Omar Choudhry P. Eng. is Senior Specialist for Intelligent Transportation Systems at the City of Ottawa.  He has worked extensively on projects across the United States and Canada, covering the entire range of applications from development of system architectures to electronic collection systems design and from data integration for system operations to deployment of information management systems.  Omar spent several years working in the United States before returning to Ottawa to create the boutique consulting company, The Rivershore Group, which assisted government agencies in developing and deploying advanced technological solutions to solve traffic problems, and then venturing into the startup world.

He previously was co-founder and CEO of a gig economy business helping organization digitize their operations, growing the business to almost 80 employees. Omar is co-founder or has been advising companies in the digital data and blockchain industries, and launched a small business networking event before shutting down due to COVID-19.

Omar has been developing and implementing technology solutions for over 28 years on projects across the United States and Canada.  His work currently focuses on new technologies in the Intelligent Transportation Systems and Connected Automated Vehicle spaces to assist in improving mobility, traveller information and traffic management for residents. Omar been asked to moderate panel sessions, spoken at conferences across North America and published numerous articles on the subject of traffic information, data processing and management.