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Lunchtime forum - Transforming Government through Digital Public Infrastructure

Mon, 2nd December 2024, 12-1pm, G.02 & G.03, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, 15 Stout Street Wellington 6011 - and onlineFrom GOVIS, in partnership with AWS & SilverstripeWhat is the strategic opportunity to transform the New Zealand government through Digital Public Infrastructure?Welcome to the final GOVIS event of 2024!We will be hearing from Pete Herlihy about Digital Public Infrastructure. Pete works as a Principal Product Manager with AWS. While based in New Zeal...

Wellington Test Meetup - Digital Accessibility

Tue, 26th November 2024, 12-1:15pm, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, 15 Stout Street Wellington 6011 - and onlineFrom GOVIS, in partnership with TTC GlobalWhy is Digital Accessibility important, and how are public sector agencies approaching accessibility testing?This was our final Wellington Test Professionals Meetup for 2024. We took a look at Digital Accessibility, and heard presentations from the Health and Disability Commissioner, and the Department of Conservation.Resourc...

Information Management Forum - 14 November 2024

Thu, 14th November 2024, 2:45 - 4:30pm, Datacom Office, L12, 55 Featherston Street - and onlineFrom GOVIS, in partnership with Datacom and AvepointAt this event we came together for drinks and nibbles, and to hear from knowledgeable voices in the Information Management space. Following their successful IM Forum launch, Datacom have joined forces with GOVIS to bring together professionals from across the public service. We want to connect with our community and share what we have all been learnin...

Lunchtime Forum: Unlocking your Cloud Treasure

Tue, 12th September 2024, 12-1pm, OnlineWe were privileged to have Devon Stewart-Meadows - Manager of Cloud Services at OSS Group and is the go-to person for enabling public organisations to effectively adopt, govern and modernise cloud capabilities.The lunchtime forum focused on Cloud FinOps and shed light on navigating the intricate Cloud FinOps landscape, where financial efficiency and operational governance meets public cloud capabilities.Exploring cost optimisation strategies, operational b...

GOVIS AGM

Mon, 23rd September 2024, 5pm-7pm, Parlor room - Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, WellingtonCome and join GOVIS for our annual AGM!Join us from 5pm for drinks and nibbles, and to hear about the year we've had. We had a fantastic conference in August, as well as multiple successful lunchtime forums, and meet-ups spanning multiple different professions within our public service.As with every year, the most important aspect of this event is getting together wi...

Navigating your career with SFIA

Tue, 9th July 2024, 12 - 1pm, MBIE Head Office, 15 Stout Street, WellingtonIt's that time of year again, where we review the past 12 months and set our skills development objectives for the year to come. And spare a thought for those among us who are now of uncertain employment, and will be trying to communicate skills and experiences to potential employers...There are a huge range of complicated job titles in the digital world, and they are constantly changing. At best, this makes it difficult ...

GOVIS Test Professionals Meetup: Data Privacy and Security in Test Data Management

Thursday 11th July 2024, Ministry of Social Development, 55 The Terrace, WellingtonFor many organisations, test data management is the Achillies Heel of Data Privacy and Security. Testing often requires the use of production-like data to validate not just functionality, but also that the functionality will work with the data as it exists in the production systems (clean and unclean data). Anecdotally though, many test environments don’t have that same level of data control that produ...

GOVIS Test Meetup

Tue, 27th February 2024, 4:30pm - 6:30pm, Ministry of Social Development, 55 The Terrace, WellingtonWellington Government Test Community meets again – with some interesting results.It has been a while between meetups for the Wellington Government Software Testing community. But that does not mean that it has stood still during that timeframe. In fact – there has been quite a lot developing away in the Wellington Government Software Testing community.Our local Wellington testing com...

