Writing + Talking

[Co-presenter] Government memos from the near future – a design fiction workshop, March 2024 [Creative Bureaucracies Festival 2024, Berlin, Germany] – click here for details

[Panelist] People, Placemaking and Partnerships – February 2024 [Civic Boot Camp programme, Synapcity]

[Podcast, interview] Synapcity’s Community Connections Episode 15, May 2023 – click here for details

[Panelist] Imagining a Bolder Ottawa: Activists, Advocates and Change Makers – April 2023 [Navigating Our City: A Civic Education from Synapcity] – click here for details

[Co-organizer, workshop] Design fiction – April 2023 [in partnership with Urban Imaginaries] – click here for details

[Guest lecture presentation] Financialization of housing: a primer – February 2023 [Carleton University, School of Industrial Design, Design Anthropology graduate class]

[Guest lecture presentation & facilitated workshop] Ward-specific economic nutrition guide – February 2023 [inaugural ‘Ideas, Welcome’ series, Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre] – click here for details

[Moderator] Creating space for employee-led experimentation – November 2022 [Canada School of Public Service webinar] – click here to view

[Panel, presentation] Intensification that works in QTN – October 2022 [Meet the candidates session] – click here to read

[Radio, interview] The economic nutrition guide – February 2022 [Moolala: Money Made Simple, SiriusXM] – click here to listen

[Guest lecture presentation & facilitated workshop] Economic nutrition guide – January 2022 [Algonquin College, School of Business]

[Keynote presentation] Fireside chat on innovation, entrepreneurship and career path – December 2021 [Algonquin College, Office of Applied Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship]

[Online magazine, interview] “We’re launching a design contest and invite you to re-think your receipts – $1,000 cash prize” – April 2021 [Apartment613] – click here to view

[Radio, interview] “Project Project Collective’s contest to rethink your receipts” – April 2021 [CBC Ottawa] – click here to view

[Article, author] “Can Experimentation Lead to Better Outcomes in the Granting World” – May 2020 [Global Policy Journal, GP Opinion and Analysis] – click here to view

[Article, author] “Experimentation Is Just Good Public Policy Practice” – August 2019 [Beyond 2020 blog, Canada.ca] – click here to view

[Newspaper, interview] “We need better, reliable data on air pollution in Ottawa” – August 2019 [Ottawa Citizen] – click here to view

[Blog series] “Medium.com – Experimentation Works” – April 2018 – July 2019 – click here to view

[Article, co-author] “Is Experimentation Just the Latest Policy Buzzword?” – February 2018 [Policy Options magazine] – click here to view

[Blog series] “Medium.com – BYOT (Bring your own team)” – January 2017 – September 2017 – click here to view

[Moderator + Presentation] “Sharing Economy – an Overview” – January 2016 [Atlantic Conference on Public Administration, Halifax] – click here to view [download presentation]

[Presentation] “Blockchain” – November 2015 [Policy Ignite, Ottawa] – click here to view [download presentation]

[Report, co-author] “Back to the Future – the Sharing Economy” – published February 2015 [Deputy Ministers’ Committee on Policy Innovation, Government of Canada] – click here to view

[Blog post] “Permission to enter into (meaningful) conversation” – May 2015 – click here to view

[Presentation] “Reinventing the walking tour model” – November 2014 [Pecha Kucka 11, Ottawa] – click here to view [download presentation]

[Blog post] “Introducing Ottawa’s Public Repository of Goodness Database” – October 2013 – click here to view