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Look at the amazing people on this program[1], talking about amazing things in the beautiful George Brown Waterfront campus on June 12th at the annual event they call "Digital Odyssey": * Aure Moser from CartoDB sharing her experiences as a map-making developer librarian in New York City wrangling open source citizen journalism applications like Ushahidi and curricula developer for Girls Develop IT NYC and co-organizer of Nodebots NYC (they program robots with Node.js) and E_TOO_AWESOME_TO_DESCRIBE_GRAMMATICALLY * Mita Williams from the University of Windsor who will be leading participants on an open data-wielding map-making learning expedition. Mita sets up Hackforges for breakfast [2], is a gamer, orator, deep thinker and instant favourite of any librarian--code-slinging or not--who has met her. * Cathy Leekum and Sarah Warner, who are going to teach attendees the art of conducting an oral interview based on their experiences at the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario (http://mhso.ca/) and previous gigs at cultural institutions. * Loren Fantin and Jess Posgate from OurDigitalWorld.ca who will provide advice on how to capture and share content sustainably, drawing on their adventures (and misadventures!) to inform and entertain. * An all-star panel of open data experts, including Sameer Vasta from MaRS Data Catalyst (who in his spare time has co-hosted 24 episodes of the Open Government Podcast [3]; Pamela Robinson from Ryerson University who researches hackathons with open data and is working on a paper about the library as the civic centre of the community; Keith McDonald who led the City of Toronto's initial open data efforts and wrote and performs "The Open Data Song" [4]; and Bianca Wylie, who founded the Open Data Institute Toronto and (to select just one piece of recent experience) facilitated the community engagement process which fed into the "21st Century Library Service in Allegheny County" report [5] from 2014. Oh, and you! All of these sessions will be interactive, so that you can wring the most value out of them, go back home or to your place of work, and start publishing, organizing, and facilitating access to open data and open heritage cultural artifacts. Because *we* are information professionals, and these is some of the most exciting developments to cut across the boundaries of GLAM institutions, citizens, developers, and governments in quite some time. You can register at https://goo.gl/nqGtfn today--don't wait! Get in before space runs out! Dan (who is really, really looking forward to what is going to be an amazing day) 1. https://www.accessola.org/web/OLAWEB/OLITA/Digital_Odyssey/Program.aspx 2. http://hackf.org/ 3. http://ogtpod.tumblr.com/ 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcLU2i2A2mY 5. http://www.clpgh.org/about/background/County-CityLibraryServicePanelReport.pdf