Agentic AI-Driven Govt Data 2026 is Australia’s leading forum dedicated to the future of government data governance in an AI-enabled world. The event brings together senior public sector leaders, policymakers, technologists, regulators and industry experts to explore how governments can harness AI responsibly while strengthening privacy, ethics, trust and transparency.
As AI rapidly transforms public services, decision-making and citizen engagement, this two-day conference moves beyond theory to focus on practical governance frameworks, real-world use cases and implementation strategies. The agenda addresses the full AI lifecycle — from policy, law and procurement through to delivery, risk management and public value — ensuring agencies are prepared for the 2026–2030 AI and data governance era.
AI adoption is accelerating across government — but public trust, accountability and governance are now the defining challenges. This event equips you with the knowledge, tools and peer insights needed to move from experimentation to safe, trusted and citizen-centric AI delivery. Whether you are setting strategy, overseeing risk, delivering services or shaping policy, this forum helps you:
- Make better decisions about when, where and how AI should be used
- Avoid costly mistakes, reputational damage and ethical failures
- Align innovation with public value, legal obligations and citizen expectations
- Prepare your organisation for the next five years of AI-driven transformation
- Gain practical insights into governing AI and data responsibly across government
- Designing and governing Agentic AI–enabled public services that citizens trust, regulators support and governments can confidently scale
- Learn how to build citizen trust while deploying AI at scale
- Understand emerging AI laws, standards and regulatory expectations
- Hear real-world lessons from agencies implementing AI today
- Explore strategies to manage privacy, ethics, cybersecurity and AI risk
- Network with senior decision-makers shaping Australia’s AI future
- Take away actionable frameworks you can apply immediately in your agency
This conference is designed for senior leaders and practitioners across federal, state and local government, including:
- Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries & Agency Heads
- CIOs, CDOs, CTOs & Chief Data Officers
- Heads of AI, Digital Transformation & Innovation
- Policy, Legal, Privacy & Ethics Leaders
- Data Governance, Risk & Compliance Professionals
- Cybersecurity & Technology Risk Leaders
- Service Design & Citizen Experience Teams
- Procurement & Commercial Leaders
- Regulators and oversight bodies
- Selected industry partners supporting government AI initiatives
Govt Data & Agentic AI 2026 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 – sponsorship@ibrc.com.au
Delegate Registration & Coffee
Welcome by Summit Chair
• Why AI adoption is now a public trust issue, not just a technology decision
• Key inflection points shaping government data governance over the next five years
• Risks of moving too fast—or too slowly—in AI-enabled public systems
• What “trust-by-design” must look like for government data strategies
• Enable trustworthy and scalable agentic AI with trusted data
• Building trusted, ethical and citizen-centric governance for Agentic AI and government data—enabling innovation, protecting privacy and delivering measurable public value.
• Aligning AI, data, digital and cyber strategies across agencies
• Balancing centralised governance with agency-level innovation
• Embedding ethics, transparency and accountability from day one
• Measuring success beyond efficiency: trust, equity and outcomes
• Why traditional open data models are no longer sufficient in an AI era
• Managing re-identification, inference risk and secondary data use
• Responsible data-sharing frameworks for AI-enabled decision-making
• Updating consent, stewardship and access models for AI use cases
10:50 Morning Coffee & Networking
• Applying privacy-by-design across the full AI lifecycle
• Managing sensitive, linked and biometric data responsibly
• Regulatory expectations and lessons from recent failures
• Tools, controls and governance models that actually work in practice
• Trust Is Earned, Not Engineered: What Citizens Expect from AI-Enabled Government
• What citizens really care about when government uses AI
• Transparency, explainability and meaningful accountability
• Handling public concern, backlash and media scrutiny
• Building long-term confidence through engagement, not spin
12:30 Lunch Break
• Emerging AI laws, global standards and regulatory convergence
• Implications for procurement, deployment and operations
• Preparing agencies for audits, assurance and compliance
• Turning regulation into an enabler of safe innovation
• Why ethical frameworks often fail at implementation
• Operationalising ethics through governance, tooling and incentives
• Assigning ownership, accountability and escalation pathways
• Measuring ethical performance in AI-enabled systems
14:40 Afternoon Tea
• Real-world failure scenarios and governance breakdowns
• Decision-making under pressure: who acts and how
• Incident response, remediation and public communication
• Lessons learned to strengthen future AI governance
• Culture, capability and leadership gaps holding agencies back
• Breaking down silos between policy, data, IT and legal teams
• Incentivising responsible innovation at scale
• What needs to change in the next 12–24 months
Conference Day 1 Wrap Up
17:10- 18:10 1 Hour networking Drinks
Delegate Registration & Coffee
DELIVERY, CAPABILITY & PUBLIC VALUE
• Moving beyond cost savings to real societal outcomes
• Aligning AI initiatives with policy and citizen priorities
• Avoiding “AI theatre” and low-impact deployments
• Measuring success through trust, fairness and impact
• Building transparency and explainability into service design
• Human oversight and accountability in automated decisions
• Inclusive design for diverse and vulnerable populations
• Continuous feedback loops to maintain public confidence
• Why poor data quality undermines AI outcomes and trust
• Treating data as critical public infrastructure
• Standards, stewardship and investment priorities
• Linking data quality to national resilience and security
10:50 Morning Coffee
• New threat vectors introduced by AI-enabled systems
• Protecting models, data pipelines and decision outputs
• Building resilience into critical government services
• Coordinating cyber, data and AI risk management
• Ministerial expectations on risk, accountability and outcomes
• Communicating AI decisions to non-technical leaders
• Managing political, legal and reputational exposure
• What success looks like from a leadership perspective
12:30 Lunch Break
• Evaluating AI vendors beyond marketing claims
• Avoiding vendor lock-in and black-box solutions
• Embedding ethics, transparency and auditability in contracts
• Procurement models that support innovation and sovereignty
• Workforce skills needed for sustainable AI adoption
• Balancing internal capability with external partnerships
• Upskilling executives, policy teams and frontline staff
• Creating an AI-ready culture across government
• Scaling AI securely across cloud, edge and hybrid environments
• Government-grade AI architectures and best practices
• AI for public safety, emergency response and resilience
• Automating workflows while protecting jobs and skills
• Translating policy intent into real-world AI systems
• Governance checkpoints across the delivery lifecycle
• Managing risk, ethics and performance in production
• What “good” looks like in a trusted government AI use case
• Key priorities government must focus on over the next five years
• What must be built, reformed or retired
• Aligning national, state and agency-level efforts
• A practical roadmap for trusted, citizen-centric AI
Closing Remarks from the chair
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