GOOD Forum 23
Opening speakers
Helena Yu
Master of cermonies
Data Scientist @ Scotiabank, Project Lead @ Transition Toronto
Helena is a seasoned Data Scientist and Strategist with experience across a range of industries, including technology, financial services, retail, and telecommunications. Her leadership in analytics projects and expertise in defining data strategy and creating analytics solutions have enabled her to drive tactical, operational, and strategic decision-making in close collaboration with cross-functional teams. With her mastery of statistical and machine learning techniques, she has led the development of state-of-the-art recommender systems and prompt engineering pipelines, along with creating fraud detection, anomaly detection, and forecasting models.
Jury Konga
(He/Him) Executive Director and Board Chair
GO Open Data Association
Jury has a career spanning 40 years including work in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. He has been involved in GO Open Data since its inception in 2012. His career includes new program development in the Ontario government, Manager of GIS Services for the City of Richmond Hill and Principal of eGovFutures Group creating open government and open data strategies.
He was the principal author of the DIY Open Data Toolkit and developed the Open Data Framework in 2010 for the G4 (Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa). Jury continues his civil society work as Co-Chair of the federal Multi-stakeholder Forum and a leadership role in the GOOD-CODS Open Data Certification program.
City of Toronto