Monday, March 12, 2018
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
William G. McGowan Theater
1:00: Welcome by the Archivist of the United States
1:10: Championing the Public’s Right to Know
- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
1:30: Innovation: Transforming Government of and by the People
- Jim Thompson, Director of Innovation, Department of State
- Pam Wright, Chief Innovation Officer, National Archives
- Kate Zwaard, Chief of National Digital Initiatives, Library of Congress
- Miriam Nisbet, former Director of the Office of Government Information Services (moderator)
- Other panelists to be announced
2:30: Break
2:45: Making Sense of Public Comments: Lessons Learned in Congress
- Steve Dwyer, Senior Advisor, Office of Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer
- Seamus Kraft, Executive Director, OpenGov Foundation
- Jessica Seale, Digital Director, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
- Jessica Presley, Minority Staff, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- Daniel Schuman, Policy Director, Demand Progress (moderator)
- Other panelists to be announced
3:45: The Open Data Roadmap
- Hudson Hollister, Executive Director, Data Coalition
- Sunmin Kim, Technology Policy Advisor, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)
- Laura Manley, Director of Partnerships & Programs, Center for Open Data Enterprise
- Alex Howard, Deputy Director, Sunlight Foundation (moderator)
- Other panelists to be announced