Full Name
Hubert Laferrière
Job Title
Independent advisor
Company
DAMA RCN/NCR
Speaker Bio
Hubert retired from the Public Service in May 2020. During his 31 years in the Canadian federal public service, he has held a variety of positions with different departments. He spent more than half of career in the areas of performance management, dashboard, business intelligence, analytics, forecasting and advanced analytics.
At the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, he was responsible for the implementation of data governance, the departmental business performance reporting, and the development of a predictive analytics unit. Hubert has established the Advanced Analytics Laboratory. The Lab has been transformed into an artificial intelligence centre of excellence (the Advanced Analytics Solution Centre - A2SC). He has led a major transformative project where advanced analytics and machine learning were used to augment decision-making for key business lines. In 2018, he received the Operations Sector Awards for innovation from the Department and the Chief Information Officer Community Award (Government of Canada) for excellence in innovation. In 2020, he received the Deputy Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
At the Passport Canada Office, Hubert directed the National Routing System project, an initiative undertaken for setting up a federal-provincial-territorial network that allow vital event data exchange among governmental institutions. He received the 2010 Distinction Awards Gold Medalist and the 2010 Service Delivery Award from GTEC (Government Technology Award Event) for excellence in innovation and government service delivery for the deployment of a demand forecasting system integrated to business planning.
Hubert is now an independent advisor and currently contributes to the Analytics in Government Quarterly, a magazine published by the Government Analytics Research Institute, a non-profit research consortium. He also made several presentations at the Institute of Governance (Ottawa), at the 5th World Meeting Big Data (Colombia), at St-Paul University, and a the AI Governance pour Data Privacy Week, the Public Service Information Community Connection (PSICC).
Hubert holds a Master’s in political science, specialized in political though from the University of Ottawa and studied political philosophy at the Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the PhD level. He was president of the Ottawa chapter of TWDI (The Data Warehouse Institute) and the local chapter of DAMA in the National Capital region. (Data Management Association International).
At the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, he was responsible for the implementation of data governance, the departmental business performance reporting, and the development of a predictive analytics unit. Hubert has established the Advanced Analytics Laboratory. The Lab has been transformed into an artificial intelligence centre of excellence (the Advanced Analytics Solution Centre - A2SC). He has led a major transformative project where advanced analytics and machine learning were used to augment decision-making for key business lines. In 2018, he received the Operations Sector Awards for innovation from the Department and the Chief Information Officer Community Award (Government of Canada) for excellence in innovation. In 2020, he received the Deputy Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
At the Passport Canada Office, Hubert directed the National Routing System project, an initiative undertaken for setting up a federal-provincial-territorial network that allow vital event data exchange among governmental institutions. He received the 2010 Distinction Awards Gold Medalist and the 2010 Service Delivery Award from GTEC (Government Technology Award Event) for excellence in innovation and government service delivery for the deployment of a demand forecasting system integrated to business planning.
Hubert is now an independent advisor and currently contributes to the Analytics in Government Quarterly, a magazine published by the Government Analytics Research Institute, a non-profit research consortium. He also made several presentations at the Institute of Governance (Ottawa), at the 5th World Meeting Big Data (Colombia), at St-Paul University, and a the AI Governance pour Data Privacy Week, the Public Service Information Community Connection (PSICC).
Hubert holds a Master’s in political science, specialized in political though from the University of Ottawa and studied political philosophy at the Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the PhD level. He was president of the Ottawa chapter of TWDI (The Data Warehouse Institute) and the local chapter of DAMA in the National Capital region. (Data Management Association International).
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