Digital Leadership Day Western Australia

Settle in, grab a coffee, and meet a few friendly faces before we begin.

A short welcome, plus a few quick tips to help you connect, share, and get real value from the day. We’ll also run a couple of quick polls to see what everyone’s interested in and what people are working on right now.

A short briefing from the Chair to get everyone aligned, comfortable, and ready for a great day of ideas and connection.

As geopolitical and economic conditions remain volatile—and technology and community expectations continue to accelerate—public sector leaders are being asked to deliver stable, trusted services while also driving digital change. This panel explores the leadership mindsets and practical approaches that help executives navigate complexity, strengthen capability, and guide high‑performing teams—balancing innovation, risk, and long‑term public value.

• Navigating rapid technological change while ensuring stability of critical government services
• Embracing uncertainty as a constant: shifting from control to adaptability in leadership mindsets
• Building resilient teams that can respond, recover, and thrive amid change
• Balancing short-term pressures with long-term strategic priorities and public value outcomes
• Strengthening cross-agency collaboration to address interconnected challenges effectively

It's time to grab a coffee - connect, recharge and explore our exhibition floor before the next discussions begin!

• How we can collaborate better as leaders to achieve the aims of the digital strategy
• How to influence outcomes through working groups and cabinet processes
• Building capability through our graduate program and strategic technology advisers
• The benefits of moving towards more consolidated and centralised operations

Our interactive roundtables give you space to swap notes with peers. Hosted by government and industry leaders, they blend lived experience with practical insights. Bring your biggest challenges, wins, and lessons, and leave with ideas you can apply straight away.

Grab lunch, have a wander, and chat with industry partners and peers about practical ideas you can take back to work. Arguably the most important part of the day!

• Evaluating digital and AI investments through a public value lens: Moving beyond traditional ROI to include service outcomes, risk reduction, equity, and trust
• Building compelling, future-proof business cases: How to quantify benefits, manage uncertainty, and make the case for iterative, platform-based, and AI-enabled initiatives
• Partnering across strategy, tech, and delivery: Strengthening collaboration between finance, digital, and operational leaders to ensure alignment, accountability, and adaptive funding models
• The importance of embedding lifecycle costs, reviews, and maturity models into business cases so solutions remain relevant, scalable, and avoid becoming “cul-de-sacs"

AI is changing how work gets done — but leading through this shift is as much about people as it is about technology. As public sector teams learn to work alongside AI tools, leaders are being asked to create clarity, confidence, and a sense of purpose amid rapid change. This session unpacks what it takes to build digitally mature organisations — where roles, accountability, and learning keep pace with innovation.

• Moving beyond legacy mindsets to build a curious, adaptive workforce
• Preparing for the “Agent Era”: helping teams work with AI, not against it
• Leadership for digital maturity — clarifying roles, decisions, and ownership in a tech-driven world
• Balancing automation with purpose: redefining roles and responsibilities
• Building digital and AI fluency across all levels of leadership to make risk understood, not avoided
• Growing and retaining digital capability within the public sector workforce

We’ll pull out highlights from the day, share what’s coming next, and point you to ways to stay connected.