Civic hacknight #410 - Under the Hood of Ontario.ca (IN-PERSON)

*This is the in-person registration for this event. To attend virtually via Zoom, please RSVP here.

Topic: Under the Hood of Ontario.ca - What it takes to run a government website

• Learn about the relationships and teams that support a single government website including the design system, website search, content management, service integration, and structured data that ensure a rich and useful experience for the people and businesses of Ontario.

Speaker: Dara Renton

• Dara is the Director, Product at the Ontario Digital Service, leading the product teams that work on several government services and platforms, including Ontario.ca.
• During COVID she also led the program that launched Ontario’s first in-house built mobile app, Verify Ontario.
• Previously Dara built and led a digital team at Toronto Public Library transforming the online experience for nearly a million library users over a decade.
• Follow Dara on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Join us in person:

• We're meeting at the office of the Ontario Digital Service at 595 Bay St. Suite 1002. Take the elevator to the 10th floor.
• Enter using the doors on Bay St., just north of Dundas. A volunteer from Civic Tech Toronto will be waiting near the elevators on your right!

Agenda:

• 7:00-7:20 = Welcome and Introductions
• 7:20-7:50 = Presentation and Q&A/discussion
• 7:50-9:00 = Breakout groups

Code of Conduct:

• http://civictech.ca/about-us

Check in with us on the Civic Tech Toronto Slack:

• https://link.civictech.ca/chat

About Us:

• Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together Torontonians (designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, community organizers, and more) who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable, and equitable through design, tech, and data. Come and be part of it!

For more info:

• http://civictech.ca