data Systems for Public Services

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.

4:15 pm

INDUSTRY EXPERT: RESPONSIBLE DATA

How Responsible AI Begins with Responsible Data

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.

4:45 pm

CASE STUDY: DATA PRODUCTS

How to Scale Data Sharing

Integrated services and joined-up policy require data to move across organizational boundaries, but technical fragmentation is only part of the problem. Walk away with strategies to: 

  • Enhance interoperability using common standards, reusable patterns, and clear ownership. 
  • Impact friction between systems, teams, and agencies. 
  • Bolster cross-government insights. 
  • Optimize data sharing from one-off projects. 

Create the practical conditions needed for integrated services and better cross-government decision-making. 

5:15 pm

CLOSING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

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

5:30 pm

EVENING RECEPTION: ENJOY GREAT CONVERSATION, MUSIC, & NETWORKING

  • Relax and unwind after a long day of learning.
  • Celebrate the close of Day 1 with speakers, sponsors, and peers.
  • Continue conversations, build relationships, and compare priorities across mandates and jurisdictions before tomorrow’s audience-specific tracks.