AI, Law & Policy 2026

Event Details

Participants

Dr. Dr. Maya Thompson 🇨🇦

Toronto Institute of Data

Director, Open Science

Session_chair: General Chair Track: Program Room: Main Hall Featured

Chair: Session

Leads city-wide initiatives for open research and reproducibility.

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Prof. Prof. Alvaro Jim�nez 🇪🇸

University of Barcelona

Professor of Information Science

Keynote: Opening Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Oct 20, 2025 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Featured

Keynote: Building Sustainable Open Data Ecosystems

Funding, incentives, and shared governance.

Open data ecosystems and scholarly infrastructure.

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Dr. Dr. Yuki Tanaka 🇯🇵

Open Methods Lab

Reproducibility Lead

Keynote: Reproducibility Keynote Track: Keynotes Room: Main Hall Oct 21, 2025 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Featured

Keynote: From PDFs to Pipelines: Executable Research

Containers, notebooks, and artifact review.

Executable research artifacts and verified pipelines.

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Stephanie Wong 🇨🇦

CivicData Toronto

Product Manager

Session_chair: Track Chair Track: Data Portals Room: Room D1 Featured

Chair: Session

Open data portals, cataloging, and APIs.

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Beno�t Laurent 🇫🇷

ReproWorks

Engineering Manager

Session_chair: Track Chair Track: Reproducibility Room: Room R1 Featured

Chair: Session

Artifact badges and CI for research.

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Jasmin Weber 🇦🇹

DataKits

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab A Oct 22, 2025 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Featured

Workshop: FAIR Data Packaging with Frictionless

Descriptors, checks, and validation.

Packaging datasets with rich metadata.

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Aisha Suleiman 🇳🇬

OpenCity

Data Engineer

Speaker Track: Data Portals Room: Room D1 Oct 20, 2025 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Talk: Streaming Open Data from Urban Sensors

Standards, privacy, and quality checks.

Pipelines for civic sensor data.

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Jacob Stein 🇺🇸

RepliLab

Staff Scientist

Speaker Track: Reproducibility Room: Room R1 Oct 20, 2025 1:35 PM – 2:05 PM

Talk: CI/CD for Research Reproducibility

Containers, checks, and provenance.

Re-running computational experiments at scale.

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Evelyn Park 🇰🇷

OpenIndex

Metadata Lead

Speaker Track: Metadata Room: Room M Oct 21, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Talk: Metadata that Travels

Interoperability for discovery and reuse.

Schema.org, DCAT, and Crossref integration.

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Hassan Farouk 🇪🇬

RepliNet

Research Engineer

Speaker Track: Reproducibility Room: Room R1 Oct 21, 2025 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM

Talk: Provenance Graphs for Reusable Pipelines

W3C PROV, lineage, and diffs.

Workflow capture and provenance graphs.

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Camila Ortega 🇨🇴

OpenGov LATAM

Policy Advisor

Panelist: Panelist Track: Policy Room: Room P Oct 22, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Panel: Policy That Enables Openness

Procurement, licenses, and accountability.

Open data policy and civic participation.

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Oliver Schmidt 🇩🇪

Independent

Moderator

Moderator: Panel Moderator Track: Policy Room: Room P Oct 22, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

Panel: Policy That Enables Openness

Structured discussion and Q&A.

Moderator for open data and policy panels.

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Rocio Fern�ndez 🇦🇷

Recode Science

Workshop Instructor

Workshop_instructor: Hands-on Lab Track: Workshops Room: Lab B Oct 23, 2025 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Workshop: Containers for Repeatable Results

Dockerfiles, base images, and pinning.

Reproducible computing environments.

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Noah Adler 🇺🇸

OpenRepo

Developer Advocate

Speaker: Lightning Track: Tooling Room: Room T Oct 23, 2025 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM

Talk: Automated CITED-BY Feeds

Reference parsing and backfill.

Open-source tools for research.

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Sofia Martins 🇵🇹

OpenAtlas

Data Curator

Speaker: Lightning Track: Tooling Room: Room T Oct 23, 2025 6:20 PM – 6:35 PM

Talk: Dedup and Outlier Detection for Repos

Similarity search and QA checks.

Curation pipelines for heterogeneous data.

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Daniela Costa 🇨🇦

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Program Operations

Ops: Session

Program ops and speaker success.

Marcus Hill 🇨🇦

REGKT Events

Organizer

Organizer: Logistics

Ops: Session

Venue logistics and A/V.

Dr. Dr. Elena Kozlova 🇷🇺

OpenEval

Judge

Judge: Repro Awards Judge Oct 24, 2025 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Judging: Session

Independent judge for reproducibility awards.

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Tawanda Ncube 🇿🇼

Open Africa Data

Panelist

Panelist: Panelist Track: Community Room: Room C Oct 24, 2025 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Panel: Regional Capacity Building

Training models that last and travel.

Regional capacity building for open data.

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Natalie Brooks 🇺🇸

MetaRepo

Product Lead

Speaker Track: Platforms Room: Room P Oct 22, 2025 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Talk: Versioned Data Repositories at Scale

Indexing, snapshots, and cost control.

Repository search and dataset versioning.

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Professional Impact & Significance

This event represents a platform where leaders, researchers, and practitioners exchange advancements that influence real-world technical, scientific, and organizational practices. The contributions and presentations delivered here reflect recognized expertise in the field and demonstrate active participation in advancing modern knowledge.

• Knowledge Dissemination: Presentations in this event contribute to broader understanding of emerging methodologies, frameworks, and applied innovations.
• Thought Leadership: Individuals delivering keynote sessions, panels, or workshop instruction play an important role in shaping direction and awareness in their area of specialization.
• Field Advancement: The work shared here introduces practices, models, or insights that can be adopted by other organizations, academic groups, or practitioners.
• Recognition by Community: Participation as a featured speaker, session chair, or event organizer highlights expertise acknowledged by independent professional bodies, institutions, or industry groups.
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