2017

Katya Pereyaslavska

Katya Pereyaslavska

Katya Pereyaslavska has worked on a number of accessibility-related projects including publications on digital inclusivity. She leads accessibility initiatives at Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries, including the Accessible Content […]

Ariela Levy

Ariela Levy

Ariela Levy is the Senior Manager Operations at Sunnybrook Hospital.

Mary O’Farrell Bowers

Mary O’Farrell Bowers

Mary O’Farrell- Bowers has worked as a post-secondary educator in a number of roles over the past 30 years including counsellor, faculty, dean, campus principal, and currently as Vice President […]

Jean-Noé Landry

Jean-Noé Landry

Executive Director of Open North, heads Canada’s leading civil society organization specialized in open data and civic technology. Open North’s work focuses on open data standards and engagement strategies, civil […]

Stephen Abram

Stephen Abram

Stephen Abram, MLS, is executive director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries where he represents Ontario’s over 300 public library systems to all levels of government.  He has deep roots […]

Rory McGreal

Rory McGreal

Prof. Rory McGreal is the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning/International Council for Open and Distance Education Chair in Open Educational Resources (OER); and Director of  the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) […]

Ritch Dusome

Ritch Dusome

Ritch Dusome is President & CEO of CENGN – Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks. He has held this position since its inception in September 2014 and is […]

Lena Patterson

Lena Patterson

Session: Diverse, Talented: The (Work)force Awakens Lena has been a part of the eCampusOntario team since the organization opened shop in August 2015. She worked closely with the government to […]

Lewis Wynne-Jones

Lewis Wynne-Jones

Lewis Wynne-Jones is the head of data acquisition for ThinkData Works, a Toronto-based startup with a core focus on the aggregation and distribution of public data. Their external data management […]

Andrés L. Dorado

Andrés L. Dorado

Andrés Dorado is the Business Analytics Program Manager for the City of Edmonton’s Analytics Centre of Excellence and is responsible and accountable for setting the vision and strategy for data […]

Nosa Ero-Brown

Nosa Ero-Brown

Nosa Ero-Brown is the acting Director of the Open Government Office, Ontario’s Treasury Board Secretariat. Nosa is responsible for the implementation of the Ontario government’s Open Government Strategy.  In this […]

Michael Jones

Michael Jones

Michael Jones is Professor and Program Coordinator at Sheridan College for their joint Communication, Culture, Information and Technology program with the University of Toronto Mississauga. Michael’s primary research interest is […]

Pavel Richter

Pavel Richter

Pavel Richter is Chief Executive Officer of Open Knowledge International, a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using technology to unlock information, and enabling people to take action […]

Embriette Hyde

Embriette Hyde

Embriette is the Project Manager for the American Gut Project, one of the largest crowd-sourced citizen science project in the USA. She established the American Gut Project as a key force […]

Carl Virtanen

Carl Virtanen

Carl is the Associate Director and co-founder of HPC4Health, a high-performance computing (HPC) centre focused on healthcare, and the Director and Research Lead, UHN Digital. He has more than 20 years of experience […]

Mita Williams

Mita Williams

Mita is a science librarian at the Leddy Library of the University of Windsor. She is also on the Board of Directors of Hackforge, a hackerspace based in Windsor. It […]

Richard Pietro

Richard Pietro

Richard Pietro socializes open government and open data by creating civic engagement as art through his company OGT Productions. Some of his projects include the 2014 Open Government Tour and “Open” […]

Patrick McCurdy

Patrick McCurdy

Patrick McCurdy (PhD, LSE) is Associate Professor in the Department Communication at the University of Ottawa. His research draws from media and communication, journalism as well as social movement studies […]

David Rotenberg

David Rotenberg

David Rotenberg is the Manager of Scientific Computing / Research Informatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). With a background in medical physics, David’s research focuses on […]

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Tom Gee

Tom Gee is the manager of the Neuroinformatics Group at the Rotman Research Institute, and the manager of Software Development at Indoc Research. He has 30 years of experience in […]