Live Webinar

From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Exploring Productivity and Technology in the Public Sector

Thursday, June 12th 2025 • 1:00 PM EDT • Cost: Complimentary

90% of public servants believe digital transformation has wider benefits than just productivity.

About the webinar

SAS partnered with Economist Impact to survey the public sector’s executive, senior and frontline managers worldwide about productivity and digital technology.

In this webinar, we’ll explore the findings of a report by Economist Impact - Reimagining the future of public sector productivity - with questions such as:

Are employee and citizen satisfaction the best indicators of productivity?
What barriers to productivity are identified by executive and frontline leadership and what can they share to bridge the gap in their perceived obstacles to productivity?
How can civil servants mitigate the impacts if administrative change is inevitable in government? How does digital technology affect an agency’s resiliency?
Which area do leaders see as the most significant potential for digital technologies to improve their organization’s productivity and what steps do successful organizations take?
What issue did public sector leaders overwhelmingly indicate as the most significant impediment to technology adoption and what are the practical approaches to addressing it?

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About the experts

Washington Bila Cox de Jesus (a.k.a. Bila)

CTO, AI Product Strategist, Public Sector Innovation

Experienced technology leader with over 24 years delivering advanced analytics and AI solutions across finance and government agencies. Former Head of Financial Risk Managment at PSD Team in SAS Brazil and currently CTO at Vert and where I lead the development of scalable AI products and innovative projects for public sector transformation in Brazil.

Expertise: AI Development and Product Management · Business Consultant· SAS Solutions· Public Sector Challenges

Education: MIT Sloan School of Management (Exec. Program, 2024) · Ibmec (MBA in Finance) · Fundação Dom Cabral (Executive Program) · UNIP (Information Technology Graduate)

Jennifer Robinson

Global Strategic Advisor, Public Sector, SAS

While working to help governments maximize the use of their data through data integration, data management and analytics, Robinson’s career in software development is complemented by the opportunity to serve as a local elected leader for the last 25 years. Robinson co-wrote the book A Practical Guide to Analytics for Government and is featured in the book Smart Cities, Smart Future. In addition to writing articles and blogs about data-driven governing, she speaks with government leaders about emerging technologies and how to adopt them strategically.

Dave Rama

Income and Associate Partner in Technology & Transformation → Engineering, AI & Data, Government and Public Services, Deloitte Canada

Mr. Rama is a dynamic and people focused Senior Leader with over 28 years of experience in delivering complex enterprise scale solutions specializing in data centered applications and AI. He is based in the National Capital Region and is focused on the Public and Health sectors. Dave provides leadership and expertise in delivering large programs delivering mission critical systems for large Federal departments. He thrives in complex multi-stakeholder environments where smart prioritization and decision making leads to positive results. In addition to his broad understanding of technical systems, he has deep experience with data integration, data migration, reporting and analytics, data architecture and modeling and developing programs to bring forward valuable information from an organization’s data holdings. He also is well versed in cloud based Agile software delivery, AI product management, Information Management, Data Governance and Data Architecture.

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