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
Pushing Limits – Inspire, Engage, Act
May 23, 24 and 25, 2012
Ottawa Convention Centre (OCC)
This year’s theme is about challenging people to examine how to continually deliver quality products and services to Canadians by “pushing [the] limits” of traditional IM and IT. It speaks to pushing us beyond ourselves in a positive way by engaging others, defying personal limitations, expanding our knowledge and expertise, and inspiring others to work in innovative ways.
It speaks to our ability to use new or existing technology in innovative ways such as social networks, mobility, cloud computing and virtualization; and collaborating horizontally across departments or agencies to achieve exceptional solutions and results.
The theme also speaks to personal achievement through creating communities, team building, developing virtual teams and collaboration across branches, departments and even jurisdictions. Pushing limits means turning challenging times into opportunities to be more efficient and innovative as we continuously strive to improve how we deliver quality services to our clients.
In an environment where strong fiscal management will continue to be a priority, this theme is timely and pertinent as employees now need to push beyond their perceived limits as we all need to raise the bar on what we think is possible. A renewed sense of inspiration, engagement and action is critical to our success in building a more effective and efficient public service. The chosen theme will permit DPI to develop a focused program that will continue to inspire our members’ on both a personal and professional level.
