Open Data Exchange 2013, April 6. Montreal

R-bloggers 2013-03-29

(This article was first published on bayesianbiologist » Rstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

Next Saturday, I’ll be sitting on a panel discussing future avenues for open data at ODX13.

From the odx13 site:

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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