Programme

Day 1
29 may
Day 2
30 may
Day 3
31 may
13:30 – 15:30
Guided Tallinn city tour - Group 1
Tallinn’s old town, a UNESCO world heritage site, is considered to be the best-preserved medieval town in Northern Europe. Enjoy a delightful stroll along the romantic cobblestone streets of the old Town with its charming red roofs and medieval towers.
18:00 – 20:00
Guided Tallinn city tour - Group 2
Tallinn’s old town, a UNESCO world heritage site, is considered to be the best-preserved medieval town in Northern Europe. Enjoy a delightful stroll along the romantic cobblestone streets of the old Town with its charming red roofs and medieval towers.
Times TBC
One to one meetings

Pre-organised meetings
Locations: ministries and e-Governance Academy’s office

20:00 – 22:00
Welcome drinks

Location: Bar YANU with fully autonomous A.I. and robot empowered bartending unit. It serves drinks, handles payments, identifies and communicates with clients.

9:00 – 10:00
Registration and Welcome coffee

Conference venue: Tallinn Creative Hub

10:00 – 11:15
Opening Remarks

Kaja Kallas - Prime Minister of Estonia

Hannes Astok – Executive Director, e-Governance Academy     

Keynote and panel discussion

Luukas Kristjan Ilves - Government Chief Information Officer of Estonia

11:15 - 12:00
Coffee break and expo
12:00 – 13:15
Nothing for us without us: Empowering the digitally vulnerable

Given the unprecedented speed of digital developments, they have created a new type of vulnerability that can affect anyone due to war, national catastrophe, or temporary disability. Digital vulnerability is the lack of awareness of digital issues, lack of access to technological benefits, or when digital illiteracy hinders engagement in political decision-making and access to services. Join us to explore:

  • What are the main obstacles to designing processes, services, and policies to address digital vulnerability?
  • What solutions could be used to identify the most vulnerable citizens and design processes, services, and policies to engage and empower them?

 

Margus J. Klaar - Entrepreneur and Service Designer, Brand Manual

Kristina Reinsalu – Programme Director of e-Democracy, e-Governance Academy 

Kristina Mänd – Senior Expert on e-Democracy, e-Governance Academy (moderator) 

12:00 – 13:15
Workshop/parallel session

Enablers of e-Government

Examples of best practices

How Ukrainian citizens use digital documents in their smartphones?

13:15-14:15
Lunch and expo
14:15 -15:30
Keynote and panel discussion Capacity-building as a driver for change

Panel discussion

Digital innovation is about removing outdated processes and building new ones. For this reason, digital transformation is also tightly linked to human resources and needs a capacity-building mindset.

Join us to discuss:

Why do we need to talk about mindset changes and good HR when we want to build capacity on individual and government levels? How can we use learning effectively to empower people?

Petteri Kallio - Director of learning and training, HAUS Mari-Liis Suurpalu - Head of Human Resources at Estonian Information System Authority

Kristi Kivilo - Senior Expert in Smart Governance, e-Governance Academy (moderator)

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14:15 -15:30
Workshop/parallel session

Workshop by ICT Cluster of Estonia

15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break and expo
16:00-16:50
Panel discussion by D4D Hub

Topic TBC

16:00-16:50
Key Conclusions of the Conference Day

Kristina Mänd – Senior Expert on e-Democracy, e-Governance Academy

19:00-22:00
Networking event

Location: Tallinn Cruise Harbour (Tallinna kruiisisadam), Logi 4/2, 10111 Tallinn

9:00 – 9:30
Morning coffee
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote and panel discussions (ministerial level)
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break and expo
11:00 – 12:30
Presentations

Modern application of data in AI projects

Ott Velsberg - Government Chief Data Officer of Estonia
Moderator:

Mark Erlich - Senior Expert on eID and/or Heiko Vainsalu Programme Director of Technology, e-Governance Academy

Data Policy and European Union

Claudia Oliveira - EC Digi

Moderators:
Mark Erlich - Senior Expert on eID and/or Heiko Vainsalu Programme Director of Technology, e-Governance Academy

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Paul Timmers – Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK
Heiko Vainsalu – Programme Director of Technology, e-Governance Academy (moderator)

12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:15
Cybersecurity and the citizen

For a modern digital society, cybersecurity is more than just a technological and organisational challenge. Cybersecurity awareness and skills to manage cyber risks are required for all of society in order to preserve our way of life and continue to benefit from digitalisation both as individuals and as a society. In this session, we’ll explore:

  • How can cybersecurity be mainstreamed into digitalisation as a prerequisite rather than an afterthought? 
  • How can governments improve cybersecurity behaviour across society by better considering humans vis-à-vis technology?

Anna Sarri – Cybersecurity Officer, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

 

Kadri Kaska – Senior Cybersecurity Expert, e-‑Governance Academy (moderator)(moderator)  

13:30 – 14:15
Workshop: Capacity building - what talents do we need for optimization

Kristi Kivilo - Senior Expert on Smart Governance, e-Governance Academy

Piret Saartee - Senior Expert on Smart Governance, e-Governance Academy

Join us for a practical workshop for building a skills network that pushes optimization and innovation. Learn what competences are necessary for any successful optimization projects. For example data management and service design.  
If you want to go deeper, take also part in the digital services workshop. 

14:15 – 15:00
Crisis-proofing the digital society

It is said that the question is not if a cyberattack will happen but when, and that no response plan survives first contact with reality. This session will investigate lessons of cyber crisis preparedness and response. What have the recent crises taught us about the pressing challenges and priorities for national cybersecurity? How can countries’ cybersecurity efforts strengthen societies’ overall cyber resilience and support citizens in crises or emergencies? What plans and commitments have the EU and other partners made, and how do we monitor their progress? What mechanisms can help leverage existing technical cooperation into enhanced political cooperation?

Denisa Kurtagic – Ministry of Defence, Montenegro
Jorge Mora Flores, former Director of Digital Governance at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications, Costa Rica

Merle Maigre – Cybersecurity Programme Director, e-Governance Academy (moderator)

14:15 – 15:00
Workshop: Digital services - constantly developing and improving

Piret Saartee Senior Expert on Smart Governance, e-Governance Academy 
Kristi Kivilo Senior Expert on Smart Governance, e-Governance Academy 

Join us for a practical hands-on workshop for developing and redesigning public services. The workshop examines one real-life digital service. 
At the end of the workshop, you will have practical tools to take home for digital service design, optimization and re-engineering that meets interoperability and security needs.   

15:00 – 15.30
Coffee break and expo
15:30 – 16:15
Keynote and panel discussion

Speaker TBC

Topic TBC

16:15 -16:30
Key Conclusions of the Conference

Hannes Astok – Executive Director, e-Governance Academy   

Kristina Mänd – Senior Expert on e-Democracy, e-Governance Academy