Executive Cohort

Agentic Artificial Intelligence promises great efficiency and tremendous cost reductions across the public sector. It also threatens the job loss at all levels of civil service. See More.

Public sector leaders are facing a perfect storm. Growing populations, stagnant workforces, global instability, and increasing pressure to improve services without raising taxes. Yet, many governments continue to rely on operating models built for a different era. See More.

AI is increasingly being positioned as a necessary response to the pressures facing the public sector. But AI is not another technology domain. It is an organizational capability that depends on data, governance, architecture and service design working together. See More.

Mike Tyson famously said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." In this interactive, turn-based simulation, FWD50 Co-chairs Alistair Croll and Hillary Hartley lead executives on a planning exercise where budget decisions made early on impact how government departments respond to unfolding events. See More.

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As governments move from experimentation to operational use of AI, executive accountability can no longer stop at technology, procurement, or compliance. Leaders must understand how AI systems interact with fiduciary responsibilities, public trust, equity, inclusion, administrative justice, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and constitutional principles. See More.

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This session focuses on the human and organizational side of AI adoption. Rather than approaching AI primarily as a technology challenge, we will explore it as a challenge of leadership, decision-making, team coordination, workforce capability, and organizational adaptation and learning. See More.

Julie Leese laid the groundwork for change and modernization at Transport Canada; in this conversation we'll learn how she set the stage for the department, what other leaders can do, and how to separate the veneer of solutionism from the real work of solving hard problems. See More.

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