11:00 CEST
Data + Geospatial
Moderators
Director, National Centre for Geographic Information of Spain
Biography: Emilio López Romero is a computer engineer. He is the Director of the National Centre for Geographic Information of Spain, the National Contact Point for INSPIRE Directive and President of the Spain's Geographical Information Infrastructure Board of Directors. For more...
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Speakers
Senior Technology & Innovation Specialist, World Bank
Title proposal: Open map: combining citizen data and Government data to complete the map in Dar es Salaam.Biography: Edward Anderson is a Senior Innovation Policy Specialist at the World Bank’s Global ICT unit. Since 2014 he is based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he represents...
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PhD Candidate, McMaster University
Title proposal: Indigenous partnerships for ocean data mapping.Biography: Kelsey Leonard currently represents the Shinnecock Indian Nation as the Tribal Co-Lead on the Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body of the U.S. National Ocean Council. She also serves on the Shinnecock Natural...
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Lead Director of Informació de Base i Cartografia, IMI-Ajuntament de Barcelona
Title proposal: Open data BCN, and now what?Biography: Industrial Energy Engineer from UPC and MBA in public administrations from ESADE, and extended post-degree courses in GIS and Urbanism. Belongs to several Professional TIC associations and has been professor in GIS and Urban...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room A
11:00 CEST
Data + Agriculture
Moderators
Executive Director, GODAN
Title proposal: For a Data driven agriculture, conclusions from the 2016 GODAN Summit.Biography: Mr. André Laperrière joined the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN)initiative as its first Executive Director, in September 2015. During his career, Mr. Laperrièrehas...
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Speakers
Founder and President, Open Food Facts
Title proposal: Open food facts and open beauty facts: crowdsourcing data of public interest from the private sector.Biography: Stéphane Gigandet is the founder of the collaborative, free and open food products database Open Food Facts. Since 2012, 4000 contributors have opened...
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Account Manager, Business development department of Agroknow
Biography: Theo Kontogiannis works in the business development department of Agroknow as Account Manager. He is responsible for collecting data requirements of the agricultural community and transforming them into respective data-powered services. He is also involved in various agri-food...
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Knowledge Management Systems Coordinator, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room B
11:00 CEST
Data + Education
Moderators
Program Manager, School of Data
Title proposal: Train the trainers: sharing methodologies for teaching how to use open data.Biography: Marco Túlio Pires is the programme manager at
School of Data, overseeing the Global Fellowship and the the coordination of the international network of individuals, organisations and data-trainers. A Brazilian journalist and coder, Marco has worked as an investigative journalist in Globo TV, Brazil's biggest TV channel and also as a science...
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Speakers
Head of the Promotion Unit - General Direction, Council for Transparency - Chile
Title proposal: Promoting the access to information and open data in citizens: the chilean experience of the Council for TransparencyBiography: Mr. Christian Anker is Head of the Promotion and Client Unit of Chile’s Council for Transparency, where he work since its inception...
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Head of Departement, Directorate for eGovernment
Title proposal: Open data in education.Biography: Marija Kujačić is a Head of Section for Development and Standardization in the Serbian Directorate for e-Government, body inside the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self Government. She manages activities on development...
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PhD. Assistant Professor, Universidad de Alicante
Title proposal: Open data ecosystem in universities: experiences from University of Alicante.Biography: Jose-Norberto Mazón is coordinator of the Computing degree at the University of Alicante (Spain). He is also member of the WaKe research group at the University of Alicante. His...
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Project Manager, CTIC Centro Tecnológico
Title proposal: Open SmartKidsBiography: Miguel has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Oviedo University (2000), a certificate in Project Management by the Project Management Institute (PMI, 2014), as well as an extensive educational background in technology and innovation consulting.
He...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room C
11:00 CEST
Data + Utilities
Moderators
Director of Production and Infrastructure, AEMET
Biography: PhD. in Physics (Cum Laude) by University of Valencia and Master in Public Management by Ministry of Finance and Public Administration. Director of Production and Infrastructures (AEMET). He has also been Head of the Regional Office in Murcia and Head of the meteorological...
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Speakers
COO, Canard Drones
Title proposal: Open data.Biography: Succesful entrepreneur, CoFounder of Canard, and founder of GlobalSDR. with more than 17 years of experience. He is considered as a well known expert in military communication and security. Holds a Master degree en Computer Science.
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Global Water Challenge
Proposal title: Data to Drops: improving water services through open data.Biography: Brian Banks is Director of Strategic Initiatives at Global Water Challenge. Mr. Banks has worked in the WASH sector for nearly a decade, with an emphasis on southern and eastern Africa. In support...
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Open Data Consultant, World Bank
Biography: Pierre Chrzanowski is an Open Data specialist, based in Paris, working regularly as a consultant for the World Bank. He is the author of one of the first publications [1] in French on open data while he was working as an ICT Policy Officer at the French Embassy in the...
