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Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around open data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week & features 30+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations and workshops will feed your mind and inspire you to improve your neighborhood.

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Mapping Urban Ecologies: The Need for Data for Achieving Biodiverse Places
Saturday March 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
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NYC is in need of adapting its neighborhoods to become more climate positive. This includes needing to better integrate nature back into the urban fabric to achieve more sustainable and resilient outcomes. The challenge though is that there is not enough coherent data available in NYC to truly map biodiversity, making it a challenge to plan and design for ecological systems. This session will explore how NYC approaches mapping our natural areas, understand where the gaps are, and discuss how we can get the information needed to build the datasets needed to achieve transforming our neighborhoods into places for biodiversity.

This session has been organized by APA New York Metro Technology Committee, Urban Design Forum, and BetaNYC
Speakers
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Andrew Buck

Senior Urban Planner & Technologist, VHB
Andrew Buck is a Senior Urban Planner and Technologist at VHB, specializing in sustainable and equitable cities. With over 10 years of experience in Asia and North America, Andrew integrates data and technology into planning and design, facilitating diverse teams to develop lasting... Read More →
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Novem Auyeung

Director of Research & Monitoring, NYC Parks
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Michael Treglia

Lead Scientist, NY Cities Program, The Nature Conservancy
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Kirk Gordon

Associate, SCAPE
Kirk Gordon is a landscape architect and Associate at SCAPE Landscape Architecture. Informed by experiences in biological research and graphic communications, Kirk is committed to using design as a tool for communicating socio-ecological dynamics in a changing world. His approach... Read More →
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Naeema Haque

Development and Strategy Manager, BetaNYC
Naeema holds a BS in Environmental Earth Systems Science concentrated in Hydrology and Climate from CUNY The City College of New York. She is also an alum of the 10th cohort of the Civic Innovation Fellow Program with BetaNYC and the Office of the Manhattan Borough President.As a... Read More →
Saturday March 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm EDT
3-302
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