Public Service Transformation Week 2025: Fringe Events 4-27 November

Creative Boardroom - Collaborate 4 Climate Exhibition
National College of Art and Design (NCAD)
Exhibition runs on site in the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport, New Road, Killarney, Co Kerry, V93 A49X from 4-14 November 2025
Date: 4-14 November
Time: 9.30am – 4pm daily
Creative Boardroom: Collaborate4Climate is an urgent call to action in the face of one of the most pressing challenges of our time: climate change. In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, this exhibition serves as a platform for exploring how collective action can drive meaningful change.

Funded through Creative Ireland’s Climate Action programme, it is a pioneering all-island collaboration between The Institute of Directors Ireland, The Institute of Directors Northern Ireland, Forvis Mazars and Creative Futures Academy that brought together chartered directors, students, artists, designers, entrepreneurs and innovators with the shared ambition to create actionable solutions for our planet.
This exhibition shares the journey of this inter-generational, all island group, their understanding of the climate challenge and positive actions that can be taken to change the temperature within the boardroom. It is being made available to businesses and organisations to reshape behaviours and attitudes so that participants feel empowered to promote change within their direct spheres of influence, and beyond their immediate authority, both as leaders and community collaborators.
For more information please see: https://creativefuturesacademy.ie/partnerproject/creative-boardroom-collaborate4climate/

Cross-Justice Sector Hackathon
Hosted by Courts Service and Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Date: Friday 7 November 2025
Time: 10.00-16.00
Location: The Hackathon will take place in the Green Street boardroom.

The Hackathon will explore how cross-departmental collaboration can solve complex challenges and further embed the Better Public Services approach.

The challenges chosen for the Hackathon are:

1. How do we improved the current process of traffic fines that require court attendance but lack enforcement, creating backlog without behavioural impact?
2. How do we simplify how Civil Restraining Orders work?
   This event is open to all civil servants.

Academic teaching session HSE Date: Wednesday 5 November 2025 Time: 1pm Location: Newcastle Mental Health Hospital, Wicklow Academic teaching session introducing Spark Connect, Design Thinking and our funding calls. Aiming to Spark innovation in Mental Health!
Event open to Newcastle Mental Health Hospital staff.

Design Labs: Civic
National College of Art and Design (NCAD)
Harry Clarke Building, 100 Thomas Street, Dublin 8
Date: 18 November
Time: 1.30pm – 6pm
Join us on the 18th November for the launch of NCAD DesignLab: Civic, a new interdisciplinary hub within NCAD DesignLabs. Launched in association with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (DPER), DesignLab: Civic will be a national driver for applied design research in public service transformation.
Event details: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-ncad-designlabs-civic-tickets-1865434437619?aff=oddtdtcreator

DEY – Our AI Journey
Department of Education and Youth
Date: 21 November
Time: 11am – 11.30am
The presentation will provide an overview of the Departments Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) journey to date. It will highlight early pilots and proof of concepts, and outline progress in establishing guardrails to responsibly enable AI within existing and future systems.

The session will also outline ongoing work to embed AI requirements into future tenders. A short Slido survey will be included to gather participants’ views on which AI capabilities should be prioritised for assessment and potential adoption in 2026.
Internal event only.

National Dialogue on Climate Action’s (NDCA) Climate Policy Forum
Department of Climate, Energy and Environment
Date: 6 November 2025
Location: In-person Time: 1.30pm – 5pm
We will present the barriers identified by citizens to taking six specific climate beneficial actions, including: the adoption of electric vehicles, solar panels, retrofitting, reducing the number of flights taken, using public transport and adopting a more plant-based diet. The research was undertaken by IPSOS on a representative sample of people in Ireland, and provides groundbreaking insights as we segment them into five distinct groups for a deeper understanding of climate actions at the citizen level. We will show the climate actions that people believe have the most impact in reducing their carbon emissions and uncover the actions that citizens believe they have already undertaken, those they plan to take and those they don’t plan to take. These behavioural insights can add an extra dimension to your policy-making inputs and the presentations will be followed by a facilitated, round-table discussion to explore the challenges of policy development, the relevance of engagement with citizens and the role of programmes like the National Dialogue in bringing these behavioural insights to policy makers on a more regular basis. Event booking details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ndca-climate-policy-forum-tickets-1813843517789?aff=oddtdtcreator

Innovation in Apprenticeships: How the Public Service is unlocking the power of Apprenticeship
Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation
Date: 27 November 2025 - webinar
Time: 10am
Join us for a dynamic webinar showcasing how public service organisations are pioneering innovative apprenticeship programmes to meet evolving skills needs and build future-ready talent pipelines. Designed for employers, HR professionals, and education providers, this session offers practical insights into: - Aligning apprenticeships with workforce and skills strategies - Building impactful programmes through employer-educator collaboration - Navigating the changing landscape of skills development in the Civil and Public Service - Discover how meaningful apprenticeships can transform recruitment, retention, and career progression - empowering the workforce of tomorrow. Event booking details: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b905bfd5-9048-4a49-b5b5-1e191025c6a0@cffd37b1-d416-411b-938d-3d3a61c6be29