Agenda
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- 11 -13 November 2025
- Pullman Albert Park
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, social media has become more than just a communication tool. It’s a powerful lever for
shaping public perception, driving citizen engagement, and reinforcing trust in government. To stand out and lead in this space,
government agencies must go beyond posting content; they must deliver targeted, measurable, and impactful strategies rooted in real
data.
This intermediate-level workshop is designed for professionals who understand the basics of social media but want to take their strategy
to the next level. We’ll explore how to move from content planning to performance-led storytelling by leveraging insights, analytics, and
business intelligence. You’ll learn how to use data not just for reporting — but as a compass to refine tactics, shape strategic direction,
and contribute to wider organisational outcomes such as brand trust, community responsiveness, and service uptake.
Participants will gain practical skills to design more resilient, audience-first strategies, ones that build influence, inspire action, and
support long-term goals around brand, transparency, and public value.
Learning outcomes includes:
- Develop a purpose led, insight driven strategy grounded in clear objectives, audience segmentation, and measurable impact aligned
with broader agency goals - Learn to interpret performance data to uncover patterns, inform content direction, and make strategic decisions in real time
- Design content that demonstrates your agency’s impact, services, and values to build brand equity, attract partnerships, and demonstrate accountability
Video content is now the most powerful form of engagement across all social media platforms.For governments, it offers a unique opportunity to tell authentic stories, humanise services, and reach wider audiences in a relatable way. Whether it’s a quick
behind-the-scenes look, an explainer for a new policy, or a citizen spotlight, videos can dramatically boost engagement, trust, and
message retention when done thoughtfully.
This session will dive into why video is critical for social media success and how governments can create compelling content without always needing large budgets or professional production crews. You’ll learn practical techniques for both low-fidelity (lo-fi) and
high-fidelity (hi-fi) video production, so you can flexibly adapt based on resources, timelines, and campaign goals.
By the end of this session, participants will:
• Understand how to plan and create video content that aligns with campaign objectives and audience needs.
• Be equipped to storyboard and structure impactful video narratives that resonate with different community segments.
• Develop practical techniques to capture attention, drive engagement, and deliver key messages through video.
• Learn how to stretch one video idea across multiple platforms and formats to maximize reach and return on effort

Mark Regan
Senior Communication Officers
Government agency – Insurance Commission of Western Australia
- Examining the function of communications in delivering public value and shaping civic trust
- Exploring how social media can move beyond announcements to enable connection, dialogue, and transparency

Kendall Master
Director, Channels and Content
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
- Influencing positive emotions across different generations through balanced selection of meme, considering copyright, ethics, relevance and impact
- Understanding the value and benefits of memes to improve audience engagement

Warren Kagarise
Digital Engagement Manager
King County, United States
- Discussing operational efficiency features such as easy scheduling
- Engaging with immersive
- Comparing the difference in impact between short term campaigns vs. Long term vision
- Pinpointing benchmarks and metrics that reveals success: engagement, click through rate, watch time, follower growth vs vanity metrics
- Highlighting smart practices around post frequency, timing, and the ethics, and effectiveness of recycling content
- Strategising how to build and nurture online communities and engagement

Zhoe Jess
National Strategic Content Media Manager
Bureau of Meteorology

Emma Jankovski
Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser
Wage Inspectorate Victoria

Erin Thomas
Social Media Manager
National Emergency
Management Agency
STREAM
A
CONTENT
Writing content that matters
and engages
- Elaborating different forms of digital accessibility to mindfully integrate into social media content
- Discussing best tools and technology to facilitate inclusive content

Christian Harimanow
Video Supervising Producer
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Highlighting socially and culturally safe strategies to curate
content that authentically reflects the values and voices of vulnerable communities - Integrating internal processes and safety mechanisms
teams can implement to prevent staff burnout - Including strategies to manage risk, respond appropriately to negative feedback, and handle backlash with transparency
and care
Panellist:

Kay Clarke
Senior Social & Digital Media Officer
Queensland Health

Shauna Perss
Communications and Social Media Advisor
City of Melbourne

Megan Sadler
Manager Media Communications and Engagement
Commissioner for Children and Young People WA
- Demonstrating what plain, effective language is and how it increases engagement and accessibility
- Identifying technical elements of plain language to ensure content is inclusive for communities with limited literacy, disabilities or non-native English proficiency
- Applying plain language principles to real posts and increase public trust in your messaging