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Head of the Environmental Developments Service, AEMET
Biography: Head of the Environmental Developments Service since 2013 until now. He joined AEMET in 1985. He is BSc in Physics and MSc in Physic and Applied Meteorology. He was involved in EUMETSAT Nowcasting SAF project as developer in 2003-2013. His areas of expertise include develop...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room D
11:00 CEST
Data + Accountability II
Moderators
Programme Management Officer, International Development Research Centre
Speakers
Co - Founder, Connected Development - Follow The Money Nigeria
Title proposal: Empowering communities.Biography: Oludotun Babayemi is the Co Creator of Connected Development's Follow The Money, A movement that advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid spending in rural communities. He is a Fellow at Stanford University...
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Account Manager Latin America & Spain, OpenDataSoft
Mexican activist, in charge of iberoamerica for OpenDataSoft.We are a cloud based open data platform, that allows users to easily understand data through intuitive visualizations and dashboards, as well as generating an automated API for advanced users to reuse even real time dat...
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Campaign leader, banks and corruption, Global Witness
Title proposal: How we persuaded the British government to release information on beneficial ownership company as data, and what we’re now planning to do with it.Biography: Robert Palmer is the Banks and Corruption Campaign Leader for
Global Witness, a Nobel-prize nominated organisation dedicated to breaking the links between natural resources, conflict and corruption. He focuses on how the financial system facilitates corruption and other crimes. Robert has led a number of high profile investigations, including organising an u...
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FragDenStaat
Arne leitet FragDenStaat.
Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room E
11:00 CEST
Data + International Aid I
Speakers
Senior Policy Analyst, Global Affairs Canada, Government of Canada
Biography: Yohanna Loucheur joined the Canadian federal government in 1997. She has worked on various files including the knowledge-based economy and society, innovative financing for development, aid effectiveness policies, fiduciary risk management and public financial management...
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Aid Transparency Team Lead, USAID
Biography: Andie Vaughn is an Aid Transparency Analyst for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Since joining the Agency in 2011, she has worked on improving both the quality and quantity of USAID's data submissions to the International Aid Transparency...
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Coordinators
Consultant, UNDP Bangladesh
Thursday October 6, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room F
12:00 CEST
Data + International Aid II / Data and the SDG
Moderators
Engagement and Partnerships Associate, Development Gateway
Title proposal: Data and the SDGs.Biography: Paige is passionate about developing tools and processes that elevate local decision-makers. She drives DG's innovation work around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on making SDGs relevant and actionable...
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Speakers
CEO, Young Innovations
Title proposal: After the earthquake, where did the money go?. Lessons from Nepal on how a publishing standard could help improve the transparency, accountability and effectiveness of humanitarian aid.Biography:
Bibhusan is the CEO of YoungInnovations, a company based in Nepal...
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Regional Technical Lead (Africa), Development Initiatives-Africa Hub
Title proposal: Leaving no one behind: localising global goals for data-driven community development in Kenya.Biography: Karen Rono works with Development Initiatives based in the Nairobi office, her role covers the East African region and heads the technical work for the organisation...
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Commissioner, Right to Access Information Commission
Biography: Yeama Thompson is a Sierra Leonean media development professional who rose through the ranks from a cub-reporter at the Sierra Leone Daily Mail to an Editor of The Chronicle newspaper in war-time Sierra Leone. During that period, she also conceptualised and produced community...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 12:45 CEST
Room F
12:00 CEST
Data + Humanitarian issues
Moderators
Deputy Chief Information Officer, City of Los Angeles
Title proposal:
A global marketplace for city data
Building Open Data Communities in Africa
Biography: As a leader in open data, education, community-building, and civic innovation, Jeanne Holm empowers people to discover new knowledge and collaborate to improve life on...
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Speakers
BTVdatalab coordinator, BTVdatalab - Barcelona Televisió
Title proposal: Spanish Civil War: a proposal to open data about all victims of war and repression.Biography: Concha Catalan graduated in English (UB) and in Journalism (UPF) in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She has coordinated the datajournalism project
BTV Datalab and is co-fou...
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Manager, Data Lab Nairobi, The Humanitarian Data Exchange
Title proposal: Lessons from the humanitarian data exchange in East Africa.Biography: Moses is the manager for the Humanitarian Data Exchange Data Lab in Nairobi. The HDX Data Lab focuses on baseline data collection, provision of various data services to humanitarian community partners...
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CEO, Zimmerman & Zimmerman
Title proposal: Open data for development and humanitarian action.Biography: Mr. Vaessen has been working with open data and collection management since 1993. He started his career at the photo agency ABC Press based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He continued working as a photo...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 13:15 CEST
Room B
12:00 CEST
Data + Culture
Moderators
Speakers
Researcher and developer, University of Alicante
Title proposal: Transformation of cultural heritage into linked open data.Biography: The Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Foundation. Gustavo Candela is a member of the Research and Development department at The Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Foundation since 2010...
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Full professor, Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Title proposal: datos.bne.es: 5 years of linked open data at the National Library of Spain.Biography: Asunción is Full Professor at UPM, director of the Artificial Intelligence Department, director of the Ontology Engineering Group and PhD in Computer Science. She is leading...
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Web & Digital Media, IT Department. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
Title proposal: Open data and reuse: Issues and challenges for cultural institutions. Conclusions of the pre-event Open Data and Culture (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid 5th October)
Biography: Ana Alvarez is Web Manager at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza of Madrid. She has a BA in Medieval...
