Maddy Ewins - Talks, Events, Bios

March 2021 - Policy Crunch Speaker Series

Institute on Governance

Maddy is a Product Manager with Code for Canada, currently working on the MOVE team. She draws on her diverse private-sector experience — from small startups to tech giants, across open-source cloud, semiconductors, beer, and peer-to-peer marketplaces — to help teams deliver near-term impact and develop longer term strategy. Maddy is also a former Code for Canada Fellow (2019), and made the transition from private to public in search of impactful, purpose-driven work.

January 2021 - Virtual Team Collaboration Seminar

Civic Hall Toronto

Navigating the virtual work environment can be challenging. How do you keep everyone in the loop? How do you foster a sense of inclusion and excitement within your team, while you can only see each other as tiny blurred pixels?

Led by Maddy Ewins (Code for Canada) and Raphael Dumas (Big Data Innovation Team, City of Toronto), this webinar will empower you to better harness your collaboration skills, and perhaps reassess and rethink your team rituals.

This webinar will cover a number of day-to-day communication challenges and we’ll engage in active discussion about problem-solving tailored to different contexts.

Video recording available upon request.

July 2020 - Monitoring & Evaluation Virtual Panel

Civic Hall Toronto

MOVE is a collaboration between the City of Toronto and Code for Canada. We're building a centralized data platform for the City's collision and traffic count data where employees (and hopefully soon, the public) can access and explore this data to inform decision-making and use it in analyses of traffic-related interventions in Toronto. Ultimately, the goal is to make our streets safer for all.

The Big Data Innovation Team is interested in exploring the impact MOVE is having within the City. To do that, we're using a monitoring and evaluation framework to establish a theory of change towards a more open and product-first City, facilitated by Code for Canada. Aakash (Team Lead) & I spoke about the beginning of our journey into monitoring and evaluation for MOVE: the problem space, and the early stages of our theory of change development.

July 2020 - Code for Canada Virtual Open House

I had the opportunity to share my fellowship and post-fellowship story with prospective fellows at the July 2020 Open House!

March 2020 - Code for Canada Showcase

Presentation of my Code for Canada fellowship, given on behalf of my team. We worked with Public Services & Procurement Canada to reimagine the future of federal government business travel.

I also had the opportunity to sit on a Q&A panel to answer questions from the crowd about our fellowship experience, following the presentation above.

October 2019 - Natural Resources Canada Panel on Innovation

Bio

Maddy is a product manager with a background in systems design engineering and an interest in social psychology. She has worked with small startups and established tech giants, across a diverse set of products: open-source cloud, semiconductors, beer, and peer-to-peer marketplaces. When building products, Maddy leads with empathy for both users and peers, while grounding product strategy in data.

As a Code for Canada fellow, Maddy is harnessing her diverse private-sector experience to reimagine the government travel service with the NextGen Travel team at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC).

In her spare time, she enjoys long bike rides, bouldering, and brewing kombucha.