About the Event & Programme

The Forum

The LegisTech Forum – 3rd Edition was one of the most relevant conferences around the globe to discuss the legislative modernisation and digital transformation in Parliaments and Subnational Legislatures.
It served the purpose of instigating the discussion of relevant topics, as well as sharing the accomplishments of the legislative institutions in their modernisation efforts, and freely sharing them with other Parliaments and Subnational Legislatures.
The main path for the promotion of legislative modernisation and digital transformation is cooperation and collaboration, allowing the free flow of technical expertise between the institutions.
 

The Audience

The audience of the conference was composed of integrants from legislatures that were able to deep dive into projects related to institutional modernisation and digital transformation in the legislative.

Conference details

The conference, which had simultaneous interpretation for English, Spanish and Portuguese, took place virtually on the 12th and 16th of September, during the international week of democracy.
We reunited colleagues from parliaments from over 40 countries and interparliamentary organizations.
 
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Speakers

Adelino Afonso De Jesus

Parlamento Nacional de Timor-Leste | East-Timor

Alisha Todd

ParlAmericas

Anabella Zavagno

ParlAmericas

Ahto Saks

Chancellery of the Riigikogu of Estonia

Alejandro Muñoz Sandoval

Cámara de Representantes of Colombia

Alison Sousa

Sindilegis

Alvaro Cabrera

Országgyűlés | National Assembly of Hungary

Ari Hershowitz

Xcential Legislative Technologies

Anderson Medeiros

Escola do Parlamento CMSP | Brazil 

Benjamin Opoku Aryeh

Parliamentary Network Africa

Bruno Campelo

Câmara dos Deputados of Brazil

Carlos Mayer Molares de Abril

Assembleia Nacional de Angola

Christopher Henry

House of Commons of Canada

Ciarán Doyle

Oireachtas of Ireland

Cristiano Ferri

Câmara dos Deputados | Brazil

Colm Kealy

Oireachtas of Ireland

Daliane Silverio de Sousa

Senado Federal of Brazil

Daniela Duarte

Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de Minas Gerais | Brazil

Daniel Schuman

Demand Progress

Danilo

Danilo Augusto Barboza de Aguiar

Senado Federal of Brazil

David Wilson

Parliament of New Zealand

Dayan Schutz

Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina | Brazil

Djaka Dwi Winarko

Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat of Indonesia

Fotios Fitsilis

Hellenic Parliament

Fábio Moreira

Assembleia Legislativa de Pernambuco | Brazil

Francisco Edmundo Andrade

Câmara dos Deputados | Brazil

Frieda Arenos

National Democratic Institute

German Tarasewiez

Cámara de Diputados de la Nación of Argentina

Gustavo Dias

Escola do Parlamento CMSP | Brazil

Jacob Odada

Pan-African Parliament

Jeffrey Onganga

Pan-African Parliament

Jesus Covarrubias

Cámara de Diputados of Mexico

João Lima

Senado Federal of Brazil

Jonathan Ruckert

NovaWorks Australia

Jonathan Tobi

De Nationale Assemblée of Suriname

Jorge Lima

Itaú Unibanco

José Carlos Rodrigues da Fonseca

Assembleia Nacional Popular of Guinea-Bissau

José Pedro Montero

Cámara de Senadores of Uruguay/ Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments

