About PDW
Each year, DPI holds its annual 3-day Professional Development Week (PDW), a premier training event for IM/IT professionals. PDW is attended by approximately 1,000 delegates ranging from technical analysts and policy makers to senior managers who all share a common goal: self-development.
Delegates attend PDW for its effective mix of technology and management sessions where they can gain insight into the business, technology and people sides of IM and IT. PDW provides insight into current technology and management trends, public sector IM and IT directions and tools and methods to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex environment. All this coupled with excellent networking opportunities, and superb social and dinner events. We are confident that PDW is the best value for your training dollar and we strongly encourage employees to make this part of their annual training plans and for managers to endorse their participation.
PDW Focus
The theme for PDW 2010 is The Race is on! … Changing the Game! It is intended to focus on achieving personal bests and developing team work, leadership and innovation skills. It will allow the public sector IM/IT community to expand on and learn from current trends and issues while planning for the future. Today's public sector IM/IT professionals are faced with growing demands to improve and diversify their skill sets to meet multiple business and organizational challenges. These include accountability and leadership challenges where clients and citizens are communicating in open forums using social networking tools to collaborate and build communities of interest.
Our theme, The Race is on! … Changing the Game!, is about empowerment, leadership, innovation, training and striving to reach one’s personal best. It is about helping others through coaching and mentoring while ensuring efficient knowledge transfer and the sharing of lessons learned. It is about taking a step back and redefining strategies and game plans; about having a vision and the ability to demonstrate strength and support to change the game. It is about you, your team and your community. It is about redefining, repositioning, reprioritizing and analyzing challenges and projects in light of the current environment of social collaboration, technological changes and economic uncertainties. It is about going for gold!
While exploring the theme, the focus of the sessions during PDW will be divided into three streams: People, Business and Technology. The important relationship of all three of these streams will be explored throughout the week.
