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FWD50 2019
Use technology to make society better for all
Speakers
Afua Bruce
Director of Engineering, Public Interest Technology
New America
Alasdair Allan
Director
Babilim Light Industries
Shu Yang Lin
Consultant and international liaison
PDIS.tw
Guy Elad
Deputy CIO
Tel Aviv Yafo municipality, Israel
Pia Andrews
Open and digital government expert
Rainhard Fuchs
International Relations
Austrian Digitalisation Agency
Catherine Desgagnés‑Belzil
Chief Digital Officer and Head of Quebec’s Digital Center of Excellence
Province of Quebec
Aaron Snow
Chief Executive Officer
Canadian Digital Service (CDS)
Hillary Hartley
Chief Digital and Data Officer
Deputy Minister, Cabinet Office - Province of Ontario
David Eaves
Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
María Inés Baqué
Secretary of Digital Government and Technological Innovation / Secretary of Modernization
Argentina
Kristo Vaher
Chief of Technology
Government of Republic of Estonia
Elizabeth Rhodenizer
Chief Information Officer
Public Service Commission of Canada.
Nikhil J. Deshpande
Chief Digital Officer
State of Georgia
Renee DiResta
Technical research manager, Stanford Internet Observatory
Mozilla Fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust
Robert Król
Vice Director
GovTech Polska Programme, Chancellery of the Prime Minister
Tammy Labelle
Chief Information Officer
Digital Services Branch, PSPC
Jerry Overton
DXC Fellow, Head of AI
DXC
Sarah Paquet
Executive Vice-President
Shared Services Canada
Chris Taggart
Co-Founder & CEO
OpenCorporates
Lena Trudeau
CEO
U.Group
Silvano Tocchi
Director General Digital Services Directorate
Canada Revenue Agency
Jaimie Boyd
Chief Digital Officer
Government of British Columbia
Yantisa Akhadi
Country Manager - Indonesia
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Lia Milito
Managing Director
Code for Canada
Georges Clement
Co-Founder, JustFix.nyc
MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Deputy Chief Shawna Coxon
Deputy Chief of Police
Toronto Police Service
Lewis S Eisen
Speaker • Consultant • Author
Julie Leese
Chief Digital Officer
Transport Canada
Eric Ward
Senior Director
Policy Horizons Canada
Malka Older
Author
Associated Researcher, Center for Sociology of Organizations, Sciences Po
Shlomo Swidler
CEO
Orchestratus
Sofia Mota
Director of TicAPP
Public Administration Digital Competencies Centre, AMA
Jesse Robbins
Founder & CEO
Orion Labs
Iris Arbel-Ganz
Innovation Development
Kfar Saba Economic Development Company
Ramy Nassar
Founder
1000 Days Out
Diane Spencer
Manager, Information Management
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Syed Ahmed
Lead Cloud Architect
CloudOps
Val Thomas
Lead, Talent Mobility Strategy / Talent Cloud
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat / Government of Canada
Trevor Banks
Creative Change Agent
Banks Change Management
Ashley Bélanger
Manager, UX Research and Service Design
Government of Canada
Ian Williams
Manager, Analytics & Innovation
Toronto Police Service
Jacqueline Lu
Digital Innovation Lead
Sidewalk Labs
Jesse Shapins
Director of Development and Public Realm
Sidewalk Labs
Honey Dacanay
Senior Manager/Executive Lead, Standards & Governance
Ontario Digital Service, Government of Ontario
Charles Eagan
Chief Technology Officer
BlackBerry
Cathy Barrera
Founding Partner
Prysm Group
Ian Rae
Founder and CEO
CloudOps
Rita Whittle
Executive Director, Government of Canada Security Policy, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada
Brad Mills
Police Constable
Toronto Police Service
Katy Lalonde
Director
Ontario Digital Service/Government of Ontario
Paul Glover
President
Shared Services Canada (SSC)
Rebecca Kain
Sr. Consultant
Quarry
Eric Swedersky
SVP, Delivery and Public Sector
SecureKey
Margaret Dawson
Vice President, Portfolio Product Marketing
Red Hat
Jon Finkelstein
Executive Creative Director
PwC Canada
Janice Cudlip
Strategist and Community Builder with the Policy Community Partnership Office
Canada’s Federal Public Service
Robert Osborn
Federal CTO
ServiceNow
Chamika Ailapperuma
Senior UX Researcher and Service Designer
Government of Canada
Steven Greene
Associate Partner
IBM iX
Tracy Miranda
Director of Open Source Community
CloudBees
Andrew Pitt
Solutions Architect
Red Hat
Sherry Tiao
Product Marketing Senior Manager
Oracle
Tom De Rosa
Strategic Program Lead
Oracle
Diane Allan
President, Measurement Canada
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada / Government of Canada
Anatoly Tulchinsky
Director Consulting; Data Science, Advanced Analytics and AI
CGI
Diane Cheptene
Studios Lead & Senior Managing Consultant
IBM
TJ Stidwill
Associate Partner, Public Sector Cognitive Process Transformation
IBM
Angela Mondou
President and CEO
Information Technology Association of Canada
Ryan Hum
Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Data and Information Management
Canada Energy Regulator
Nilufer Erdebil
CEO
Spring2 Innovation
Michael Cole
Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Bell Canada
Susan Sharp
Partner, Digital Experience & Innovation Consulting
PwC Canada
Larry Cooper
Partner
AdaptiveOrg Inc.
