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6th Annual DigiGov 2023 The Future Of Government Digital Transformation:Connecting Digital Public Services For Citizen Centricity 2023 Hybrid
21st-22nd June, Canberra Rex Hotel, Canberra
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Why Should attend:

Australians undertake more than 800 million transactions with government agencies each year, with around 40 per cent still completed using traditional (non-digital) channels.

If this figure could be reduced to 20% over a ten-year period, productivity, efficiency, and other benefits to government would be worth around $17.9 billion, along with savings in time, convenience, and out-of-pocket costs to citizens worth a further $8.7 billion.  

To date, the federal government has pledged to have all its services available digitally by 2025, enabling Australians to deal with government anywhere and on any device.

Approximately 47 per cent of federal services are now digitised and the pledge is part of a refreshed digital strategy that aims to make the Australian government one of the top three governments in the world.

With that in mind, DigiGov 2023, will focus on fireside chats, panel discussions and case studies with the digital citizen experience at the core.

Themes for the 2023 forum:
  • Accelerated Digital Services with Data Driven Transformation
  • Digital Transformation at Scale with a Frictionless Citizen Experience in Mind
  • Citizen Centric Digital Transformation and Digital Identity
  • Futuristic Partnership Collaboration
Who Should attend:

Executives, VPs, Directors, General Managers, Heads of:

  • Business Transformation and Continuous Improvement
  • Digital Innovation and ICT
  • Citizen Engagement and Experience
  • Service Design and Delivery
  • Culture and Change Management
  • Enterprise Architects
  • Insights and Data
  • AI and Automation
  • Project Manager – AI
  • Transformation
  • ML capabilities

“Listening to the Voice of the Citizen to Build Citizen Trust and Drive Public Service Engagement”

6th Annual DigiGov 2023 Speakers
Learn speakers of the 6th Annual DigiGov 2023 The Future Of Government Digital Transformation: Connecting Digital Public Services For Citizen Centricity 2023 Hybrid Conference
Chief Data Scientist, NSW Government and Industry Professor, UTS
Manager Data and Analysis Asset Management, State Roads, Department of State Growth
Managing Director, ANZ International Association of Privacy Professionals
Transformation Leader and Strategic Advisor, Public Sector, AWS
Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Department of Defence
General Manager, Solution Delivery & Operations - Consumer Data Right, ACCC
Senior Manager, Projects and Innovation, Transport for NSW
Manager, Information and Business Transformation, Mitchell Shire Council
Founder and CEO Peak State
Director, Information and Communications Technology, NSW Education Standards Authority
Lecturer, Digital Government, University of Melbourne
Manager of the Digital Talent, Regional NSW
Director and CX Consultant, Humind - Discover, Design, Deliver
UX Designer, Accessibility Specialist and Digital Strategist, Department of Customer Service NSW
First Assistant Secretary Digital Transformation & Delivery - Aged Care Reform, Dept of Health and Aged Care
Executive Director, Regulatory Programs and Services Division, Department of Transport and Planning
ResearchOps Lead, Federal Department of Agriculture
Founding Director, GetAboutAble
Product Manager, Engage, Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet (SFC)
Former Digital Accessibility Consultant, NDIA Canberra accessibility and UX meetup groups welcome
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Leading Edge Data Centres
Co-Founder | Digital Trust Evangelist | Sezoo
Principal, Logic Works
Chief Data Officer, Data Analytics Branch, Department of Education, Skills, and Employment
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6th Annual DigiGov Schedule
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ANDREW RAMSDEN
Founder and CEO, Peak State

CITIZEN-CENTRIC TRANSFORMATION

Department of Health and Aged Care is driving a once-in-a-generation Aged Care reform agenda Digital transformation is at the heart of successful Aged Care reform. Government has made a significant investment into digital transformation, understanding that modernised digital capabilities will underpin broader sector reforms.
To realise the ambitious transformational agenda, the
department must –

• Embrace creative problem-solving and progressive tools
• Leverage diverse skillsets, uplifting and industrialising our
internal delivery engines
• Work with the sector in active partnership
• Maintain a steady focus on real-world, customer experience and outcomes.

