Writing + Talking

[Co-author, blog post] Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI): Powering the GC’s digital future, June 2025 [Government of Canada, Canadian Digital Service] – click here to view

[Co-author, blog post] Measuring progress: A product maturity model for digital government, November 2024 [Government of Canada, Canadian Digital Service] – click here to view

[Interviewee, television documentary] Unrigged, ep. 2, “Teaching Power”, first aired September 2024 [TVO documentary based on Dave Meslin’s “Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up”]

[Panelist] The Impact of Technology on Geopolitics, August 2024 [The Balsillie School of International Affairs, Technology Governance Summer School, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada] – click here for details

[Presenter] Introducing the Digital Emergency Guide, June 2024 [CityMakers Session]

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

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

[Interviewee, podcast] Synapcity’s Community Connections Episode 15, May 2023

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

[Workshop co-organizer / facilitator] Design fiction – April 2023 [in partnership with Urban Imaginaries]

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

[Guest lecturer & workshop facilitator] 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

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

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

[Guest lecturer & workshop facilitator] Economic nutrition guide – January 2022 [Algonquin College, School of Business]

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

[Interviewee, online magazine] “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

[Interviewee, radio] “Project Project Collective’s contest to rethink your receipts” – April 2021 [CBC Ottawa]

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

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

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

[Presenter] “Experimentation Works – the Canadian Government Experience” – July 2018 [Prime Minister’s Office, United Arab Emirates, Dubai]

[Co-author, blog series] “Medium.com – Experimentation Works” – April 2018 – July 2019

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

[Panelist] “Social innovation in Ottawa” – April 2017 [Impact Hub Ottawa, Hub and Spoke Anniversary edition, Ottawa]

[Panelist] “Micro-grants, major impact” – January 2017 [Synapcity Presents, Ottawa]

[Co-author, blog series] “Medium.com – BYOT (Bring your own team)” – January 2017 – September 2017 – click here to view

[Moderator + Presenter] “Sharing Economy – an Overview” – January 2016 [CAPPA Conference, Halifax]

[Presenter] “Blockchain” – November 2015 [Policy Ignite, Ottawa]

[Speaker] “Solving Complex Problems through Social Entrepreneurship” – June 2015 [Aga Khan Fellowship Program, Ottawa]

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

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

[Presenter] “Combatting Wicked Health Problems through Challenge Prizes” – May 2014 [Policy Ignite Spring 2014 edition, Ottawa]

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

[Panelist] “Social Entrepreneurship” – July 2014 [Graduate Program in Philanthropy and Non-Profit Leadership, Carleton University, Ottawa]

[Panelist] “What do Soup, Awesome and Change Have in Common” – March 2014 [Next Gen Philanthropy Forum, Foundation for Philanthropy – Canada’s Diversity to Inclusion series, Ottawa]

[Keynote] “Failure Reports” – January 2014 [ADM Forum: Forging our Future Together, Innovation Leadership Plenary, Ottawa]

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

[Speaker] “Introducing Soup Ottawa” – May 2013 [Hub and Spoke 5th edition, Impact Hub Ottawa, Ottawa]