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Full Professor, Publidoc UCM. Department of Library and Information Science. Complutense University
Title proposal: Your work is perfect. Share it with everybody.Biography: Silvia Cobo Serrano is an official scholarly researcher and received her PhD in 2015 from the School of Information Sciences at the Complutense University (Spain). Her research interests are focused on project...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 13:15 CEST
Room C
12:00 CEST
Data + Accountability I
Moderators
Community & Partnerships Manager, OpenCorporates
Title proposal: How open company data can shed a light on corruption and anonymous companies.Biography: Hera catalyzes communities, journalists, and activists, helping them embrace open data and technological innovation in creating positive change around the globe. A leader and...
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Speakers
Founder, Accountability Lab
Title proposal: Incubating youth entrepreneurship in governance: an impact evaluation of accountability lab in Liberia.Biography: Blair Glencorse is Founder and Executive Director of the
Accountability Lab, an incubator for creative, youth-driven ideas for accountability and transparency around the world. Blair is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Anti-Corruption and Transparency. Previously, Blair was a Social Impact Fellow at the Center for High Impact Philanthr...
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Global Matchbox Lead, the engine room
Title proposal: Matchbox.Biography: Julia Keseru is the Global Lead for the engine room's Matchbox Program, supporting transparency and accountability activists around the world to bring about positive change, and building a network of experts and social change instigators. Prior...
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CEO, Euroalert
Title proposal: Alternative estimation of ‘‘public procurement advertised in the Official Journal as % of GDP’’ european official indicator using open government data.Biography: Holding both a Telecommunication Engineering Degree and a Business Administration Degree from...
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Senior Affiliated Researcher, Software and Knowledge Engineering Laboratory, IIT, NCSR-?Demokritos?
Title proposal: Linked open economy: take full advantage of economic data.Biography: Michalis Vafopoulos is an affiliated researcher at the Software & Knowledge Engineering Laboratory (SKEL) of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 13:15 CEST
Room D
12:00 CEST
Data + Transport
Moderators
Program Manager, The World Bank
Craig Hammer is Program Manager at the World Bank, and Secretary of the World Bank’s Development Data Council. He specializes in evidence-based governance reforms, with particular emphasis on open government and open data initiatives. His work at the World Bank has included strengthening...
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Speakers
Director Transparency and Open Data, SNCF (french railways)
Title proposal: SNCF (french railways and public transport operator): open data, as a tool for accountability and change.Biography: Guillaume Leborgne has been working on the opening and the release of SNCF (French Railways) data since 2014 in a will of transparency. Over the past...
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Program Officer, The World Bank
Title proposal: Unlocking open transport data innovations for smarter urban transport.Biography: Alla Morrison is a Data Scientist at the World Bank, where she is currently working on a pilot program to support Innovations in Development Data. In the last two years in Transport...
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Smart City project coordinator, Valladolid City Council
Title proposal: S2CITY: gathering and opening data in the city.Biography: Telecommunications Engineer and Economist with more than 15 years of experience in Project Management, focused on innovation and technology. Angela has a Master Degree in European Project Management.
She is...
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IT Director, Mexico City Government / Laboratorio para la Ciudad
Title proposal: Generating and leveraging public transport data.Biography: Fascinated since he was a kid about the digital world and its potential, Daniel did a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering. Daniel coordinates the IT area of Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Lab for the...
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Coordinators
Open Data Senior Consultant, Fundacion CTIC Centro Tecnologico
Title proposal: Open data and distributed ledger (aka Blockchain). Technologies to solve real-world issues.Biography: Luis has worked too in consultancy services for eGovernment projects related to the deployment of broadband infrastructure and web applications in public institutions...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 13:30 CEST
Room A
12:00 CEST
Data + Parliaments
Moderators
Interim Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
Biography: John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the nation's foremost advocates for open government. John spearheads Sunlight's goal of changing the government by opening up key data sources and information to make government more accountable...
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Speakers
President, OPENDATAFRANCE
Title proposal: Best Practice : MANAGEMENT OF A WIDE PUBLIC ACTORS NETWORK (OpendataFrance).Biography: Jean-Marie BOURGOGNE is the co-founder and director of the association
OpenDataFrance which gathers French local authorities to promote Opendata in France. He previously mana...
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Partnerships and projects manager, mySociety
Title proposal: Collaboration for parliamentary data: changing the world of parliamentary monitoring.Biography: Jen joined mySociety in 2013 and has since worked on a wide range of projects in countries from Zimbabwe to Malaysia, and topics from FOI to street fault reporting. Her...
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President, UG Zasto ne / CA Why not
Title proposal: A new way of getting citizens and parliamentarians excited about legislation in the parliament - www.javnarasprava.ba.Biography: Darko Brkan is the president of CA „Why not“, one of the most prominent Bosnian NGOs that promotes activism, government accountability...
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Executive Director, Open North
Proposal title: Situating open data in national open parliament action plans: drawing lessons learned from successful CSO initiatives for the global open data community.Biography: Jean-Noé Landry is Executive Director of Open North, Canada's leading non profit specialized in applied...
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Journalist, Chequeado
Title proposal: Impact of live data during election debates.Biography: Ariel Riera: Journalist. He studied Communication Science at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Since 2012 he is part of Chequeado´s newsroom, the only Argentine organization dedicated to fact-checking and leader...