Shuly Babitz
Digital Engagement Editor
Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Public Affairs, United States
- Equipping greater confidence in balancing creativity and message of content
- Leveraging metrics as a tool to gain executive approval and constructive criticism, and elevate and execute engaging
content
Panellist:

Isabelle Whitington
Media and Social Media Planning Manager
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Andrew Ting
Communication Officer
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Overcoming the disconnection of niche, dry and distant content by harnessing powerful stories from volunteers, veterans and community
- Building on collaborative partnerships to curate fresh content, reach new audiences and amplify shared goals without losing identity and voice

Alix Fiveash
Social Media Manager
Australian National Maritime Museum
- Balancing creativity and bureaucracy to ensure a campaign succeeds
- Connecting a story not a policy by identifying the right person who audiences can connect with
- Crafting engaging content that attracts audience attention through strategic visual elements
- Measuring success to generate insights

Chris Riordan
Creative Services Manager
Department of Education
STREAM
B
INTERNAL PROCESSES
Building a sysytem that works
- Devising processes for content requests, advertising
protocols, content creation and reportin - Gaining buy in from internal teams and increasing understanding of the role of social to ensure best in class output
- Strategising how to get social a seat at the leadership table

Lauren Jordan
Social media manager
NSW Department of Climate Change
Energy, the Environment and Water
- Creating a scalable strategy for a cohesive and connected social media presence across diverse teams and portfolios
- Embedding consistency through enablement to foster highly connected, empowered, and inspired cohort of content creators
- Developing operational frameworks to fuel creativity through
style guides, strategy, and collaboration

Tori Waters
Social Media Manager
Department of Climate Change
Energy the Environment and Water
- Embedding strategic methods to adapt to MoG changes and 10+ shifting portfolios while retaining key message, mission
and audience intact - Equipping robust tools and workflows for greater operational efficiency without losing strategy
- Maintaining healthy work culture and creativity despite
environmental changes

Jordan James
Manager Social and Digital Media
Department of Environment and Science
- Activating senior leaders and industry partners as credible advocates using LinkedIn and coordinated messaging
- Using programmatic targeting and curated content to engage international investors and stakeholders
- Creating compelling digital campaigns that shift perceptions and attract the next generation into the sector

Elliott Franks
Director of Communication
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development
- Identifying technical tips to improve likeability and engagement on Facebook
- Responding effectively to negativity and build trust
- Tuning into your audience and tailoring your message to match their expectations

Emma Jankovski
Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser
Wage Inspectorate Victoria
- Highlighting practical steps, governance considerations, and
organisational shifts needed to embed AI across teams and departments - Discovering how to leverage deep data insights and system
design thinking to fine tune the AI’s impact and responsiveness - Learning how AI improves efficiency, consistency, audience
targeting, and reduces manual workload
This roundtable discussion offers a unique chance to engage with data peers, sharing common challenges and best practices on a topic of your choice. Each of the six roundtables will be co-hosted by a technology expert and a government data leader, ensuring meaningful
and insightful conversations. At the end of the day, facilitators will present a summary of the key findings to the entire group, allowing all
participants to benefit from the collective insights.
Integrating techniques that
prevent burning out
- Understanding the value of collaborating with subject matter experts to build trust, accuracy and creativity
- Simplifying complex topics to create bite sized pieces of engaging content without compromising meaning or legislative accuracy
- Achieving excellent engagement through tailored content for different audiences across multiple channels

Emily Stavljanin
Senior Advisor Social and Digital Media
Residential Tenancies Authority
- The role experimentation and creative plays in organisational engagement, communication and public trust
- Creating safe spaces and internal workflows for staff to experiment, iterate and evolve
- Integrating sustainable creative processes to prevent burnout
- Highlighting how to ground creative content with the mission and purpose of the agency

Caitlin Cash
Team Leader, Social and Digital Media
Queensland Health
- Practical strategies to earn confidence from senior leadership while maintaining compliance and governance
- Sharing communication strategies and internal storytelling tactics to turn bold ideas into approved plans
- Developing social media strategy that aligns with organisational goals, mitigates risk and demonstrate value
Panellist:

Isabelle Whitington
Media and Social Media Planning Manager
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Caitlin Cash
Team Leader, Social and Digital Media
Queensland Health

