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Anil Arora

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Shaida Badiee

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Participating in Day 2 Morning concurrent sessions

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Kara Beckles

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Master of Ceremonies for Data Conference 2022

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Chantal Bernier

National Practice Leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity, Dentons

Chantal Bernier leads Dentons’ Canadian Privacy and Cybersecurity practice group. She is also a member of the Firm’s Government Affairs and Public Policy group. As Assistant and Interim Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Chantal led national and international privacy investigations in the public and private sectors, as well privacy audits, privacy impact assessment reviews, technological analysis, and privacy policy development and research. Chantal leverages her years in high-ranking positions at the Government of Canada to provide clients with strategic counsel. She is also a member of Statistics Canada’s Advisory Council on the Modernization of Microdata Data Access and of the Standards Council of Canada’s Steering Committee on Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative.

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Stephen Burt

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Jane Crofts

Founder and CEO, Data To The People

Jane Crofts is the founder of Data To The People and creator of Databilities®, the world’s first evidence-based data literacy competency framework.  She works as a consultant, teacher, and advocate for data literacy across the globe, with clients spanning federal government departments, large private companies, not-for-profits, and healthcare and education providers. In her role as founder of Data To The People, Jane assists these organisations to assess their data literacy and to develop tools and resources to grow their competency in this area. Jane sits on the Advisory Board for The Data Literacy Project - a group of respected visionaries brought together to further the future of data literacy globally.  Data To The People is a founding member of The Data Literacy Project.

Participating in Day 1 Afternoon concurrent session: Data Foundation

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Tom Dufour

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Master of Ceremonies for Data Conference 2022

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Sevgui Erman

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Participating in Data Science (moderator)

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Christiane Fox

Deputy Minister, Indigenous Services Canada

Christiane Fox was appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Indigenous Services in September 2020. She is also the Deputy Minister Champion of the Federal Youth Network.

Prior to her appointment, Christiane had been the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs since November 2019, and the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Youth from June 2017 to November 2019. She also held several positions at the Privy Council Office, including Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet, Communications and Consultations, Director of Operations, Policy, in the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Relations Secretariat, and Director General of Communications.

Christiane started her career as a Communications Advisor at Industry Canada, now Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, where she worked in Communications, and in Science Policy. She also spent a year with the Competition Policy Review Secretariat, as the Director of Communications and Consultations.

Christiane has a BA in Mass Communications and Psychology from Carleton University, and is a graduate of the University of Ottawa’s Masters Certificate Program in Public Administration.

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Chantal Guay

CEO, Standards Council of Canada

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Melissa Hathaway

President, Hathaway Global Strategies LLC

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Participating in Leveraging data as a competitive advantage and the role of the public sector

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Shaifa Kanji

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Sandy Kyriakatos

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Valerie A Logan

CEO & Founder, The Data Lodge, Inc

Founding The Data Lodge in 2019, Valerie is as committed to data literacy as it gets.  With advisory services, bootcamps, and a peer community at The Data Lodge, she is certifying the world’s first Data Literacy Program Leads across commercial, nonprofit and public sectors.  Previously, Valerie was a Gartner Research Vice President in the Chief Data Officer research team. She pioneered the Data Literacy research and the “speaking of data” by creating Information as a Second Language ® (ISL). For this work, she was awarded Gartner’s Top Thought Leadership Award in 2018.  Valerie has more than 28 years of experience, including two decades in consulting and five years in telecommunications.  In 2021, Ms. Logan was included in the Data Power Women List by CDO Magazine, and in 2018, she was named as a finalist for “Data Leader of the Year” at the Information Age Women in IT Awards. She was also recognized as a pioneer in consulting by Consulting Magazine in 2008 as one of 8 top women in global consulting.  Valerie holds a B.S. in Math from SUNY College at Buffalo and an M.S. in Applied Math from New Mexico State.  She is based in the Adirondack Mountains with her husband Brian in Brant Lake, New York.

Participating in Day 1 Afternoon concurrent session: Data Foundation

André Loranger

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Catherine Luelo

Chief Information Officer of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Catherine Luelo is a Deputy Minister at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat and the Chief Information Officer of Canada. Prior to her appointment as CIO in July 2021, Catherine was the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Air Canada, where she was responsible for the Information Technology systems that support and enable Air Canada’s global business. In this role, she additionally led innovation in the artificial intelligence space while managing the security and reliability of Air Canada’s worldwide systems in an operational landscape that substantially shifted during the global pandemic. From 2001-2017, Catherine held senior management and executive roles at major Canadian companies, including Enbridge Inc., WestJet Airlines Ltd., and TELUS Communications. Catherine holds an MBA from Athabasca University in Alberta and a BSc from the University of Alberta. From 2018-2021, she served on the Board of Directors for scale ai, the Montreal-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) supercluster that aspires to increase competitive advantage for Canada globally in AI . She has also served as a Board Member for Creative Destruction Labs, as well as serving as Chair for Health Canada’s Industry Advisory Roundtable on COVID-19 Testing, Screening, Tracing and Data Management. Catherine is a proud mother of two children and is a fierce advocate for mental health. In March 2020, she was appointed to the Board of Directors for the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation and participates regularly as a panelist and speaker on Mental Health in the workplace.

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Daniel Quan-Watson

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Harold Ramos

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Taki Sarantakis

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Naël Shiab

Data Journalist, Radio-Canada

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Stefaan Verhulst

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