11:00 CEST
Data + Accountability II
Moderators 
Programme Management Officer, International Development Research Centre
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
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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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
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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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
15:30 CEST
Data + Disaster Management
Moderators BN
Professor, New York University's Tandon School of Engineering
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
16:45 CEST
Data + Emerging Economies
Moderators
Speakers 
Team Leader - Education and Science, IDRC
Co-Founder and Chief Research, GovLab
Title proposal: TBCBiography: Stefaan G. Verhulst (@sverhulst; @thegovlab) is Co-Founder and Chief Research of the Governance Laboratory @New York University (www.thegovlab.org), an action research center dedicated to improving governance and people’s lives through advances...
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Thursday October 6, 2016 16:45 - 17:45 CEST
Room E
18:00 CEST
Regional Talk - North America
Moderators 
Director of Public Innovation, Office of the President
Biography: Director of Public Innovation of the Coordination of National Digital Strategy in the Office of the President of Mexico, where he is one of the main responsible of the development and implementation of the Mexican Open Data Policy. Enrique holds a Master of Public Policy...
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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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President and Founder, Center for Open Data Enterprise
Biography: Joel Gurin is President and Founder of the Center for Open Data Enterprise (www.OpenDataEnterprise.org), a Washington-based nonprofit that works to maximize the value of open data as a public resource. He also serves as a senior open data consultant to the World Bank...
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Professor, New York University's Tandon School of Engineering
SW
Information Management and Open Government, Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, Executive Director
Thursday October 6, 2016 18:00 - 19:00 CEST
Room E
08:30 CEST
Action session (Measuring and Increasing Impact)
Moderators 
Co-Founder and Chief Research, GovLab
Title proposal: TBCBiography: Stefaan G. Verhulst (@sverhulst; @thegovlab) is Co-Founder and Chief Research of the Governance Laboratory @New York University (www.thegovlab.org), an action research center dedicated to improving governance and people’s lives through advances...
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Research and Policy Officer, World Wide Web Foundation
Ana is a Research and Policy Officer at the Web Foundation. She drives a more inclusive use of data to enhance digital rights and gender equity through various data, research and policy projects. These include Women’s Rights Online and the Open Data Barometer. She also works on...
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Open data researcher, Cadasta
Biography: Lindsay is an open data researcher at Cadasta and current MSc candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Before coming to Cadasta, Lindsay worked at the Sunlight Foundation where she provided resources and trainings to transparency NGOs across the globe on how to integrate...
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Researcher, Open Knowledge International
Biography: Danny is a researcher working with Open Knowledge International were he also coordinates OKI's research. His interests focus on the politics of data, audit cultures and evidence-based politics, open science and the social effects of quantification. Danny dedicates his research...
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Team Leader - Education and Science, IDRC
Board Member, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKF)
Biography: Claudia Schwegmann is Board Member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKF) and team lead of the 2030 Watch project of the OKF to monitor the SDG implementation in high income countries. She has been an activist for transparency and open data in development finance...
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Friday October 7, 2016 08:30 - 09:30 CEST
Room E
09:30 CEST
Evidence-based training for open data practitioners?. Lessons from open data impact case studies
Speakers 
Co-Founder and Chief Research, GovLab
Title proposal: TBCBiography: Stefaan G. Verhulst (@sverhulst; @thegovlab) is Co-Founder and Chief Research of the Governance Laboratory @New York University (www.thegovlab.org), an action research center dedicated to improving governance and people’s lives through advances...
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Associate Director of Research, The Governance Lab
Title proposal: Evidence-based training for open data practitioners? lessons from open data impact case studies.Biography: Andrew Young is the Associate Director of Research at The GovLab, where he leads research efforts focusing on the impact of technology on public institutions...
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Friday October 7, 2016 09:30 - 10:30 CEST
Room E
11:00 CEST
From open data research to policy: influencing global, national and local agenda
Speakers 
Programme Manager for Making All Voices Count’s Research, Evidence and Learning (REL), Institute of Development Studies
Biography: Duncan Edwards is the Programme Manager for Making All Voices Count’s Research, Evidence and Learning (REL) component at the Institute of Development Studies. His work is focused on building an evidence base in the field of citizen engagement and accountable responsive...
