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GovMesh @ Festival of Innovation 2025

GovMesh is a by-invite-only event that convenes a group of emerging digital governments. It aims to facilitate candid discussions between a group of countries that may not usually meet. The dynamic format will allow countries to be selected based on their specific complementary strengths and weaknesses.

 

Please note that this event is part of Festival of Innovation 2025, to register for the event, click here.

GovMesh's agenda

(GMT+08)
Interweave and GovInsider: Introduction

Speakers:

  1. Thian Si Ying, Senior Reporter, GovInsider
  2. Luke Cavanaugh, Co-Founder and Author, interweave.gov
(GMT+08)
Digital ID and wallet trends

Speaker:

Peter Parycek, Member of The Supervisory Board, DigitalService; Head of Center of Competence Public IT, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

(GMT+08)
Azerbaijan: Driving digital change through cross-government coordination

Speakers:

  1. Kanan Akparov, Director of the DOST Digital Innovations Center, Agency for Sustainable and Operative Social Provision (DOST), Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Population, Azerbaijan
  2. Sabina Huseynova, Advisor to the Director of the DOST Digital Innovations Center, Azerbaijan
(GMT+08)
Bhutan: Building a decentralised, self-sovereign digital ID

Speaker:

Jampel Ngedup, Deputy Chief ICT Officer, GovTech Bhutan

 

(GMT+08)
Japan: Transforming government digital products, services and organisations

Speakers:

  1. Sota Mizushima, Chief Product Officer/ Chief Strategy Officer, Japan Digital Agency
  2. Chikako Masuda, Head of Intelligence Research and International Strategy, Japan Digital Agency
  3. Sara Takamatsu, Associate Policy Researcher, Japan Digital Agency​
(GMT+08)
Lunch & networking
Participants will join main exhibition hall for lunch.
(GMT+08)
Indonesia: Simplifying a complex digital government landscape and enabling access with Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)

Speakers:

  1. Setiaji Setiaji, Senior Advisor to the Minister on Health Technology, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia (pre-recorded video)
  2. Pandu Putra, Special Advisor for Digital Transformation to the Minister, Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform
(GMT+08)
From California to Montenegro: Leading civil service modernisation reforms and digital transformation initiatives

Speaker:

Tamara Srzentić, Former Minister of Public Administration, Digital Transformation and Media, Government of Montenegro 

(GMT+08)
South Korea: The government's generative AI policies and use cases

Speaker:

Yoo Jae-sin, Executive Principal, National Information Society Agency (NIA), South Korea

(GMT+08)
Coffee break
Participants will join main exhibition hall for coffee break.
(GMT+08)
UN DESA: Effective governance and AI transformation

Speaker:

Ana Cristina Thorlund, Governance and Public Administration Expert, United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG), South Korea
(GMT+08)
Roundtable discussion: Emerging tech applications in public services

Moderators:

  1. Cherie Lim-Tseng, Chief Operating Officer, Secur Solutions Group; Editor, The Birthday Collective, Singapore
  2. Lim Hui Nan, Consultant, Empire Eats, Singapore

 

Discussion questions:

  1. What emerging technologies (e.g. AI, blockchain, RPA, etc.) are you thinking of integrating in your government? What use cases are these for?
  2. What are the biggest challenges (technical, bureaucratic, cultural) in doing so?
  3. What's the role of public-private partnerships?
  4. How are you keeping pace with the rapid changes of emerging technologies and balancing "hype" with genuinely impactful use cases?

 

All participants will join the roundtable discussion.

(GMT+08)
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