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Head of Research, mySociety
Title proposal: The UK EU Referendum: how civic tech informed voters.Biography: Dr Rebecca Rumbul is Head of Research for civic tech NGO mySociety, a role focused on understanding the real world implications and impacts of civic technology for citizens, governments and the wider...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:00 - 13:30 CEST
Room E
12:45 CEST
Open Data + Performance / Building Open Performance into the Fabric of Government
Moderators
Director of Multilateral & NGO, Socrata, Inc.
Title proposal: Building open performance (and data) into the fabric of government.Biography: Jeff has for years been a high-profile expert in global Open Data and public sector innovation. Mostly recently, he has served as Director of Multilateral & Non-Profits at Socrata, a...
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Speakers
Engagement and partnerships Associate, Development Gateway
Biography: Sarah works to promote efficiency and effectiveness through data uptake and technology use. She led the Sri Lanka team of Development Gateway’s Results Data Initiative, which included qualitative interviews around results data collection and use. Sarah also works on making...
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Deputy director of performance strategy, US department of commerce (former)
Biography: Jeff Press served as the Deputy Director of Performance Strategy at the U.S. Department of Commerce where he was responsible for leading performance improvement and innovation across the entire organization. Prior to Commerce, Jeff worked with the White House Office of...
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International Development Researcher, Open Data Institute
Biography: Fiona is the International Development Manager at The Open Data Institute responsible for research design, evaluation and learning covering the ODI’s work supporting developing country governments to unlock the value of open data.Fiona has a broad background in international...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 12:45 - 13:30 CEST
Room F
14:15 CEST
Data + Budget
Moderators
Lead Researcher, Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA)
Title proposal: The open data charter in the Americas.Biography: Fabrizio Scrollini is the lead researcher of the Latin American Initiative for Open Data (ILDA), and member of the Open Data Network for Development (OD4D). He is also Chairman of DATA Uruguay, a civic association...
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Speakers
Project Manager OpenBudgets.eu, OKFDE
Title proposal: How to make sense of multiple budgets? Using data integration tools for budget and spending data.Biography: Anna Alberts is a project manager at Open Knowledge Foundation Germany for
OpenBudgets.eu.
OpenBudgets.eu is an H2020 research project that contributes to the field of Financial Transparency by developing new tools for financial data integration and analysis. Within this project Anna leads on dissemination and communication. She focuses on creating new resources and knowledge around financ...
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Director, Fundación Civio
Title proposal: ¿Dónde van mis impuestos?. National, regional and local budget accountability at its best.Biography: David Cabo is the co-founder and Director of the Civio Foundation, which promotes an engaged citizenry through transparency and data journalism. Among Civio’s...
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IT Adviser at the ICT Department of the Aragon Government, Gobierno de Aragón / Aragón Government
Title proposal: Mapping money with Aragon open spending app.Biography:
Head of eAdmin at the Aragón Government
PhD Civil Engineer in the study field "Transport Infrastructures and Land' Planning".
Master in Public Administration
Linkedin:
https://es.linkedin.com/in/josemsub...
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CTO, Quintagroup, Ltd.
Title proposal: OCDS in ProZorro - Public procurement reform as startup.Biography: CTO of Quintagroup, 13 years on OpenSource solutions market. Apologist of Open Data, Open Source, Linux, Python, Mozilla and P2P technologies.Graduate of Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum and Ivan...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room A
14:15 CEST
Data + Environment
Moderators
Acting Manager of Data Projects, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Biography: At Natural Resource Governance Institute Anders is working open data in extractives including contracts, project data and other key data sources. He coordinates the work on ResourceContracts, the world’s largest database on extractives contracts – a partnership between...
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Speakers PC
Regional Data Manager, East-West Management Institute Open Development Initiative
Title proposal: Open data and the lower Mekong Basin
Associate, World Resources Institute
Title proposal: Global forest watch climate: catalyzing action on climate change.Biography: Carolyn Ciciarelli is a member of the Global Forest Watch (GFW) team at the World Resources Institute. She manages the Global Forest Watch Climate website, which delivers timely and accurate...
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Chief Design Officer, Vizzuality
Title proposal: Designing for impact: lessons from resource watch.Biography: Sergio founded Vizzuality, a Spanish data visualisation firm with international impact. By using a mix of great open data, user research and design that delights, Vizzuality builds web applications that...
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MSc in Social Anthropology, CartoCrítica
Title proposal: Nature, territory and concessions.Biography: He studied communications (BA) and social anthropology (MSc) at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. He is the founder of CartoCrítica, a Mexican nonprofit organization that seeks to promote transparency and access...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room B
14:15 CEST
Data + Data Journalism
Moderators
Program Manager, The World Bank
Craig Hammer is Program Manager at the World Bank, and Secretary of the World Bank’s Development Data Council. He specializes in evidence-based governance reforms, with particular emphasis on open government and open data initiatives. His work at the World Bank has included strengthening...
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Speakers
Journalist, El Confidencial
Biography: Daniele Grasso is an Italian journalist based in Madrid. Since late 2013 he has worked at El Confidencial, where he launched and now coordinates the first data journalism unit ever created in a Spanish media organization. Besides his newsroom work, he has had a leading...
