Beyond the Bureaucracy: Delivering a Secure and Citizen-Centric Future for NSW
Wednesday, 12 August | 8.30am - 12:00 pm
Lobby, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont NSW
Executive Summary
NSW Innovation Week 2026 will lay out the blueprint for government operations along with the policy, the governance, the procurement, and the culture required to navigate the AI era.
The Opportunity Ahead: As public servants, your ultimate stakeholder isn’t the process - it’s the citizen. While the industry debates internal operating models and technology, citizens are left wondering when government services will catch up? They want simple, fast, secure, and accessible support.
Introducing Google’s Perspective on Gov 3.0 - how departments can fundamentally change the way citizens, employees and students engage with government systems in an intuitive, secure and efficient way.
With over 10+ years as a leader in AI innovation, Google Cloud has a perspective on how the Government can innovate without replacing your architecture. In this exclusive roundtable event, the conversation is shifting focus from backend changes to prioritising frontend impact for citizens and government employees.
In this 3-hour roundtable and workshop discussion, Google and Government leaders will showcase how you can securely break down departmental silos, build absolute trust with skills and governance frameworks, and deliver proactive, intuitive Gov 3.0 services that put the citizen and government employee experience first.
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The Why: The Citizen Lens
- Welcome & Context Setting: PSN Innovation weeks has spurred lots of debate and interest, now we must refocus on how to build a department ecosystem that supports citizen’s expectations and what they expect to see from a modern-day government.
- Panel Discussion: Reimagining the Citizen Experience: Focus on the friction citizens still face. What does an "intuitive" government look like in the world of a citizen?
The How: Google Innovation and Solutioning
- Interactive Deep Dives: Google will showcase ideas on how a NSW citizen or government employee can have a Gov 3.0 experience through Google-powered public infrastructure.
- Demo 1: The Intuitive Front Door: Demonstrate how Gemini can support the Citizen Experience showcasing a variety of examples of how this technology can enhance and streamline the citizen and employee experience within government ecosystems.
- Demo 2: Invisible Integration: Learn how Google data solutions safely connect a citizen's data across separate departments, teams and agencies in real-time.
- Demo 3: The Orchestration Layer: By providing Government Staff with an intuitive operational layer to service agents, access information across your ecosystem and support through frontier capabilities - Gemini Enterprise is the ultimate brain behind the complex and messy architecture which exists across Government today.
The Guardrails: Building Employee Skills, Security & Trust
- Co-Design Skills and Security for your organisation: This session focuses on building unshakable trust and new skills within departments to prepare for the future of AI. Learn about how Google approaches the adoption lifecycle of AI tools, what’s important about governance and who needs to be involved in these people-centric decisions.
- Closing & Next Steps
Speaker panel
Hear directly from NSW Government leaders and Google innovators who are actively reshaping citizen services. Drawing on frontline experience in service delivery, digital transformation and AI innovation, the panel will discuss how NSW can simplify interactions, build public trust and create seamless, secure experiences that put citizens at the centre of government.
Amith Shetty
NSW Ministry of Health
FGI Fellow
Future Government Institute
Ilro Lee
Building Commission NSW
NSW Department of Customer Service
FGI Fellow
Future Government Institute
Natalie Piucco
Robert Sibo
Becky Tyler
Benjamin Thurgood

Nerissa Penfold
AI Adoption and Transformation Lead, Google
Event Partner