GOVIS AGM

Thu, 7th September 2023, 5pm-7pm, Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, WellingtonCome and join GOVIS for our annual AGM!We welcome you to the GOVIS AGM to hear an update of our past year and provide the opportunity to new members and officers to stand for election to the GOVIS Committee.We had an awesome Conference held in June & you can check out the collateral over here.If you’ve enjoyed GOVIS in the past and would like to get involved in delivering amazing events, the GOVIS ma...

Conference 2023

GOVIS 2023 Digital ResilienceFriday 16 June 2023Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, WellingtonEarly bird registration is now open - you can register online here. This conference will look at how we can build digital public sector resilience in a global period of change and uncertainty. In just the last three years this country has faced many challenges - including major floods exacerbated by climate change, high inflation, a pandemic, reduced social cohesion, geopolitical tensions, supply c...

GOVIS AGM 2022

Wed, 12th October 2022, 5pm-7pm, Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington Come and join GOVIS for our annual AGM!We welcome you to the GOVIS AGM to hear an update of our past year and provide the opportunity to new members and officers to stand for election to the GOVIS Committee. Over the last year we have delivered more events online or utilising an online/in-person hybrid approach. We plan to continue to evolve in person and digital experiences to support connecting, sharing ...

Conference 2022

 Digital Diversity, Collaboration, Inclusion Friday 28 October, 2022 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Early bird registration is now open - you can register here online. Key dates for GOVIS 2022 Sponsorship opens June 2022 Call for Presentations opens 27 June 2022 Early bird registration opens mid-July 2022 Call for Presentations closes 25 July 2022 Presenters confirmed August 2022 Programme released August 2022 Early bird registration closes Early October 2022 For mo...

Refreshing the Strategy for a Digital Public Service

Tues, 24th May 2022, 12-1pm, ONLINECome along to a Discovery workshop & help contribute to a new action plan for the Stategy for a Digital Public Service (SDPS).View the slide deck here. What should the refreshed Strategy for a Digital Public Service look like? On 24 May, the Digital Public Service branch (DIA) is running a Discovery workshop with GOVIS as part of the work to refresh the action plan for the Strategy for a Digital Public Service (SDPS).The Digital Public Service br...

GOVIS Christmas Drinks and Nibbles at Hudson

Wed, 15th December, 2021, 4:30-7:30pm, Hudson, 56 Victoria St, Te Aro, WellingtonCome and join GOVIS for an end-of-year celebration at Hudson! Bring a friend, meet some new people and enjoy a drink on GOVIS! Lets take this chance to swap stories about the year past and to share what we would like from GOVIS in 2022.Note: Unfortunately due to the Covid Traffic Light system in place, the venue's requirement is that ONLY those who are fully vaccinated & have a valid vaccine passport would...

Exploring digital skills needed for a digitally transformed public service

Fri, 29th October 2021, 11:30am-1pm, ONLINEWhat skills do we need to digitally transform Aotearoa's public service?This GOVIS Lunchtime Forum will include a diverse panel discussion on what skills are needed in a modern, digitally enabled public service, including skills needed for user-centric service delivery, for policy innovation, for modern IT and architecture, plus a little about digital skills for social and cultural inclusion inclusion. Our esteemed panel will have 8 mins each as a tease...

Documenting New Zealand’s experience of COVID-19

Tues, 31st August 2021, 12pm-1pm, ONLINEWhat has Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand been doing to preserve this country's experience of COVID-19?This time GOVIS takes a look at the work of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand to record and archive the videos and photographs, emails, websites, blogs, diaries and letters, memes, tweets and artworks that reflect the individual, family, community, and organisational experiences of COVID-19 in Aot...

Applying the new Public Service Act in practice - the follow up

Back on August 5th we had a great panel talking about the opportunities presented by the Public Service Act 2020. We also got our audience to contribute ideas and commitments... so what's our take-home from it all? The four presenters provided compelling and thought provoking ideas and stories to the forum. A huge thank you to our panelists! This was reflected in the excellent contributions from participants in the workshop. Below is a brief overview some of the feedback contributed from the wor...

