FWD50 took place on November 6-8, 2023 in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park. See the Agenda.
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It's been a full house this morning to kickoff Day 1 of #FWD50 2023.
We opened with our welcoming keynote from Co-Founder and Content Chair @acroll, The Hon. Anita Indira Anand (President, TBS), Kris Lovejoy (Global Practice Leader, Security & Resiliency Kyndryl), Robyn Scott (Co-Founder & CEO Apolitical), Jacqueline Lu (President & Co-Founder Helpful Places), @sboots, Jennifer Pahlka, and The Hon. Terry Beach (Minister of Citizens’ Services, Government of Canada).
"We've designed policy with the last 10% last, which is, how do you deliver that? We need to flip that." Minister Terry Beech #fwd50
"How do we get mass adoption? We have to make it seamless and easy for our customers." Minister Terry Beech #fwd50
As the Minister of Citizens' Services, The Honourable Terry Beech will be discussing how to transform service delivery for Canadians at #FWD50 2023. https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/2061/the-honourable-terry-l-honorable-terry-beech
How do we move from directives to dialog? Trusting people to solve the problem in the best way they know how - Great talk by @pahlkadot about not just staying in your lane #fwd50
Former head of the Ontario Digital Service and now CEO of U.S. Digital Response, Hillary Hartley is no stranger to #FWD50. She's part of the crew taking over the stage for this year's Regional Digital Government Summit! https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/2027/hillary-hartley
I do think (and I've said it before) that it all needs a refresh - or at least a formal reflection. It has been a decade plus and there is too much dogma now. We (and I'm part of the problem) failed to be agile about it all - we missed out on the interate, iterate, iterate element! #fwd50
Do you really need your users to create an online account? Private sector has realized that sometimes it doesnt make sense to introduce that friction. Xiaopu Fung claims that the public sector should be more intentional about when we force users to create accounts #fwd50
“Even the act of getting information – we share – is part of our culture. Information that I have, it doesn't belong to me, it belongs to my community and culture.” Delta Flood #fwd50
“In academia it's pretty established that data is shared. But for crown corporations that's often not the case.” Dr. Morgan Kahentonni Phillips on having to ask for her community's data back. #fwd50
[weeknote] Week Eight: #FWD50 Fun and Family Losses
https://digitalbydefault.com/2023/11/09/week-eight-fwd50-fun-and-family-losses/
Dr. Morgan Kahentonni Phillips and Brad Greyeyes-Brant share the stage with other great panelists tomorrow at #FWD50 to discuss the challenges and solutions of sharing Indigenous owned data. https://www.fwd50.com/session/1185/open-science-and-indigenous-knowledge-challenges-and-solutions
How do we document industry's impact on indigenous communities while respecting First Nations' data sovereignty? Delta Flood, Marie-Ange Gravel, and Sean Power tackle this onstage at #FWD50! https://www.fwd50.com/session/1185/open-science-and-indigenous-knowledge-challenges-and-solutions
For anyone here attending @fwd50 next week be sure to say hi! We are running a workshop on Monday from 1:15-2:45pm where we will be sharing our work on assessing organizational digital maturity: https://www.fwd50.com/session/1175/assessing-your-organizations-digital-maturity
Excited to be co-hosting with Apolitical and Public Digital the latest edition of "Fail Fest" on Monday evening from 6-8pm! Details and registration here: https://www.fwd50.com/session/1245/glorious-blunders-a-public-service-fail-fest
Also going to be doing some fun stuff at #FWD50 for the Let's Think Digital podcast - more to come!
A founding part of the Ontario Digital Service, today Katy Lalonde is the Assistant Deputy Minister of Digital Innovation and Product. Another one of our on-site mentors this fall at #FWD50! https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/2026/katy-lalonde
British Columbia's lead designer for the public service, Martha Edwards, has tackled digital ID, cybercrime, and even Brexit. Learn from her on how to move the dial on digital trust in a few days at #FWD50! https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/1999/martha-edwards
“Culture sticks, strategy slips” - great quote from Robyn Scott’s presentation at #fwd50