Safer Communities in a ‘Smart Tech’ World
Co-organizer of a speaking event on Jan 22. 2020 called “Safer Communities in a ‘Smart Tech’ World” exploring the legal, public policy, criminology, and digital technology issues raised by Amazon Ring.
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Smart City guest panelist
On August 21, 2019 I was a guest panelist on the podcast Rose City Politics for an episode about smart cities called “Sidewalks and Monorails“
Data Carpentry Instructor
As a certified instructor in Data Carpentry, I co-taught two lessons on R at the Agriculture Canada’s Harrow R&D Centre on June 27 & 28, 2019.
2017 TPL Invited speaker
December 22, 2017
November 24, 2017, I spoke to librarians of the TPL as part of a speakers series. My talk was called “From the Vertical File to Wikipedia” but it should have been called “From the Vertical File to The Smart City”
HTML and CSS Workshop for Girl Guides
Led two workshops on “HTML and CSS” at Camp Bryerswood (Girl Guides Of Canada) on June 3, 2017.
Panelist at the ORION Think 2017 Conference
June 5, 2017
Panelist on the “Bridging the data divide: Closing the “Open” gap” at the ORION Think 2017 Conference in May 2017
McLuhan Seminar on Open Cities
November 15, 2016
Public seminar on Open Cities on November 14, 2016 at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology in Toronto
YorkU Library Futures Speaker Series
May 5, 2016
As part of their Library Futures Speaker Series, on May 2nd, 2016 I gave a talk entitled, The City As Classroom vs. The City As Advertising Platform to York University Libraries.
Keynote speaker at WLA 2015
November 3, 2015
On November 3rd, 2015 I had the great honour and pleasure to give the morning keynote at the 2015 Wisconsin Library Association Conference in Middleton, Wisconsin. The name of the talk was, “The City As Classroom: How can we embed the library into the community?”
Keynote at ILEAD USA
October 26, 2015
On October 26th, 2015 I had the pleasure to give the morning keynote to the delegations of ILEAD USA. The title of my talk was, “Libraries are for Use. And by Use, I mean Copying” and it addressed the use of copying as a form of collection development in spite of DRM and the DMCA.