Agenda - Day 2

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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

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Data Analytics Public Sector Summit | Day 2:

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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

How 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

TRACK 2: MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT & LOCAL NGOS

How Municipalities are Operationalizing AI Safely and Delivering ROI

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.

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: BUILDING TRUST THROUGH DATA

TRACK 2: MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT & LOCAL NGOS

How to Align Data, Technology, and Service Design to Advance Community Safety and Wellbeing

As public sector organizations accelerate digital transformation, aligning data and governance through service design remains a core challenge. Build a modern public safety data portal and enhanced online reporting to support a more connected and responsive information ecosystem. Walk away with practical approaches to: 

  • Standardize data and enable consistent, reliable analytics across systems. 
  • Design transparent data services that improve public visibility, strengthen accountability, and build trust with communities. 
  • Use service design to integrate governance and technology to support community safety and wellbeing outcomes. 

Design data-driven services that strengthen operational effectiveness while building public trust at scale.

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

CASE STUDY: SERVICE MAPPING FOR CONNECTED PUBLIC SERVICES

How to Use Public Data to Improve Service Delivery Across Organizational Silos

Public sector organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver seamless, equitable, and responsive services. Yet population and service data are often fragmented across disconnected systems, legacy platforms, and departmental silos, making it difficult to coordinate services, reduce duplication, and maintain public trust. Learn how KHP addresses these challenges through service mapping, creating a more connected, person-centered approach to service delivery. Walk away with strategies to: 

  • Improve visibility across programs and services to support more coordinated service delivery. 
  • Integrate public and service data while respecting privacy, governance, and accountability requirements. 
  • Enable faster, more informed decision-making through a connected view of services and populations. 

Support modernization and interoperability initiatives that strengthen fairness, transparency, and service outcomes. 

2:15 pm

CASE STUDY: DATA STANDARDIZATION

Standardizing Government Data at Scale: Breaking Through Legacy Silos Across 7,000 Applications

Fifty-five years of technology investment across the Government of Canada has created a deeply fragmented data landscape where thousands of applications, disconnected standards, and overlapping authorities make even foundational data consistency a major operational challenge. As new services, platforms, and digital initiatives continue to emerge, organizations are forced to balance modernization with the realities of legacy infrastructure, incompatible systems, and decentralized governance structures. Move beyond circular governance discussions and create practical pathways toward enterprise-wide consistency by: 

  • Establishing scalable data and metadata standards that improve interoperability without disrupting critical legacy systems. 
  • Building cross-department governance models that align ownership, accountability, and decision-making authority. 
  • Creating community-driven approaches to standardization that accelerate consensus across distributed organizations. 

Strengthen interoperability, reduce operational friction, and create the foundations for scalable, connected digital government services. 

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: OPERATIONALIZING DATA INSIGHTS

HOW TO TURN ANALYTICS INTO BETTER PUBLIC SECTOR DECISIONS

Governments have no shortage of dashboards, reports, and analytics—but too often, valuable insights fail to translate into meaningful action. As public sector organizations strive to become more data-driven, the challenge is no longer generating insights, but embedding them into everyday decisions, operational workflows, and frontline services. Explore practical approaches to closing the gap between analytics and action by learning how to: 

  • Embed analytics into operational decision-making to support faster, evidence-based outcomes across government. 
  • Deliver the right insights to the right people through intuitive tools, automation, and decision-centric workflows. 
  • Measure the real-world impact of data initiatives by linking analytics to service delivery, policy outcomes, and organizational performance. 
  • Build a culture of action where trusted data informs decisions at every level of the organization. 

Create an operational analytics capability that delivers measurable improvements in public services, organizational performance, and citizen outcomes.

3:45 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. 

4:15 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.