An interactive discussion with attendees about how a disaster response works from a communication responder's standpoint. Panelists will share with attendees how to communicate effectively with Joint Information Centers…

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Anastacia Visneski, Brandon Brewer, Hanson Hosein, John Visneski

Senator Moran will discuss the policy challenges startups face and how the startup community can engage with policy makers to enable innovation and help economic growth.……

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Greg Ferenstein, Jerry Moran

Hackers are changing the world. Civic hackers are changing our government. They use open data and civic apps to create new ways to engage our government. Come meet with civic hackers from around the country, to discuss t…

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Chip Rosenthal

The rise of content- and social-driven businesses such as Facebook, Google, Baidu and others is causing a shift in data center design. Using more open source and user-developed software, these data centers don’t just sup…

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Ian Ferguson

Venture capital firms have utilized the services of ‘Entrepreneurs-in-Residence’ (EIRs), seasoned innovators with functional expertise to help spur entrepreneurship and fill gaps in expertise. Now, imagine combining the…

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Arnaub Chatterjee, John Paul Farmer, Kara DeFrias, Richard Bendis, Zac Jiwa

In early 2012, then-U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra challenged utilities across the country to develop a “Green Button,” that provides detailed customer usage information available for download in a simple, standard format. Utili…

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Justin Segall, Nick Sinai

While traditional prisons have served a vital role in our criminal justice system, they have become overcrowded, costly, and often ineffective at meeting their goals. But what if an alternative was possible? Imagine a …

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Alan Holden, Carmen Medina, John Vanyur, Kara Shuler

U.S. cities, often resource-strapped and perceived as slow to adapt, are not known as havens for digital innovation. However, leaders are emerging in and outside government institutions that are passionate about applying…

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, Abhi Nemani, Erika Diamond, Rachel Haot

Every year, millions of citizens around the world are involved in a crowdsourcing effort in which they tell their governments where public money should be spent. Known as Participatory Budgeting (PB), this practice is mo…

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Marti Brown, Tiago Peixoto, Tim Bonnemann

Few politicians use social media as openly, or prolifically, as Cory Booker. As the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he has used Twitter to interact with his constituents on a daily basis, responding to questions and complai…

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, Steven Snyder

Few politicians use social media as openly, or prolifically, as Cory Booker. As the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he has used Twitter to interact with his constituents on a daily basis, responding to questions and complai…

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, Steven Snyder

We’re bureaucrats-govies-public sector. You’re techies-geeks-start-ups. No matter what camp you’re in, we’re all into creating ideas that change the way we do things for the better. So, if you’re into developing game-cha…

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Alicia Johnson

How do we get results from what most consider a broken government? What skills are needed to unpackage the government monolith into specific stacks for specific tasks and duties? This presentation will use Startup Visa …

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Craig Montuori, Gina Cooper, Jared Polis

You've all heard about the role of "big data" in this year's race to the White House. From Nate Silver's models to Obama's project Narwhal, the 2012 Presidential election abandoned intuition in favor of analytics - deep …

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Andrew Bleeker, Dan Wagner, Tom Serres, Zac Moffatt

The internet has transformed industries ranging widely from music to travel to retail, but in 2013 the way we govern ourselves continues to conform to the practices that early citizen farmers would recognize. Technology…

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Betsy Hoover, Ginny Hunt, Jennifer Pahlka, Nick Grossman

Social media’s ability to organize & facilitate grassroots activism played a significant role in democratic change throughout the Middle East. But how is social media being used in the aftermath of regime change? How is …

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Christopher Harvin, Elizabeth Breese, Joe Trippi, Nancy Messieh

From SmarterChild to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon to Horse_ebooks, humans have relationships of varying quality with bots. Mostly it’s commercial spam. But sometimes it’s less benign: for instance, the 2012 Mexican elections…

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Alex Leavitt, David Bausola, Erhardt Graeff, Greg Marra

In a data driven world, how do individuals contribute? Do you question where your data comes from and who owns it? This panel will explore the recent surge of grassroots movements empowering communities of citizens to un…

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Christoph Piuggi, Joseph Saavedra, Leif Percifield, Shannon Dosemagen

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Daniel Beckmann

The rise of smartphone technology is poised to change the way people get around. With the sharing economy already altering consumers' views on ownership, the demand for safe, convenient, and affordable transportation has…

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Joseph Kopser

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. Social media encourages us to share real-time information with the greatest number of connections, which can inspire real-world action. Governments …

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Gabriella Augustsson, Hillary Brandt, James Barbour, Jennifer Charlton

This presentation will cover several pertinent topics regarding the state of online security, or lack thereof.……

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Josh Alexander

The rise of new media, from Facebook and Twitter to The Huffington Post and The Daily Caller, has allowed consumers of news to ignore anything that challenges their prior beliefs. Purveyors of news and information now we…

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Christina Bellantoni, James Kirchick, John Sides

The growing problems of the world -- from climate change, conflict, poverty, water scarcity, infectious disease to economic stagnation -- are not too hard to solve. Rather progress is stalled because our model is wrong…

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Don Tapscott

Don Tapscott will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World”, “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything” and “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generat…

There are countless local government projects that are not completed due to lack of funding. These are projects like building new parks, renovating neighborhood pools and adding bike lanes - projects that governments wan…

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, Eric Engelman, Jordan Raynor, Story Bellows

The opening of government has already yielded new tools that can help citizens to start their own businesses and engage in successful projects, while helping the government and the market operate more efficiently. This …

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Amanda Eamich, Gadi Ben-Yehuda, Karen Trebon, Mary Krakowiak

The privacy debate has become a regulatory battle pitting two federal agencies – the FCC and the FTC – against each other. Privacy is a critical issue in today’s technology integrated world. From personal cell phone data…

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, Catherine McCullough, Christina Gagnier, Sara Kloek

As for-profit news organizations struggle to maintain previous levels of reporting, nonprofit news organizations are working to fill the gap in coverage. These outlets are experiencing the same problems that longtime non…

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Dave Mann