Agenda - Day 2

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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

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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 industry peers and colleagues over a delicious breakfast.
  • Prepare for a second day that focuses on how national priorities play out across federal, regional, and municipal settings.

8:45 am

OPENING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

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

9:00 am

KEYNOTE: NATION-BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE

How to Use Data, AI, and Digital Platforms for Infrastructure Investment

Major investments in housing, energy, transportation, climate resilience, and digital government are raising the stakes for public sector delivery. Enhance your strategy with approaches to:

  • Perfect your data platforms to improve visibility across large, complex investment portfolios.
  • Master predictive analytics for infrastructure performance, maintenance, and risk.
  • Heighten your decision-making across delivery, policy, and accountability.
  • Amplify digital capabilities that support long-term national resilience and productivity.

Use data and analytics to manage your infrastructure investment more intelligently, transparently, and effectively.

9:30 am

WOKSHOP: WORKFORCE CAPABILITY

How to Scale Data Literacy Across the Entire Workforce

Governments cannot deliver on their data and AI ambitions through specialist teams alone. Data literacy needs to reach your entire workforce. Walk away with practical skills to:

  • Transform data capability gaps across functions, levels, and business units.
  • Perfect training and enablement models.
  • Bolster confidence in using data and AI tools responsibly.
  • Excel momentum for a more data-driven culture.

Equip more of your workforce to engage confidently with data and AI in practical, responsible ways.

10:00 am

ROUNDTABLES: MASTER THOUGHT-PROVOKING IDEAS TO DRIVE YOUR PERFORMANCE

ow to Best Address the Most Pressing Questions in the Public Sector

Share common challenges and best practices with your peers in a topic-focused discussion. Walk away with strategies to:

  • Advance AI in Government: Moving from pilots to production.
  • Master Data Ecosystems & Intergovernmental Collaboration: Building data-sharing capability.
  • Amplify Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Supporting ethical governance and OCAP-aligned practices.
  • Enhance Privacy Engineering & Digital Trust: Enabling secure and scalable data.
  • Enrich Real-Time Government Data: Turn live data into operational awareness.

Leave with peer-tested ideas, practical contacts, and sharper insight into the choices shaping data and AI across government.

10:50 am

EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: VISIT BOOTHS & SOURCE EXPERTISE

  • Explore the latest data analytics technology and strategies from leading sponsors.
  • Share your challenges with the biggest innovators in the business.
  • Meet solution providers with direct relevance to infrastructure, interoperability, and operational AI.

11:30 am

PANEL: NATIONAL AI STRATEGY

TRACK 1: FEDERAL / REGIONAL GOVERNMENT & NATIONAL CHARITIES

How to Design Frameworks and Govern with AI in Uncertain Times

Federal and regional leaders must operationalize AI in environments where regulation, ministerial accountability, and public scrutiny can shift quickly. Adopt practices to:

  • Optimize governance frameworks that remain useful.
  • Perfect roles for policy, privacy, legal, and operational leaders in AI oversight.
  • Adopt risk-based approaches that can scale.
  • Heighten accountability while allowing innovation.

Design AI governance that is practical enough to enable delivery and strong enough to withstand scrutiny.

11:30 am

PANEL: VISIBLE AI & CITIZEN TRUST

TRACK 2: MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT & LOCAL NGOS

How to Deliver Innovation while Maintaining Citizen Confidence

Municipal governments are often where the impact of data and AI really is. With AI, trust can be won or lost very quickly. Walk away with strategies to:

  • Enhance visible innovation with transparency, fairness, and public accountability.
  • Achieve safeguards for citizen-facing applications.
  • Increase communication about what AI is doing and where it’s used.
  • Bolster trust by aligning innovation with service quality.

Deploy municipal AI in ways that improve services while protecting citizen confidence and legitimacy.

12:00 pm

CASE STUDY: ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY & DEFENCE DATA

TRACK 1: FEDERAL / REGIONAL GOVERNMENT & NATIONAL CHARITIES

How Data, Geospatial Analytics, and AI Can Strengthen Canada’s Northern Security

Climate change and geopolitics are increasing the strategic importance of Canada’s Arctic. Explore how geospatial analytics, predictive monitoring, and secure data systems can support better awareness. Develop a blueprint to:

  • Master satellite, sensor, and geospatial data.
  • Perfect cross-agency coordination through better data integration.
  • Enhance predictive monitoring to environmental risk, infrastructure, and operational readiness.
  • Achieve sovereignty, security, and practical delivery.

