Sobhanjana Bose
Sobhanjana (Sob) Bose brings extensive expertise in business and technology to the Board of Directors at the Canadian Open Data Society. With nearly a decade at Oracle’s Global Finance Operations and certification as a Six Sigma Green Belt professional, she has spearheaded Oracle Cloud Implementation and Migration projects. Currently serving as Manager of Systems and […]
Paul Connor
Paul Connor is Treasurer and Executive Director of the Canadian Open Data Society. His involvement in the Open Data community started with the 2015 GO Open Data Summit in St. Catharines, Ontario, and continued through co-chairing the 2018 Canadian Open Data Summit in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He started working with data while managing federal election […]
Eugene Chen
Eugene has built a number of award-winning interactive visualizations and tools. These include WorldChatClock.com (flattening time zones across continents), MapInSeconds.com (create maps from open data shapefiles), and babynames.dha.io (a fun, mobile-friendly exploration of over a million baby names). A more recent example is the OpportunityAtlas.org, an interactive tool about upward mobility that was released on […]
Reena Shaw
Reena Shaw is a Data Scientist based in Toronto. She has worked with data in the Supply Chain and Marketing sectors. She completed her Masters’ Thesis in Computer Science from Queen’s University, Canada; and also teaches Data Science at University of Toronto. https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenashaw/
Douglas Vidal-Hernández
Doug has a background in government and politics. He currently works as a Government Relations, Fellowship Program Coordinator for Code for Canada, a national non-profit that enables government to deliver better digital public services using technology and design. He previously worked on Parliament Hill as a Digital and Data Advisor for a political reserach bureau. […]
Paul Vet
Paul is an experienced open data leader, having had a variety of roles over 5 years with the Province of Ontario’s Open Government Office and the Ontario Digital Service. As the lead for including open data principles into Ontario’s Simpler, Faster, Better Services Act, Paul was integral in the development and adoption of Canada’s first […]
Michael Schwanzer
Michael built his first Software as a Service (SaaS) platform during grammar school in rural Austria. He grew the business to 50,000 users and sold it before graduating from college to finance his academic studies in the UK. During his computer science studies he launched openIdeas, a crowd collaboration platform that won the prestigious CISCO […]
Lee Doucet
I graduated from the University of Toronto with a Master’s degree of Information. Since then I have built a data science camp for high school and university students and currently work for the City of Toronto Public Health, helping with their COVID-19 response. With my free time, I work and develop small projects / workshops […]
Christophe Bélanger
Christophe Bélanger is a Strategic Advisor at Hydro-Québec’s Customer Intelligence Division. His entrepreneurial profile coupled with a strong interest in innovation and data for the benefit of users has led him to participate in various committees and organizations aimed at democratizing technologies, reducing the digital divide and promoting open standards. Accessibility and availability of data […]
Douglas Sartori
Doug Sartori is a professional consultant and software architect in Windsor, Ontario. He’s the founder and Principal Consultant at Parallel 42 Systems, where he helps businesses and nonprofits make effective use of data. In his spare time, Doug chairs Hackforge, a technology-focused nonprofit in his home town and is a panelist on Mean, Median and […]