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Data journalist in the Data unit, El Mundo
Biography: Paula Guisado is a data journalist in the Data unit at El Mundo. She has bachelor's degrees in Journalism, Audiovisual Communications and Publicity from the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM). She specialized in Investigative reporting, Data and Visualization with a master...
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Data journalist, eldiario.es
Title proposal: How data-driven journalism and the use of open data has an impact on public policies.Biography: Raúl Sánchez is a Spanish journalist specialized in data journalism and visualization based in Madrid. He is the co-founder of "Mapa del Poder en Canarias", an interactive...
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Data and Technology Coordinator, Transparency International Secretariat
Title proposal: Open data to fight corruption: Tools for investigative journalists.Biography: Jean Brice is working for Transparency International as Data and Technology Coordinator for the People Engagement Programme, to improve the use of data and technology for Transparency International’s...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room C
14:15 CEST
Data + Cities I
Moderators
Executive Director, Open North
Proposal title: Situating open data in national open parliament action plans: drawing lessons learned from successful CSO initiatives for the global open data community.Biography: Jean-Noé Landry is Executive Director of Open North, Canada's leading non profit specialized in applied...
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Speakers
Communication and consultancy department, Empresa municipal de transportes de Madrid S.A.
Title proposal: EMT Madrid experience in open data: building a Smart City.Biography: Sergio Fernández Balaguer, Communication and Consultancy Department, Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid (Madrid Public Transport Company)- EMT MADRID
Degree in Engineering. Master in...
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Researcher and Senior Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire
Title proposal: MediaMill: understanding the opportunities for hyerplocal, open data journalism.Biography: Andy is a UK based Senior lecturer and researcher based in the Media Innovation Studio at the University of Central Lancashire. He has been involved in online and digital media...
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Urban innovation planner, Zaragoza City Council
Title proposal: CityKeys: opening key performance indicators for Smarter Cities.Biography: Urban innovation planner at Zaragoza City Council's Smart City Department.
Team ideologist & launcher of "Etopia. Center for Arts and Technology" (@etopia_), Zaragoza public WiFi, Zaragoza's...
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Operational Director, Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance
Title proposal: How does citizen-generated data contribute to the implementation of open data in urban governance: the case of Jakarta Smart City.Biography: Dinita was the Operational Director at Centre for Innovation Policy and Governance (CIPG) - a research based advocacy group...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room D
14:15 CEST
Data + Hacking data
Moderators
W3C Spanish Office Head and Open Data expert, CTIC Technology Centre
Biography: Martin Alvarez-Espinar, engineer in computer science, is the W3C Spanish Office Head and Open Data expert at CTIC Technology Centre. He has broad experience in Web standards development, representing CTIC at the World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee. Martin has...
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Speakers
Head of Development and Policy, Etalab
Biography: Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes is the Head of Development & Policy at Etalab, the French Prime Minister's taskforce for Open Data, OpenGov, and Datascience. She works on fostering partnerships around data.gouv.fr and OpenFisca.fr and negotiating with agencies the release of...
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Software Engineer, Code For Africa
Title proposal: Building demand-driven and citizen-focussed open data tools.Biography: Andrew serves in Code for Africa's Tech Team, building web and mobile tools around Africa's largest open data initiative, using technology and data to help citizens shape their governments and...
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CEO, BBVA Data & Analytics
Title proposal: Opening financial data or how to stop worrying and love open.Biography: Elena Alfaro is the Chief Executive Officer of BBVA Data & Analytics, a spin off of BBVA Bank (Spain), which mission is to create new products and services based on internal and external data...
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Data Science Anthropologist, Data Aurora
Title proposal: Data innovation landscape in Lebanon.Biography: Ali Rebaie is a principal industry analyst at Rebaie Analytics Group. He is also a prominent blogger, consultant and keynote speaker. As a data science anthropologist, Rebaie has been studying the impact of data patterns...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room E
14:15 CEST
Data + Science
Moderators
Department Director of Indicators and Monitoring of Research and Innovation Policies, Science Foundation of Science and Technology (FECYT)
Biography: Department Director of Indicators and Monitoring of Research and Innovation Policies at the Science Foundation of Science and Technology (FECYT). Has a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science (MSU) and Masters in Science, Technology (UAM). Background and experience in...
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Speakers
Member of the community, Spaghetti Open Data
Title proposal: The Death Star of FP7: a network analysis of european research funding with open data.Biography: Economist, expert on collaborative public policies and online participation. Committed to make government smarter and more open, using the Internet to tap into the citizenry’s...
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Ph.D./Associate Research Fellow, Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Title proposal: TIPD (Taiwan Indigenous Peoples open research Data): construction methods and sharing contents.Biography: Ji-Ping Lin received B.Sc. in Geography from National Taiwan University (Taiwan) in 1988, M.Sc. in Statistics from National Central University (Taiwan) in 1990...
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Associate professor, Maredata Thematic Network / Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Title proposal: Are scientific and research data public sector information. Aren't they?Biography:
I am a faculty member in the Library and Information Science (LIS) department in the University Carlos III of Madrid. My field of expertise is Metadata, Open Access and LOD (Linked...
