Colab and AISP will host two convenings--an executive forum and staff workshops--bring together agency leaders, staff, and academic partners to discuss challenges and opportunities related to the strategic use of data for decision-making. This agenda for the events is being designed by national experts from an academic institution in partnership with state staff. The event will include: Presentations from national experts and peer states Best practices from research Facilitated sessions with State of Minnesota agency leaders to address shared data challenges The goal of the event is to help agency leaders and staff move from identifying barriers to concrete steps to improve data use and evidence-based policy making.
