2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Complete event listing for

Government and Policy

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Better Living Through Data and Evidence
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Friday, March 11
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Beyond Urban: Startups and the American Landscape
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Friday, March 11
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Dan Rather: One Newsman, 11 Presidents & A Century of Election News Technology Shifts
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Friday, March 11
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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President Barack Obama Keynote Conversation
Keynote
Long Center
Dell Hall
Friday, March 11
2:30PM - 3:30PM
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Giving the Internet Away? ICANN Explained
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Friday, March 11
3:45PM - 4:45PM
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Shifting the Power for Lasting Change
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Friday, March 11
3:45PM - 4:45PM
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Straw, Sticks or Bricks: The Urban Housing Challenge
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Friday, March 11
3:45PM - 4:45PM
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Copyright and Creators: 2026
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Friday, March 11
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Internet of Things: Just Someone Else's Computer?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Friday, March 11
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Putting the Public back into Public Policy
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Friday, March 11
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Countering Violent Extremism on Digital Platforms
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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How the Big Tech Firms Protect Consumer Privacy
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Prototyping Democracy: Better Collaboration Design
Workshop
JW Marriott
Room 402-403
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 1:30PM
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Supporting US Entrepreneurs: America Job 1
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Surveillance, Sousveillance and Body Cams
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Saturday, March 12
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Big City Broadband: Today's Most Important Utility
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Crowdsourcing Policy: Constituents to Changemakers
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Game of Drones: Innovators and Policymakers Unite
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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New Face, New Pace: Innovation Beyond 2016
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Room 18ABCD
Saturday, March 12
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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5 Cities, One Fed, $50 Million: Smart City Challenge
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Bootstrapping your City's Innovation Ecosystem
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Matt Gallagher: Iraq War Vet, Youngblood Author
Book Reading
Austin Convention Center
Room 10AB
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:00PM
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Technology and Labor: A Contentious Romance
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Saturday, March 12
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Take Back Control in a Post-Snowden World
Workshop
JW Marriott
Room 402-403
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 5:30PM
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Tale of Two Cities: Challenging Urban Disparity
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Technology Driven Accessible Transportation Apps
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Using Data Science to Catch Legislators in the Act
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Saturday, March 12
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Cities Unlocking Impact
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Elise's Data Plan: Connecting Rural America
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Mythbusting the Drug War with Science
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Saturday, March 12
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Big Data Will Choose the Next US President
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Sunday, March 13
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Decrypting the Cybersecurity Debate in Washington
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Sunday, March 13
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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For All Your Eyes Only: Communicating Secrets at CIA
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Sunday, March 13
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Data Ethics in the Age of the Quantified Society
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Sunday, March 13
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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For the People, by the People: The Human Algorithm
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Sunday, March 13
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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National Labs: Your Next BFF?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Sunday, March 13
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Beyond Traffic: The Emergence of a Connected City
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Room 18ABCD
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Mentor Session: Alexander Rodriguez
Mentor Session
JW Marriott
Room 503
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Protecting the Digital You
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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RoboPresident: Politics in an Algorithmic World
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Smartwatch or Spyware? Considering Privacy and IoT
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Sunday, March 13
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Autonomous Vehicles Are Here. But Are We Ready?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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The End of Online Free Expression?
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Using Data to Power Criminal Justice Reform
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Sunday, March 13
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Building the Perfect Country
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Monday, March 14
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Municipal Policing: Transparency, Truth and Trust
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Monday, March 14
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Tech at Issue in 2016 Election
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Monday, March 14
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Dude, Where’s My Patriarchy?
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom EFG
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Government vs Innovation: Breaking Tech Barriers
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Metro Mobility Revolution
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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We the People: Using Tech to Solve Big Challenges
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Zombie SOPA: A New Threat to the Open Internet
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Monday, March 14
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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America’s LGBT Spies: Secret Agents (of Change)
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Cryptowars 2.0: Silicon Valley vs Washington
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Ending Cannabis Prohibition: Tech Politics Culture
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Monday, March 14
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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Big Organizing: Digital Tools in Bernie Sanders’s Revolution
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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The Right to Be Forgotten
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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WiFi in Jeopardy: Losing the Signal
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Monday, March 14
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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Keeping People Safe: Open Data and Social Media
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 1-2
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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New Media and Government: Holding Our Institutions Accountable
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Strategic Storytelling: Video As Policy Changer
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Monday, March 14
5:00PM - 6:00PM
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Digital Content and the Legality of Web Scraping
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Tuesday, March 15
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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Turn Texas Green
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Tuesday, March 15
9:30AM - 10:30AM
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The New Battle Over Encryption and How to Survive It
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Tuesday, March 15
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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Web Trafficked: From Victim to Inmate
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Tuesday, March 15
11:00AM - 12:00PM
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How to Fight ISIS Without Breaking the Internet
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 3-4
Tuesday, March 15
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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The White House Police Data Initiative
Solo / Dual / Panel
JW Marriott
Salon 5
Tuesday, March 15
12:30PM - 1:30PM
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It’s Not About an iPhone: Fixing the Encryption Mess
Featured Session
Austin Convention Center
Ballroom D
Tuesday, March 15
3:30PM - 4:30PM
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