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Technical Conselour, Spanish Patent and Trademark Offcie
Title proposal: Patent Information, natural source of open data.Biography: Carlos Turmo is currently Technical Counsellor in the IT Department at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office. PhD in Biological Sciences, he joined the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (SPTMO) in 1986...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Room F
15:30 CEST
Data + Anticorruption
Moderators
Executive Director, Transparency & Accountability Initiative
Biography: Michael Jarvis joins T/AI after almost two decades working on different aspects of the global good governance and development agenda. Most recently, Michael was the Global Lead for Extractives Governance within the World Bank Group’s Governance Global Practice. He led...
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Speakers
Head of Advocacy EU Integrity, Transparency International
Title proposal: Hacking political corruption: how integrity watch made EU lobbying more transparentBiography: Daniel Freund leads Transparency International's work on the integrity of the EU institutions. He is responsible for EU Integrity Watch (
www.integritywatch.eu), as well as the work on legislative transparency, conflicts of interest, lobbying, revolving doors and the legislative footprint. He is based in Brussels.
Before joining TI, Daniel was a political adviser in the European Parliament working on constitutional and legal issues. He...
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Community & Partnerships Manager, OpenCorporates
Title proposal: How open company data can shed a light on corruption and anonymous companies.Biography: Hera catalyzes communities, journalists, and activists, helping them embrace open data and technological innovation in creating positive change around the globe. A leader and...
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Coordinator, Revistazo.com, Asociacion para una Sociedad mas Justa / Revistazo.com
Title proposal: Open medicines: fighting corruption and saving lives with open data in Honduras.Biography: Abram Huyser-Honig is the Coordinator of
Revistazo.com, a data-driven investigative news website affiliated with Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (ASJ - the Honduras chapter of Transparency International). Investigations published under his direction have contributed to indictments related to public health sector corruption and...
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Data Analyst, Fair-Play Alliance
Title proposal: Using business data for revealing money laundering in Slovakia.Biography: Pavol is a Data Analyst at
Fair-play Alliance, a Slovak watchdog organisation using investigative journalism to flag up uneconomical and unethical activities in managing public funds. Over the last years he worked on many stories uncovering activities of dubious shell companies, close ties between politicians and oligarchs or wasti...
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Administrator of Regards Citoyens, Regards Citoyens
Title proposal: Shining light on french healthcare professionals financial ties to industry.Biography: François Massot and Tangui Morlier from Regards Citoyens.
Regards Citoyens is a French organization of citizens volunteering from all regions to work together on providing a...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room A
15:30 CEST
Data + Elections
Moderators
Associate, ODI
Biography: Liz supports governments and teams to use data and transparency to achieve their objectives, both for the Open Data Institute (ODI) where she is an associate, and as an independent advisor. In this capacity she has advised leaders from over 30 countries, including through...
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International Development Researcher, Open Data Institute
Biography: Fiona is the International Development Manager at The Open Data Institute responsible for research design, evaluation and learning covering the ODI’s work supporting developing country governments to unlock the value of open data.Fiona has a broad background in international...
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Speakers
Biography: Anna produces and manages research across the Open Data Institute's programmes. She also writes and commissions blogs, and presents the ODI Podcast. She specialises in open data and global development, having spent two years writing and commissioning on the subjects for...
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Coordinators
Director of Multilateral & NGO, Socrata, Inc.
Title proposal: Building open performance (and data) into the fabric of government.Biography: Jeff has for years been a high-profile expert in global Open Data and public sector innovation. Mostly recently, he has served as Director of Multilateral & Non-Profits at Socrata, a...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room B
15:30 CEST
Data + Inequality
Moderators
Open Data Specialist, UNDP
Title proposal:
Has open data brought trust in the institutions?
Measuring the unmeasured: data democratization has transformed power dynamics between citizens and institutions
Biography:
Lejla works in UNDP's Istanbul Regional Hub on open data in Europe and Central...
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Speakers
Program Manager, School of Data Brazil
Title proposal: Data literacy for vulnerable youth.Biography: Journalist specialized in data driven journalism and digital strategy focused in the third sector. Program Manager of School of Data in Brazil and co-founder of the Brazilian chapter of the data-driven news agency J...
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Regional Technical Lead (Africa), Development Initiatives-Africa Hub
Title proposal: Leaving no one behind: localising global goals for data-driven community development in Kenya.Biography: Karen Rono works with Development Initiatives based in the Nairobi office, her role covers the East African region and heads the technical work for the organisation...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room C
15:30 CEST
Data + Cities II
Moderators
Open Data Project Lead, Sunlight Foundation
Biography: Stephen Larrick is Open Data Project Lead for the Sunlight Foundation, where he works as part of the policy team to promote transparency and open government at the urban subnational level. His current efforts focus on facilitating the adoption of meaningful and sustainable...
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Speakers
Learning and Knowledge Management, Inter-American Development Bank
Title proposal: Kick-starting open data policies at a municipal level.Biography: Antonio works at the Inter-American Development Bank promoting open data as a collaborative tool for governments, citizens, entrepreneurs and universities to solve development challenges. At the IDB...
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Information analyst, Website of the City of Zaragoza
Biography: Victor Morlan Plo is an Information analyst of the Website of the City of Zaragoza since 2003. He holds a degree on Computer Engineering from the University of León and has published several works on mobility and semantic technologies.
