Connecting Communities through Broadband Technology
In collaboration with DCWeek*, the Digital Inclusion Initiative at the DC Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) hosted its fall Community Broadband Summit on November 5th. Together with developers, entrepreneurs, social innovators, policy makers, members of community institutions and concerned citizens, we explored the yet untapped power of broadband technology in the District.
AGENDA
9 am Power On: Coffee & Networking
10 am Welcome and Event I: Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is (Watch the video)
11 am Keynote speech by Victor L. Hoskins, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development: The State of Techonomic Development in the District (Watch the video)
11:30 am Event II: What’s in IT for me? (Watch the video)
12:30 pm Recharge Power Networking
1 pm Event III: Untapped: The Role of Inclusion in the Future of Technology & Your Organization
2 pm Power Off
MODERATORS
Leslie Aun, Venture Philanthropy Partners
Donna Harris, Startup America Partnership
Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee, National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
PANELISTS
Zvi Band, ProudlyMadeInDC
Raymond Bell, H.O.P.E. Project
Joseph Corbett, iStrategyLabs
Daniel Doll, SoapBox Soaps
Christine Celise Johnson, DiversiTech
Julie Silard Kantor, Barrel of Jobs
Aaron Saunders, ClearlyInnovative
Liz Steininger, Rails Girls DC
David Zipper, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
*DCWEEK is a week long festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. It's a series of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties and projects created by the festival organizers iStrategyLabs and Tech Cocktail. DCWEEK 2011 included over 10,000 attendees from around the world and was presented by Ford.