Do you use internal data to find customers, power your product or improve your operations? If so, you need high value external data to drive richer insights and an outside-in perspective to your business.

On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 12pm, join guest speaker Bryan Smith from ThinkData Works for an hour-long webinar discussing hurdles companies typically face when sourcing open data and how to overcome them.

The talk


There is realignment rapidly taking place in the business world in which the data created and maintained outside your company is becoming much more important than the data that you can acquire from internal sources. Few companies realize this and even fewer are taking action.

With thousands of web and premium sources of data and an ever increasing number of open data APIs, it’s critically important for organizations to know how to find high value external sources of data and bring this data into the mix with their own corporate sources of data to drive richer insights and an outside-in perspective.

It's time to get ready to create/adopt an API-based nervous and vascular system to understand and transport data located outside the four walls of your business.

The speakers


Bryan Smith is the CEO of ThinkData Works, a Toronto-based open data startup that aggregates information from all levels of government, allowing developers, businesses, and citizens to access high value data in standard useable formats. Prior to ThinkData, Bryan was the Sr. Policy Advisor to the President of Treasury Board of Canada, where he helped draft Canada’s Action Plan on Open Government, launch Canada’s second generation Open Data Portal [data.gc.ca], and championed the CODE Hackathon in an effort to highlight the economic potential of Open Data.

Joseph Bou-Younes is Data Executive in Residence at ODX. A consumer tech executive, he has experience leading organizations to build great data-centric products. In the past, he led product at 500px and held multiple management and product management roles at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, California.

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