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Kat Hartman (she/her/hers)

Chief Data Officer
City of Detroit - Department of Innovation and Technology

Kat Hartman, MFA, Chief Data Officer, DoIT - City of Detroit is the founding CDO for the City of Detroit. She joined the city in July of 2018 as the Director of Emerging Technology, a rapid prototyping team that evolved over time to manage the City's open data portal. The Data Strategy & Analytics team was formally established in March 2020 given high demand for data management support across city departments.

Celebrating their 6th year spring 2026, the Data Strategy Team is implementing the data strategy and infrastructure required to get to advanced analytics and AI. Hartman, a designer at her core, has sought to make data governance tangible and accessible via the design and development of a series of strategic data products and platforms. The Base Units is a enterprise platform for citywide location management; it relates addresses to all major units of government operations allowing for powerful and performative data integrations. DSAs data integration capabilities were heavily leveraged for Detroit's successful challenge of a 2020 Census undercount leading to a historic population increase for the first time in 66 years.

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