IDEA CAMPWednesday, May 15, 2019

RBC Foundry, Bayview Yards,

Ottawa

COMMUNITYSolutions NetworkA Program of Future Cities Canada

With funding provided by

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AGENDA

8:00-8:30

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9:15-9:4511

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9:45-10:4511

10:45-11:00

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Registration & Breakfast

Welcome & OpeningIrene Compton, Manager of Cultural Programs, Minwaashin LodgeCouncillor Jeff Leiper, Ward 15 Kitchissippi, City of Ottawa

Martin Canning, Executive Director, Smart Cities, Evergreen

What is an Open Smart City?Jean-Noé Landry, Executive Director, OpenNorth

Tracey Lauriault, Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Problem Finding & FramingJean-Noé Landry, Executive Director, OpenNorth

Nabeel Ahmed, Analyst, Advisory Services, OpenNorth

Break

Data GovernanceDavid Fewer, Director, CIPPICNatasha Apollonova, Assistant Vice President, Policy, TRBOTDr. Jonathan Dewar, Executive Director, FNIGC

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AGENDA

12:15-1:00

1:00-2:15

2:15-3:15

3:15-3:45

3:45-4:00

Lunch

Public EngagementNasma Ahmed, Director, Digital Justice LabJo Flatt, Program Director, EvergreenAnthea Foyer, Project Lead, Smart Cities, City of MississaugaAdam Akpik, Project Development Coordinator, Embrace Life Council

Maria Alejandrina Coates, Development Manager, Pinnguaq Association

Regional Spotlight PanelBarbara Swartzentruber, Executive Director of Intergovernmental Rela-tions, Policy & Open Government, City of GuelphDarrell Bridge, Senior Data Analytics Strategist & Open Data Lead, City of OttawaGabe Sawhney, Executive Director, Code for Canada

Lightning Presentations on Resources to Support your Work

Wrap Up & Close

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Nabeel Ahmed, Analyst, Advisory Services, OpenNorth

Nabeel is an Analyst at OpenNorth, part of the One-to-One Advisory Services team that is engaging communities and municipalities across Canada to support the development and implementation of smart city initiatives by applying the principles of Open Smart Cities. He has over seven years of experience in social enterprise and international development, specializing in community engagement, network weaving, and research.

Speaker Profiles

Nasma Ahmed, Director, Digital Justice Lab

Nasma Ahmed is a technologist and community organizer based in the city we now know as Toronto. Nasma is currently the Director of the Digital Justice Lab, where our mission is to build towards a more just and equitable digital future. She has extensive experience working alongside the public service and the non-profit sector, focusing on technology capacity building. In 2017 she was an Open Web Fellow with Mozilla and Ford Foundation, focusing on organization digital security. She is passionate about community engagement, knowledge translation and speculating the possibilities of the future.

Darrell Bridge, Senior Data Analytics Strategist & Open Data Lead, City of Ottawa

Darrell Bridge is a Senior Data Analytics Strategist and is the Open Data Lead for the City of Ottawa. As part of a Smart City team, he works with internal and external stakeholders to develop data analytic solutions to facilitate fact-based decision making to enable service improvements. Darrell’s primary focus is Open Data, releasing data to the public that is machine readable without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. He has worked for the City of Ottawa for the past 16 years, with the majority of the time spent within Information Technology Services as strategic support to the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Prior to joining the City, he was an IT Management Consultant for Deloitte.

Adam Akpik, Project Development Coordinator, Embrace Life Council

Adam Akpik was born and raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Adam finished his 2nd and final year at Nunavut Sivuniksavut in May of 2016, an Inuit Studies and Advanced Inuit Studies college program affiliated with Algonquin College and located in Ottawa, Ontario. He currently works for the Embrace Life Council, a territorial life promotion organization that provides suicide prevention, postvention and intervention trainings, with the mission of encouraging the people of Nunavut to value and embrace life. In addition to being the Project Development Coordinator at Embrace Life Council, he is also on the Advisory on Youth Matters as well as the Board of Directors with FRAYME. FRAYME is a global network linking and supporting youth mental health care systems.

Natasha Apollonova, Assistant Vice President, Policy, Toronto Region Board of Trade

Ms. Apollonova is the Assistant Vice President, Policy with Toronto Region Board of Trade (the Board). Over the past 10 years, Ms. Apollonova has been actively engaged in the Board’s municipal and provincial campaigns. She has also been instrumental in raising the profile of Toronto as an international city region by leading the Board’s benchmarking analysis and liaising with key stakeholders including all three levels of government and business leaders.

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Dr. Jonathan Dewar, Executive Director at the First Nations Information Governance Centre

Dr. Jonathan Dewar is the Executive Director at the First Nations Information Governance Centre in Ottawa and holds a PhD focused on healing and reconciliation from the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. From 2012 to 2016, Jonathan served as the first Director of the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre and Special Advisor to the President at Algoma University,and from 2007-2012, he served as Director of Research at the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, where he led the Foundation’s research and evaluation efforts. Jonathan is of mixed heritage, descended from Huron-Wendat, French-, and Scottish-Canadian grandparents with an academic background in Indigenous arts and literatures and Indigenous Studies.

Speaker Profiles

David Fewer, Director, Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)

David Fewer is Director of CIPPIC, the University of Ottawa’s public interest technology law clinic. David joined CIPPIC in November, 2004, as staff counsel, and became CIPPIC’s Director in 2009. David is a technology lawyer with over 20 years’ experience. He has argued cases at all levels of court, ranging from Small Claims to the Supreme Court of Canada. His work at CIPPIC focuses on training students in effective advocacy, producing public education materials, and articulating a public interest perspective in government policy development and law-making processes. He has taught and written extensively on intellectual property and technology law issues.