Sofia Dalla Costa
Social Media Manager
National Musuem Australia
- Leveraging platforms like Reddit, Twitch and programmatic audio as a strategy to reach a younger population
- Tailoring content that engages and resonates with how to engage with younger audience

Adrian Harrison
Senior Advisor
Department of Transport and Main Roads
- Unpacking key lessons on real time digital communications, agility and managing misinformation to amplify safety messages during
Cyclone Alfred - Optimising analytics to enhance trust and engagement while being responsive
- Highlighting the importance of BAU to scale quickly during a crisis

Mireille Ryan
Social Media Team Leader
Bureau of Meteorology
Steam
A
CONTENT
Writing content that matters and engages
- Representing lived experiences with respect and integrity to
empower and impact community - Identifying how to offer depth and insight and avoid
tokenistic narratives - Exploring storytelling structures, tone and narrative framing
to resonate with platforms and audiences

Susanne Sharp
Associate Director Strategic Communications
WA Mental Health Commission
- Harnessing the power of storytelling to reflect resilience and
organisational commitment to communities and people - Strategically align content with organisational values and
purpose to strengthen brand trust. - Innovatively leverage platforms, design techniques, tone and
paid elements for maximum reach and engagement

Jack Hibbert
Social Media and Content Specialist
icare NSW
- Demonstrating how diverse content formats—such as data, facts, images, and videos—can enhance audience
engagement - Exploring practical methods and creative exercises to spark
innovation and fresh ideas - Sharing strategies for approaching sensitive topics with empathy, cultural awareness, and respectful storytelling

Mark Regan
Senior Communication Officers
Government agency – Insurance Commission of Western Australia

Emily Farmer
Senior Social Media Adviser
Department of Primary Industries
and Regional Development
Steam
B
REPUTATION, MODERATION and CRISES
Protecting your reputation through risk mitigation and content strategies
- Exploring the challenges of creating authentic relationships as a government enforcement agency
- Equipping the wider organisation with the skills to create engaging social media content and celebrating the results of their contribution to improve buy in
- Using social media tools to manage and predict performance across different topics and themes

Tayte Lang
Social Media and Campaigns Officer
National Heavy Vehicle Regulator
- Identifying technical tips to improve likeability and engagement on Facebook
- Responding effectively to negativity and build trust
- Tuning into your audience and tailoring your message to match their expectations

Erik Ruehl
Media and Content Creator
SA Housing Trust
- Building long term engagement through community first content and enable critical messages to cut through
- Identifying specific demographic audiences and adapting content styles to increase audience reach and relevance
- Turning passive audiences into engaged allies by transforming traditional appeals into powerful CALLS to ACTION

Holly Lawrence-Watt
Digital Media Coordinator
NSW Police Force
- Crafting a robust plan to successfully execute long term campaign
- Strategising how to curate content that is not repetitive, salesy and dry
- Balancing sensitivity of historical content and utilising it to drive key messages

Sofia Dalla Costa
Social Media Manager
National Musuem Australia
- Demonstrating the utility and impact of a data analytics software to generate report on performance outcomes in gaining executive buy in and smarter decisions
- Highlighting the benefits of visualisation and easy UX navigation to extract meaningful insights and communicate campaign impact succinctly to team
- Choosing the best tracking method for your campaign to ensure the right data is captured at the right points
- Setting up clean, consistent tracking to minimise errors and inconsistencies, enabling confident and meaningful reporting
- Using Google Analytics and UTM tags to understand channel performance and overall campaign performance

Norbert Kraus
Senior Communications Officer
Cairns Regional Council
- Recognising the importance of a culturally safe First Nations led approach to social media moderation in building public trust and strengthening agency reputation
- Showcasing the success and impact of First Nations moderation practices through practical tips and techniques on Meta platforms
- Embedding effective and culturally informed social media moderation strategies into existing organisational policies

Monique Duggan
Senior Communications Officer
Aboriginal Affairs NSW
- Leveraging moderation management systems to risk manage negative responses
- Optimising data analytics and in sights and causes of public skepticism and emotional responses toward government agencies online
- Increasing staff capabilities to identifying misinformation, disinformation and toxicity
- Discussing moderation techniques to deescalate negative comments
- Sharing practical tips to encouraging civil dialogue, keeping communities safe and increase reputation
Panellist:

Lauren Jordan
Social media Manager
NSW Department of Climate Change
Energy, the Environment and Water

