GOOD25
Lightning Talk speakers
Lee Doucet
Lee Doucet Bio
Paul Connor
Paul Connor is Treasurer and Executive Director of the Canadian Open Data Society. His involvement in the Open Data community started with the 2015 GO Open Data Summit in St. Catharines, Ontario, and continued through co-chairing the 2018 Canadian Open Data Summit in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He started working with data while managing federal election campaigns in the early 2000s, going on to become versed in performance reporting data as President & Executive Director of Angel Investors Ontario. With AIO and its counterpart, the National Angel Capital Organization, he helped organize several national conferences across Canada for Angel investors and technology companies. He has also worked as an economic research manager for Niagara Region and as a schoolteacher. His volunteer work includes chairing the Governance Committee of the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, a statutory self-regulatory body for geoscience professionals.
Jamie Leitch
A.Sc.T., GISP, CGS
Jamie is the GIS Administrator for the City of Niagara Falls Canada. An experienced geospatial professional, his career spans over 23 years in municipal government in the Niagara Region.
Jamie holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours, Earth Science and Physical Geography) from Brock University, and an Ontario Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Niagara College. He has a strong interest in deriving community value from municipal open data and increasing citizen awareness and engagement within their community through open data. He is a member of the Niagara Open Data Consortium and participates in working groups for establishing open data standards and certification. In his off-time, Jamie enjoys spending time with his family at the cottage during the summer, and skiing in winter.
Richard Pietro
Moderator
Richard Pietro socializes Open Government & Open Data by creating Civic Engagement as Art.
Some of his projects include the 2014 Open Government Tour, the Open Toronto Meetup Group, the Stories from the Open Gov podcast, the Open Data Iron Chef, the Open Data Family Feud, The Fable of the Open Government Turtle, and Open – The World's first short film on Open Government, Open Data, and Open Source.
He also worked collaboratively with the Ontario Ministry of Housing to create the Open Data in Reverse method as a way to design, publish, and activate Open Data sets. This initiative helped the ministry win a nationally recognized award for engagement.
His tireless work was recently recognized when he was honoured with the 2021 Canadian Open Data Leader Award.