schedule

=**Past Event**=

**Schedule for GovCamp Australia, September 2011**
__**GOVCAMP AUSTRALIA (ACT) September 2011**__ Please find the draft schedule below. We will update the talk slots for the themed rooms and the lightening talks on the day, so please make sure you register your talk when you arrive on September 10th.

(Main Lecture Room)
 * 1000 ||||||= Registration and talk submissions put up on whiteboard ||
 * 1030 ||||||= ====GovCamp welcome and guest speakers====

(Room 3 - board room on level 2) ||= Open Data (Room 2 - open area on level 2) ||= Online Public Engagement (Room 1 - main lecture room on ground level) || @ozloop || Moving from data to information Peter Scarth @landsatdog || Managing Brisbane floods with social media - Anne Howard || @chieftech || Opening Public Safety information @anthonybaxter || Small steps towards culture change @rdllt || projects @davidjeade || Open data - relationship management || IT Journalists - friends or foe || @thoughtpod || data.gov.au @lisa_cornish || Online engagement & diplomacy || WTF is the question? @sherro58 || TERN - collating and delivering ecosystem data across Australia Peter Scarth @landsatdog || ACT Government & Open Gov/social media Michael Chiswick || the business case for Citizen-Centric Services. Opportunity to discuss case studies and useful implementation support or other needs. ||= Special session to look at specific project as case study. //Mapping the Value and Progress// //of Open PSI by Gov// (Main Lecture Room) ||= Group discussion about My Region: opportunity to discuss case studies and useful implementation support or other needs. || (Main Lecture Room) || (Main Lecture Room) ||
 * Open Data:** Andrew Woolf | Head of Climate & Water IT Architecture Section, Bureau of Meteorology
 * Citizen-Centric Services**: Stephen Collins | Online Communications Manager, Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence
 * Online Public Engagement:** John Sheridan | First Assistant Secretary, Agency Services, Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). ||
 * ||= Citizen-Centric Services
 * 1150 || APS Culture application
 * 1210 || What do citizens want?
 * 1230 ||||||= Lunch ||
 * 1330 || The QLD Gov 2.0 community &
 * 1350 || Meanwhile, elsewhere
 * 1410 || Is Twitter the answer and if so
 * 1430 ||= Group discussion about
 * Valuing PSI**
 * OAIC**
 * 1530 ||||||= Lightening Talks. 1) Karen purser on local gov and social media
 * 1600 ||||||= GovCamp Close
 * 1630 ||||||= Optional meetup at the Rydges next door to continue discussions and procure drinks/dinner. ||

Invited Speaker Biographies
Andrew Woolf returned to Australia in February after a decade in the UK, to manage the Bureau of Meteorology's Climate & Water IT Architecture section. While abroad he contributed to a number of European data sharing initiatives. He co-developed technical rules for the pan-European 'INSPIRE' environmental information infrastructure (Directive 2007/2/EC); he contributed to the Europen Space Agency's multi-mission data accessibility program; and he worked on convergence of three global-scale Earth observing initiatives (GEOSS, GMES, and INSPIRE). In the UK, Andrew was involved in the government's data transparency agenda, contributing to Cabinet Office guidelines on URI sets for location, and managing linked-data pilot projects (including high-profile 'Climategate' data). He has also contributed to numerous international standards activities on geospatial interoperability. In his current role, Andrew is keen to position BoM as a proactive early adopter in the rollout of linked-data within Australian government.
 * Open Data**

Stephen Collins. In building open government services, we often focus on work that delivers fantastic value to the public; whether that's open data, consultation and collaboration, listening to our communities or engaging with them on a more personal level. But what comes before that? Often missed in the heady mix of open government is the opportunity for the public sector to engage with itself. Agencies across the public sector, and across levels of government can realise real benefits when taking the open government model and applying it to working together. It may well be the case that for some, this approach is the most appropriate and most beneficial way of approaching open government. Stephen Collins will discuss his recent work dealing with opening lines of communication and sharing between multiple federal agencies, with international stakeholders and with the UN, illustrating the benefits this has realised for his work.
 * Citizen-Centric Services**

John Sheridan joined the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in 1999 after 22 years in the Australian Army. In late 2000, he became the Senior Executive Assistant to the Chief Defence Scientist. John served as Defence’s lead IT architect from 2002 until 2007. From then until 2008, he was the acting Head of Information Systems Division, responsible for the design and development of Defence’s IT systems, leading over 500 staff and a project portfolio in excess of $100m. In August 2008, John was seconded to the Australian Government Information Management Office to negotiate the Microsoft Volume Sourcing Agreement, valued at over $250m and providing services for over 230,000 staff. He was then promoted to be Division Manager of Business Improvement Division, responsible for addressing ICT business as usual budget reductions across government. In this position, he successfully led the effort to save $1 billion in ICT expenditure over 2009-2013. From July 2009, John became the First Assistant Secretary Agency Services. His division’s responsibilities include whole of government matters such as australia.gov.au, Government 2.0, data centre strategy, coordinated procurement, improvements in the ICT industry marketplace, and telecommunications services including ICON, the Ministerial communications and telepresence networks. He is a graduate of the Officer Cadet School, Portsea and the Army Command and Staff College. He has a BA(Hons) degree and a Graduate Diploma of Computing Studies from Deakin University, a Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, and a Master of Defence Studies from the University of New South Wales.
 * Public Engagement**

Cancelled talk

Allison Hornery | Co-Founder of CivicTEC - //Allison had to cancel at the last moment.// Allison is a digital evangelist for the connected public sphere, sitting in the ‘white space’ between the public interest and enterprise, between local and global. She is a director of the newly-formed Cofluence social studio and a co-founder of CivicTEC. For over 15 years Allison has been part of a number of major public governance knowledge facilitation programs at local, state, national and international levels, and she remains committed to the development of connected public sphere leadership that is structurally and strategically linked to communities networked for change. You can find Allison at @allisonhornery or horneryetc.net.
 * Opening Talk**