Christine Hagyard is the senior manager of data access and analytics at the Ontario Digital Service and leads a team of multi-disciplinary digital and data practitioners responsible for the province’s Open Data Program. Working in the intersection of people, policy, and data, Christine and her team create the governance, infrastructure, and training required to support the publication of open data and evolve and improve provincial open data services. This year the team are focusing on increasing the openness of provincial COVID-19 data and the government’s transparent and responsible use of data-driven technology including artificial intelligence.

You can reach Christine at https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-hagyard/ and read her Twitter open data posts at @ChrisHagyard