Name: Opening Remarks & Keynote
Start: 2020-03-07T10:00:00-0500
End: 2020-03-07T11:15:00-0500

Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the policies and practices around civic data, technology, and service design. This year’s conference concludes NYC’s annual Open Data Week & features 60+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community! Our conversations & workshops will feed your mind and empower you to improve your neighborhood. Follow the conversation #nycSOdata on twitter and tune into our live stream (provided by the Internet Society New York Chapter).

To attend, you need to purchase tickets via eventbrite. Venue is fully accessible and content is all ages friendly — free, professional on-site childcare is provided for ALL participants! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < schoolofdata@beta.nyc >.

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Opening Remarks & Keynote

Kickoffs and introductions to the day with visions from the future from,
* Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, author of NYC's open data law
* Commissioner Jessica Tisch, NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications
* NYC's Chief Analytics Officer Kelly Jin
* Mary Lu Bilek, CUNY Law School, Dean
* Mutale Nkonde, Founding President of AI for the People, and Fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
* Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC
* Gabrielle Langston, Civic Innovation Fellow from BetaNYC

Moderators