Julie Germany is the COO at Generation Opportunity. In her free time, she serves on the board of White Coat Waste Project, as well as on the board of the Army Heritage Museum Foundation. She previously served as the Vice President of Digital Strategy at DCI Group and the Director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at The George Washington University. She co-founded the mCitizen Summit, as well as the CampaignTech conference with Campaigns & Elections magazine. Julie lives in Alexandria, Virginia, where she and her husband spend their free time herding their four cats -- Jasmine, Bert, Ernie, and Trucker -- and their dog Violet, whom they rescued from an animal research lab. She is a student and a practitioner of Reiki.

Taylor Barkley is the Assistant Director of Outreach for Technology Policy at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. In this role he connects public policy research from the Technology Policy Program on topics like telecommunications, cybersecurity, emerging technologies, and intellectual property with policymakers and stakeholders in the Washington, DC area and beyond. He has previously blogged for the Institute for Faith, Work, and Economics. He is also an Associate Staff member with Search Ministries, a national organization that facilitates discussions on the deeper things in life. Taylor is speaking at SXSW in a personal capacity and his views do not represent those of the Mercatus Center or affiliated scholars.