Portfolio
Leadership and Memberships
- Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, Board Member (Past-President 2015-2016) (2013 – ongoing)
- MapSwipe, Advisor (2016 – ongoing)
- Infogr.am Community Ambassador (2014 – ongoing )
- NonCommercial User Constituency, ICANN, member (2013- ongoing)
- Invstg8.net, Advisor
- Jump2Spot, Advisor
- Stand By Task Force, member
- Crisismappers Network, member and past-event organizer
- Peace Geeks, Board Member (2015 – 2016)
- School of Data, Advisory Council (2014, 2015)
- Random Hacks of Kindness, Toronto Coordinator 2010-2011, Montreal Support Team 2011
- The Scream Literary Festival volunteer, 2000 – 2011 (event retired)
- CrisisCamp Toronto, City Lead 2010-2011
- CrisisCommons.org, Community Co-lead March 2010 – March 2011
Public Speaking Engagements
- Keynote:”Where do we Go from Here?“, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Summit (September 22, 2016, Brussels Belgium)
- Workshops: European Space Agency Summer School: “The Next Million, “MapSwipe-Crowdsourcing with Data-Driven Innovation” and “Building a Citizen-Engaged Research Project“. (Frascati (Rome), Italy) August 4 – 9, 2016.
- Humanitarian Technology Conference. Presentation of Paper. “Geography of Solidarity” (Boston (USA), June 9 – 11)
- Impact Startup Europe. Keynote. “Our Common Startup” (The Hague (Netherlands), May 27, 2016)
- World Humanitarian Summit. Innovation Marketplace (Istanbul (Turkey), May 23-24, 2016)
- Understanding Risk Forum. Panel: “Bridging the divide: Digital humanitarians and the Nepal earthquake” (Venice (Italy), May 18 – 20, 2016)
- Crowdsourcing Week Global. “Digital Responders Everywhere” (London UK, April 11 – 15, 2016)
- Reach out to Asia, Empower 2016. “Digital Skills for Good” panel and workshop with UNDP (Doha, March 17 – 19, 2016)
- Digital Incubation Center, ictQatar. “Data-Driven Startups” (Doha, March 6, 2016)
- Data-Driven Innovation, “Window into Data-Driven Innovation in Qatar” (panel). (Cairo (Egypt), February 21, 2016)
- Data and Technology in Humanitarian Response Workshop, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Guest Contributor. (Boston, December 10 – 11, 2015)
- World Humanitarian Global Consultation, Innovation Marketplace: OpenAerialMap Demonstrations, (Geneva, October 14, 2015)
- European Space Agency: Digital Humanitarians in the Sky, EOScience 20 (Frascati (Italy), October 13, 2015) (slides)
- Qatar Red Crescent Society/Qatar Computing Research Institute. Be a Digital Humanitarian in Qatar (Doha, October 7, 2015)
- Internazionale Festival. Cambiare il mondo con un’app/Changing the world with an App”, (Ferrara (Italy), October 4, 2015)
- State of the Map Taiwan (Taipei (Taiwan), September 17 – 20, 2015)
- GCC Government Social Media Summit (Dubai, September 15 – 16, 2015)
- World Humanitarian Youth Summit (Doha, September 1 – 2, 2015)
- State of the Map US 2015 “Your Neighbour is Mapping” (New York, June 7, 2015)
- CSR GCC Speaker How can the Brightest Minds Change the World (Abu Dhabi, April 19, 2015)
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