Understanding – and boosting – digital resilience
Boosting digital resilience is vital to building a robust public sector. Digital resilience means learning to recognise and manage risks, building more robust and secure systems, and understanding how to measure the resilience throughout the supply chain.
Priorities for digital resilience are the need to understand the threats and weak points in their system; know how to seek help if they face problems; learn how to adopt their choices to become more resilient; and recover when things go wrong.
Government leaders around the world are focusing increasingly focused on how they can build public sector digital resilience to build more robust public services. As well as facing cyber security threats and risks, many legacy systems are not secure, and governments are increasingly aware of the need to build resilience at scale. This session will look at how government can boost digital resilience by examining how they are identifying the key elements of digital resilience; how they are developing plans to boost digital resilience; and sharing best practice between international peers on what works in both public and private sectors.
Public servants can register here for free to attend this webinar
Time
USA/Canada Eastern Time (EST): 10:00 – 11:15
Panel
Olga Bakonyi, Head, Digital Technology Services, Government Services Integration Cluster, Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement, Ontario Public Service
Olga Bakonyi is a senior technology executive and Head of Digital Technology Services at GovTechON within the Government of Ontario, known for translating complex digital challenges into clear, enterprise-scale strategies. She drives operational excellence through secure innovation and modernization, with a strong focus on advancing enterprise resilience.
Olga leads digital transformation with an emphasis on readiness, responsible technology adoption, and the effective use of emerging capabilities, including AI. Her work advances ethical and compliant practices across AI governance, cybersecurity, and evolving policy landscapes.
Recognized for her calm, decisive leadership, Olga builds high-performing teams, fosters trusted partnerships, and enables scalable, people-centered services designed to perform under pressure. As a speaker, Olga brings a practical, strategic perspective on resilience, transformation at scale, and the leadership required to navigate continuous disruption.
Michael Goit, Executive Director & Chief Architect, Digital Credentials, Canadian Digital Service
Michael Goit is the acting Executing Director and Chief Architect for Digital Credentials at the Canadian Digital Service. With 25 years of experience in public service information technology he specializes in technology innovation and identity management. Michael has been instrumental in the procurement of a Customer Identity Access Management (CIAM) SaaS for the Government of Canada, and in the successful application of trust frameworks to integrate identity provider services to the Government of Canada. He is a recognized voice at digital credentials forums around the country and is passionate about improving usability and security of identity management systems. Michael holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Ottawa and is a recipient of the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal.
Jason Solomon, Former Chief of Digital Innovation, Statistics Canada
Originally an Infantry leader, Jason is a technology maverick with over 25 years of experience in digital transformation and new technology adoption. He has been an early pioneer since 2014 in the adoption of AI technologies in both the private and public sector, helping launch Japan’s top-ranked AI startups by bridging business strategy, architecture and execution.
In the public sector, Jason revolutionized federal capabilities by introducing specialized AI hardware/software and AI platform engineering concepts in addition to developing some of the first frameworks/governance and evaluation procedures for AI technology acceptance and validation. His most recent work focused on implementing sustainable enterprise generative AI services through production-ready solutions and upskilling over 1,000 employees across all domains. Previously he has held enterprise roles as Manager of Transformation, Integration & Data Science (founder); Manager of Data Science and Data Engineering IT Services (founder); Chief Data Science Solution Architecture (founder); and Chief of Digital Innovation. This year, he enters stealth mode to focus on a new chapter in agentic technologies.
Webinar chair: Siobhan Benita, Moderator, Global Government Forum
Siobhan was a senior civil servant in the UK with more than 15 years’ Whitehall experience. She worked in many of major delivery departments, including Transport, Environment, Health and Local Government. She also had senior roles at the heart of government in the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury, including supporting the then Cabinet Secretary, Lord O’Donnell, to lead work on civil service reform and strategy. Siobhan left to run as an independent candidate in the Mayor of London election. She subsequently joined her alma mater, Warwick University, as Chief Strategy Officer of Warwick in London and Co-Director of the Warwick Policy Lab