GOVIS AGM 2021

Tues, 7th September 2021, 5pm-5:45pm, ONLINEWe welcome you to the GOVIS AGM to hear an update of our past year and provide the opportunity to new members and officers to stand for election to the GOVIS Committee. Over the last year we have delivered more events online or utilising an online/in-person hybrid approach. We plan to continue to evolve in person and digital experiences to support connecting, sharing and learning across government.If you’ve enjoyed GOVIS in the past and would like to...

Renewal is everyone's job: Applying the new Public Service Act in practice

Thurs, 5th August 2021, 12-1:15pm, Meeting rooms G.01, G.02 and ONLINE, MBIE head office, 15 Stout Street, Wellington The new Public Service Act (2020) provides a powerful lever for systemic change, but a lever is only effective when you use it. At the end of the day, the Act is what you make of it, what we all make of it. If we “wait for it to be implemented”, then we are, at best, missing an opportunity. How can we take this moment and make it count? The lever is there, let’s see ho...

GOVIS Lunchtime Forum - Reflecting on COVID-19 # 3 - Digital Public Service

Wed, 21st July 2021, 12:30-1:30pm, ONLINE #3 in a series of forums reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 on government information and technology.The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most significant events to affect New Zealand in recent history. All of us have been affected in some way.This forum looks at how COVID-19 has impacted the way the public service works, in both Canada and NZ. Julie Watson from the Digital Public Service Unit at DIA will talk about what happened in NZ. Pia Andrew...

GOVIS Lunchtime Forum - Reflecting on COVID-19 #2 - The Covid Tracer App

Wed, 16th June 2021, 12:30-1:30pm, Meeting rooms G.01 and ONLINE, MBIE Head Office, 15 Stout St, Wellington #2 in a series of forums reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 on government information and technology.The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most significant events to affect New Zealand in recent history. All of us have been affected in some way.This forum looks at the Ministry of Health's Covid Tracer App. Merrin Macleod and Patrick Hindmarsh from the team involved with developi...

GOVIS Lunchtime Forum - Reflecting on COVID-19 - Data System Impacts

Fri, 28th May 2021, 12:30-1:30pm, Meeting rooms G.02 and ONLINE, MBIE Head Office, 15 Stout St, Wellington#1 in a series of forums reflecting on the impact of COVID-19 on government information and technology.The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most significant events to affect New Zealand in recent history. All of us have been affected in some way.  This forum looks at how COVID-19 impacted the New Zealand government data system. What have we learned from the COVID-19 experience...

GOVIS Lunchtime Forum - The Official Information Act in context

Fri, 26th March 2021, 12-1:30pm, Meeting rooms G.02 and G.03, MBIE Head Office, 15 Stout St, Wellington This forum presentation will offer a brief history of New Zealand citizens’ rights to information. The Official Information Act turns 40 next year, so it’s been an ever-present companion to public servants’ working lives. But what’s the history behind rights to information, what can New Zealand learn from other countries’ experience, and what’s the future of this key part of our go...

GOVIS Lunchtime Forum (VIRTUAL) - Flexible Working

Mon, March 1, 2021, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, MS Teams What does flexible working mean for public service culture, systems, and technology? How have different agencies made this shift? Demand for flexible working has been building for decades. But over the past year COVID-19 has given that long-term trend a huge boost. Many public sector agencies have now moved to ‘flexible-by-default’ arrangements. What does flexible working mean for public service culture, systems, and technology? How have dif...

End of Year Celebration - December 2nd 2020

Come and join GOVIS for an End-of-Year celebration at Hudson! Bring a friend, meet some new people, and enjoy a drink on GOVIS! Let's take this chance to swap stories about the year past and share what we would like from GOVIS in 2021. For catering purposes, please RSVP by Friday (November 27th). Numbers are limited to 40 people (with preference to GOVIS member agencies) - so be sure to register here on Eventbrite. Location: Hudson, 56 Victoria St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011 Date & Time: December 2...