Mitchell Dye
Coordinator External Corporate Communications
City of Greater Geelong
- Examining the function of communications in delivering public value and shaping civic trust
- Exploring how social media can move beyond announcements to enable connection, dialogue, and transparency

Kendall Master
Director, Channels and Content
Australian Renewable Energy Agency
- Influencing positive emotions across different generations through balanced selection of meme, considering copyright, ethics, relevance and impact
- Understanding the value and benefits of memes to improve audience engagement

Warren Kagarise
Digital Engagement Manager
King County, United States
- Discussing operational efficiency features such as easy scheduling
- Engaging with immersive
- Comparing the difference in impact between short term campaigns vs. Long term vision
- Pinpointing benchmarks and metrics that reveals success: engagement, click through rate, watch time, follower growth vs vanity metrics
- Highlighting smart practices around post frequency, timing, and the ethics, and effectiveness of recycling content
- Strategising how to build and nurture online communities and engagement

Zhoe Jess
National Strategic Content Media Manager
Bureau of Meteorology

Emma Jankovski
Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser
Wage Inspectorate Victoria

Erin Thomas
Social Media Manager
National Emergency
Management Agency
STREAM
A
CONTENT
Writing content that matters
and engages
- Elaborating different forms of digital accessibility to mindfully integrate into social media content
- Discussing best tools and technology to facilitate inclusive content

Christian Harimanow
Video Supervising Producer
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- Highlighting socially and culturally safe strategies to curate
content that authentically reflects the values and voices of vulnerable communities - Integrating internal processes and safety mechanisms
teams can implement to prevent staff burnout - Including strategies to manage risk, respond appropriately to negative feedback, and handle backlash with transparency
and care
Panellist:

Kay Clarke
Senior Social & Digital Media Officer
Queensland Health

Shauna Perss
Communications and Social Media Advisor
City of Melbourne

Megan Sadler
Manager Media Communications and Engagement
Commissioner for Children and Young People WA
- Demonstrating what plain, effective language is and how it increases engagement and accessibility
- Identifying technical elements of plain language to ensure content is inclusive for communities with limited literacy, disabilities or non-native English proficiency
- Applying plain language principles to real posts and increase public trust in your messaging

Shuly Babitz
Digital Engagement Editor
Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Public Affairs, United States
- Equipping greater confidence in balancing creativity and message of content
- Leveraging metrics as a tool to gain executive approval and constructive criticism, and elevate and execute engaging
content
Panellist:

Isabelle Whitington
Media and Social Media Planning Manager
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Andrew Ting
Communication Officer
Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Overcoming the disconnection of niche, dry and distant content by harnessing powerful stories from volunteers, veterans and community
- Building on collaborative partnerships to curate fresh content, reach new audiences and amplify shared goals without losing identity and voice

Alix Fiveash
Social Media Manager
Australian National Maritime Museum
- Balancing creativity and bureaucracy to ensure a campaign succeeds
- Connecting a story not a policy by identifying the right person who audiences can connect with
- Crafting engaging content that attracts audience attention through strategic visual elements
- Measuring success to generate insights

Chris Riordan
Creative Services Manager
Department of Education
STREAM
B
INTERNAL PROCESSES
Building a sysytem that works
- Devising processes for content requests, advertising
protocols, content creation and reportin - Gaining buy in from internal teams and increasing understanding of the role of social to ensure best in class output
- Strategising how to get social a seat at the leadership table

Lauren Jordan
Social media manager
NSW Department of Climate Change
Energy, the Environment and Water
- Creating a scalable strategy for a cohesive and connected social media presence across diverse teams and portfolios
- Embedding consistency through enablement to foster highly connected, empowered, and inspired cohort of content creators
- Developing operational frameworks to fuel creativity through
style guides, strategy, and collaboration

Tori Waters
Social Media Manager
Department of Climate Change
Energy the Environment and Water
- Embedding strategic methods to adapt to MoG changes and 10+ shifting portfolios while retaining key message, mission
and audience intact - Equipping robust tools and workflows for greater operational efficiency without losing strategy
- Maintaining healthy work culture and creativity despite
environmental changes

Jordan James
Manager Social and Digital Media
Department of Environment and Science
- Activating senior leaders and industry partners as credible advocates using LinkedIn and coordinated messaging
- Using programmatic targeting and curated content to engage international investors and stakeholders
- Creating compelling digital campaigns that shift perceptions and attract the next generation into the sector

