Government Innovation Showcase Queensland 2026

Setting the tone for the priorities and thorniest challenges Digital and CX professionals are facing.

Setting the tone for the priorities and thorniest challenges Tech and Data professionals are facing.

• DETSI’s Innovation Squad – a framework for building challenge-based rapid delivery capability across Qld Government
• Bringing together small cross‑functional government teams to prototype, test and refine solutions, prioritise outcomes, and learn to work in short, agile sprints
• Accelerating innovation inside government: fast learning, low risk, and high impact
• Working side‑by‑side with frontline teams and industry partners to test what’s feasible, what’s valuable, and what can scale

• How key departments are executing their technical and strategic goals in preparation for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games
• The future of transformational customer engagement - demands, priorities and opportunities
• Closing the digital divide - promoting access, affordability and inclusion across the state
• Progressing a continuous and sustainable customer-centric government beyond 2032 - initiatives shaping the future of Queensland service delivery

• Government information as an asset and a risk
• Focusing on the whole ‘information ecosystem’ – why public record keeping, and information governance, access and security operate together rather than in isolation
• Investment in strong information governance as an enabler
• Information as the ‘new gold’ serving as the critical raw material for modern digital government, powering innovation and AI
• Data accuracy and integrity – the requirement for accurate, current and trustworthy information to generate meaningful insights and outputs
• The role of the public sector in maintaining public trust in government through transparency and protection of person information

Joanne Kummrow

Queensland Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner, Queensland

Dr Dan Philip

Acting Director, Procurement AI, Analytics, Strategic Insights and Digital Solutions, Department of Housing and Public Works

Rachel Vagg

Auditor-General, Queensland Audit Office

Rachael Rangihaeata

Director Policy and Assurance, Government Records, Queensland State Archives

• The Torres and Cape footprint across rural and remote communities as the only acute and main primary care provider - learnings from recent digital and human interface innovation successes
• Moving toward single platforms and systems that provide simplicity for clinicians and safety for residents - the hidden factors that either enable or disable success
• Empowering teams to deliver population level health at the front line. In QLD, there are a lot of small communities with complex health needs - what pulls all that together? Are our systems and services easy enough for people to orientate, utilise and have visibility over? Also touching on how this then increases accessibility and citizen engagement

Policing is becoming data-driven, tech-enabled, and risk-exposed simultaneously

QPS operates in a high-stakes, public accountability environment

The CRO and CDO roles are naturally interdependent—but sometimes in tension

• From data to decisions - risk, technology, and public trust
• How does QPS define acceptable risk when deploying new technologies
• Where is the line between digital transformation and operational safety
• Digital transformation in a frontline environment - legacy systems vs modern platforms
• How risk and digital teams collaborate on threat detection and incident response readiness
• How QPS maintains community trust while advancing tech