Open Data Exchange 2013, April 6. Montreal
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Odx13 is a mini-conference to discuss the successes and challenges of extracting value from Open Data for civic engagement, international aid transparency, scientific research, and more!
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
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