Elliott Franks
Director of Communication
Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development
- Identifying technical tips to improve likeability and engagement on Facebook
- Responding effectively to negativity and build trust
- Tuning into your audience and tailoring your message to match their expectations

Emma Jankovski
Senior Communications and Engagement Adviser
Wage Inspectorate Victoria
- Highlighting practical steps, governance considerations, and
organisational shifts needed to embed AI across teams and departments - Discovering how to leverage deep data insights and system
design thinking to fine tune the AI’s impact and responsiveness - Learning how AI improves efficiency, consistency, audience
targeting, and reduces manual workload
This roundtable discussion offers a unique chance to engage with data peers, sharing common challenges and best practices on a topic of your choice. Each of the six roundtables will be co-hosted by a technology expert and a government data leader, ensuring meaningful
and insightful conversations. At the end of the day, facilitators will present a summary of the key findings to the entire group, allowing all
participants to benefit from the collective insights.
Integrating techniques that
prevent burning out
- Understanding the value of collaborating with subject matter experts to build trust, accuracy and creativity
- Simplifying complex topics to create bite sized pieces of engaging content without compromising meaning or legislative accuracy
- Achieving excellent engagement through tailored content for different audiences across multiple channels

Emily Stavljanin
Senior Advisor Social and Digital Media
Residential Tenancies Authority
- The role experimentation and creative plays in organisational engagement, communication and public trust
- Creating safe spaces and internal workflows for staff to experiment, iterate and evolve
- Integrating sustainable creative processes to prevent burnout
- Highlighting how to ground creative content with the mission and purpose of the agency

Caitlin Cash
Team Leader, Social and Digital Media
Queensland Health
- Practical strategies to earn confidence from senior leadership while maintaining compliance and governance
- Sharing communication strategies and internal storytelling tactics to turn bold ideas into approved plans
- Developing social media strategy that aligns with organisational goals, mitigates risk and demonstrate value
Panellist:

Isabelle Whitington
Media and Social Media Planning Manager
Australian Bureau of Statistics

Caitlin Cash
Team Leader, Social and Digital Media
Queensland Health

Sofia Dalla Costa
Social Media Manager
National Musuem Australia
- Leveraging platforms like Reddit, Twitch and programmatic audio as a strategy to reach a younger population
- Tailoring content that engages and resonates with how to engage with younger audience

Adrian Harrison
Senior Advisor
Department of Transport and Main Roads
- Unpacking key lessons on real time digital communications, agility and managing misinformation to amplify safety messages during
Cyclone Alfred - Optimising analytics to enhance trust and engagement while being responsive
- Highlighting the importance of BAU to scale quickly during a crisis

Mireille Ryan
Social Media Team Leader
Bureau of Meteorology
Steam
A
CONTENT
Writing content that matters and engages
- Representing lived experiences with respect and integrity to
empower and impact community - Identifying how to offer depth and insight and avoid
tokenistic narratives - Exploring storytelling structures, tone and narrative framing
to resonate with platforms and audiences

Susanne Sharp
Associate Director Strategic Communications
WA Mental Health Commission
- Harnessing the power of storytelling to reflect resilience and
organisational commitment to communities and people - Strategically align content with organisational values and
purpose to strengthen brand trust. - Innovatively leverage platforms, design techniques, tone and
paid elements for maximum reach and engagement

Jack Hibbert
Social Media and Content Specialist
icare NSW
- Demonstrating how diverse content formats—such as data, facts, images, and videos—can enhance audience
engagement - Exploring practical methods and creative exercises to spark
innovation and fresh ideas - Sharing strategies for approaching sensitive topics with empathy, cultural awareness, and respectful storytelling

Mark Regan
Senior Communication Officers
Government agency – Insurance Commission of Western Australia

Emily Farmer
Senior Social Media Adviser
Department of Primary Industries
and Regional Development
Steam
B
REPUTATION, MODERATION and CRISES
Protecting your reputation through risk mitigation and content strategies
- Exploring the challenges of creating authentic relationships as a government enforcement agency
- Equipping the wider organisation with the skills to create engaging social media content and celebrating the results of their contribution to improve buy in
- Using social media tools to manage and predict performance across different topics and themes

Tayte Lang
Social Media and Campaigns Officer
National Heavy Vehicle Regulator
- Identifying technical tips to improve likeability and engagement on Facebook
- Responding effectively to negativity and build trust
- Tuning into your audience and tailoring your message to match their expectations

