Learning catalogue

This insightful event features Dr. Alasdair Roberts who will examine Canada’s track record on adaptability over the last 40 years. In his role as visiting scholar through the Jocelyne Bourgon Visiting Scholar Initiative, Dr. Roberts will speak about how the Canadian approach to governance has improved adaptability during this period, and how our ability to adapt may be threatened today.

This event is part of a series of new seminars presented in partnership with Mila, a Quebec-based artificial intelligence institute, designed to connect public servants to Canada’s leading AI researchers.

This event will unpack the benefits and risks of ChatGPT, and dig into the opportunities and limits the technology presents, including responsible AI considerations.

This inspiring conversation included valuable perspectives about social media use among adolescents, how early, daily, and online experiences influence their health and development, and how new research can help to inform policies and interventions designed to promote the healthy development in people of all ages.

This practical and informative event will present case studies and a demonstration of how data can be used to design and deliver more effective client-centred services. The examples used support Mission 3 of the Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service, which calls for enabling data driven services.

This event will present strategies and approaches that data users may employ, both in Canada and abroad, to address ethical considerations. Participants will leave with the ability to describe many of the guiding principles for the ethical stewardship and use of data, and a better sense of how to share these best practices with peers.

The third event in the Economic Security in an Era of Global Disruption Series will examine the intersection of the digital economy and digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, and its implications for national security. Speakers will also share their insights on how individuals and organizations are exploiting data and digital technologies for commercial, technological, military and intelligence advantages.

The second event in the Economic Security in an Era of Global Disruption Series will examine the concepts underpinning the global economy and explore how growing competition in key areas is creating new fault lines in the global system of production and challenging the long-standing assumptions related to trade, value and supply chains, and domestic frameworks.

This event will explore how AI can impact our lives, by improving our daily lives with automation and efficiency, but also how it raises substantial moral and ethical questions which can have significant consequences on our society.

This fifth event in the Future of Democracy Series explores the relationship between democracy and the well-being of citizens, including the socioeconomic conditions impacting democracy, and the impact of democracy on well-being.

This final event in the Future of Democracy Series focuses on European democracies and how populist challenger parties have been successful in employing strategies to break established party dominance. Panelists will discuss the use of these strategies to mobilize people around new issues, their impact on immigration and environmental policies, and the tactic of using anti-establishment rhetoric to undermine mainstream party appeal.

This event highlights the importance of Indigenous languages and explores how public servants can support and promote Indigenous languages at work as an act of reconciliation.