6th Annual FST Government Queensland 2022

What Public Sector Needs to Know and Prepare to Work with Innovators and Entrepreneurs of the Future

• Is Public Sector ready to attract and work with entrepreneurial, creative, and innovative people and businesses?
• What kind of environment and culture does Public Sector need to create in order for entrepreneurship to thrive?
• What learnings can we apply successfully from the Private Sector and industry, whether they are in parallel or in contrast?

Bringing Data to Critical Decision-Making: Queensland’s Chief Scientist on the Challenges Facing Government Data

• The context and role of data & economics in supporting environmental and conservation initiatives
• Exploring critical perspectives of what this means for consumer accessibility and availability of government information
• Government’s role in enabling industry, research, and innovation ecosystems: how do we transform these relationships?

QLD Digital Strategy Beyond 2022: Realising the Outcomes of Improved Services, Capabilities, and Workforce

• How do we regain momentum with digital strategies and a united digital roadmap in a post covid-19 operating environment?
• Citizen-centricity: what do we truly mean by this and what defines a good experience with government?
• How do we ensure actionable change and prioritise capability-led transformation across key digital focus areas and skills?
• How do we unlock greater enterprise, workforce, and technology value for the benefit of citizens?

The Modern Workforce and VPN: Why You Need Zero Trust

Not only are IT leaders aware of the risk, but nearly three out of four are concerned that the VPN may hinder their ability to keep their organisations secure. Join this session to learn about:

• The move to cloud and reasons why legacy VPN is no longer suitable for the modern work environment
• The Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA) alternative to VPN
• The benefits of ZTNA for improved user experience, IT simplification and a reduced attack surface

The Future of Data in QLD Public Sector: Bridging Skills, Technology and Innovation

• What is the key opportunity for leveraging data and information within Queensland and how does the Whole of Public Sector become more aligned on this?
• What’s really getting in the way of successful data sharing: talent, technology, policy, or is there something else agencies are missing?
• How do we equip and support wider technology and business groups with the right data skillsets?
• Is governance still imperative and how do we further empower citizen service delivery through data capabilities?

Digital Health's Role in Engaging the Public through New Models of Care

• How do you define the latest objectives of Digital Transformation as a care provider?
• In a highly-disrupted environment, what does the digitisation of major systems and acceleration of capabilities mean for core services and new operating models?
• How does becoming a more interconnected healthcare organisation support more efficient decision making and services?
• Assessing the opportunity to apply health service delivery and transformation learning lessons to broader citizen-centric services

Cyber Security Vanguards: Raising Maturity for the Benefit of Interconnected Agencies and Citizens

• In the hope to keep up, how can government agencies set up to tackle the changing nature of risks, on an ongoing basis?
• How do we encourage more meaningful diversity and talent development across security roles?
• How can agencies improve cross-collaboration and shared learnings when it comes to Information Security?
• What marks a well-aligned security function within the organisation?

Exploring New Models In Collaboration: Federating Access to Skills, Decision, Infrastructure Support

This highly interactive session will create a two-way feedback loop between the stage and audience. Gathering real-time feedback, polling, and questions from the audience- we will facilitate an unprecedented discussion involving the entire room.Leading this session:

As a not-for-profit, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation essentially supports Queensland’s primary research active universities as a unique intersection for shared hardware systems and specialist support teams, underpinned by an innovative funding and service delivery program. This session will spark discussion around the opportunity for QLD to spearhead a new approach to collaboration:

• How do we adapt to the current context of skills shortages, and look to solve access to talent?
• How do we establish forums and support functions to best complement IT, Data, and Infrastructure end-users in sharing problems and solutions?
• Exploring the opportunity for shared team and funding models: is government able to centralise specialist skills and hardware infrastructure that can be embedded across organisations?
• Can we apply learning lessons from embedding e-research support groups across QLD’s Universities within a Public Sector environment?

Lessons from the U.S. Department of Energy: IT Modernisation in a Rapidly Evolving Risk Landscape