FWD50 Extras

The Government of Canada faces a growing demand for skilled technology professionals, but competition from the private sector can make recruitment a challenge. How can we attract top talent to the public service? Learn how Treasury Board Canada and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada are embracing the challenge. You'll also hear how AAFC achieved AI leadership in just six months. Discover their winning strategy: building strong talent pipelines with top Canadian colleges and universities. Join us for an insightful discussion where you’ll learn actionable tips for establishing talent pipelines and building high-performing teams. See More.

This session delves into digitally connected physical things and some of their applications' tangible benefits and risks, including enhanced government services and operations opportunities. See More.

The only thing we can predict is that what is different now, will become much different in the future! – Get inspired by a set of success stories how a future of procurement could look like and how to setup your organisation more AGILE to be ready to respond and innovate quickly in a world that is changing at an unprecedented speed. See More.

One of the biggest digital buzzwords of 2022 is the “Metaverse”, but do you know what it really is? Join us to learn more about how technologies such as Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality have been rapidly evolving beyond entertainment and starting to be used in a wide range of professional settings. See More.

In 2021 the Institute on Governance launched a study in partnership with four Government of Canada departments to examine the role of Departmental Chief Data Officers – a relatively new position within the federal government. See More.

If you were to step back and look at human history, the transition from analog to digital happened almost instantaneously. How we learn, communicate, and work happens atop a complex stack of technologies we often take for granted. See More.

It’s easier and more effective to think about emerging technology 10 years in the future than to consider its impact over the coming year. Counterintuitive? Absolutely! This is just one of the topics that we’ll unpack and explore during this interactive online workshop. See More.

Between a pandemic that has changed our world forever, and with the emergence of Web 3.0, our relationship to technology is going through a seismic shift as it becomes ubiquitous to our lives. How is this changing the way we are envisioning our relationship with their governments? Join us as we sit down with the people who are designing this new future to understand where they think we are going and how we are getting there. See More.

In this workshop, you’ll discover how critical AI incidents take shape from the inside. Learn how vast groups of people (including yourselves) are outliers in some data and can face negative consequences because of algorithmic bias. See More.

Join Public Digital Partners, Emma Gawen and James Stewart, for an in depth look at how to de-risk your organization’s digital transformation. See More.

Enter speculative design! This emerging design discipline has helped us move away from reactive thinking and towards a values-based approach to service design. See More.