Sue Gardner

Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation

Sue Gardner , keynote speaker
Sue Gardner , keynote speaker Changing the Shape of Freely Shared Wisdom Sue Gardner , keynote speaker
The Executive Director of Wikimedia (which runs Wikipedia), Sue Gardner is one of a few women heading up a top ten website. A formidable speaker on new media, she looks to the future of collaboration on the web. How will the new knowledge economy—where content is free, and everyone's a contributor—affect our education, our journalism, and our democracy?
Highlights "Under her watch, Wikipedia is now bigger and more stable than ever"
- Fast Company


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Sue Gardner is the Director of Wikipedia. She's also the only Canadian to make it onto Forbes' The World's100 Most Powerful Women list. Since her arrival at Wikipedia, Gardner has introduced major initiatives focused on organizational maturity, long-term sustainability, and increased participation, reach, and quality of the Foundation's free-knowledge projects. She was formerly head of CBC.CA, the internet platform for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Canada's radio, TV, and new media public broadcaster and the nation's largest journalistic organization. Under her leadership, CBC.CA experienced a historic audience surge and launched many new major multimedia technologies, including podcasting, breaking news alerts, live event blogging, and many forms of user interaction.

Since beginning her career in 1990 at the now-classic radio program As It Happens, Gardner has worked in all forms of media to create high-quality, award-winning programming. As a journalist, she specialized in pop culture, social issues and media analysis, covering stories such as manipulation of the news media during the first Gulf War, the rise of gated communities in California, the racial implications of the return of the death penalty to New York, changing feminist attitudes towards pornography, the dawn of interactive media, and the rise and fall of rave culture in the UK.

Gardner is a member of the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, Women in Film and Television, the Canadian Association of Journalists and Canadian Women In Communications.
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