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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

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

Jaimey Walking Bear

We know that today’s government IT professional is constrained by budgets and time. That’s why we’ve put together our low cost Expo Hall Plus package. An Expo Hall Plus pass allows you to choose the two conference sessions that you want to attend the most at a fraction of the price and time commitment of a full conference pass.

The Expo Hall Plus package gives you access to:

  • Two sessions in addition to Sponsored Sessions Track (Wed-Thu, Excludes Workshops)
  • All keynotes (Wed-Thu)
  • Expo Hall & all events held there (Wed-Thu)
  • All BoF Sessions
  • All networking events
  • Official schwag

Still no room in the budget?

We have a number of opportunities for those that are cost prohibited to get a little Gov 2.0 Expo flavor. Join us on a free Expo Hall pass for all keynotes, sponsored sessions, Birds of a Feather Sessions,  the Expo Hall. Simply use discount code EXPOPASS during the registration process.

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

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.

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