The Specialist Sessions are your opportunity to meet, share, debate, and discuss ideas and best practices with your global peers and leading experts in the public sector. Topics will include: From eHealth to Connected HealthThe Healthcare Specialist Session will focus on interactive discussions with the opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with top Healthcare leaders from around the globe. Speakers: Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of ICT for Health, European Commission, Belgium Dr. Gwyn Thomas, Programme Director, Informing Healthcare, Wales Assembly Government, UK
21st Century Education -- Defining ExcellenceThis year’s education specialist sessions will create highly focused, interactive opportunities to learn and exchange ideas with top education leaders from around the globe. This session will feature integrated panels with Ministry, University and School leaders on key topical areas in education. These sessions will address Global Education Transformation, Campus Innovation, and Connected Communities. The premise of these sessions is that education is a key differentiator of countries, economies, academic institutions, and individuals: these sessions will guide educators and leaders who are making a difference. Speakers: Africa F F Tusubira, PhD, Director of the Directorate of ICT Support, Makerere University, Uganda, Africa Asia Pacific Professor Shih Choon Fong, President, National University of Singapore Europe Michael Stevenson, Director of Strategy and Communications, Department for Education and Skills, UK Mike Gibbons, Director, DfES Innovation Unit, Department for Education & Skills, England Les Watson, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland John Connell, Director, Scottish Schools Digital Network Unit, Scotland Anthony Bravo, Principal, Crossways Academy, England Middle East Dr. Tayseer Alnoaimi, Secretary General, Educational & Technical Affairs, Jordan Professor Menachem Magidor, President, Hebrew University of Jerusalem North America Andrew Thomson, Minister of Education & Technology, Saskatchewan, Canada Lorna Marsden, BA, PhD, HonLLD, President and Vice-Chancellor, York University, Canada Edward M. Hundert, M.D., President, Case Western Reserve University, US Dr. Jay Dominick, Assistant Vice President of Information Systems and CIO, Wake Forest University, US Dr. Lev Gonick, Vice President of Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Case Western University, US Dr. Andy DiPaolo, Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Professional Development and Senior Associate Dean of Engineering, Stanford University, US Dr. Patricia Iannuzzi, Dean of Libraries, University of Nevada , US Dr. John L. Hennessy, President, Stanford University and Member of the Cisco Board of Directors, US
Government: IT for Economic DevelopmentSeveral central and local government organizations today are focused on the development of Innovation initiatives with the objective of stimulating Economic Development. Information and Communication Technologies play an important role in this area in many aspects. This highly interactive breakout session will initially focus on the main drivers for Innovation at national and local level and on the role that ICT plays. Critical success factors enabling successful Public-Private partnerships, aimed at Economic Development, will be one of the discussions topics. A specific focus will relate to the development of Cluster-Based Innovation initiatives and on the role that Broadband telecommunications infrastructures play in this area. In order to facilitate the interaction among participants, this session will include brief presentations on international, national and local best practices alternated to a number of "challenges" the audience will need to solve, working in sub-groups. Speakers: Maurice Gallant, Chief Information Officer and Assistant Director of Corporate Services, City of Fredericton, Canada Anders Wijkman, Member of the Committee of Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, European Parliament Raul Zambrano, Senior Policy Advisor, Director, Global eGovernance and ICTD Practice Democratic Governance Group, United Nations Development Programme Luis Magalhães, President, Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal Qassim Sultan, Director General, Dubai Municipality, United Arab Emirates
The Trust Cluster: Dealing Effectively with Security, Privacy, Identity and Authentication at the Heart of Connected GovernmentIn this Specialist Session, participants will have an opportunity to explore the 'trust cluster' of issues dealing with security, identity and authentication. Finding practical and effective ways to deal with trust remains central to lift the confidence of citizens as they increasingly migrate to online and virtual channels to access a wider range of services from, and interaction with, government at all levels. Speakers will include international experts on the trust issues in connected government as well as government leaders from jurisdictions around the world who will share their ideas and strategies. Speakers: Malcolm Crompton, Managing Director, Information Integrity Solutions and former Privacy Commissioner, Australian Federal Government Dr. Miriam Lips, Associate Professor, Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatisation, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK Laurence Millar, Deputy Commissioner, Information and Communication Technologies, State Services Commission, New Zealand Stephan Engberg, Identity Management Consultant and founder of Priway, Denmark
Breaking Down Departmental SilosThe focus of this session will be the strategies governments need to adopt to break down departmental silos and secure the real benefits of e-transformation. Each half-day session will be launched by high profile expert practitioners whose insights will provide the basis for interactive group sessions where senior public servants will get the opportunity to network with each other by exchanging thoughts, views and experiences in relation to a specific issue. The theme for the first session will be driving transformational change across departmental boundaries through tools such as a government-wide CIO council - what are governments currently doing and what do they need to do to maximise benefits from IT investment. The theme for the second session will be shared services -- what are the potential benefits of shared services, what are the obstacles, what are the risks in moving to shared services and how can shared services best be taken forward Speakers: Kimberly T. Nelson, Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information and Chief Information Officer, Environmental Protection Agency, US Joe Harley, Programme and Systems Delivery (PSD) Group Director and Chief Information Officer, Department of Work and Pensions, UK Gordon Macatee, Deputy Minister of Labour and Citizens’ Services, Government of British Columbia and Chair of the BC Buildings Corporation, Canada Andreas Nemec, Chief Executive Officer, Federal Procurement Agency, Austria
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