"What are we doing today Brain? Taking over the world like we always do."
A couple of weeks ago I had a whirlwind trip to Canada, France and back again, in 6 days! I spoke at the FWD50 conference in Ottawa, Canada, which is an optimistic and inspiring event focused on the next 50 days, weeks and years of society, with a special focus on transforming our public sectors for the … Continue reading “Lessons from Canada and France: FWD50 2018 and SIIViM”
TL;DR: An overview of my insights from FWD50 2022, including the talk I gave, and the responses to the questions submitted to my talk 🙂 In short, it was awesome! Apologies for the long post! Every year I attend (or participate in) FWD50, a Canadian conference that I consider the world’s best government transformation event. … Continue reading “Takeaways from FWD50 2022”
I recently finished my last day working for Service Canada, and I wanted to capture and share the journey and accomplishments, as well as a few thanks to the excellent people I have had the pleasure and privilege to work with over the last couple of years. But let’s start at the beginning! Every year … Continue reading “Goodbye Service Canada, and thank you for everything”
I recently went to Ottawa for the FWD50 conference run by Rebecca and Alistair Croll. It was my first time in Canada, and it combined a number of my favourite things. I was at an incredible conference with a visionary and enthusiastic crowd, made up of government (international, Federal, Provincial and Municipal), technologists, civil society, … Continue reading “My Canadian adventure exploring FWD50”
I was invited to an incredible and inaugural conference in Canada called FWD50 which was looking at the next 50 days, months and years for society. It had a digital government flavour to it but had participants and content from various international, national and sub-national governments, civil society, academia, industry and advocacy groups. The diversity of voices … Continue reading “FWD50 Keynote: The Tipping Point”
In designing an ambitious Government as a Platform approach, we need to consider what sort of future we want to have. This is an ambitious and optimistic future state story about regulation in the digital age which was used for FWD50 2021 to explore Gov as a Platform frameworks. Such stories provide a light on … Continue reading “GaaP for future state digital regulation”
Today I’m delighted to announce the next big adventure for my little family and I. For my part, I will be joining the inspirational, aspirational and world leading Service Canada to help drive the Benefits Delivery Modernization program with Benoit Long, Tammy Belanger and their wonderful team, in collaboration with our wonderful colleagues across the … Continue reading “Where next: Spring starts when a heartbeat’s pounding…”