Dr. Chris Baker co-founder and CEO of IPSNP Computing Inc., an industry leader in semantic data federation with products in healthcare surveillance and agricultural decision support. IPSNP is one of 500+ partners from national governments, non-governmental, international and private sector organisations that have committed to support the G8's Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative towards the creation of high level policy ensuring global food security. Dr Baker is also a Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick with core expertise in Data Integration and Interoperability. He serves on the advisory board of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity and was recognized as a finalist for the Canadian Open Data Leader of the Year in 2016.