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Naz Ali
Naz Ali is the Senior Manager for Location Intelligence at CBRE Canada with over 20 years of experience in the GIS field, specializing in commercial real estate applications. She provides comprehensive market analysis across various commercial property types, including retail, industrial & logistics, and office leasing. Naz’s expertise lies in developing data-driven methods that empower […]
Viêt Cao
Viêt Cao is Director of Innovation & Data Analytics at Synapse C, an NGO dedicated to the valorization of data in arts and culture. He is actively involved in projects to develop public knowledge through the individual and/or collective valorization of data from cultural partners, as well as partnership research projects. He also supervises the […]
Julian Villafuerte Diaz
Julian Villafuerte Diaz is an urban development and transportation planning professional based in Montreal. His background in regional economic development, housing, and transportation includes leading key research and tool development projects centered around open data. As an avid user of open data and a believer in democratized and participatory social systems, he is eager to […]
Karen Parker
As Manager of Data Analytics at the City of Edmonton, Karen oversees a team that manages the City’s Open Data and Internal Data Portals, offers data literacy training to staff, and provides self-serve data analysis and visualization tools. She has been instrumental in advocating for increased data-driven decision making by the City of Edmonton, as […]
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/
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 […]