About the event:

The Executive Education Program in Digital Transformation equips senior EU public servants and elected officials with the confidence and expertise they need to lead the successful digital transformation of public services to better meet the needs of their citizens.

The program is delivered over five weeks, consisting of three live interactive sessions and on-demand content you can fit around your schedule. Throughout the program, in addition to live panels and Q&A, Sessions will be interactive, and attendees will have plenty of opportunities for networking. Live interactive sessions include working where you will apply your learning, like using design thinking, in transforming a digital service.

After successful completion, attendees will receive a certificate of participation.

By attending the Executive Education in Government Transformation program you will be enrolled in the AWS Institute Network. The AWS Institute Network is a peer-to-peer professional community for senior public sector leaders to convene around common challenges and best practices in a trusted space.


 

Agenda

Module 1 - Why – Big Trends / Paradigm Shifts / Competing Values


9:00-9:15 AM (CEST)

Welcome

Sven Van Kerckhoven, Professor of Business and Economics and Research in European Economic Governance and Vice Dean for Education, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

9:15-10:15 AM (CEST)

Keynote and Q&A: Resilience and Responsive Government “reactive”

Liam Maxwell, Director Government Transformation, AWS

10:15-10:30 AM (CEST)

Break

10:30-11:30 AM (CEST)

Panel: Digital Transformation in Europe

Panellists
Dr. Nibal Idlebi
, Chief of Innovation, UN-ESCWA
Arpine Korekyan, Governance and Public Administration Officer, Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government, UN DESA
Barbara Ubaldi, Head of Digital government and Data unit, OECD
Moe Ba, Ecosystem Builder, International Telecommunication Union
Dr. Ahmed Aly Shaban, Senior Consultant on Digital Transformation, UAE Prime Ministers office

Moderator:
Munira Aminova, Assistant Professor Business and Economics, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussels); Consultant at International Telecommunication Union

11:30-11:45 AM (CEST)

Closing

Sven Van Kerckhoven, Professor of Business and Economics and Research in European Economic Governance and Vice Dean for Education, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Module 2 - How – Impact on Democracy / Citizen Interactions


9:00-9:15 AM (CEST)

Welcome

Trisha Meyer, Director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Principal Investigator, European Digital Media Observatory for Belgium and Luxembourg (EDMO BELUX)

9:15 -10:15 AM (CEST)

Interactive Session: Desgin Thinking

Alex Holmes, EMEA Advisor Government Transformation Team, AWS

10:30-11:30 AM (CEST)

Panel: Designing Digital Public Spaces

Panelists:
Maria Koomen, Lead, Open Governance Network for Europe
Gianluca Misuraca, Senior Research Associate, Department of Design, Politecnico Milano
Tom Moylan, Political Communications Specialist, European Commission; Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Moderator:
Gianluca Sgueo, Associate Fellow and Adjunst Professor, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Research Assistant, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra; Cabinet of the Italian Ministry of Technological Innovation and Digital Transition

11:30-11:45 AM (CEST)

Closing

Trisha Meyer, Director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Principal Investigator, European Digital Media Observatory for Belgium and Luxembourg (EDMO BELUX)


Module 3 -  What’s Next – Impact on Organisation / Internal Processes


9:00-9:15 AM (CEST)

Welcome

Jamal Shahin, Programme Director Advanced Master in European Integration, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam; Professorial Fellow, United Nations University-CRIS

09:15-10:15 AM (CEST)

Keynote & Q&A: Rethinking Data Policies in View of Open Science: Essential Building Blocks for a Global Data Commons

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and chief Research and Development Officer, The GovLab, NYU
Jean-Claude Burgelman, Professor of Open Science Policies and Practices, Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Faculty of Social Science and Solvay Business School); Ex-Open Access Envoy and Head of Unit Open Science at DG RTD, European Commission

10:15-10:30 AM (CEST)

Break

10:30-11:30 AM (CEST)

Demo: Open Government Solutions and Performance Dashboard and Startups

Caroline Mulligan, Sr. Manager Government Services, AWS

11:30-11:45 AM (CEST)

Closing

Jamal Shahin, Programme Director Advanced Master in European Integration, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam; Professorial Fellow, United Nations University-CRIS

On-Demand

Masterclass 1: How the 4th Industrial Revolution has changed everyone’s business

Prof Mark Thompson, Digital Economy in INDEX, Board Member of TechUK, and Strategy Director of Methods, Exeter University

Masterclass 2: How can you adapt government for the Internet era

Prof Mark Thompson, Digital Economy in INDEX, Board Member of TechUK, and Strategy Director of Methods, Exeter University

Masterclass 3: Cloud First and transformation

Liam Maxwell, Director Government Transformation, AWS

Masterclass 4: Intro to situational awareness and Wardley Mapping

Simon Wardley, Former CEO, former advisory board member of start-ups, a fellow of Open Europe, inventor of Wardley Mapping, researcher for the Leading Edge Forum

Masterclass 5: Design thinking and working backwards form your users

Sarah Richards, Content Design

Masterclass 6: What digital culture looks and feel like

Prof Alan Brown, Professor in Digital Economy, Exeter Business School, University of Exeter UK

Masterclass 7: Digital delivery and ways of working

Prof Brian Gannon, Associate lecturer, Birkbeck University of London

Masterclass 8: Turning it all into reality – getting started with your transformation

Liam Maxwell, Director Government Transformation, AWS, UK’s Government’s first CTO

Alex Holmes, EMA Advisor Government Transformation Team, AWS

Specialist talk 1: Security and data sovereignty

Andrew Hodges, Senior Security Advisor, AWS

Specialist talk 2: Data classification

Arturo Cabanas, AWS Security, AWS

Specialist talk 3: Artificial intelligence and Machine learning

Neil Mackin, Principal TechBD AI/ML, AWS

Specialist talk 4: Procurement

David DeBrandt, Global Capture, AWS

Specialist talk 5: Tackling your technology legacy

Christine Halvorsen, Senior Technical Business Development Manager, AWS

Specialist talk 6: Open data and open source

Matt Assay, Cloud and open source executive, AWS

Digital Government in the Next Generation EU

Gianluca Sgueo, Associate Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Research Associate, Centre for Social Studies of University of Coimbra

(Digital) Sovereignty 2.0

Jamal Shahin, Programme Director Advanced Master in European Integration, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Senior Lecturer, University of Amsterdam; Professorial Fellow, United Nations University-CRIS

EU Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Mihalis Kritikos, Associate Fellow, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Principal Digital Adviser to MEP Eva Kali, Chair of the Future of Science and Technology Panel in the European Parliament (STOA) and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI)

Evolving Digital Communication and Public Trust

Jonas Lefevere, Assistant Professor in Political Communication, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

The EU, Social Media, and Disinformation

Trisha Meyer, Director of the Research Centre for Digitalisation, Democracy and Innovation, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Principal Investigator, European Digital Media Observatory for Belgium and Luxembourg (EDMO BELUX)

Digital European Identity

Sean O'Dubghaill, Social and Cultural Anthropologist and Adjunst Professor, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Nurturing a Digital Innovation Ecosystem to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Munira Aminova, Assistant Professor Business and Economics, Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussels), Consultant at International Telecommunication Union



Summary:

21 Sep - 05 Oct  - 19 Oct
9am - 12pm (CEST)


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