Category: Speaking
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Civic Elevator All Hands #2, Long Island City
Today I led our second annual All Hands meeting here at Civic Elevator. I presented our plans for the integration of products from UpVate, Civic Site Service, and the home-grown tools we’ve developed at Civic from Day One. The one-day meeting was bracketed by onsite client meetings.
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Workshop: Headline Ideation at Client Executive Retreat
Today I conducted a workshop for 60 people at the offsite retreat of a large Civic Elevator customer. The purpose was to gather a wide set of objectives at the local business level in order to map efforts to the larger corporate strategy, which Civic has helped develop through extensive technology consulting.
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Remarks: Voqal Call for Change
Today I opened the Voqal “Call for Change” conference in Chicago.
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Remarks at the White House Open Data Innovation Summit
Today I gave keynote remarks, “Open Data: Roots, Impact, and Promise” at The White House Open Data Innovation Summit. Here’s the morning agenda: Here’s the slides: Open Data: Roots, Impact, and Promise from Daniel X. O’Neil Read the complete text here. Here’s some images: Here’s video: Here’s some coverage: White House Open Data Innovation Summit: Open…
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Talk: Schwabe Symposium 2015: Big, Open, Crowd-sourced and Exhaust(ed)!
Today I gave a talk called, “Crowd-sourcing public health: The Foodborne Chicago Project” at the Schwabe Symposium 2015: Big, Open, Crowd-sourced and Exhaust(ed)! Here’s the abstract for the conference: Evolution in technology has made the possibilities for data collection, information-exchange, networking, and data integration limitless. Using new and emerging technologies to conduct research, promote animal or human…
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Speech at City Club
Today I spoke at City Club of Chicago. Here’s a video: Daniel X. O’Neil, Executive Director, Smart Chicago Collaborative from City Club of Chicago on Vimeo. And here: Here’s the slides and complete text: The Need for Investment in the Digital Lives of All from Daniel X. O’Neil 1 Hello. And thank you, Dr. Green, Tweed,…
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Remarks at Adler Planetarium on the National Day of Civic Hacking
Today I kicked off the National Day of Civic Hacking at the Adler Planetarium. Here’s remarks: Hi everybody. It’s great to see you here at one of the premier places for science in Chicago, the Adler Planeterium. This morning, you are joining thousands of colleagues— and they are your colleagues— in more than 100 cities in…
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Chicago: City of Big Data Pecha Kucha Night
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Presentation: Northeastern Illinois Documents Librarians Group
I freaking love documents and I love librarians, so this was fun. Documents! from Daniel X. O’Neil
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Speaking: Testimony to Cook County Finance Committee
Today I spoke on behalf of the technology portion of the FY 2014 Cook County Budget. Here’s the full text: Remarks to the Cook County Finance Committee in Support of the Cook County Bureau of Technology FY2014 Budget Good morning Mr. Chairman and Commissioners. My name is Daniel X. O’Neil, and I am the Executive…