Erik Ruehl
Media and Content Creator
SA Housing Trust
- Building long term engagement through community first content and enable critical messages to cut through
- Identifying specific demographic audiences and adapting content styles to increase audience reach and relevance
- Turning passive audiences into engaged allies by transforming traditional appeals into powerful CALLS to ACTION

Holly Lawrence-Watt
Digital Media Coordinator
NSW Police Force
- Crafting a robust plan to successfully execute long term campaign
- Strategising how to curate content that is not repetitive, salesy and dry
- Balancing sensitivity of historical content and utilising it to drive key messages

Sofia Dalla Costa
Social Media Manager
National Musuem Australia
- Demonstrating the utility and impact of a data analytics software to generate report on performance outcomes in gaining executive buy in and smarter decisions
- Highlighting the benefits of visualisation and easy UX navigation to extract meaningful insights and communicate campaign impact succinctly to team
- Choosing the best tracking method for your campaign to ensure the right data is captured at the right points
- Setting up clean, consistent tracking to minimise errors and inconsistencies, enabling confident and meaningful reporting
- Using Google Analytics and UTM tags to understand channel performance and overall campaign performance

Norbert Kraus
Senior Communications Officer
Cairns Regional Council
- Recognising the importance of a culturally safe First Nations led approach to social media moderation in building public trust and strengthening agency reputation
- Showcasing the success and impact of First Nations moderation practices through practical tips and techniques on Meta platforms
- Embedding effective and culturally informed social media moderation strategies into existing organisational policies

Monique Duggan
Senior Communications Officer
Aboriginal Affairs NSW
- Leveraging moderation management systems to risk manage negative responses
- Optimising data analytics and in sights and causes of public skepticism and emotional responses toward government agencies online
- Increasing staff capabilities to identifying misinformation, disinformation and toxicity
- Discussing moderation techniques to deescalate negative comments
- Sharing practical tips to encouraging civil dialogue, keeping communities safe and increase reputation
Panellist:

Lauren Jordan
Social media Manager
NSW Department of Climate Change
Energy, the Environment and Water

Mitchell Dye
Coordinator External Corporate Communications
City of Greater Geelong
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, social media has become more than just a communication tool. It’s a powerful lever for
shaping public perception, driving citizen engagement, and reinforcing trust in government. To stand out and lead in this space,
government agencies must go beyond posting content; they must deliver targeted, measurable, and impactful strategies rooted in real
data.
This intermediate-level workshop is designed for professionals who understand the basics of social media but want to take their strategy
to the next level. We’ll explore how to move from content planning to performance-led storytelling by leveraging insights, analytics, and
business intelligence. You’ll learn how to use data not just for reporting — but as a compass to refine tactics, shape strategic direction,
and contribute to wider organisational outcomes such as brand trust, community responsiveness, and service uptake.
Participants will gain practical skills to design more resilient, audience-first strategies, ones that build influence, inspire action, and
support long-term goals around brand, transparency, and public value.
Learning outcomes includes:
- Develop a purpose led, insight driven strategy grounded in clear objectives, audience segmentation, and measurable impact aligned
with broader agency goals - Learn to interpret performance data to uncover patterns, inform content direction, and make strategic decisions in real time
- Design content that demonstrates your agency’s impact, services, and values to build brand equity, attract partnerships, and demonstrate accountability
Video content is now the most powerful form of engagement across all social media platforms.For governments, it offers a unique opportunity to tell authentic stories, humanise services, and reach wider audiences in a relatable way. Whether it’s a quick
behind-the-scenes look, an explainer for a new policy, or a citizen spotlight, videos can dramatically boost engagement, trust, and
message retention when done thoughtfully.
This session will dive into why video is critical for social media success and how governments can create compelling content without always needing large budgets or professional production crews. You’ll learn practical techniques for both low-fidelity (lo-fi) and
high-fidelity (hi-fi) video production, so you can flexibly adapt based on resources, timelines, and campaign goals.
By the end of this session, participants will:
• Understand how to plan and create video content that aligns with campaign objectives and audience needs.
• Be equipped to storyboard and structure impactful video narratives that resonate with different community segments.
• Develop practical techniques to capture attention, drive engagement, and deliver key messages through video.
• Learn how to stretch one video idea across multiple platforms and formats to maximize reach and return on effort

Mark Regan
Senior Communication Officers
Government agency – Insurance Commission of Western Australia