2025 Forum
9th Annual DataGov 2025FUTURE OF GOVERNMENT DATA: Transforming Data Management, Data Sharing, Privacy & Security 2025 Hybrid Forum
10th -11th June 2025, Canberra
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About the event:

IBR’s 9th Annual Data Gov Conference acknowledges the report findings and will place data as a paramount asset at the core of conversations across the two-day conference around Data: Governance, Integrity, Literacy, Protection, Ethics and Ai.

Conference content will emphasise case studies, insights, implementations and panel discussions where urgency is needed to prioritise data governance and data governance frameworks, including the need for standardisation and consistency with the Government’s overarching commitment to:

 

  • Develop whole-of-government policies and frameworks to guide government entities on how to safely engage with emerging data and digital technologies
  • Foster a culture of data and digital innovation
  • Explore new data and digital funding models to support the APS’s data and digital transformation
  • Require all government entities to develop and submit digital and ICT plans as part of the IOF process, to further improve long term strategic planning and investment outcomes.
Conference Themes for 2025:
Data: Governance

Data: Governance, Integrity, Literacy, Protection, Ethics and Ai

Embedded data

Embedded data-driven practices to shape better outcomes through data & insights

protect public trust

Ensure responsible and transparent data usage to protect public trust

data security

Safeguarding and strengthening data security

privacy and consent

Ethical considerations focussed on privacy and consent in 2025

valuing data

Successful steps to promote valuing data as an asset within your organisation

The rapid development of data and digital technologies creates significant opportunities to improve APS processes and make smart and sustainable investments.
The Australian Government has committed to developing a whole-of-government Data Governance Framework to define common rules, processes, and accountabilities for adoption across the APS to ensure privacy and compliance of government data is maintained.

It will be a key initiative providing APS agencies with direction on how to ensure the quality, integrity, security, discoverability, accessibility, and useability of data assets.

The Framework will be released in 2025-26 centred on four foundational pillars of data governance: data quality; data privacy; data authority; and data innovation.

Prior to the release of the framework, we need to absorb and address the latest report between the Governance Institute of Australia and Macquarie University’s DataX Research Centre found a majority of 345 CEOs/C-suite executives, non-executive directors, and senior governance and risk professionals surveyed were not positive about how their organisation manages and protects important data, with 57% describing it as ‘average’ and 4% as ‘poor’.

Key findings included:
  • Almost 60% say the board does not have an understanding of the organisation’s current data governance challenges.
  • The standout risk around data governance is cyber-attacks, followed by emergent technologies and AI.
  • Siloed data holdings, underestimating the value of data and not having proper data governance frameworks are key issues for organisations
  • A third of organisations don’t have data governance on the risk register
  • Just under a third of organisations regularly purge data, mostly on an annual basis.

The report serves as a wake-up call, revealing a concerning lack of board understanding and substantial gaps in data governance frameworks, and a need to connect the dots between Ai and tech investment > implementation and impact.

Data: Governance, Integrity, Literacy, Protection, Ethics and Artificial intelligence

Who Should Attend:
  • Chief Data Officer
  • VP/Director/Head of/ General Manager
  • Data Integrity
  • Data Literacy
  • Data Ethics
  • Ai
  • Responsible Ai
  • Data Governance
  • Data Protection and Privacy
  • Data Insights
  • Data and Analytics
  • Data Science
  • Data Capabilities
Sponsorship & Speaking Opportunites:

Govt Data 2025 Forum offers sponsors an excellent opportunity to demonstrate thought-leadership and leverage networking opportunities to build brand-value amongst your target audience. If you would like to know more about sponsorship, exhibition and business development opportunities please just get in touch with us

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