Pre Conference Workshop: Monday, 29th July 2019
WORKSHOP A
9:00 am - 11:00 am Your Roadmap to Managing and Embracing Outside Data Sources
This session will explore strategies to open up data for value and innovation, in a way that helps stakeholders. This workshop will discuss how to correctly collect data, store data, clean out existing data, integrate outside data sources into your own data and ultimately put together a roadmap for data management. Not only this but you will understand the value of sorting out your data and all the different people it can help, including how to best give people access to this data.
Learning Objectives:
- Determine where your data is coming from, the quality of it, and how to improve and control it
- Discuss infrastructural needs and supporting systems that you might not have in place
- Create a roadmap for your data management
Outcomes:
- Understand all the different moving parts and connectivity of changes to ensure that your roadmap is successful
- Discover common roadblocks that will be experienced in the transformation and how to overcome them
- Understand how to share your data and help your stakeholders who need your data
WORKSHOP B
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Creating a Plan for Protection Against Breaches to Reduce Open Data Risk
This workshop will discuss how you can change the culture of your organisation, even in the most traditional of governments. Opening up data can bring fear into people, whether it’s looking at productivity levels or trying to open doors for customer data to be used. This session examines how you can get your workplace comfortable with the change and begin to build capability of people to manage the change.
Learning Objectives:
- Creating a framework to manage mindset shifts and cultural changes in a comfortable manner
- Producing governance and how to enforce policy through the use of data, as well as encourage safe sharing
- Developing training programs to up skill and build capability and data literacy of your people
Outcomes:
- Understanding different attitudes and the fear that employees might be facing with the prospect of using data
- Determining how to communicate and educate effectively to the specific culture of your people
- Discussing different approaches and understanding how to approach each change and team
