2022 Workshop on the Modernisation of Official Statistics

22-23 November 2022, Geneva, Switzerland

Side Events (more info will follow):

Tuesday 22 November

09:00 09:30	Room open Start of the Workshop	. Documents: .
09:30	Opening and Welcome. Stéphane Dufour (Statistics Canada, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board) and Jennifer Banim (CSO Ireland, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board), Lidia Bratanova (UNECE) and Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE),
10:00	Where to go next: revamping and updating the modernisation framework	Presentation
10:30	Input Privacy-Preservation Techniques Project phase 2. Dennis Ramondt (Statistics Netherlands and UNECE Project Manager) Q&A	Presentation
10:50	Break
11:10	Meta Academy for the Modernisation of Official Statistics. Kate Burnett-Isaacs (Statistics Canada and Project Manager) and Eric Anvar (OECD and Project Manager) Q&A	Presentation
11:30	Data Governance for Interoperability Framework (DAFI). Juan Muñoz (INEGI, Mexico and Project Manager) Q&A	Presentation
11:50	Proposal 1: Project extension for Data Governance Framework for Data Interoperability (DAFI). Juan Muñoz (INEGI, Mexico and Project Manager) Questions for clarification	Presentation Project Proposal
	Proposal 2: Project Proposals for ModernStats Carpentries (phase 2 Meta Academy). Kate Burnett-Isaacs (Statistics Canada) and Eric Anvar (OECD) Questions for clarification	Presentation Project Proposal
	Proposal 3: Robotic Process Automation in Official Statistics. Zoltán Vereczkei (Statistics Hungary) Questions for clarification	Presentation Project Proposal
	Proposal 4: Cloud Usage for Official Statistics. Francesca Kay (CSO Ireland) Questions for clarification	Presentation Project Proposal
	Proposal 5: Linking and Querying Statistical Classifications through the Semantic Web Standards. Christine Laaboudi (Eurostat) Questions for clarification	Presentation Project Proposal
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Soapbox and Pitch talk session (Maximum 5 minutes). CSO’s planned test of using a non-probability survey. Frankie Kay (CSO Ireland) Smart Metadata & COSMOS Conference on Smart Metadata for Official Statistics. Franck Cotton (Insee) Open Source Transformation in NSOs & uRos2022. Kate Burnett-Isaacs (Statistics Canada) ML-Ops. Jacob Engdahl (Statistics Sweden)	Presentation (Frankie) Presentation (Franck) Presentation (Kate) Presentation (Jacob)
14:30	Small Group discussion on Project Proposals (selecting and scoping)	Groupings
15:00	Break
15:20	Reporting Back and voting
15:35	Plenary discussion 2022 project(s)
16:00	Summary and Conclusions. Stéphane Dufour (Statistics Canada, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board) and Jennifer Banim (CSO Ireland, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board)
16:15	Closing Day 1

Wednesday 23 November

09:00 09:30	Room opens for testing and connecting Start of the Workshop
09:30	Opening and Welcome. Stéphane Dufour (Statistics Canada, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board) and Jennifer Banim (CSO Ireland, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board)
09:40	Outcome Expert Meetings/Workshops. Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE) and Daniel Kilchmann (Swiss Federal Statistical Office) Discussion: How to further integrate expert meetings	Presentation Presentation SDE
10:10	A brief history of ModernStats. Taeke Gjaltema (UNECE)	Presentation
10:25	Machine Learning Group 2022. Alison Baily (ONS) Future of ML Group ML Group 2022 wiki Q&A	Presentation
10:55	Break
11:15	Blue Skies Thinking Network: HLG-MOS Proposals through BSTN for 2022. Barteld Braaksma, chair (Statistics Netherlands) Outputs 2022 Q&A	Presentation Activity proposals for 2023: Open Source Transformation Knowledge Sharing Digital Twins Non-probabilistic surveys
11:45	Supporting Standards. Zoltán Vereczkei, chair (Statistics Hungary) Outputs from 2022: GSBPM Task Core Ontology for Official Statistics (COOS; under public review) ModernStats World Workshop 2022 Q&A	Presentation Activity proposals for 2023: GSBPM and GAMSO revision GSBPM-SDMX-DDI (continuation) GSIM revision (continuation) COOS v2
12:15	Lunch Break	Group Photo
14:00	Capabilities and Communication. Anna Borowska (Statistics Poland) and Maria Hurley (CSO Ireland) co-chairs Outputs 2022: Brand and reputation management (wiki \| publication) Future of Work Toolkits (wiki \| document) Job of the future report Reaching youth report Ethics management, leadership and performance Q&A	Presentation Activity proposals 2023: The job of the future Data analytics Ethics Communication
14:30	Applying Data Science and Modern Methods. Wai Kit (Jackie) Si Tou (UNECE), Joni Karanka (ONS), Claire Clarke (ABS) and Mohammed Haddou (Statistics Canada) 2022 Achievments/Outputs Q&A	Presentation Activity proposals 2023: Modeling Data editing Responsible AI
15:00	Break
15:20	Alignment groups with updated vision
15:50	Conclusions and way forward. Stéphane Dufour (Statistics Canada, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board) and Jennifer Banim (CSO Ireland, co-chair HLG-MOS Executive Board)
16:15	Closing Workshop