• Impact of Big Data in Canada’s public service
• What’s new and changing
• Where Data and Analytics are going in the next few years

There are numerous projects underway in the public sector that require effective data governance. Creating a digital ID, proposed new privacy legislation, E-payroll and auto tax filing in addition to a vaccine passport system and ESG and Net-Zero initiatives are all data dependent and need privacy, policy and control systems and standards for success.

The accounting profession was created during the industrial revolution to protect society by ensuring relevant financial information was transparently disclosed against a common framework. Today’s accountants, though, faced an exponentially increasing amount of both financial and intangible data as the private and public sector take on data dependent challenges. The profession must examine how to respond to the public sector’s data governance needs.

• Learn about the steps the accounting profession is taking to add value in a rapidly evolving data- based environment.
• Hear how our role to inject trust in data access and quality and providing assurance over data is a key factor to public sector data projects’ success.
• How the profession can create systems and controls to ensure data is fit for purpose.
• Hear how current obligations related to financial data could be leveraged to develop new standards to guide the governance, collection, processing, analysis and valuation of data, in order to ensure that data can be verified.

• Privacy by Design was a Canadian invention from the late 1990’s that has been adopted globally as the gold standard for legislation.
• An unfortunate side-effect of the mis-interpretation of privacy by design is that it has led to significant data fragmentation, impairing our ability to generate meaningful insights for the public good.
• This talk will propose an approach centered on data stewardship that both protects individuals’ privacy and the value of their data in a way that fosters trust and impact

• Evaluating the CRA’s current and future data science & analytics (DSA) proficiencies; taking stock of data architecture, achievements, and potential on the horizon.
• The drive to adopt more big data acumen and capability at the CRA: volume, variety, velocity, and beyond.
• Our plans to establish a more robust feedback loop between line-of-business clients and data scientists.
• The creation of comprehensive analytics training for staff based on level, as the catalyst to creating a data and analytics culture at the agency.

The Data Governance Standardization Collaborative spent two years working together to build a standardization Roadmap that will benefit Canadian organizations and citizens. Published in June 2021, the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Roadmap tackles the challenging questions we face when we talk about standardization and data governance. The Roadmap describes:

• The current and desired Canadian standardization landscape and makes 35 recommendations to address gaps and explore new areas where standards and conformity assessment are needed.
• The solutions identified in the Roadmap will help build a safer and more secure digital infrastructure founded on quality, trust and ethics.
• This presentation will follow-up on what is next – how will these complex issues and recommendations be implemented over the next five years to propel Canada into the digital future ensuring Canadians can access the best and safest products, systems and technological solutions in our increasingly digital world.

With the plethora of data available to departments, is there an effective way to integrate financial and non-financial data to better understand the value-proposition of different programs?

This presentation will explore how ‘big data’ techniques could be used to develop data-driven insights about the value of different programs