Date: Jul 21, 2020
Topic: CTTO 5th Anniversary
Join us for a moderated panel discussion about the past, present and future of Civic Tech Toronto. To both reflect on and celebrate the successes and challenges of the last five years, and set an energy and a course for the next five years.
Speakers:
- Jenn Hollett – Jennifer Hollett is a smashup of digital, journalism, and politics. Jennifer has worked in digital since the late ’90s, when she became the youngest manager ever at Sony Music Canada, developing new media strategies for the label’s top artists. Jennifer recently co-founded a startup and developed “Super PAC App,” which debuted
- Nasma Ahmed – Nasma Ahmed is a black muslimah working within the intersections of social justice, technology and policy. She is a technologist and capacity builder based in Toronto. She is the Executive Director of the Digital Justice Lab a national organization focusing on building a more just and equitable digital future in Canada and fellow with Mozilla-Ford Foundation.
- Dilini Kurukulaarachchi – Dilini is a public servant who has been a passionate volunteer within the civic tech community, serving as a co-organizer and participating in a number of civic tech initiatives over the past two years. Since 2018, she has founded and led a civic tech project that is supporting young people in transitional housing through tech skills mentoring.
- Emily Macrae – Emily Macrae is a writer and organizer combining policy analysis with lived experience to build accessible digital and urban environments. Over the course of three years with Civic Tech Toronto, she has hacked on the BikeSpace project, asked for help learning Python and filled many roles as a co-organizer.