Opendata.ch/2016 Conference
Event Information
Description
Opendata.ch/2016 is Switzerland’s leading event convened around the issues of Open Data. This year will see a more diverse, dynamic, brighter and better Open Data Conference than ever before. Join us on June 14 at the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne to shape the national conversation among business executives, politicians, public officals, researchers and open data enthusiasts from all over Switzerland through a program that includes (among others):
Nuria Gorrite
Conseillère d’Etat (VD, parti socialiste), Responsable du Département des infrastructures et des ressources humaines (fr)
Marcel Salathé
Associate Professor EPFL, Life Sciences & Computer and Communication Sciences & Academic Director EPFL Extension School, enthusiastic about Open Data and the quest for a just digital future (en)
Denis Gursky
CEO and Founder of Socialboost - http://socialboost.com.ua/ - Innovative instruments which improve civic engagement and make government more digitalized — thus accountable, transparent and open (en)
Anja Wyden Guelpa
Chancellor of State at Republic and Canton of Geneva (fr)
Jean-Luc Cochard
Head of Information Technology Unit at Swiss Federal Archives (fr)
Simon Chignard
Data Editor @ Etalab (platform data.gouv.fr) and author of Datanomics (2015) and Open Data (2012) (fr)
Guillaume Leborgne
Director of Transparency and Open Data at SNCF (fr)
Joshua Goldstein
CEO of the Department of Better Technology (DOBT) (en)
We thank our partner EPFL and our sponsors Liip, opendata.swiss, Hasler Stiftung, esri Suisse, Begasoft, Schweizerische Informatikgesellschaft, nine.ch and Mediaktion for their tremendous support in realizing the Opendata.ch/2016 conference.