Data Days CLE 2026 (Conference Day)

Data Days CLE 2026 (Conference Day)

8:30am EDT

Registration & Continental Breakfast Auditorium (Basement)

8:50am EDT

Welcome and Logistics Auditorium (Basement)

9:00am EDT

Morning Plenary Auditorium (Basement)

10:00am EDT

How We Live: The intersection of information and community Legacy Room (1st Floor)Carrie Ann Campbell From Data to Story: Designing Visualizations That Drive Understanding Auditorium (Basement)Zachary Morgan Property Insights - A Deep Dive Conference Room B (2nd Floor)Samuel Martinez The Data Warehouse You Can Build on Your Laptop Conference Room C (2nd Floor)David Pickering

11:00am EDT

Lightning Session 1: Rolling the Dice: Consecutive and Concurrent Sentencing in Cuyahoga County Legacy Room (1st Floor)Brian Mikelbank Innovation in the Public Sector: Lessons Learned and Discussion Conference Room B (2nd Floor)Shannon Copfer Brace • April Urban Mapping the Margins: Helping Identify Democratic Shortfalls Using Systems Science Conference Room C (2nd Floor)Kyle Thompson From Youth Voice to Measurable Impact Auditorium (Basement)Molly Feghali • Hayat Lachheb • Elizabeth Wilden

11:10am EDT

Lightning Session 1: Before You Trust the Number: Five Questions Every Citizen Should Ask About Civic DataJacquelineo Ruiz

11:20am EDT

Lightning Session 1: Planning Public Land One Vote, One Parcel at a Time Legacy Room (1st Floor)Tim Dehm

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Unconference Auditorium (Basement)

1:20pm EDT

Keynote (Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC) Auditorium (Basement)

2:30pm EDT

Lightning Session 2: Visualizing the Universe on the Wall Legacy Room (1st Floor)Peter Hedman Building community capacity to address brain health through increased access to local data Conference Room C (2nd Floor)Sarah Szabo Visualizing Development Data in Three Dimensions: How Leveraging Cross-Sector Partnerships Can Help a Powerful Tool to Evolve Auditorium (Basement)Michael Hawkins • Allison Lukacsy-Love • Krysta Pesarchick Beyond OCR: Turning Historical Cemetery Records into Trustworthy Data Conference Room B (2nd Floor)Timothy Dobransky

2:40pm EDT

Lightning Session 2: How do we capture our collective stories, can AI help?Matthew Lehman

2:50pm EDT

Lightning Session 2: The Data Made Us Do It: How Sound Insights Turned Nonprofit Data into Action Legacy Room (1st Floor)Jennell Vick

3:00pm EDT

Lightning Session 2: Cleveland Lead Data Public Health Data Legacy Room (1st Floor)Claudia Meister • Vinh Trinh

3:30pm EDT

Agile in the Rustbelt: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty in One Midwestern Community Legacy Room (1st Floor)Nicole Derr What do people Think, Say, Feel and Do at Data Days? Conference Room C (2nd Floor)Jason Kluk-Barany • Emily R Muttillo C-C-C Combo Breaker - what you can do with open government data, NGOs, and library resources Conference Room B (2nd Floor)Lisa Sanchez • Sarah Dobransky Data Engineering at a Natural History Museum Auditorium (Basement)Peter Hedman

4:30pm EDT

Happy Hour Butcher and the Brewer