2017 TPL Invited speaker
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”
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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
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.
Presentation at Access YYZ 2015
September 19, 2015
On September 10th, I had the honour and the pleasure to speak at the 2015 Access Conference in Toronto, Ontario
Mapping open data workshop
July 6, 2015
On June 12, 2015, I led a workshop entitled “Consuming and Transforming Open Data” for the attendees of OLITA Digital Odyssey, hosted at George Brown College, Waterfront Campus, in Toronto. The materials for the workshop can be found on github: https://github.com/copystar/do15
Keynote Speaker for OnlineNW 2015
March 2, 2015
Keynote Speaker for OnlineNorthWest 2015, Corvallis, Oregon on February 13th, 2015: a conference on libraries, technology, and culture