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Making digital transformation happen in government can be difficult. Addressing legacy technology, maintaining political backing and funding for projects, and implementing agile delivery in government all require leadership to drive progress.

In this roundtable discussion, serving and recently departed chief information officers from governments around the world – as well as other senior digital leaders – will reflect on the vital role of leaders in driving change.

This conversation will look at the successes in government digital transformation, the barriers that have been overcome, and how leaders can help create – and measure – agile delivery that serves users.

The US federal government is focused on making the administration more efficient, and this session will bring together public servants from across the federal administration to share how they are working to improve efficiency through using technology to help drive internal reforms and consolidated operations.

Leaders in this session will discuss the potential opportunities on using technology to identify and unlock greater efficiencies, and examining how new approaches can be deployed in areas such as procurement and the use of IT spending and sharing best practice.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform government services by automating tasks, improving decision-making, and enhancing citizen engagement. America’s AI action plan and the Presidential Management Agenda have set out plans to boost American leadership in using AI to reduce wasteful processes.

This session will therefore explore how the US government can unleash the potential of AI that is safe, secure and trustworthy. We will discuss how AI is currently being used in federal agencies – and beyond – to improve service delivery, and how the administration can implement its artificial intelligence action plan to accelerate innovation and boost transformation capacity across the federal government.

In today’s rapidly-evolving digital landscape, ensuring the security of a nation’s data and infrastructure is more critical than ever.

To respond to this threat, President Trump has signed an executive order focused on improving protections, with a pledge to do what it takes to make America cyber secure.

This session will share advice from across the federal government on how to implement cyber security best practice, and how to develop the technical and organizational professionalism to improve the security and resilience of the nation’s information systems and networks.

This discussion will look at how government organisations can boost cybersecurity to improve protections across the federal government through more secure software development; how to adopt the latest encryption protocols; and how to implement organization-wide zero trust principles.

This session will also look at how organizations can plan ahead to maintain security in the future. We will discuss how governments can prepare for the impact of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity – and how to use the technology to boost protections – and understand the likely future impact on technologies such as post-quantum cryptography, so departments and agencies can ensure protection against threats that may leverage next-generation compute architectures.

Governments around the world are working to reduce bureaucracy for service users and tackle red tape, but many government systems are not optimised to help drive the best experience.

This session will provide a closed door session to allow government leaders to discuss how departments and agencies can focus on improved services for users.

The session will discuss how government can identify ways to better streamline services, how departments and agencies can streamline processes to create space for public servants to innovative, how CIOs and other technology leaders in government can be empowered to drive service transformation.

Together, we will discuss his session will also look at how the federal government can better share successful practices and learn from those – and understand how to measure service improvements.

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