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May 10th, 2010 | Jaimey Walking Bear

Starting Gov 2.0 Expo with a bang: Keynote Kickoff

Jaimey Walking Bear

We start the Gov 2.0 Expo festivities off with a bang with our Keynote Kickoff event – happening immediately following workshops on Tuesday, May 25.

Join fellow conference attendees for a fantastic evening session to kickoff the Gov 2.0 Expo. Bill Eggers, author of “If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government” will MC and keynote Tuesday night’s event. This session will feature informative and fun five-minute lightening talks from:

  • Bill Eggers (Deloitte) – Accepting the Mission for Greatness
  • Clay Johnson (Sunlight Foundation) – Sunlight Contest Winners
  • Daniel O’Neil (EveryBlock) – Crisis Communication 2.0: Real-time Civilian Protection
  • André Blas (WebCitizen) – Vote on the Web: Transparency and Civic Engagement in Brazilian Politics
  • Timothy Kephart (Graffiti Tracker, Inc.) – Graffiti Tracker: Utilizing Data to Fight Crime
  • Kate Bladow (Pro Bono Net) – Opening the Courts – Using Technology to Empower the Unrepresented
  • John Ohab (US Department of Defense, Public Web) – You’ve Been Scienced: Communicating Military Science and Technology with Social Media
  • Michelle Chronister (GSA) – Go.USA.gov: Create short .gov URLs
  • Rita King (IBM Analytics Virtual Center) – Technology is a Prism Held Up to the Imagination: A Vision of Reality for Gov 2.0 Looking Forward
  • Christopher Dufour (@Du4.llc) – Instituting a Culture of AWESOME in Government: The Case of the IED Task Force Tech Team
  • Elizabeth Losh (UC Irvine) – If You Can’t Control the Data, Consider the Message
  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Microsoft) – Connecting Information in Space and Time

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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb

Apr 20th, 2010 | Jaimey Walking Bear

Get ready for awesome Gov 2.0 Expo Keynotes

Jaimey Walking Bear

Only Gov 2.0 Expo offers you the perfect blend of in-depth technical content, access to speakers, networking opportunities, and face time with leading edge technology vendors critical for you to make a difference in your workplace or agency today:

If you haven’t checked it out, we’ve assembled an amazing list of keynote speakers from within government (U.S. and international) and the technology community. These are the people making a tangible difference in government and in the world right now; people that will inspire you to do the same, including:

  • Linda Cureton (NASA)
  • Mary Davie (GSA)
  • Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium)
  • Randi Levin (City of Los Angeles)
  • Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media)
  • Price Floyd (Department of Defense)
  • Dave Girouard (Google)
  • Alec Ross (State Department)
  • Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia)
  • Sonal Shah (U.S. Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation)
  • Brad Smith (Microsoft)
  • Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Government)
  • Jay Parkinson (The Future Well)
  • Jeff Jonas (IBM Entity Analytics)
  • danah boyd (Microsoft Research)
  • Clay Johnson (Sunlight Foundation)
  • Bill Eggers (Deloitte)
  • Anil Dash (Expert Labs)
  • Jack Dangermond (ESRI)

As mentioned in our last post, we’ll be featuring a special Keynote Kickoff event on Tuesday, May 25, featuring over a dozen rapid fire presentations about amazing, innovative projects happening today that are driving efficiency, collaboration and delivering citizen services in new, innovative ways.

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Jaimey Walking Bear is on the Marketing team for Gov 2.0 Expo. He can be reached @gov2events or @jaimeywb