Opening Plenary: Setting the Scene

9h30 – 10h45

CC12 

What is the role of public sector innovation for public administrations today? What potential benefits can it provide, what challenges do governments face in unlocking this, and how can the OECD’s Observatory of Public Sector Innovation provide support?

Policy makers from Canada and France will open the conference with introductory remarks on the role of innovation to transform their administrations and enable better outcomes for society. A senior government official will share their direct and personal experience of encouraging and achieving innovation in the public administration.

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation’s online platform will also be introduced, including a demonstration of its features.

Welcome remarks:

• Mari Kiviniemi, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

Keynote addresses:

• Mr. Christian Bason, Chief Executive of the Danish Design Centre (DDC), Denmark

• M. Henri Verdier, Directeur, Administrateur général des données, ETALAB, Secrétariat Général à la Modernisation de l’Action Publique, France 

Remarks from the Chair of the OECD Public Governance Committee : 

• Joe Wild, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Treaties and Aboriginal Government, AANDC, Canada