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Diversity of open panel

Stefaan Verhulst

(He/Him) Co-founder
Chief Research and Development Officer and Director Data Program
The GovLab

Stefaan is also, among other positions and affiliations, the Editor-in-Chief of Data & Policy, an open-access journal by Cambridge University Press; the research director of the MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance; Chair of the Data for Children Collaborative with Unicef; and a member of the High-Level Expert Group to the European Commission on Business-to-Government Data Sharing. 

He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), Yale University, Central European University and serves on numerous (advisory) boards, including Sparks and Honey, Center for Media, Data and Society, among others. He is also Founder and Curator in Chief of The Living Library.

In 2018 he was recognized as one of the 10 Most Influential Academics in Digital Government globally (as part of the Top 100 in Digital Government) by the global policy platform Apolitical. 

At The GovLab,  Stefaan Verhulst has developed and leads a range of impactful research initiatives that contribute to an enhanced understanding and improved practice of using data, science, and technology for decision and policymaking

Dr. Na-Koshie Lamptey

Deputy Medical Officer of Health
Toronto Public Health

Dr. Na-Koshie Lamptey is the Deputy Medical Officer of Health at the City of Toronto. Dr. Lamptey obtained her medical degree at the University of Toronto, as well as degrees in Epidemiology and Public Health Management from Yale and a Bachelor of liberal arts from Princeton University. Prior to her current role in Toronto, she has held positions as a Regional Medical Officer of Health in New Brunswick and Associate Medical Officer of Health at the Sudbury & District Health Unit. Dr. Lamptey is a public health and preventive medicine physician committed to improving population health through clinical care, policy development and system advocacy

Natalia Carfi

Executive Director,
International Open Data Charter

Natalia has been the Executive Director of the Open Data Charter since 2021, after first working as our Deputy Director for 3 years. Natalia is the former Open Government Director for the Undersecretary of Public Innovation and Open Government of Argentina where she lead the co-creation of the 3rd Open Government National Action Plan. She was also Open Government coordinator for the Digital Division of the Government of Chile and for the City of Buenos Aires. She is part of the Open Data Leaders Network and the Academic Committee of the International Open Data Conference. From October 2022, she will be part of the Open Government Partnership Steering Committee.

Nati leads ODC’s team, engaging with experts from governments, civil society organizations, academics and the private sector. She oversees the strategic delivery and execution of projects in collaboration with the ODC network.

Jackie Lu

President and Co-founder
Helpful Places

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

She leads Helpful Places, a mission-driven start-up advancing the adoption of DTPR, an open-source communication standard that aims to increase legibility and support civic dialogue on the use of digital technologies in the built environment. DTPR has been piloted in North America, France and Australia. DTPR has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a featured initiative of the Future of the Connected World Global Action Plan, included in the American Planning Association’s 2023 Trend Report, Cornell Tech University’s Urban Tech Hub’s Rebooting NYC Report, featured in publications such as CitiesToday and Wired and presented at UrbanismNext, IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress, the Smart City Expo World Congress and FWD50. 

At Sidewalk Labs, she integrated innovation objectives, technology policy and data ethics into development planning, and spearheaded public realm technology pilots.  She led the delivery of the Digital Innovation Appendix, a technical document outlining the company’s approach to technology that was cited by GovTech as “one of the most extensive efforts ever for a private company to be transparent about smart cities tech and associated data”

As the inaugural Director of Data Analytics at the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, she developed the agency’s data strategy, developed the open data program and founded its first data science team. As Open Data Coordinator, Jacqueline built collaborations between agency staff and civic technologists that enabled the public and community members to develop insights from Parks’ open data sets. 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.