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
Working together differently - collaboration, innovation, results!
May 18, 19 and 20, 2011
Hampton Inn and Conference Centre
This year’s theme expands on the 2010 theme of “Changing the Game” as it speaks to the need to work together in different ways; to anticipate and manage change; to innovate and be creative in order to address the challenges of reduced financial resources and, at the same time, continuously provide quality services to our clients.
PDW 2011 will explore how we can continue to deliver quality products and services to Canadians while taking a more pragmatic approach on outcomes management by working “differently” and using diverse technologies to our advantage. It will be about the ability to use new and existing technology in innovative ways such as social networks, mobility, cloud computing and virtualization; and collaborating horizontally across departments or agencies or levels of government to achieve exceptional solutions and results.
Working together differently - collaboration, innovation, results!, also speaks to personal achievement through creating communities, team building, developing virtual teams and collaboration across branches, departments and even jurisdictions. It addresses the need to work horizontally, collaborating across the “silos” that exist in all organizations to achieve the best solutions. Working differently means examining our HR practices and requirements with a view to building agile organizations that are flexible and adaptable and which support innovation to help us continuously improve how we deliver IM/IT services to the business lines that we support and enable.
In exploring and expanding on the theme, the focus of the sessions during PDW will be divided into three streams: People, Business and Technology. The importance of all three of these streams, and the inter-relationships between them, will be explored throughout PDW 2011.
