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Keynote speakers

Wikimania 2017 will feature a vibrant roster of keynote speakers from Canada and around the globe, including:

Susan Herman

Wikidemocracy: How We Can Save Free Speech, Privacy, and Democratic Values

Susan N. Herman was elected President of the American Civil Liberties Union in October 2008 after having served on the ACLU Board of Directors, on its Executive Committee, and as General Counsel. As Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, she teaches courses in Criminal Law and Procedure and Constitutional Law, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil Liberties. Her most recent book, Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2011 and was the winner of the 2012 Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. She is also the author of Terrorism, Goverment and Law: National Authority and Local Authority in the War on Terror and The Right to a Speedy and Public Trial, as well as many law review articles.


Jimmy Wales in conversation with Gabriella Coleman

Community and information in a partisan world
Moderated by Evan Prodromou

Gabriella (Biella) Coleman holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University. Trained as an anthropologist, her scholarship explores the intersection of the cultures of hacking and politics, with a focus on the sociopolitical implications of the free software movement and the digital protest ensemble Anonymous. She has authored two books, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012) and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014), which was named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014 and was awarded the Diana Forsythe Prize by the American Anthropological Association.

Jimmy Wales is founder of the online non-profit encyclopaedia Wikipedia and co-founder of the privately owned Wikia, Inc. including its entertainment media brand, Fandom powered by Wikia. Wales serves on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organisation he established to operate Wikipedia. In April 2017, Jimmy launched WikiTribune - a news website involving professional journalists working alongside volunteers to curate fact checked and reliable articles. In 2006 Jimmy was named in Time magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ for his role in creating Wikipedia.

Evan Prodromou is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki and software developer based in Montreal. He founded Wikitravel, Identi.ca and StatusNet, and is currently working on Fuzzy.ai, an artificial intelligence service for developers.

Frédéric Giuliano & Hélène Laverdure

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec: Libraries, Archives and sharing knowledge

Frédéric Giuliano Archivist-Coordinator, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ). Giuliano holds a Master's degree in History from the University of Montreal and a Master's Degree in Information Science from the School of Library and Information Science. From 2008 to 2012, he was a reference archivist and responsible for the iconographic archives at BAnQ Old Montréal. Since 2012, he coordinates the broadcasting services of the BAnQ Old Montréal archives center.

Hélène Laverdure, Curator and Director General of the National Archives at Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec (BAnQ) since August 2015. Hélène Laverdure began her career in document management in school boards from 1985 to 1992 and the Communauté urbaine de Québec until 1999. She then joined the Government of Quebec, where she was responsible for a project to digitize and distribute documents to the Ministry of Labor until the fall of 2005. She continued her career at the Ministère des Transports As project manager and then as manager in the field of information management. In 2012, she is recruited by the City of Quebec as Director of the Records Management and Archives Division.

Esra'a Al-Shafei

Experiences from the Middle East: Overcoming Challenges and Serving Communities

esra'a al-shafei é um bahraini activista dos direitos humanos, um Franco defensor da liberdade de expressão, e fundador da majal.org, uma rede de on-line plataformas que ampliar sub-relataram e marginalizados vozes. juntamente com sua equipe, que construir projectos web que criativamente facilitar a luta pela Justiça social na região, incluindo plataformas, tais como: crowdvoice.org, um Código aberto ferramenta que curas e contextualiza dados sobre os movimentos sociais, médio Oriente músicas, a maior plataforma para regionais de metro músicos que usam música como instrumento de defesa, e ahwaa.org, bilingue ferramenta para lgbtq jovens no mundo árabe que aproveita mecânica de jogo para facilitar a alta qualidade interações. ela é o destinatário da "Berkman prêmio" do Berkman Centro de internet e sociedade para "excelente contribuições para a internet e seu impacto sobre a sociedade na última década", o Monaco Media prêmio, que reconhece inovadoras usa dos meios de comunicação para a melhoria da humanidade, e o "mais corajoso de mídia" prêmio de imprensa livre ilimitado.

IMPORTANT: there will be no photos, video or streaming in this session, and we ask that you not take photos or video. Those who take photos will be asked to leave. Due to the controversial nature of Al-Shafei's work, online photos may endanger her safety.

Katherine Maher & Christophe henner

Wikimedia 2030

Katherine Maher is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects. She is a longtime advocate for free and open societies, and an expert in leveraging technology for social impact. Katherine was appointed Executive Director in July 2016, after serving as the organization’s first Chief Communications Officer. She has lived and worked around the world, leading the introduction of technology and innovation in human rights, good governance, and international development. She was a founding member of the UNICEF Innovation team, where she helped introduce open source innovation for health and child welfare. She has worked with the National Democratic Institute, the World Bank, and Access Now on programs supporting innovative technologies for democratic participation, civic engagement, youth entrepreneurship, open government, and human rights. Katherine is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Human Rights, a fellow at the Truman National Security Project, a member of the advisory board of the Open Technology Fund and a trustee of the Project for the Study of the 21st Century. She lives in San Francisco.

Christophe "schiste" henner é o ex-Board presidente do Wikimedia França e atual diretor de operações (COO) da lâmina de grupo, um computação em nuvem empresa com sede em França. na lâmina, Christophe é ampliação operações para apoiar a empresa a transição da a partir de um Start-up para uma empresa global. originalmente de lavaur, Christophe estudados economia e de direito da Universidade de Toulouse. ele tem profunda e variada experiência em todo o marketing do sector, segurando uma variedade de posições de liderança incluindo chefe de marketing na mídia on-line grupo, l'odyssée interativo, chefe de marketing oficial em internacional de mídia digital grupo, webedia, e, posteriormente, vice-presidente executivo de webedia do jogo Division. Christophe tem sido um membro ativo do Wikimedia comunidade para mais de 12 anos. em 2007, ele se juntou ao Conselho de Wikimedia França e manteve-se um ativo membro do Conselho em várias posições nos últimos dez anos. cerca de três dos anos no Conselho de administração foram gastos em papéis de liderança, incluindo presidente e vice-presidente do Conselho de administração. durante seu tempo no Conselho de administração, Christophe ajudou a levar Wikimedia França através de uma significativa período de crescimento. este incluídas de liderança o desenvolvimento do capítulo da marca e apoiar o desenvolvimento de uma clara estratégia organizacional e visão para o capítulo.

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Dana Wagner

The Year in Fact-Checking

Dana Wagner is the co-founder and editor of FactsCan, which is an independent and nonpartisan fact-checker on Canadian federal politics.