Juan Carlos Chavarria Herrera

Asamblea Legislativa of Costa Rica

Juan de Dios Cincunegui

Universidad Austral

Juan Manuel Cheppi

Cámara de Diputados de la Nación of Argentina

Kathy Goldschmidt

Congressional Management Foundation

Kelly Cristina Fiel Souza

Itaú Unibanco

Kirsten Gullickson

U.S. House of Representatives

Leonardo Barbosa

Senado Federal of Brazil

Ludovic Delepine

European Parliament

Luis Fernando Pires Machado

Interlegis | Brazil

Luis Kimaid

Bússola Tech

Luiz Afonso de Melo Peres

Câmara Municipal de Porto Alegre | Brazil

Maria Baron

Directorio Legislativo

Marcelo Herbert

Câmara Legislativa do Distrito Federal | Brazil

Marina Cueto Aparicio

Senado de España | Spain

Mário Sérgio Gurgel

Assembleia Legislativa do Rio Grande do Norte | Brazil

Miguel Angel Gonzalo

Congreso de los Diputados | Spain

Mark Stodder

Xcential Legislative Technologies

Matt Leighninger

National Conference on Citizenship

Michelle Carter

Microsoft

Mohamed Hussain

People’s Majlis of Maldives

Mwaula Solopi

National Assembly of Zambia

Monica Palmirani

Università di Bologna

Natali Casanova-Burkholder

ParlAmericas

Paulo Baccarin

Câmara Municipal de São Paulo

Raúl Guzmán

Senado de la República of Chile

Pavlo Frolov

Verkhovna Rada

Robin Treistman

Knesset of Israel

Rocío Noriega

Congreso Nacional of Chile

Rodolfo Vaz

Câmara dos Deputados of Brazil

Rodrigo Del Nero

Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de São Paulo | Brazil

Ronald Windwaai

Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum

Ruthier Sousa

Câmara dos Deputados of Brazil

Sabrina Vigneux

Xcential Legislative Technologies

Sandra Jimenez

Asamblea Legislativa of Costa Rica

Sandisiwe Schalk

Parliament of South Africa

Sarah Fernn

Bússola Tech

Sari Wilenius

Eduskunta of Finland

Sash Ramsahye-Rakha

National Assembly of Mauritius

Shahin Hasan Hasanov

Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan

Soufiane Ben Moussa

House of Commons of Canada

Stacy Householder

National Conference of State Legislatures

Stephen Dwyer

U.S. House of Representatives

Tahir Farooq

National Assembly of Pakistan

Tung-Lam Dang

Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia

Wade Ballou

U.S. House of Representatives

Walternor Brandão

Câmara dos Deputados of Brazil

William Wong

Legislative Assembly of Ontario | Canada

Programme

|| Hours are shown in Washington, DC GMT 

|| All the activities will have simultaneous translation to English, Spanish and Portuguese 

Day 01 (September, 12th)

07:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Invitees Registration

07:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

What is a digital-ready legislature for the citizens?

09:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of EU Parliament

09:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Migrating Legislative Services to the Cloud

10:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of National Assembly of Hungary

11:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Pan-African Parliament

11:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The legacy of remote voting in the rules of procedure and other regulations that impact the legislative process

11:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Mobile Applications in the Legislative

02:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Innovation Lab of the City Council of São Paulo - Challenges and Objectives

03:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of De Nationale Assemblée of Suriname

03:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Governance of the Digital Transformation in the Legislative

04:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Assembleia Nacional Popular of Guinea-Bissau

04:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Cámara de Diputados de la Nación of Argentina

05:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Integration of Participation Channels in the Legislative Process

Day 02 (September, 13th)

07:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Importance of Parliamentary Diplomacy as a Driver for Legislative Modernisation

07:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Enterprise Architecture for Legislative Modernisation

09:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of Oireachtas of Ireland

09:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the National Assembly of Mauritius

10:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The modernization of document management system in the Senado de España

10:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Milli Majlis of Azerbaijan

11:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Interlegis Program

01:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Accessibility Considerations in a Digital Transformation Strategy in the Legislative

02:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Innovation Labs in the Legislative

03:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Assembleia Legislativa of Rio Grande do Norte of Brazil

03:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Senado of Chile

04:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Legislative Information Management System in the US House of Representatives

04:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the House of Commons of Canada

05:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Legislative Cooperation for Institutional Modernisation

Day 03 (September, 14th)

07:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Parlamento Nacional of East Timor

07:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the People's Majlis of Maldives

08:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Riigikogu of Estonia

08:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Phasing-out legacy systems and how to match old and new technologies

10:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Smart Drafting legislation: Using LegalXML and AI

10:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

How to structure a legislative portal?

11:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of National Assembly of Pakistan

12:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Special Meeting 

Engitec Meeting

01:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Artificial Intelligence Applied to Legislative Activities

02:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the the Câmara Legislativa of Distrito Federal in Brazil

03:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Structuring legal norms in time: the case of normas.leg.br

03:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

How to make Open Parliament Innovations Politically Viable?

04:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate / Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Parliament of New Zealand

04:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Cámara de Representantes of Colombia

05:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

The role of the Private Sector and CSOs in supporting Legislative Modernisation Efforts

Day 04 (September, 15th)

07:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the State Great Hural of Mongolia

07:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate 

Information Architecture - The Standardisation of Legislative Data

09:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the House of Representatives of Indonesia

09:20 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Parliament During a Large Scale War: How to save democracy and representative assembly?

09:40 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the National Assembly of Zambia

10:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Case of the Committee on Access to Public Information of the Congreso de los Diputados of Spain

10:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Legistics, Legimatics And Legismetric

11:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The environment of cooperation between Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures of South Africa

11:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Special Meeting 

ParlAmericas Meeting

01:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Assembleia Legislativa of Pernambuco in Brazil

02:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Modernisation Case of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Canada

03:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

Concept Presentation of the Africa Open Parliament Index

03:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate 

Matching the digital transformation strategy with the rules of procedure

05:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia

06:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Câmara Municipal of Porto Alegre

Day 05 (September, 16th)

07:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Hellenic Parliament

07:20 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of National Assembly of Pakistan

07:40 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Assembleia Nacional of Angola

08:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum

08:30 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

The Management of Digital Legislative Archives

10:00 am

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate 

The Challenges and Priorities for the Modernisation of Legislative Drafting

12:30pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Assembleia Legislativa of Pernambuco in Brazil

01:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Debate

Transitioning Legislative Staff to the Digital

02:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Implementation of Innovation Unit in the Assembleia Legislativa of Santa Catarina in Brazil

03:00 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Digital Transformation Case of the Asamblea Legislativa of Costa Rica

03:30 pm

(Washington, DC Time)

Presentation with Q&A

The Modernisation of the Legislative Committees of the Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de Minas Gerais in Brazil

Strategic Partners

Supporting Legislatures

Partners

Hellenic OCR Team

Rede Governança Brasil