Senior Implementation Advisor, Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University
Title proposal: What works cities: building capacity for open data in mid-sized cities.Biography: Originally from Indiana, Eric has spent his career working and partnering with organizations around the world to improve public sector performance. Before coming to GovEx, Eric worked...
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Smart Dublin co-ordinator, Dublinked Open data platform
Title proposal: How data is helping Dublin solve its challenges.Biography: Zaira has worked in different areas of local government for the past 10 years including smart cities, international relations, innovation and communications. As Smart Dublin Coordinator she works across the...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room D
15:30 CEST
Data + Disaster Management
Moderators BN
Professor, New York University's Tandon School of Engineering
Speakers
CEO, Young Innovations
Title proposal: After the earthquake, where did the money go?. Lessons from Nepal on how a publishing standard could help improve the transparency, accountability and effectiveness of humanitarian aid.Biography:
Bibhusan is the CEO of YoungInnovations, a company based in Nepal...
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Disaster Risk Management Specialist, The World Bank Group
Title proposal: Open data for resilience initiative: principles and experiences from the field.Biography: Vivien Deparday is a Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction (GFDRR) at the World Bank. He leads GFDRR's Open Data for Resilience...
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Lead Mapping Supervisor, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Title proposal: Ramani Huria - community mapping in Dar es Salaam using OpenStreetMap.Biography: Innocent Maholi, a lead mapping supervisor for Dar Ramani Huria project. In March 2015 while studying for my Bachelor Degree, I started contributing to OpenStreetMap with Dar Ramani Huria...
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Open Data Specialist, The World Bank
Title proposal: Data + Disaster Risk Resilience.Biography: Ankur Nagar is an Open Data Specialist with the World Bank’s South Asia Disaster Risk Management team, and also supports the Bank’s Global Media Development Program. He brings open data, ICT, and information design expertise...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room E
15:30 CEST
Data + Indigenous
Moderators
Associate Director and Assistant Research Professor, US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network The Native Nations Institute
Title proposal: Building an international indigenous data network.Biography: Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan) is Assistant Professor - Public Health, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy (UC); Associate Director and Manager - Tribal Health Program for the Native Nations...
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Speakers
Associate Professor, National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis University of Waikato
Biography: Dr Tahu Kukutai is Associate Professor at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis at the University of Waikato, Aoteaora New Zealand. Tahu specialises in indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on indigenous population change, population...
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Ph.D./Associate Research Fellow, Research Center of Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica
Title proposal: TIPD (Taiwan Indigenous Peoples open research Data): construction methods and sharing contents.Biography: Ji-Ping Lin received B.Sc. in Geography from National Taiwan University (Taiwan) in 1988, M.Sc. in Statistics from National Central University (Taiwan) in 1990...
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Research Specialist, US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network The Native Nations Institute
Biography: Andrew Martinez (Tohono O’odham, Diegueño, Yaqui) is a Research Specialist with the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network based at the Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona. Martinez is focused on addressing how data outcomes affect American Indian, Alaska...
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Co-Chair, Te Mana Raraunga (Mãori Data Sovereignty Network)
Title proposal: Building an International Indigenous Data Network.Biography: Kirikowhai Mikaere (Tuhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue tribes of Aotearoa New Zealand) is a self-employed contractor advising different Māori and Iwi (tribal) organisations on their statistical and information...
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Maori health researcher based in the Statistics Department, University of Auckland
Biography: Andrew Sporle is a Maori health researcher based in the Statistics Department at the University of Auckland where he teaches in courses on survey methods and official statistics. He was formerly the inaugural Maori health research manager at the Health Research Council...
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Professor Sociology, University of Tasmania
Biography: Maggie Walter (PhD) is member of the Briggs/Johnson Tasmanian Aboriginal family and a descendant of the people from tebrakunna country in North Eastern Tasmania. She is passionately interested in Indigenous statistics and increasing Indigenous researcher’s statistical...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 15:30 - 16:30 CEST
Room F
16:45 CEST
Data + Extractives
Moderators
Acting Manager of Data Projects, Natural Resource Governance Institute
Biography: At Natural Resource Governance Institute Anders is working open data in extractives including contracts, project data and other key data sources. He coordinates the work on ResourceContracts, the world’s largest database on extractives contracts – a partnership between...
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Speakers AK
AMLA project coordinator & Legal Counsel, African Legal Support Facility
MK
Data Extractors and Bantay Kita, PWYP
Title proposal: Mapping project level data to satellite imagery
BL
Development Initiatives
Title proposal: Exploring linked data and connecting data standards in extractives
DM
Economic Analys, Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)
JR
Advocacy Officer, Publish What You Pay International
AR
Open Oil
Title proposal: Linking security filings and project level data
DY
Data Extractors and Publish What You Pay Indonesia, PWYP
Title proposal: Project level data analysis in Indonesia
Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room A
16:45 CEST
Data + Language Processing Technologies
Moderators JD
Gabinete del Secretario de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y para la Sociedad de la Información, Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism
Speakers
Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO)
Title proposal: OpenMinted: an open, service-oriented ep-Infrastructure for Text and Data Mining (TDM) of scientific and scholarly contentBiography: Dr. Martin Krallinger is currently working at the Spanish National Cancer research Centre and is honorary visiting professor at the...
