Open Data Symposium 2014

Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to and reuse of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but giving access to the underlying data through its API and with a licence that allows free reuse under a share-alike licence. Since its launch in December 2010, OpenCorporates has grown from 3 million companies in 3 jurisdictions to over 80 million in 95 jurisdictions.

He was born in Gifu prefecture in 1982 and is a graduate of the faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University.He has learnt programming by himself since he was 3rd year elementary school student.
He started working as a freelance programmer as he launched RY system Co.,LTD. in his high-school days. Since then he has built up various information systems and have offered web services.
His commitment to library online services and e-book originated from his web service called “Calil” in 2010. Calil was originally the name of a library search engine which enables us to search books at the most of the libraries all over Japan, and now is his company’s name since 2012.

She is a certified and accredited meteorologist of Japan and also called a “data scientist girl”.
After her career as an actress at theatrical production (Age 19-23), she passed the meteorologist exam only once and started working at Harex Corp.
She likes “listening to people”. She is introduced as one of the “data scientist girls” in the article of Nikkei Information Strategy Magazine, February 2014.

Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to and reuse of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but giving access to the underlying data through its API and with a licence that allows free reuse under a share-alike licence. Since its launch in December 2010, OpenCorporates has grown from 3 million companies in 3 jurisdictions to over 80 million in 95 jurisdictions.

He was born in Gifu prefecture in 1982 and is a graduate of the faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University.He has learnt programming by himself since he was 3rd year elementary school student.
He started working as a freelance programmer as he launched RY system Co.,LTD. in his high-school days. Since then he has built up various information systems and have offered web services.
His commitment to library online services and e-book originated from his web service called “Calil” in 2010. Calil was originally the name of a library search engine which enables us to search books at the most of the libraries all over Japan, and now is his company’s name since 2012.

She is a certified and accredited meteorologist of Japan and also called a “data scientist girl”.
After her career as an actress at theatrical production (Age 19-23), she passed the meteorologist exam only once and started working at Harex Corp.
She likes “listening to people”. She is introduced as one of the “data scientist girls” in the article of Nikkei Information Strategy Magazine, February 2014.