FAY FLEVARAS
First Assistant Secretary Digital
Transformation & Delivery - Aged Care Reform, Dept of Health and Aged Care

• Insight into how 16 existing services were transformed
digitally E-2-E
• Steps taken to promote ‘channel of choice’ and use cases such as how the learner permit test is at 80% online adoption
• Overcoming pain points in continuous service design for
enhanced UX and CX whilst implementing a regulatory
framework
• Touching on the quality inputs around data and the importance of building trust

JACQUI SAMPSON
Executive Director, Regulatory Programs and Services Division, Department of Transport and Planning

10.40 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK

SERVICE DESIGN & DELIVERY – PART ONE

• Steps taken to evolve and design a platform for the needs of
the public service
• Co-designing with citizen-developer programs to enhance
capabilities
• Discussing principles and outcomes on how to deliver good
public engagement
• Assessing how design outcomes are measured for continuous improvement

MICHEL BARANOVIC
Product Manager, Engage, Victorian
Department of Premier and Cabinet

• What type of culture are you creating internally to drive
business transformation?
• How are you driving meaningful and sustainable organizational change and operational efficiency?
• How are you creating enhanced processes, discipline, and
governance to boost confidence in delivery?
• How are you creating and enabling an environment to
embrace and leverage innovation?
• How do you build business and citizen trust and confidence?
• When we assess overcoming challenges such as taking risks,
innovation and experimentation – how can we actually put this into practice?

PANELLISTS:

MUSTAFA GHULAM
Senior Manager, Projects and Innovation, Transport for NSW

MIKE DUDARENOK
Director, Information and Communications Technology, NSW Education Standards Authority

MODERATOR:

ANDREW RAMSDEN
Founder and CEO, Peak State

• Digital Challenges facing Regional Australians
• The Opportunity for Digital Equity
• Digital Infrastructure as a Solution

CHRIS THORPE
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Leading Edge Data Centres

13:00PM NETWORKING LUNCH

• Crafting a solid strategy to support data rights and principles
around trust
• Identifying, collecting, and utilising data to ensure effective
data flow
• Ensuring data is safe and secure and driving cyber security
awareness

DANIEL RAMOS
General Manager, Solution Delivery & Operations - Consumer Data Right, Australian Competition Consumer Commission

• Better ROI, de-risked delivery - the importance and opportunity that understanding need presents
• How to use need to inform technology choices
• Prioritising options in a world of limited resources
• Engagement and delivering meaningful and sustainable change

SIMON BARCLAY
Director and CX Consultant, Humind - Discover, Design, Deliver

15.20PM AFTERNOON TEA

This session will discuss how to listen to people with disability
in your user research and usability testing activities.
• Capturing the needs of people living with disability, what
does that mean for User Research?
• Building understanding of how-to co-design and collaborate
with people with disability
• Sharing ways to engage with citizens from diverse backgrounds

PANELLISTS:

BRIGETTE METZLER
ResearchOps Lead, Federal Department of Agriculture

DR YASMINE GRAY
Founding Director, GetAboutAble

ADAM COOPER
Former Digital Accessibility Consultant, NDIA Canberra accessibility and UX meetup groups welcome

MODERATOR:

BRIGITTA NORTON
UX Designer, Accessibility Specialist and Digital Strategist, Department of Customer Service NSW and OZeWAI

Chairs closing remarks for day one

Trust: How improving trust in digital interactions is essential for all our futures The role of (good) government and the foundational quality of government credentials
Interoperability: The essential nature of State, Territory, Federal and Global Interoperability The importance of standards and how we need to think of more than one now and in the future.
Inclusivity: How we might close the digital divide and how great UX is necessary but not sufficient for everyone, the role of biometrics (done right), and how designing for supported journeys and guardianship credentials can close the gap
Benefits: The Socio-Economic (and political) value proposition
Risks: Critical Infrastructure, anti-fragile systems and how to build, demonstrate, and verify trustworthiness