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Lecturer, Mona School of Business and Management, University of West Indies
Biography: Michelle McLeod (PhD) is Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her tourism industry experience spans over twenty-five years. Her present research interests are in the subject areas of tourism, knowledge networks, open data ecosystems...
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Research lead, Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA)
Biography: Conducts research in the areas of open data, science communication and higher education studies. He has an MEd from the University of the Western Cape, an MPhil in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling, and a BA(Hons) in English Literature from the University...
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Phd Researcher, Web Science Center, University of Southhampton
Biography: Johanna Walker is a PhD researcher at the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Southampton, focusing on how to stimulate innovation with open data. She was previously a member of the advisory panel to the UK Cabinet Office, the Open Data User...
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Regional Research Manager for Asia, World Wide Web Foundation's Open Data Lab Jakarta
Miko is Web Foundation’s Regional Research Manager for Asia. He has more than ten years of research and development work experience at a progressive pace – from community-based project management to regional development with most of his work rooted mainly in Southeast Asia.
Miko...
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Friday October 7, 2016 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Room E
12:00 CEST
Measuring Open Data together
Speakers
Research and Policy Officer, World Wide Web Foundation
Ana is a Research and Policy Officer at the Web Foundation. She drives a more inclusive use of data to enhance digital rights and gender equity through various data, research and policy projects. These include Women’s Rights Online and the Open Data Barometer. She also works on...
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Open data researcher, Cadasta
Biography: Lindsay is an open data researcher at Cadasta and current MSc candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute. Before coming to Cadasta, Lindsay worked at the Sunlight Foundation where she provided resources and trainings to transparency NGOs across the globe on how to integrate...
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Board Member, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKF)
Biography: Claudia Schwegmann is Board Member of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKF) and team lead of the 2030 Watch project of the OKF to monitor the SDG implementation in high income countries. She has been an activist for transparency and open data in development finance...
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Senior project manager, OECD
Biography: Barbara Ubaldi is a senior project manager at the OECD leading the work on Digital Government and Open Data within the Division for Public Sector Reform of the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate.
Barbara manages thematic reviews on digital government...
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Community Coordinator, Open Knowledge International
Title proposal: Measuring open data together.Biography: Mor is the line manager of the Capacity team at Open Knowledge International and the International community coordinator. She was the community coordinator and research lead for the Global Open Data Index in 2014-2015. She was...
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Friday October 7, 2016 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Room E
14:00 CEST
Strengthening Data Ecosystems for Greater Development Impact by Closing the Citizen Feedback Loop: Strategies from Around the Globe
Moderators 
CEO, SB Consulting (SBC4D)
Biography: Stephane is a pioneer in OD in developing countries and have been active in Africa since 2010. He was originally part of the founders of the Web Foundation, and was the foundation lead program manager, designing and driving its Open Data program till 2012. Since then, he...
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Managing Director, MCC-PEPFAR Partnership Data Collaboratives for Local Impact
Manager, dLab
Biography: Dr. Juma Lungo is the Manager for the Tanzania Open Data Lab (dLab) also a database systems lecturer at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania. He is a pioneer in the use of cutting-edge technology to drive social change through the use of Free and Open Source Software...
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Lecturer, Mona School of Business and Management, University of West Indies
Biography: Michelle McLeod (PhD) is Lecturer in Tourism Management at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her tourism industry experience spans over twenty-five years. Her present research interests are in the subject areas of tourism, knowledge networks, open data ecosystems...
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Regional Research Manager for Asia, World Wide Web Foundation's Open Data Lab Jakarta
Miko is Web Foundation’s Regional Research Manager for Asia. He has more than ten years of research and development work experience at a progressive pace – from community-based project management to regional development with most of his work rooted mainly in Southeast Asia.
Miko...
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CEO, SocialBoost
Title proposal: Setting up open data ecosystem in Ukraine.Biography: Denis Gursky - founder of Open Data reform in Ukraine and 1991 Open Data Incubator. As leader of SocialBoost – a tech NGO, works on building the data-driven startup ecosystem in Ukraine as well setting up 1991...
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President, Open City Foundation
Title proposal: Building local open data ecosystems in ex-USSR countriesBiography: Founder and President at Open City Foundation (Non-profit and Non-government citizen organization in St.Petersburg) since 2009. His mission is to bring openness and transparency of government data...
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Friday October 7, 2016 14:00 - 15:45 CEST
Room E