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Executive adviser, University of Copenhagen Centre for Language Technology Copenhagen, Denmark
Title proposal: Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure: CLARINBiography: Bente Maegaard is Vice Executive Director of CLARIN ERIC. Bente Maegaard is employed at the
University of Copenhagen, Centre for Language Technology. Her areas of expertise are in particular...
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Head of Unit “Data policy & Innovation“, European Commission
Title proposal: Open Data and Language Technologies. European Commission view. CEF Automated Translation platform use case.Biography: Márta has broad experience working in European initiatives on business and public environment. She dealt with the initiation and transaction of...
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Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, Spain.
Title proposal: Spanish Plan to foster Language Technologies.Biography: Adviser to the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society, Spain. Physicist and Mathematician, PhD in Differential Geometry. IT expert with a patent on dynamic routing and a long experience...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room B
16:45 CEST
My Best Open Data Fail
Moderators
Diseñador grafico, interfaces y visualizaciones de datos, Infobae
Visualizacion de datos. Diseño gráfico. Díscolo en Hacks Hackers BA
Speakers
Head of Services and Operations, Cívica Digital
Title proposal: Open data and inclusivity
Director, Fundación Civio
Title proposal: ¿Dónde van mis impuestos?. National, regional and local budget accountability at its best.Biography: David Cabo is the co-founder and Director of the Civio Foundation, which promotes an engaged citizenry through transparency and data journalism. Among Civio’s...
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Program Manager, School of Data Brazil
Title proposal: Data literacy for vulnerable youth.Biography: Journalist specialized in data driven journalism and digital strategy focused in the third sector. Program Manager of School of Data in Brazil and co-founder of the Brazilian chapter of the data-driven news agency J...
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Co-Founder & Coordinator, Sinar Project
Programme Consultant and investigative journalist working on applying innovative methods of open data and standards, for transparency and anti-corruption.Talk to me about open data standards and tools for tracking and investigating politically exposed persons and legislative open...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room C
16:45 CEST
Data + Business models
Moderators
Program Officer, The World Bank
Title proposal: Unlocking open transport data innovations for smarter urban transport.Biography: Alla Morrison is a Data Scientist at the World Bank, where she is currently working on a pilot program to support Innovations in Development Data. In the last two years in Transport...
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Speakers
CEO, Farmerline
Biography: Alloysius is the CEO/Co-founder of Farmerline. In 2013, Alloysius launched Farmerline to transform millions of farmers into successful entrepreneurs. His 15 years of experience of the challenges small-scale farmers go through to produce food and support their families inspired...
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CEO, Medicinia US
Biography: DANIEL BRANCO is a doctor by UFRGS, a neurologist and a doctorate in neuroscience from PUCRS, post-doctorate in brain mapping by Harvard and an MBA from Wharton School of Business. After creating the first site medical Brazil (Electronic Atlas of Histology, 1995) and the...
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COO, Gramener
Biography: Naveen is the COO & Co-founder of Gramener (A Data Visualization firm), handles Strategic Sales & Operations of the firm and proud recipient of Lufthansa Pioneering Spirit Award-2012.Naveen is a seasoned executive with deep experience in industry that has predominantly...
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CEO, Open Intelligence
Biography: Alejandro Maza is founder and CEO of OPI, a startup that develops technological tools of data production and analysis for decision-making. OPI tools help public and private organizations cope with the variety and volume of public data so as to implement them in their decision-making...
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CEO, Open Data Nation
Biography:
Carey Anne Nadeau is the Founder and CEO of Open Data Nation (
opendatanation.com), a women-owned B-Corp based in Washington DC, providing consultation and smart city solutions that help public-sector decision-makers to transform their data into perationally-useful information and become more effective and efficient at delivering public services. Previously Nadeau...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room D
16:45 CEST
Open Data + Platforms
Moderators
Professor of Digital Journalism at University, Google News Lab
Biography: Millan Berzosa (@mberzosa on Twitter) is a journalist and consultant with strong ties to Latin America and a passion for Iberian and hispanic culture, digital transformation and the whole picture of communications.
PhD in Journalism by Complutense University of Madrid...
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Speakers
Lead, Canada’s Open Government Portal
Biography: Ashley Casovan is the lead for Canada's Open Government Portal. In this position, she is responsible for working with departments and agencies all across the GC to disseminate data and information. Prior to working for the GC, she lead the Open Data and Open Government...
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CEO & Founder, Derilinx
Biography: Deirdre, CEO and Founder of Derilinx, is passionate about releasing the potential of data that is currently locked away in government agencies. Deirdre is a Linked and Open Data expert and has led a number of large-scale, government projects with Derilinx, including managing...
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The World Bank
Biography: Sunita Malhotra has been working with the World Bank in India for more than 16 years, now. She believes in the power of knowledge and works to empower the youth by organizing discussions, trainings and hosting knowledge sessions at various youth events. She conducts...
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CoFounder & CEO, Linknovate
Title proposal: Linknovate: Innovation Search EngineBiography: Manuel likes to define himself as a researcher turned entrepreneur. BSc Chemical Engineering (USC, Spain) and MSc Materials Science (UPM, Spain).His key areas of know-how are technology scouting, competitive intelligence...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room F