Upcoming

Healthy Cities, Healthy People. Women’s College Hospital, Toronto.  November 8, 2023.

Past

University of Waterloo School of Planning, Futures Forum 2023 Keynote: Public Engagement, Technology, and the Art of Living Well Together.  June 15, 2023

Canada School of Public Service. Data Governance and Standardization Series: Safeguarding Personal Data in Its Collection and Use – Dec 9th, 2021, 1 pm ET (online)

Interrupting Urban Innovation Lies: Undoing the Political Economy of Pretending – 2021 Urbanism Fall Lecture Series, Co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT – Dec 1st, 2021, 1 pm ET (online).

Fragile Future with Payal Arora – Dark Matter Labs & Future of Good Fragile Future Series – Nov 30th, 2021, 1 pm ET (online)

Digital Democracy and Sovereignty  – Cool World Salon Series. Toronto, July 30, 2021 (online)

OuiShare Fest – Paris, June 23-25 2021 (online)

MatchPoints Conference  – Democracy and Culture in the Digital Age.  Aarhaus University, Denmark, May, 29 2021 (online)

What Tech Calls Thinking – in conversation with author Adrian Daub. Goethe Institute, Toronto, May 27, 2021 (online)

Keynote – Government Information Day 2020, Ontario Legislative Library, Dec 16, 2020 (online)

Citizen Agency in Smart Cities – The 2020 Year in Review, University of Ottawa Centre for Law, Technology and Society,  Dec 10, 2020 (online)

Keynote – The Democratic Challenge of Technology: Growing Politics of Collective Care in Our Cities, Forum Offene Stadt, Nov 6, 2020. (online)

Tech for Society – Digital Resilience, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Oct 12, 2020 (online)

Hito Seyerl’s Mixed Methods, Art Gallery of Ontario. Biting back – turning the tables on tech eating the world. Toronto, Jan 18 2020.

City of the Future, San Antonio TX, Feb 24-26, 2020.

Data Governance Design Conference, Washington DC, Nov 2019

Council on Governmental Ethics Laws Annual Conference – Chicago, Dec 2019

Arts, Culture, and Digital Transformation Summit – Banff, Dec 2019

National Association of City Transport Officials (NACTO) Annual Conference  – Toronto, Sept 9, 2019

Beyond Smart Cities Today – Rotterdam, Sept 18, 2019

reSite – Prague, Sept 19/20, 2019

The Social Cost of the Information Age – Toronto Public Library, June 26, 2019

We Make The City – Amsterdam, June 19, 2019

IoT613 – Ottawa, May 8/9 2019

Conference “Cities and Digital Technology Chair”: Data, Platforms & Cities – SciencesPo – Paris, April 4, 2019

Compute Ontario ORION Smart Cities Governance Lab – Waterloo, March 28, 2019

Why Should I Care? Digital Rights – Fair Use, Privacy, and the lack of Clarity – Toronto,  January 21, 2019.

Democracy Exchange – Toronto, January 26, 2019.

MyData 2018 – Helsinki, Finland. August 30, 2018

Canadian Open Data Summit – Niagara Falls, November 7&8, 2018.

Shaping Future Cities Symposium – University of Michigan, Detroit, November 9, 2018

Moneco-Econtro Policy Conference – The Future is Now – Canadian Association for Business Economics, Kingston, August 27/28, 2018

Baltic Tiger in the Digital Jungle – In Conversation with Estonia’s Prime Minister – Economic Club of  Canada, Toronto, May 25, 2018

Smart Communities Panel – Go Open Data Conference, May 11, 2018, Barrie, Ontario

RightsCon – May 16-18, Toronto Ontario 

Equity and Government Responsibility in the Smart City April 30, 2018 – hosted by Councillor Wong-Tam

What Does Digital Inclusion Mean for Canada’s Diverse Municipalities?  Webinar – Federation of Canadian Municipalities, March 28th, 2018. 

Smart Cities – Who Will Be Left Behind?  Hosted by Why Should I Care?  March 19, 2018