June 1 – Quilt (data) & OpenJustice Hack Night with Code for America
Interested in helping San Francisco? You have found the right place! Join neighbors, government employees, designers, coders, students and more! The weekly hack night is focused on civic tech and making government services better in San Francisco. You can hack/build and learn together every Wednesday evening with Code for America.
June 1 – Sustainable Urban Systems Symposium at Stanford
Today’s urban challenges, including extraordinary population growth projected by 2050, presents a unique opportunity to re-envision and re-engineer urban environments for the future so that people and the planet flourish.
In support of this vision, Stanford’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Department has embarked on a Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative to facilitate cross-school conversations, collaborations, and education on urban sustainability.
The Initiative is hosting its inaugural Sustainable Urban Systems Symposium at Stanford on June 1, 2016. The Symposium will celebrate and showcase the pioneering work produced by students, researchers, and faculty in the past academic year under the broad theme of Sustainable Urban Systems, and to spark conversations and future collaborations within the broader community. RSVP to attend here.
June 4 & 5 – San Francisco National Day of Civic Hacking
Join Code for San Francisco, CivicMakers, and over 100 passionate, action-oriented community members for a weekend of translating San Francisco problems into workable, impactful solutions. This year, we’ll be focusing our full attention on users — citizens, residents, community members — and diving deep to discover and define their problems to best understand how we can help. There will also be a range of skill-building activities taught by experts and designed to help civic hackers and their projects be effective and impactful.
June 7 – Neurodiversity In the Workforce Conference
Please join Microsoft and industry leaders for our 2nd conference on Neurodiversity and self-advocacy. This conference seeks to raise public awareness of neurodiversity and what it means to employees and employers in the workforce. Ninety percent of all disabilities in the workforce are invisible — including learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum, ADD, Dyslexia, medical conditions and more. When a disability is invisible, the fear of disclosure can be intimidating. Join us, and our featured speakers and panelists, for a day of insight and discovery on neurodiversity.
June 7 – Digital Factories – Disruptive Opportunities for Startups
The accelerated adoption of the industrial Internet of Things over the last 2-3 years has been driven by the widespread wireless connectivity in sensors and devices, launch of specialized cloud computing and application hosting services and demonstrable business benefits across use cases in several verticals. Digital factories epitomize this wave of disruptions by promising autonomous industrial operations through connected cyber-physical systems and sensor data-driven decision analytics. Our panel of venture capitalists from global leaders in industrial verticals will discuss the crucial role of startups in realizing the grand vision of industrial IoT. Register here to attend: https://goo.gl/eKwKRk
Speakers:
- Mike Dolbec, Venture Capital and M&A at GE Digital
- Grant Allen, SVP, ABB Technology Ventures
- Debjit Mukerji, Director of Venture Technology, Siemens
- Ram Jambunathan, Global VP of Corporate Strategy, SAP
June 8 – The Future of Encryption, Housing, and Regulation by Data4America & Lincoln
Join Data4America for a memorable evening with some of the smartest minds in policy and technology. Hear from entrepreneur and legendary investor Keith Rabois, interviewed by the President of the Thiel Foundation, Blake Masters. Also hear from California State Senate candidate, Scott Wiener, interviewed by former TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler. Light bites and beverages will be provided during the welcome networking reception. Listen, learn, network, and exchange ideas! Register ASAP as the event is expected to sell out.
June 9 – Celebrate 1 year of Startup Policy Lab, with special guest Miguel Gamiño
Celebrate 1 year of Startup Policy LabSpecial guest Miguel Gamiño, the CIO of San Francisco,! Location will be announced shortly. Come and join in some enjoy casual conversation over drinks to celebrate an amazing first year of bringing tech + government together at Startup Policy Lab.
June 9 & 10 – Personal Democracy Forum
PDF is one of the premier events for civic tech investors, startup founders, activists, nonprofit leadership, digital media professionals, government workers, community organizers, civic technologists, foundations. The annual flagship conference brings together close to 1,000 top technologists, campaigners, hackers, opinion-makers, government officials, journalists, and academics for two days of game-changing talks, workshops, and networking opportunities to celebrate the power and potential of tech to make real change happen.
If you can’t make it to NYC to to attend the conference in person don’t fret both days will be livestreamed and you can follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #PDF16.
June 13 – 14 – Bloomberg Tech Conference
The 2016 Bloomberg Tech Conference is shining a spotlight on inventors and invention around the world. While “innovation” has become an overused buzzword, invention is the hard work of creating something wholly new—and Silicon Valley doesn’t have a lock on it. The Bloomberg Tech Conference will feature companies and CEOs that are striving to be inventive and innovative, the institutions that spawn and support inventors, and the disruptive inventors themselves.
Participation in the conference is by invitation only. If you have received an invitation or would like to request an invitation, please visit the registration page here.
June 16 – Algorithms to Live By: a dialogue with author Brian Christian
Join Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By, and Scott Mauvais, Director of Technology and Civic Innovation at Microsoft, in a dialogue about how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives. All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of new activities and familiar favorites is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not: computers, too, face the same constraints, so computer scientists have been grappling with their version of such issues for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us.
We look forward to an open, insightful, and interactive discussion. Light refreshments will be served and copies of Brian’s book will be available for purchase.
June 18 – Celebrating Spike, Eddie, and OpenOakland
After five amazing years of leadership, Eddie Tejeda and Steve Spiker are handing off the leadership baton of OpenOakland. This calls for an enormous thank you, a celebration of all OO has achieved, and a cheer for the organization’s future. Come celebrate and thank Spike and Eddie! All proceeds go to supporting OpenOakland’s operations.
June 21-22 – Skype Bot Palo Alto Hackathon
We invite you to come and build an awesome bot at Skype Palo Alto on June 21-22, with the help of the Microsoft bot team and AI experts from Cortana, Bing and Microsoft Research. We’ll have sessions on bot best practices, early access to our latest development tools, great food to keep you going and plenty of swag. Plus, the most innovative and engaging bots will compete for the chance to win $5,000.
June 29 – AC Transit: The Next Generation
Are buses in the East Bay on the verge of getting much better? Thanks to a successful new sales tax (Measure BB), AC Transit has boosted bus service and is planning brand-new rapid bus corridors. Come hear about what the next generation of AC Transit will look like and what it’s going to take to make bus transit in the East Bay great.