Ella Mae Lewis
Director of Product
Apolitical
Daniel Berg
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
Dr. Diane Gutiw
Vice President, Big Data Analytics, AI and Machine Learning
CGI
Dan Murphy
Partner
AdaptiveOrg Inc.
Vivian Nobrega
Open Source Advocate for the Government of Canada
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Warren Tomlin
Partner
EY
Azalia Shamsaei, Ph.D.
Product Manager
MindBridge Ai
Jim Whitestone
Chief Environmental and Financial Economist
Blockscale Solutions Inc.
Fatema Pirone
Senior Director, Enterprise Innovation
CIBC
Pete Frasco
Senior Manager, Sales Engineering
BlackBerry, AtHoc
Domenica Maciocia
Senior Vice President, Client Services and Sales Operations
Bell Business Markets
Kent Aitken (TRACK CHAIR)
Policy and Partnerships
CSPS' Digital Academy
Zahra Merchant
Director – Service Management Office
Bank of Canada
Jaethan Reichel
Co-Founder & CEO
Lightship
Kim Ennis
Program Manager, Service Improvement, Service Transformation
City of Ottawa
Brandon Biggs
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Technological / Communication barriers
Sonia Powell
Director General, Real Property Service’s Workplace Solutions Service Line
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Alexander Howard
Director of the Digital Democracy Project
Demand Progress Education Fund
Claudia Thompson
Managing Director, Health & Public Service Canada / Managing Director, Inclusion & Diversity Canada
Accenture, Canada
Matthew Levy
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Architectural / Industrial Design barriers
Natalie McGee (Moderator)
Executive Director, Enterprise Strategic Planning, Office of the Chief Information Officer
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat / Government of Canada
Louis-Pierre Auger
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Attitudinal / Systemic barriers
Lisa Carroll
Canadian Public Sector Lead
Microsoft Canada
Jared Uramowski
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Architectural / Industrial Design barriers
Tracy Sletto
Executive Vice President, Transparency and Strategic Engagement
Canada Energy Regulator
Kaveh Afshar-Zanjani
Manager, Data Science (Chief Data Office)
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Anna Wong
Director
Digital Academy, Canada School of Public Service
Dinesh Mohan
Director General, Cloud Services
Shared Services Canada
Pauline Martin
Industry Executive, Government
Microsoft Canada
Kowsi Murugapoopathy
Technical Solution Architect
Lixar
Daphnée Nostrome
Lead, Digital Training, Senior Content Designer
Ontario Digital Service, Government of Ontario
Sagar Jha (TRACK CHAIR)
Partnership Development Lead
Code for Canada
Gillian Whichelo
Data Governance Analyst
Assistant Deputy Minister (Data, Innovation, Analytics), ADM (DIA) National Defence / Government of Canada
Bryce Buffaloe
Hybrid & Edge Compute Specialist
Google Cloud
Christiane Coda
Digital Advisor
Microsoft Canada
Mike Kujawski
Managing Partner
CEPSM.ca
Parinaz Sobhani
Director of Machine Learning
Georgian Partners
Shiladitya Sircar
Vice President, Secure Messaging & Enterprise Identity
BlackBerry
Meaghan Reinecke
Manager, UX Strategy
PwC Canada
Wes George
CTO
Proof
Shelley Fraser
Leader
Lixar Creativity Hub
Charles-Antoine Drouin
Business Intelligence Analyst
Health Canada
Evelina Pituch
Winner, 2019 IDeA Canada Competition
Attitudinal / Systemic barriers
Walter Knitl
CEO, Praxiem
Chief Business Development Officer, IoT613
Shelly Smith
City of Winnipeg Records & Information Management Coordinator
ARMA Canada Conference Program Director
Kate Armour
Information Security Program Specialist | Enterprise Information Security
Export Development Canada
Mélanie Robert
Executive Director, Open Government, Chief Information Officer Branch
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Government of Canada
Michele Lajeunesse
Director, Cloud Solutions
IBM Canada
Alistair Croll
Founder
Solve for Interesting
Ioana Finichiu
Innovation and Policy Services
Canada School of Public Service, Government of Canada
