Other Former Roles

In 2022 Andy taught Digital Governance as a Professor of Practice in the Master's of Public Policy in Digital Society program at McMaster University.

2017-2021: Board Director at Canadian Mental Health Association’s Waterloo Wellington. Helped to direct and protect a $40 million annual budget at the largest service-delivery chapter of CMHA in Canada. Served as the Board’s Chair of Fund Development from 2019-21.

Reports and Presentations

• Civic Digital Network R+D Archives (Winter 2022)

• Final Recommendations of Special Advisor to Data Authority (Spring 2022)

• Discovery Framework: Provincial Public Data Infrastructure in Canada (2021)

• Democratic Technology and an Open City Platform. Presentation to City of Toronto Quayside and Smart Cities Team (2020).

• IPAC Webinar: Digital Public Infrastructure for Canadian Cities (2020)

• Compute Ontario / ORION: Building Ontario’s Next Generation of Smart Cities Through Data Governance (2019).

• Smart Cities Governance Lab: “How to do smart cities and not mess it up.” Keynote delivered at Catalyst 137 in Kitchener, ON (2019)

• Future Cities Summit: Digital Public Infrastructure for Canadian Cities (2019)

• Code for Canada Launch: Innovation Procurement and Municipal Technology (2017)

• AMO Digital Government Task Force: Municipal Procurement and Digital Transformation. Delegation (2017)

• Brookfield Institute: Civic Accelerator: A Guelph Experiment (2016)

• Civic Accelerator: Demo Day (2016)

Appointments, Committees and Working Groups

• Panelist, “Rethinking Competition Policy for the Digital Economy”, Private Webinar at Centre for International Governance Innovation,” (January 2023)

• Panelist, Ryerson University's Cybersecure Policy Exchange: Advancing the Cybersecurity of Municipal Critical Infrastructure” (2022) 

• Public Appointment, Province of Ontario: Special Advisor, Ontario Data Authority.

• Strategy Council (Internal) for the Ontario Data Authority: Chair (2021) 

• Minister’s Privacy Group- ad hoc expert group advising on privacy issues and shaping the public consultation White Paper (2021) 

• Civic Digital Network and Fed Dev: “Towards National Data Infrastructure”: Intergovernmental policy roundtable on CDN’s work with multiple federal entities (2020)

• Compute Ontario / ORION Smart Cities Advisory Committee: Member (2019-20)

• Civic Digital Network: Discovery Day for Digital Public Infrastructure. Full day working event, designer and host (2019)

• Civic Digital Network: Practical Policy - Privacy in Connected Cities. Half Day event, designer and host (2019)

• Guelph City Council: Digital Services Update (Live demo of new digital services, 2017)

• Civic Accelerator Program: Chair (2016-17)

• Guelph Open Government Leadership Task Force: Chair (2013-14)