Events matching tag "policy"
Friday, March 7
It may come as a surprise, but on average five countries write new constitutions every year. The people who write these documents are often outgunned and under-resourced as they try to search and analyze constitutions fr…
Intermediate
Presenters
Juan Sequeda, Robert Shaffer, Zachary Elkins
Saturday, March 8
Today's investors not only want a financial return on investment, but also social, economic and environmental returns. Impact investing has emerged as the next step in matching socially conscious investors with capital-s…
Intermediate
Presenters
DJ Paul
Over the past decade there have been 424 hurricanes worldwide, resulting in 165,000 fatalities. Ten of the 12 most costly hurricanes in U.S. history occurred during this time period—including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 an…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrea Basora, Corey Pieper, Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Wendy Harman
Washington, DC -- the place where innovation goes to die. The place where The Man walks the halls of Congress in Gucci loafers. It’s easy for disruptors to ignore the political game. Or if they do play the game, play it …
Intermediate
Presenters
Maura Corbett, Patrick Ruffini
Sunday, March 9
To bolster our startup communities, strong collaboration is required for success. Policymakers at the local, state, and federal level can be a powerful partner for advancing startup ecosystems. One of the major problems …
Intermediate
Presenters
Brandon Pollak, Darrell Issa, Gregory Ferenstein, Suzan Delbene
When the Texas Legislature took up abortion legislation, planned and spontaneous social media filled the Capitol with thousands of activists and delivered a global participatory audience. Celebrities tweeted as an 11-hou…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eliza Vielma, Erica Grieder, Joe Deshotel, Steven Polunsky
Monday, March 10
It is fairly obvious by now that technology advances have changed the world. But occasionally, it comes into question whether that change has been for good or bad. Often, the innovation coming out of Silicon Valley has b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Coffey Clark, Reshma Saujani
We all know it’s true: our cyber infrastructure is vulnerable to attack and there are lots of holes to plug. It’s a huge problem, one where the deck is stacked in favor of the attacker. Come hear from Dr. Reginald Brot…
Intermediate
Presenters
Robert Gold
Tuesday, March 11
A description of an entrepreneur's two years serving as a senior advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship. The talk will include details on 7 mechanisms created to enable more engagement between the State Department a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Rebecca Taylor
If you weren't following Wendy Davis' filibuster and the Texas abortion fight online, you missed the story. Television news and print media caught the highlights, but #TamponGate, “Hail Satan” and the “jars of feces” mys…
Intermediate
Presenters
Emily Horne, Forrest Wilder, Rocio Villalobos, Sonia Smith
In today’s digital world, entrenched incumbents from the past are still bumbling around, getting in the way of creativity. We see music labels get in the way of artists and listeners, internet service providers purposely…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ali Sternburg, Elizabeth Frazee, Katie McAuliffe, Rachel Wolbers
We heard from Acting Under Secretary of Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller at SxSW Interactive 2013, on the significant value placed on bringing citizens both in the US and globally, into the work …
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Nordmann
Whether you painstakingly work to keep your personal information offline, “lay it all out there” on the digital plain, or hold concerns for your children online, there are an array of options that can help you protect yo…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eve Maler, Joni Brennan, Karen Reilly, Robin Wilton
From government censorship that blocks content to legislation that hinders the Internet from being open and free to monitoring of online communications -- online privacy issues are becoming more complex, not less. There …
Intermediate
Presenters
Christian Dawson, Laura Moy, Leah Belsky, Nancy Libin
Cities, private companies, and public-private partnerships are taking control of their bandwidth destinies by working to ensure people and businesses have access to world-leading Internet connections. This infrastructure…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amie Stepanovich, Ellen Satterwhite, Heather Gold, Luther Lowe
The Internet is increasingly the home for communications between sensors and devices that support a variety of applications, across a broad range of industries. This “Internet of Things” operates over unlicensed spectrum…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Don, Jim Lansford, Larra Clark, Richard Whitt
Friday, March 14
Although debates about how to protect copyright online might seem so 2010, they certainly haven't abated. The current conversations aren't as contentious as the SOPA skirmishes, but that doesn't necessarily mean consensu…
Presenters
David Lowery, Jill Lesser, Sherwin Siy, Casey Rae
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