Jo Flatt, Program Director, Evergreen

Jo is a Program Director at Evergreen. She has spent the past several years delivering programs in communities across Canada. Currently, Jo is co-leading the program development of a national initiative, the Community Solutions Network, to support the digital and technological literacy of municipal and Indigenous leaders as part of the Smart Cities Challenge. Prior to that, Jo built Evergreen’s Mid-Sized Cities Program, to enhance the social, economic, and environmental prosperity of Ontario’s mid-sized cities. Jo has led numerous policy development and consultation efforts including the City of London’s Urban Agriculture Strategy and the City of Toronto’s laneway housing policy. Jo is also an instructor at the Munk School of Public Policy School at the University of Toronto, where she teaches how to influence policy from outside of government.

Anthea Foyer, Project Lead, Smart Cities, City of Mississauga

Anthea Foyer is currently the Project Lead, Smart City Mississauga. Throughout her time at the City she has been the Curator Digital Public Art, Digital Strategist in the Culture Division and has worked in Planning and Building helping to develop their digital strategy. Prior to this Anthea was the founder of a digital narrative company, led a collaborative residency program at the CFC Media Lab, and has advised and mentored on diverse projects. She is currently the Co-Chair of the Board at InterAccess Media Arts Centre and continues with her own artistic practice.

Maria Alejandrina Coates, Development Manager, Pinnguaq Association

Maria Alejandrina Coates was born in Uruguay and is an immigrant/settler in Treaty 20 territory. As the Development Manager at the Pinnguaq Association she coordinates partnerships and liaises with key stakeholders, funders, and investors to support the long-term sustainability of the organization and its initiatives. Maria has a long history of working with non-profit media and arts-based organizations. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in Art History and Curatorial Studies from York University (Toronto).

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Barbara Swartzentruber, Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation and Intergovernmental Relations, City of Guelph.

Barbara Swartzentruber, is Executive Director, Strategy, Innovation and Intergovernmental Relations, City of Guelph. One of many innovation projects she leads is the Smart Cities Initiative – Creating Canada’s 1st Circular Food Economy – a collaboration between City of Guelph, County of Wellington and public/private partners. Barbara has more than 30 years of experience in the public sector, leading the development of strategy & policy initiatives at the local, provincial and national level in the areas of citizen engagement, digital economy, rural broadband, open government/data, I & IT Strategy.

Councillor Jeff Leiper, Ward 15 Kitchissippi, City of Ottawa

Jeff Leiper is the City Councillor for Kitchissippi Ward. He was first elected to City Council in 2014, and currently serves as the Chair of the Information Technology Sub-committee and vice-Chair of the Transportation Committee, as well as being a member of the Planning Committee. Jeff studied at the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College, obtaining degrees in history and English, and a diploma in print journalism.

Gabe Sawhney, Executive Director, Code for Canada

Gabe Sawhney is an experience designer, creative technologist and innovation strategist. He uses design and technology to address creative, civic and business challenges. He’s a pioneer in the Canadian civic tech community, helping co-found Civic Tech Toronto and launch Code for Canada.

Speaker Profiles

Tracey Lauriault, Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Dr. Tracey Lauriault is an assistant professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and Communication, Communication Studies, at Carleton University. She is also a research associate with the Programmable City Project, and the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre. As a citizen, she is engaged in the promotion of evidence-informed decision-making as part of democratic deliberation and actively advances those issues within civil society organizations, academic institutions and government. This includes activities related to open data and open government in Canada, the Republic of Ireland and internationally.

Jean-Noé Landry, Executive Director, OpenNorth

Jean-Noé Landry is a social entrepreneur and Executive Director of OpenNorth, Canada's leading not-for-profit organization specialized in open data, open smart cities, and applied research. He has led OpenNorth to collaborate with a number of international institutions and networks such as the Open Government Partnership, the National Democratic Institute, Open Data Charter, and the International Development Research Center. His input is regularly solicited by open government researchers, as well as in an advisory capacity, including by the World Council on City Data (WCCD), UNHabitat, the International Open Data Conference (IODC), the Federal Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Open Data Working Group. Jean-Noé is currently a Fellow at the Center for Law, Technology, and Society, at the Law Faculty of the University of Ottawa.

Future Cities Canada is a national cross-sector initiative with the mission to accelerate innovation to transform cities for the benefit of all. Drawing on the expertise of its founding organizations - The McConnell Foundation, TD Bank Group, Evergreen, Maison de l’innovation sociale and Community Foundations of Canada - and together with a diverse and growing network of partners, Future Cities Canada collectively strives to address the challenges facing cities and city-dwellers to reimagine cities that are equitable, regenerative and prosperous.

Evergreen is dedicated to making cities flourish. Since 1991, the national not-for-profit has been hard at work transforming spaces into great places so that communities can thrive. We believe that by connecting people, natural and built worlds, we can enable Canadians to do great things that will shape our cities for the better.

OpenNorth is Canada's leading not-for-profit organization working to open up data, government, community engagement, and technologies. OpenNorth works with Canada's most innovative and connected cities to create open smart cities. Through its interdisciplinary applied research, OpenNorth brings international practices to local communities, while connecting local communities, governments, and partners to international networks and communities of practice.

Meet the Partners

This document was prepared by Julie Fader, Program Officer, Evergreen, Jo Flatt, Program Director, Evergreen, Nasma Ahmed, Director, Digital Justice Lab, Nabeel Ahmed, Analyst, OpenNorth, and Jean-Noé Landry, Executive Director, OpenNorth.