Register your attendance and/or propose an Ignite presentation on the  
topic "My Open Data Dream App".  See this link for details and  
background: http://remarkk.com/2009/10/09/call-to-action-join-the-toronto-open-da...

If your Ignite proposal is selected, you will have the opportunity to  
inspire the city from the podium inside the council chamber.

Toronto Open Data Lab, part of the Toronto Innovations Showcase

Monday, November 2nd, 2009
1:00 – 4:30pm
City Hall Council Chamber and Members Lounge

Special Guest Speaker: Peter Corbett, iStrategy Labs and  
AppsforDemocracy.org

The Open Data Lab is an opportunity to explore the innovation  
possibilities of open civic data in Toronto. Join City subject matter  
and technology experts, community stakeholders and talented members of  
Toronto’s vibrant technology and design communities in an interactive  
and collaborative afternoon imagining commercial, social and civic  
applications of the City’s newly launched open data program.

This extended series of sessions kicks off with an aspirational talk  
about the Future of Open Cities from Peter Corbett, one of the open  
data leaders behind AppsforDemocracy.org and the success of Washington  
DC’s open data program. We will also hear from City of Toronto CIO  
Dave Wallace about the launch of Toronto.ca/Open and the future  
direction of Toronto’s open data program, and invited guests from the  
community will have an opportunity to inspire us with their open data  
dreams.

Participants will then have the opportunity to explore the first  
datasets to be released to the public from Toronto’s open data  
program. Facilitated by ChangeCamp organizer Mark Kuznicki, this is a  
unique opportunity that organizers hope will generate much interest  
and spark some ideas for new applications that will demonstrate the  
kind of value that open data can create for the City government and  
the community at large.