Come and join us for a day of mapping the corporate network of the largest public companies in Canada and releasing this as open data. We’ll be looking over company filings by picking subsidiaries to find hierarchy information. By the end of the event, we’ll have a rich open dataset and a visualisation that displays the complex network like this: https://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/384327/network [click on Update as a Network]

We’ll be picking a few companies from the top 10 of largest public companies in Canada: Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Bank of Montreal, Imperial Oil, CIBC, Suncor Energy, BCE Inc, Canadian National Railway and Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.

What do you need to bring? Drop in with your laptop, charger and enthusiasm. This event is a part of the Map the Banks campaign by OpenCorporates & partners such as Open North to liberate all financial licenses so we can map what the global financial industry looks like. Find out more here: mapthebanks.com

12.30 - 1.30: Pizza & introduction
1.30 - 5.30: Map-a-thon
5.30 - 6: Drinks & review of the day

If you can't join in person, you can join us virtually. We'll be using Slack to stay in touch! You'll get an invite once you register.

Thanks to Maker Space North for sponsoring the event by kindly offering the space!

About OpenCorporates
OpenCorporates (opencorporates.com) is the world’s largest open database of companies with data on over 84 million companies in 104 jurisdictions. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access and reusability of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but also giving access to the underlying data through its API and with an open licence. You can read about our data model here: blog.opencorporates.com/category/data-model/ and our investigation into the corporate network of BP with OpenOil: http://blog.opencorporates.com/2014/09/03/how-complex-is-bp-1180-companies-across-84-jurisdictions-going-12-layers-deep/

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