Understand how data and AI can support national capability in one of Canada’s most strategically important regions.

12:00 pm

CASE STUDY: REAL-TIME CITY OPERATIONS

TRACK 2: MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT & LOCAL NGOS

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

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.
  • Enjoy tailored demos focused on sovereign infrastructure, advanced analytics, secure collaboration, and AI readiness.

1:45 pm

FIRESIDE CHAT: INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYTICS

How to Use Data Platforms and Predictive Analytics to Manage Major Public Investment

Large-scale infrastructure programs generate huge volumes of operational, financial, and delivery data — but too often they still rely on fragmented reporting. Transform how public sector teams can use integrated platforms and predictive analytics. Walk away with strategies to:

  • Enhance visibility across projects, performance, budgets, and delivery.
  • Adapt predictive techniques to identify risk, delay, and operational issues.
  • Improve coordination across agencies, delivery partners, and leadership teams.
  • Bolster infrastructure analytics more clearly.

Strengthen oversight of complex public investment by turning your fragmented project data into actionable intelligence.

2:15 pm

CASE STUDY: COMMUNITY DATA PLATFORMS

How to Use Data Platforms to Design Services Around Community Needs

Municipal organizations sit closest to residents, yet their data is often structured around departments rather than citizen journeys. Achieve a step-by-step action plan to:

  • Perfect services around the needs of residents.
  • Enhance operational, service, and community data to help with decision-making.
  • Amplify more equitable and targeted interventions.
  • Bolster shared platforms to improve both service design and internal coordination.

Build municipal data capability that strengthens service design, equity, and resident experience.

2:45 pm

EXHIBITOR LOUNGE: ATTEND VENDOR DEMOS & CONSULT INDUSTRY EXPERTS

  • Enjoy exclusive sponsor demos and experience the next level of data analytics innovation.
  • Meet one-on-one with leading solution providers to discuss organizational hurdles.
  • Discuss your federal or regional priorities with providers supporting data integration, infrastructure management, observability, privacy, and AI governance.

3:15 pm

CASE STUDY: CLOUD

How Onboard TransLink’s Cloud Migration Journey Can Help You

TransLink’s migration to the cloud has reshaped how data is accessed, governed, and leveraged across the organization. Leave with a blueprint on how to:

  • Optimize a migration strategy that balances modernization with operational continuity.
  • Perfect a culture of adaptability where teams can thrive together in the cloud era.
  • Heighten your efforts to prepare for the next wave of change.

Migration is not a finish line — it’s the start of a more agile, insight-driven enterprise.

3:45 pm

CASE STUDY: INTEROPERABILITY

How to Create a Secure, Collaborative Data Ecosystem Across Government and Partners

Government depends on more than interoperability — it also requires trust between institutions, clear governance, and repeatable models for sharing data safely. Source practical tips to:

  • Eliminate barriers to collaboration created by policy, culture, and legacy operating models.
  • Perfect governance patterns that support secure, repeatable data sharing.
  • Adapt from isolated bilateral exchanges to a connected public data ecosystem.

Develop practical ideas for making cross-government collaboration more durable, secure, and effective.

4:15 pm

CASE STUDY: DIGITAL TWINS

How to Overcome Political, Cultural, and Structural Barriers in Cities

Municipal leaders know the challenge is not just technical. Departmental incentives, legacy processes, resource constraints, and local politics can all stand in the way of integrated data use. Enhance your playbook with tactics to:

  • Eliminate local governance, ownership, and accountability barriers to sharing data.
  • Bolster internal coalitions that support coordinated delivery.
  • Perfect practical standards and operating models.
  • Advance interoperability without waiting for perfect systems or perfect conditions.

Break down the cultural and structural barriers that keep municipal data siloed.

4:45 pm

END OF DAY 2 SUMMARY & CLOSING COMMENTS FROM YOUR HOST

Review the key solutions and takeaways from the conference. Source a summary of action points to implement in your work.