Category: Panel Discussion
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Panel: Facets Town Hall: Building Community in a Fragmented Digital Age
Today I participated in a town hall discussion at Facets Chicago, “Building Community in a Fragmented Digital Age”. Here’s their description: The explosion of digital and social media has changed our lives. But how do we measure its impact when technology advances at such a dizzying speed? Join us for a special Facets town hall…
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Panel: Hidden Signals Challenge
Recently I took part in scoring entries for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hidden Signals Challenge, a competition that “calls upon data innovators from a wide variety of fields—from data science, to civic tech, to epidemiology—to develop concepts for novel uses of existing data that will identify signals and achieve timelier alerts for biothreats…
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Panel: Big Data & the Public Good for the Illinois Humanities
Today I moderated a panel for Illinois Humanities about how big data can serve the public good. Here’s how they described it: What is the relationship between information technology, urban space, and the public good in the age of big data? Where do “smart cities” initiatives like the Array of Things – which doesn’t collect…
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PANEL: Social Media and Digital Tech in Service Development
Today I participated in this panel: Social Media and Digital Tech in Service Development Social media provides us with a unique opportunity to listen to and understand citizen needs and to launch innovative programs and services that address them. While social media commentary is often overlooked when programming decisions are made, social good organizations can gain…
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PANEL: Looking at Infrastructure: Smart Cities & Smart Government
Today I participated in a panel discussion about Smart Cities. We covered a lot of ground, including equity. Looking at Infrastructure: Smart Cities & Smart Government – Embark on a panel discussion regarding the issues associated with smart city projects ranging from infrastructure considerations to imperatives regarding privacy, ownership, and stewardship of data, to funding…
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Panel: Mind Bytes— Current and Future Urban Challenges: The Role of Big Data and Technology
Today I participated in a panel for Mind Bytes. Here’s a description: Projections show that urbanization, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population, could add another 2.5 billion people to urban populations by 2050. Exponential growth in urban density and cities brings numerous challenges and opportunities, both in the short and long term. Various…
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Panel: Big Data Driving Big Change for the Denver Chamber of Commerce
Today I participated in a discussion about the use of big data in helping economic development in regional planning. The focus is on the value of humans in designing and validating systems.
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Panel: “Design Thinking and Learning Together”
Today I participated in a panel discussion with Susan Patterson, co-director, KCIC, Knight Foundation; Kelly Ryan, CEO, Incourage Community Foundation; Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D., CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation; and Chris Daggett, president & CEO, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. We talked about the work our organizations have done together in the Knight Community Information Challenge deep dive cohort. Here’s video:…
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Panel: The Future of Story Telling in a Data-driven World
Today I participated in a panel in the Tech Breakfast Club: The Future of Story Telling in a Data-driven World. Here’s a description: Experts from Narrative Science, the Smart Chicago Collaborative and Nuveen Investments will share examples of how marketers are marrying data and natural language technologies to automate routine reports and craft stories that haven’t…
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Presentation: The Promise of People in Civic Tech and Moderator: The Intersection of Technology and Civic Life at Treefort/ Hackfort
Today I presented at Hackfort, the technology focus of Treefort Music Festival, in Boise, Idaho. The presentation was “The Promise of People in Civic Tech”: The Promise of People in Civic Tech from Daniel X. O’Neil I also moderated this panel discussion: Discussion around creating heroic, and at times disruptive, outputs with technology that have…