Day One: Tuesday, September 21, 2021
10:30 EDT
15 minWelcome and Opening Remarks from the Chairs
Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Senior Data Scientist, City of Winnipeg
Shelly Smith, ARMA Canada Program Director, City of Winnipeg
10:45 EDT
60 minAddressing the Data Breach Crisis
Nandini Jolly, Founder & CEO, CryptoMill Cybersecurity Solutions
- The global spread of COVID-19 has generated numerous privacy, data protection, security and compliance questions. These challenges are driving the need for companies and organizations to ensure their digital experience platform(s) are not only secure, but forward-looking
- Your speaker will take you through the ins and outs of a zero trust data centric security model and approach, to implement safeguards to eliminate data breaches and create a balance between information sharing and protecting sensitive data from the edge to the Cloud with CryptoMill’s most advanced and disruptive security suite – Circles of Trust. She will also share a positive approach from the lens of the “good side” on how you can leverage technology and the art of encryption to stop hackers, protect sensitive data, preserve privacy, and effectively manage and protect your most valuable digital assets
11:45 EDT
60 minData Governance vs. Information Governance: What’s the Difference and Why Does it Matter?
Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Senior Data Scientist, City of Winnipeg
- Data is information? Information is data?
- Common concepts between DMBOK and IGBOK
- Can data and information concepts be merged? Does that simplify or complicate?
- As government services become more digital, how do we manage data/information?
- The City of Winnipeg’s journey, so far, to an Information Governance Committee
12:45 EDT
45 minBreak
13:30 EDT
60 minData Exchange in the Government of Canada
Teresa D’Andrea, Director General, Data and Advanced Analytics, Transport Canada
- How APIs are revolutionizing the way we think about data
- Benefits to citizens and businesses
14:30 EDT
60 minSpatial Data as a Tool for Economic Decisions in Government
Ivan Rincon, Director, Public Alerting, Emergency Management BC
- What is spatial data and what are the best practices to make it useful
- Best practices in spatial data governance
- How spatial data can be used in government
- Other correlated data to be included in decision making processes
- Challenges and future of spatial data
15:30 EDT
60 minThe City of Edmonton’s Data Governance Initiative
Wojciech Kujawa, Data Governance and Management Manager, City of Edmonton
- A case study on how the city of Edmonton is implementing its data governance framework
- Implementing data governance at the municipal level
- A review of the steps followed, lessons learned, and outlook for the future
- Working around existing ad-hoc infrastructure to make it work for you
- Developing a data governance team from the ground-up
16:30 EDT
Closing Remarks from the Chairs
Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Senior Data Scientist, City of Winnipeg
Shelly Smith, ARMA Canada Program Director, City of Winnipeg
Day Two: Wednesday, September 22, 2021
10:30 EDT
minWelcome and Opening Remarks from the Chairs
Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Senior Data Scientist, City of Winnipeg
Shelly Smith, ARMA Canada Program Director, City of Winnipeg
10:30 EDT
45 minDeveloping a Data Valuation Framework for Better Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Government
- Quantifying the value of investments in data and digital assets is complex and estimating return on investments as well as payback period on such investments remain difficult.
- This talk aims to address how we can align departmental strategic priorities, performance indicators and investment in digital solutions.
- A Data Valuation Framework can inform hvikow digital technologies (AI and automation) can be incorporated into the decision-making processes.
- Dr. Pant will share insights in developing a framework for systematically assessing and analyzing the value of a dataset or a digital tool.
- While advancing digital transformation is a key priority for Departments and Agencies across the Government of Canada, decision-makers are facing the challenge of prioritizing and justifying investments in digital technologies.
11:15 EDT
45 minData Governance and Transparency at the RCMP
Jeff Ball, Director, Open Government & Data Governance, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- The steps taken to enhance accountability and transparency by opening data and information at the RCMP
- The development of the RCMPs data governance framework
- Future of Open Government at the RCMP and the role data governance will play
- Lessons learned in standing up a Data Governance and Open Government Branch
12:00 EDT
45 minBreak
12:45 EDT
45 minData Literacy, 18 months in
Emily Tregunno, Advisor, Data Governance, Data Governance Office, Canada Post
Emily Kozinski, Advisor, Data Governance, Data Governance Office, Canada Post
At Canada Post we have focused on building a Data Literacy program over the course of the last 18 months. In this presentation we will share the framework of our program and what our learnings are to date with two specific initiatives that are being driven from this program: The Data Literacy Lecture Series, and the Data Academy. The program is designed to support users to build awareness, skills, and connections in support of how to read, manipulate, produce, and communicate with data. At the 18 month point we are able to critically evaluate the direction for the program moving forward and how to best ground the concepts in our business culture so that we can continually move beyond the buzz of data and as a corporation are able to better manage, consume, and produce data.
13:30 EDT
45 minBuilding Data Capabilities
Marc André Boivin, Manager, Data Policy & Digital Innovation, Department of National Defence
14:15 EDT
60 minData Driven Impact: Leveraging Data to Tell Compelling Performance Stories
- lessons learned and best practices to integrate data with performance measurement requirements
- results-based measurement meets big data
- leveraging government service delivery frameworks with advanced data analysis
- the role of data visualizations in telling compelling impact related performance stories
- implications for integrated planning and evaluation
15:15 EDT
60 minWhat Is Required to Achieve Data Transparency?
Dan Gillman, Information Scientist, US Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Transparent data are those that can be discovered, understood, or responsibly used, and this happens because there is enough information to allow it
- The available information include descriptions of the data and related things, and these are called metadata
- These metadata help to answer some of the following questions:
- Do some data exist, if so where are they, and how are they obtained?
- How are the data represented, what do they mean, and how are they laid out in a file or feed?
- What are the design considerations and restrictions associated with how the data were generated and may be used?
- We need to be sure, in principle, the necessary metadata exist, and this is through the notion of conformance to a metadata specification – which we explain
- In practice, the metadata also have to be the “right” metadata; they need to be of high quality
- Finally, the system(s) built to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and use activities need to be usable
16:15 EDT
Closing Remarks from the Chairs
Jennifer Bodnarchuk, Senior Data Scientist, City of Winnipeg
Shelly Smith, ARMA Canada Program Director, City of Winnipeg