JOHN PHILLIPS
Co-Founder | Digital Trust Evangelist | Sezoo

• What steps can Government take to act and operate in a more open and inclusive way?
• How can we drive a culture of net positive human impact?
• How can we build systems that are compliant with the special context of government while meeting rapidly changing
citizen needs and expectations?
• What practical and tangible steps can be taken to build a
legitimate Government?
• What role does AI play in supporting this framework?

PIA ANDREWS
Transformation Leader and Strategic Advisor, Public Sector, AWS

10.30 MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK

• What’s the purpose of the Digital Talent Squad and why are
you focussing on upskilling and reskilling?
• What does the digital academics pilot entail?
• How are you utilising human-centred design and personas to
improve connection and empathy?
• What steps have been taken to support strategic alignment
in process improvement?
• How are you supporting the co-design of the UX journey and
processes?

MARY ELIA
Manager of the Digital Talent, Regional NSW

• Should we use recruitment to build out digital capabilities or
empower our current workforce to develop digital skills?
• What's the relationship between building policy skills and
creating space for new digital skills?
• Where are the hotspots for digital skills in our agency, are
these teams working in silos?
• How do we shape an organisational culture that supports staff to upskill and reskill?
• How can we balance recruiting for diverse digital skills while
promoting a continuous learning culture?
• How can we develop strategies to embrace digital innovation
across our agencies?

TIMOTHY KARIOTIS
Lecturer in Digital Government, Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne

12.40 NETWORKING LUNCH

Traditionally we have seen Human touch points as the personal interactions between customers and staff such as on the phone or face-to-face. In a digital world we seek to exchange the human touch for the app but to be successful both machine and representative must combine effectively to ensure citizen engagement and satisfaction.

• Reducing complexity in citizen services by addressing the “Golden Circle”.
• Focus on fixing citizen pain points while avoiding new ones.
• Think Omnichannel without losing site of simplicity and cost.
• Using a Data driven approach to designing touchpoints and measuring transformation success.

ROLF GREEN
Principal, Logic Works

12.50PM NETWORKING LUNCH

• What does the AI revolution mean for the future of work?
• What has the role of a leader become and how is it
developing?
• How can we position ourselves to surf the incoming waves of
change?

ANDREW RAMSDEN
CEO and Founder, Peak State

• How to provide a more efficient infrastructure to serve the needs of the citizens?
• Understanding how to combat legacy and siloed systems
• What technology infrastructure hurdles have been overcome?
• Enhancing the sustainability of CX technologies by harnessing reusability, consolidation, and interoperability

PANELLISTS:

SARAH CLARK
Manager, Information and Business
Transformation, Mitchell Shire Council

SIMON BARCLAY
Director and CX Consultant, Humind - Discover, Design, Deliver

MUSTAFA GHULAM
Senior Manager, Projects and Innovation, Transport for NSW (SFC)

MODERATOR:

ANDREW RAMSDEN
Founder and CEO, Peak State

• The cognitive continuum: Research innovation, the evolution
of emerging technologies, and their implementation cycle
• Application of emerging technologies - concept of
technology stack
• Unravelling the complexity of value and supply chains of the
technology-stack
• Key implications of emerging technologies on the Governement agenda - social cohesion, economic prosperity and national security
• Conceptual frameworks to evaluate the impact of emerging
technologies, Examples related to economic or military impact
• An innovation-driven technology Governance framework for benefits realisation
• Lessons learnt - the critical factors for successfully implementing an emerging technology project
• Constraints, challenges: example – the changing legal landscape around emerging technologies

AMIT GHILDYAL
Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), Department of Defence

Chair’s closing remarks day two

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