These are the areas and concrete topics that Siim has hands-on practical leadership and work experience from – things he is able to advise in and give a talk about:
General areas:
- Leadership for digital change: how to lead digital transformation in organisations and at whole-of-government level
- Digital government strategy / national digital agenda at-large: vision, strategy contents, the planning process itself
- Roadmaps for effective delivery digital government strategy / service reforms
- Digital service reforms: making services seamless and invisible
- Governance for digital government / public sector IT, including effective coordination mechanisms
- Central digital government teams and institutional roles (e.g. GCIO office, digital agency or similar): their mandate, levers, services, set-up, management practices
- Public sector innovation: processes, instruments, ways of working
- National / public sector AI strategy and policy
- National cybersecurity strategy and policy: both substance and planning process
- National cybersecurity governance and coordination
Concrete topics:
- e-Residency programs
- Experimentation in public sector: how to make it a systematic practice
- Future of digital public services / user experience with government
- Proactive and predictive services
- Life-event / integrated services, their development and management
- Virtual assistant program / vision for government
- Public sector AI uptake: how to build AI-powered governments
- Emerging technology uptake in government: how to kickstart & scale
- Financing of digital government: different ways and lessons
- Public sector digital competences and development, including for top leaders
- Regulation as enabler for digital reforms
- Once only policy and regulation
- Data sharing and reuse across government, the governance and platforms for it (including how X-Road works)
- Digital ID and signatures set-up and national roll-out
- Effective management of privacy risks to enable digital reforms
- Architectural governance for digital government
- Shared service reforms for standard IT services (consolidation)
- Cloud policy and strategy for public sector: lessons learned
- Open innovation in government
- Effective public and private sector collaboration for digital government
- Government-as-a-Platform in practice
- Cross-border services development: how to do it, really
- Cross-border data sharing and free movement of data in EU
- Digital health strategy and platforms
- Start-up policy and ecosystem creation
- International marketing and branding for public sector innovation and digital government programs
- Managing cyber crisis and information security incidents: C-level and government-level view and practice