NYC School of Data 2020: Full Schedule

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 >.

View Sessions by detail - room - grid. If you have any questions, please see our welcome to 2020 post or FAQ.

10:00am EST

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

Gabby

Civic Innovation Apprentice, BetaNYC

Noel Hidalgo

Executive Director, BetaNYC

Speakers

Hon. Gale Brewer

Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer

Jessica Tisch

Commissioner of DoITT and NYC's Chief Information Officer, NYC's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT)

Kelly Jin

Chief Analytics Officer, Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA)

Mary Lu Bilek

Dean, CUNY Law School

Saturday March 7, 2020 10:00am - 11:15am EST
2-301 (220 ppl)

Large Group Plenary Recorded & Livestreamed

5:30pm EST

Civic PechaKucha - Lighting Talks

PechaKucha (Japanese for “chit chat”) is what “Show and Tell” always dreamed of becoming. 20 slides. 20 seconds of commentary per slide. That’s it. Simple. Engaging. SURPRISING.

This year, we're inviting a number of time travelers to come back in time to present vision of the future. Join us for six stirring visions from the next decade.

Lydia Jessup will be our closing mistress of ceremonies.

PechaKucha talk will come from:
* Council Member Antonio Reynoso
* Mari Nakano, Design Director, NYC Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity
* Gabriella Capone, Legal Hackers NYC
* Piyali Kundu, GeoNYC
* Chris Whong, Qri
* Aidan Feldman

Moderators

Lydia Jessup

Speakers

Mari Nakano

Design Director, Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity

Council Member Antonio Reynoso

New York City Council

Piyali Kundu

Solution Engineer, Esri

Piyali Kundu is a Solutions Engineer based out of Esri\\'s New York City office. She works daily with enterprise clients and communities to implement next-generation solutions that leverage advanced geospatial technology to solve complex business problems. She specializes in developing... Read More →

Chris Whong

Outreach Engineer, Qri

At Qri, Chris does everything from engaging our base of peers and devs, to writing code and helping us plan and execute our next phases of growth.Chris is a leader in the NYC civic tech community, known for promoting government adoption of open-source tech, and supporting collaboration... Read More →

Gabriella Capone

Organizer, Legal Hackers NYC

government innovation, open legal data, participatory lawmaking, crowdlaw, open innovation, data governance

Aidan Feldman

Technologist by day, dancer by night

Saturday March 7, 2020 5:30pm - 6:30pm EST
2-301 (220 ppl)

Large Group Plenary Recorded & Livestreamed