DPI Professional Development Week
Date
May 24, 2017 08:30 - May 26, 2017 14:45
Location
Ottawa
Details
Website: http://www.dpi-canada.com/professional-development-week-pdw-0
Theme: Innovation Awakens – Collaboration, Partnership & Agility
Hashtag: #PDW2017
Each year, DPI holds its annual 3-day Professional Development Week (PDW), a premier training event for IM/IT professionals. PDW is attended by approximately 1,000 delegates ranging from technical analysts and policy makers to senior managers who all share a common goal: self-development.
Delegates attend PDW for its effective mix of technology and management sessions where they can gain insight into the business, technology and people sides of IM and IT. PDW provides insight into current technology and management trends, public sector IM and IT directions and tools and methods to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex environment. All this coupled with excellent networking opportunities, and superb social and dinner events. We are confident that PDW is the best value for your training dollar and we strongly encourage employees to make this part of their annual training plans and for managers to endorse their participation.
Building on 2016’s theme of Open 24-7 and the demand to deliver quickly and deliver often, 2017’s theme will focus on the changing role of the IM/IT professional working in the GC. Where we once worked on projects specific to our portfolios, we are now encouraged to put emphasis on building partnerships in support of working hand in hand with business partners, policy makers and solution delivery experts to develop streamlined, user centric solutions.
As the public sector focuses on a commitment to be more open and transparent, and moves to “digital by default” and “open data” models as ways of interacting with, and providing information and services to citizens, the need for innovation, strong partnerships and collaboration is crucial. We are consulting more with Canadians, and this forces us to be agile and adapt to better align with government priorities – whether it be internal IT systems to support operational efficiencies, or those directly used by Canadians.
We must consider the big picture and find ways to consolidate common or related data, services and tools such as: storage, systems, capacity, data, and availability. The solutions we develop must be built and implemented on a foundation that is both flexible and stable to meet the challenges of today and the future.
We need to be able to measure our performance, track how good we’re doing and adjust where we need to change. To do this, we need to establish concrete performance indicators and benchmarks, collect data and analyze and translate that data to tweak and adjust our processes, services and tools, for the better.
Success will depend greatly on our ability to manage change in culture. We must promote and facilitate communication, collaboration and engagement beyond our organizations. We need to reach out across the public sector and to the IM/IT communities at large. We must support learning and development to strengthen our capacities, and more importantly, we need to foster and allow space for innovation.
Public servants know that there are always ways to improve ourselves and innovation is part of discovering ways of doing things better. Join us as we explore culture change and the opportunities that transformation presents for the IM/IT community when Innovation Awakens at PDW 2017!
