Data Governance Forum
October 19, 2021

Anneke Auer-Olvera is the Director at the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) responsible for Programs and Operations in the Strategy and Stakeholder Engagement branch. Anneke leads various teams in the implementing government funded programs focused in delivering standardization solutions in areas such as Infrastructure and Climate Change, Innovation and IP, Data Governance, and Artificial Intelligence.

Anneke is the Secretary of the Canadian Data Governance Standardization Collaborative, which recently published its first Roadmap mapping the standardization landscape for data governance in Canada. For more information, please visit. https://www.scc.ca/en/flagships/data-governance

Stefaan G. Verhulst is Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory @NYU (GovLab) where he is building an action-research foundation on how to transform governance using advances in science, data and technology.

Verhulst’s latest scholarship centers on how technology can improve people’s lives and the creation of more effective and collaborative forms of governance. Specifically, he is interested in the perils and promise of collaborative technologies and how to harness the unprecedented volume of information to advance the public good.

Keith Jansa is the Executive Director of the CIO Strategy Council. Keith brings 15+ years of public, private and not-for profit experience leading diverse teams to generate successful business strategies and deliver client-focused solutions and meaningful results. Keith has particular subject matter expertise in the strategic application of standards for creating secure, privacy-preserving technologies. He works with Canada’s most forward-thinking Chief Information Officers and executive technology leaders to collectively accelerate the pace of digital transformation and advance Canada’s position in the global digital economy. In his previous role as Vice President of Standards and Innovation at the Council, Keith provided executive leadership in the design and successful accreditation of the Council’s standards-setting process to drive the creation of national standards to advance Canada’s digital economy.

Keith is also Chair of Innovate Cities, an appointed member of Ontario’s Health Data Council, and chair of its Strategic Working Group on Data Stewardship. Keith holds a Bachelor in Health Sciences honours degree from the University of Ottawa. He is married to his university sweetheart, Kayla Jansa, and loves chasing after his 3 children.

Steve Coutts is a Research Analyst at Open North’s Applied Research Lab. His current work centres around building more effective, ethical and democratic data governance within and between institutions. In 2020, his team prepared a report to inform the City of Toronto’s Digital Infrastructure Plan, which highlighted emerging issues and best practices for smart city data governance.

An urban planner and researcher, Steve has previously been involved in public policy development for autonomous vehicles and co-authored publications on urban transportation and smart cities.

Steve holds a Master of Planning in Urban Development from Ryerson University (Toronto) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Geography from the University of Winnipeg.

Jacqueline
helps organizations build new nervous systems that use tech and data.

Helpful Places is a mission-driven
start-up she founded to explore implementation pathways and coalition
building to advance the adoption of DTPR,an open-source “system-to-people” communication standard for technology that enables agency for people in the real world. The goal of the DTPR project is to advance greater transparency and civic dialogue on the use of digital technologies in the built environment.

As Data Lead at Mozilla
Foundation, she is leading the development and implementation of a data strategy to support program delivery and further impact, and glean insights on global progress towards trustworthy AI. Previously, she was Director of Digital
Integration at Sidewalk Labs, where she led incorporating innovation objectives, technology policy and data ethics into the company’s approach to urban development projects.

She served as the inaugural Director of Data Analytics at NYC Parks, where
she founded the agency’s data science team and open data program, sparking the agency’s shift to data-informed operations. Jacqueline
also spearheaded the largest participatory
street tree mapping project in U.S. history, culminating in a digital
platform enabling the collaborative management of NYC’s urban forest.