Open data is all about promoting transparency and innovation. By making data accessible and barrier-free, we are doing so much more than just putting data online. Having open data means anyone can see the data used to make City decisions or can create an app that makes Edmonton a more liveable place.
Whether it’s apps using City open data to find fruit trees in your neighbourhood, or discovering how many people own pet pigeons, anyone can search and transform raw data into useful information.
Join Us!
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
2:30 - 5:30pm
Stanley A. Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq NW
*Registration is optional, but it helps with our planning, and we'll send you a calendar invite with all the event details.
Agenda
Join the City of Edmonton’s Open Data team for an afternoon of insights and interactive competition.
Hear from industry experts before diving into hands-on data challenges, concluding with a networking social at Craft Beer Market hosted by the Canadian Open Data Society.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2-2:30pm | Check-in |
| 2:30-3:45pm | Guest Speakers James Dang Daniel Haight |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Networking Break |
| 4:15-5:45pm | Put Your Skills to the Test Data Scavenger Hunt SQL Mystery Pack your laptop—you’ll need it to join the fray and claim the top spot on the leaderboard. |
| 6pm | Open Data Pub Night at Craft Beer Market Hosted by the Canadian Open Data Society |
Open Data Portal
Includes 100s of datasets and visualizations for roadways maintenance, locations of schools, varieties of trees, municipal elections data, municipal census data and much more.
The portal also hosts several City applications built on open data:
- Building Edmonton - Look up the status, cost and other details about City infrastructure projects like facilities, open spaces, transportation, LRT and utilities.
- Open Budget - View and sort financial data for approved budget years beginning in 2016.
- Open Performance - View performance measures and trends to understand how we are progressing towards achieving the City's strategic goals.
Custom Interactive Visualizations
Tableau Public - Explore a variety of City data in a visual format.
Open Data Leader
The City of Edmonton is a Canadian leader in open data. We have been recognized by PSD Citywide as a Most Open City for 5 consecutive years and have won multiple Canadian Open Data Awards since 2018, and most recently in 2022.
Edmonton is the first organization in Canada and the United States to adopt the International Open Data Charter — a commitment to implement global best practice standards to achieve the full potential of the open data movement. The City also hosted the Canadian Open Data Summit in 2017.
The City takes data privacy and information security seriously. We have strong processes and policies around what can be shared through open data.