Program

Morning Session – Open Data Stories; Panel Discussions

9:00 AM    Introduction and Welcome

9:15 AM    Winning with Open Data – Panel 1

• Michael Lenczner, CEO, Ajah
• James McKinney, Technical Lead, Open North
• Michael Roberts, Acclar & IATI
• Pete Forde (moderator), Hacker Tourist

10:10 AM    Les données ouvertes en action – Panel 2 (en français)

• Guillaume Ducharme, gestionnaire dans le réseau de la santé et membre du collectif Démocratie Ouverte
• Sébastien Pierre, fondateur, FFunction & Montréal Ouvert
• Josée Plamondon, co-conceptrice, ContratsNet
• Jean-Noé Landry (l’animateur de discussion), fondateur, Montréal Ouvert et Québec Ouvert

11:05 AM    Future Avenues for Open Data – Panel 3

• Corey Chivers, PhD candidate, Biology, McGill & Montreal R User Group
• Tracey Lauriault, Open Data advocate & Postdocotral Fellow, Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, Carleton University
• Petko Valtchev, Professor, Computer Science, UQAM
• Ted Strauss (moderator), Co-founder, Trudat

12:00 PM    Lunch will be provided

Afternoon Session – Digging into Data; Workshop and Lightning Talks

1:00 PM    Data Dive Intro – Exploratory Data Analysis with Trudat

1:30 PM    Data Dive

We will dive into interesting Open Data sets with experts on hand to guide us through the weeds, including data on

• International Aid
• Government contracts
• Biodiversity
• and more…

3:00 PM   Lightning Talks

• Alex Aylett, écoHack MTL & Sustainable Cities International
• Trevor Bekolay, theoretical neuroscience PhD candidate, Waterloo University
• Trina Chiasson, founder, InfoActive
• Anton Dubrau, creator/developer, cat-bus.com
• Julia Evans, developer/convener, MTL all-girl hack night
• Christian Gendreau, biodiversity informatics programmer, Canadensys
• Edward Ocampo-Gooding, co-founder, Open Data Ottawa
• Heri Rakotomalala, engineer/entrepreneur/journalist, MTL NewTech
• Steve Reitano, information management guru/researcher, Open Data Survey
• and more…

4:00 PM    Present data insights

4:45 PM    Closing remarks