Bianca Wylie

Bianca is an entrepreneur with a background in technology, public engagement, and digital governance. She is the founder and director of T&S Advisory, a strategic innovation firm, and a partner at Digital Public. She worked for several years in the tech sector in operations, infrastructure, corporate training, and product management. Then, as a professional facilitator, she spent several years co-designing, delivering, and supporting public consultation processes for various governments and government agencies. Bianca has done public interest technology advocacy work through a number of different interventions and organizing efforts. Bianca founded the Open Data Institute Toronto in 2014, co-founded Civic Tech Toronto in 2015, and co-founded Tech Reset Canada in 2017.

Bianca is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer, and her writing on technology has been published in a range of publications including the Boston Review, VICE, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Life. She is an author of a chapter about technology in the anthology Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How (Dundurn Press, 2026) and sits on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC).

Bianca is an entrepreneur with a background in technology, public engagement, and digital governance. She is the founder and director of T&S Advisory, a strategic innovation firm, and a partner at Digital Public. She worked for several years in the tech sector in operations, infrastructure, corporate training, and product management, most recently at Thomson Reuters. In her tech career she had the opportunity to help create a global support escalation system, to integrate legacy software products into a new platform, and to manage sprints (release cycles) of software.

As a facilitator at Swerhun Inc. (now Third Party Public) she co-designed, delivered, and supported public consultation processes for various governments and government agencies, with a focus on cities. She worked on topics such as transportation, urban planning, parks and public realm, real estate development, and libraries.

In 2014, Bianca founded the Open Data Institute Toronto, a volunteer-run node of the Open Data Institute in the UK. In this capacity, she organized civic hackathons with BikeShare Toronto, the Toronto Public Library, and others. She sat on the Toronto Public Library's Innovation Council from 2016–2020. Bianca has given talks and run workshops on open data and civic engagement for a range of partners in Toronto, including the Ontario Non-Profit Network and the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. In 2015 she co-founded Civic Tech Toronto. In 2017, Bianca took part in a City Hall Task Force organized by the University of Toronto School of Public Policy and Governance. She sat on the Ontario International Open Data Charter Advisory Committee, as well as the selection committee for Canada's first Open Government Civil Society Network, a group tasked with providing oversight to the federal open government program.