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.
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.
I was invited to be a part of the ‘Space and Place’ panel for VABE’s DIY Urbanism Symposium.
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“
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.
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”
Led two workshops on “HTML and CSS” at Camp Bryerswood (Girl Guides Of Canada) on June 3, 2017.
Panelist on the “Bridging the data divide: Closing the “Open” gap” at the ORION Think 2017 Conference in May 2017
Public seminar on Open Cities on November 14, 2016 at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology in Toronto
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.
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?”