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'''Director General, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
 
'''Director General, Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service''' <br>
 
Erica Vezeau is the acting Director General of the Canada School of Public Service’s Digital Academy. She joined this team in March 2021 to support its mandate to help public servants gain the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to succeed in the digital age. She has over 15 years of previous private- and public-sector experience in program administration, service delivery, and strategic planning with a special interest in digitally focused projects to modernize business processes and improve government services.
 
Erica Vezeau is the acting Director General of the Canada School of Public Service’s Digital Academy. She joined this team in March 2021 to support its mandate to help public servants gain the knowledge, skills, and mindsets they need to succeed in the digital age. She has over 15 years of previous private- and public-sector experience in program administration, service delivery, and strategic planning with a special interest in digitally focused projects to modernize business processes and improve government services.
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=== Hillary Hartley ===
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'''Chief Digital and Data Officer and Deputy Minister, Digital Strategy, Ontario Public Service''' <br>
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Hillary Hartley is Ontario’s Chief Digital and Data Officer and became Deputy Minister of
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Digital Strategy within Cabinet Office in June 2022. As CDDO, she is responsible for the
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administration of the Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act to deliver better, more easily
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accessible services to the people, communities, and businesses of Ontario. <br><br>
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Hillary was previously the head of the Ontario Digital Service, joining the province in
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April 2017 as Deputy Minister Responsible for Digital Government. She also served as
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Deputy Minister of Consumer Services, which included the government’s retail services
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operation (ServiceOntario), and programs focused on consumer protection. <br><br>
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Prior to coming to Ontario, Hillary was the Deputy Executive Director of 18F, a digital
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services agency in the U.S. federal government, and was a Presidential Innovation
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Fellow in 2013. She has worked with governments across jurisdictions for twenty-five
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years, serving as a director at NIC Inc., an organization that helps governments deliver
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programs and services online.
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=== Manu Singh ===
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'''Director, Partner Services and Strategy Division, Public Affairs Branch, Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)''' <br>
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Manu Singh (pronouns: he/him) has been part of the government’s digital delivery sphere for over 20 years and has learned much while at Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and all GC departments and agencies while a policy chief at TBS. <br><br>
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In his latest role as Director of the Partner Services and Strategy Division in the Public Affairs Branch at CRA, his nationwide team leads multidisciplinary experts in design and production that respond to the web, intranet and print needs from an agency of 55,000 people, ensuring user needs are put first. <br><br>
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His academic background, like his career, is a diverse makeup of studies in computer science, biology, and psychology. <br><br>
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Manu striving to include the best and brightest minds, each bringing diverse lived experiences into decision-making and program design tables. Diversity and inclusion aren't just nice-to-haves in the service space, they are a must to deliver better public services. <br><br>
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At his core, Manu’s passion lies in collaborating with people to deliver amazing results for people.
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=== Stephen Burt ===
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'''Chief Data Officer, Treasury Board Secretariat''' <br>
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In March 2022, Stephen Burt was appointed Chief Data Officer for the Government of Canada, at the Treasury Board Secretariat. His mandate is to provide leadership across government on  information and data governance and integration, privacy modernization, and data-enabled  digital services and programs.  <br><br>
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Prior to this appointment, Mr. Burt was the functional authority for data governance and  analytics capability for the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces  (DND/CAF). He drove the analytics adoption and maturity throughout DND/CAF, and led the  department-wide initiative to establish analytics and data governance. <br><br>
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Mr. Burt began his career in the Government of Canada in 1997 with Revenue Canada. In 1999,  he joined DND, where he worked in a variety of policy, operational and defence intelligence roles,  including two years as Executive Assistant to the Deputy Minister.  <br><br>
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Mr. Burt moved to the Privy Council Office (PCO) in 2007 to work in the Security and Intelligence  Secretariat as Senior Advisor on National Security. In that role, he was secretary for the  committees of the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister. In 2009, he joined the  Intelligence Assessment Secretariat (IAS) at PCO, and held positions as Director for Afghanistan  and, later, for Asia. Mr. Burt was appointed Director of Operations for the IAS in January 2012,  and took on the position of Assistant Secretary on an acting basis in March 2014.  <br><br>
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In April 2015, Mr. Burt assumed the role of Assistant Chief of Defence Intelligence at Canadian  Forces Intelligence Command, where he led the federated production of intelligence within  DND/CAF, and oversaw defence intelligence policy.  <br><br>
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Mr. Burt has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Ottawa, as well as a  Master’s in Public Administration from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
 
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Wendy is a former recipient of the Public Service Award of Excellence for Citizen-focussed Service Delivery and holds a degree in History from the University of Ottawa and a Masters of Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta, and lives with her two sons in Ottawa, Ontario.
 
Wendy is a former recipient of the Public Service Award of Excellence for Citizen-focussed Service Delivery and holds a degree in History from the University of Ottawa and a Masters of Communications and Technology from the University of Alberta, and lives with her two sons in Ottawa, Ontario.
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=== Dafna Carr ===
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'''Associate Deputy Minister, ServiceOntario, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (MPBSD)''' <br>
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Dafna joined the Ontario Public Service (OPS) in 2016 after over 25 years in health care
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leadership roles. In her 6 years in the OPS, she has held three roles in three ministries.
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After two-and-a-half years as CIO for the Ministry of Children, Community and Social
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Services, Dafna took on the Corporate CIO role accountable for Government
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Information Technology Ontario and followed that with her current role as Associate
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Deputy Minister for ServiceOntario. <br><br>
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ServiceOntario is the front door to government, servicing 56M interactions with
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Ontarians and 2.5M interactions with businesses every year. With nearly 300 locations
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across the province, and over 40 services online, ServiceOntario is there for customers
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in person, online and on the phone. As Ontarians’ expectations evolve, Dafna is leading
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ServiceOntario through changes that focus on the customer and employee experience
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and digital service design. Innovations such as 24/7 online access to 90+ business
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registry transactions, digital reminders, appointment booking, new community-driven
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partnerships and more, ServiceOntario continues to make it faster, simpler and easier
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for customers to access government services. <br><br>
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Dafna is a change and transformation leader, bringing value-based leadership to each
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role she takes on.<br><br>
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Dafna has a strong focus on building positive workplace culture and more recently led
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the GovTechON Anti-Black Racism Action Plan — an action plan co-created by staff
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and leadership to help uncover opportunities and bring forward ideas to enable the
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values and commitment to diversity and inclusion. <br><br>
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Throughout her public sector career, Dafna has held positions at Health Quality Ontario,
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Cancer Care Ontario, University Health Network and Gamma-Dynacare Laboratories. In
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these organizations, she led a series of large-scale transformation projects enabled by
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technology and business intelligence, in areas such as cancer screening and cancer
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care, access to care, wait times, patient safety and laboratory operations. <br><br>
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Dafna holds a Master’s in Business Administration from York University and has
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completed Leadership programs at the University of Toronto and Ivey at Western
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University.
 
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