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2018 Code for America Summit

10:00am PDT

A Better Way to Buy IT: Lessons in Modular Contracting Junior Ballroom 1 Civic Service Design Tools + Tactics Room 203 Demystifying Machine Learning and Data Science Grand Ballroom G & H Hacking Hiring: How to get the right people in the right door Room 210/211 Product Management 101 Room 208 Security and Risk Management: Securing Agile Digital Services Room 202 Slack to the Future Room 201 User-Centered Design: Design Thinking for Government Innovation Grand Ballroom A & B

1:00pm PDT

Lunch TBA

2:00pm PDT

Delivery-Driven Policy Room 210/211 Demystifying Data Sharing: Local governments can, and should, ethically share data Grand Ballroom G & H Design Research 101 Junior Ballroom 1 Effective Community Engagement Requires User-Based Design Grand Ballroom A & B Procuring Better Outcomes: Views from the Front Room 202 Prototyping For People Who Hate Wasting Money Room 208 So Now You're a Manager Room 201 Standards that Work Room 203

7:30am PDT

Breakfast West Hall

8:30am PDT

Thursday Mainstage Talks East Hall

10:40am PDT

Break East Hall

11:00am PDT

Thursday Mainstage Talks East Hall

12:30pm PDT

Lunch West Hall

1:30pm PDT

Balancing Transparency and Privacy in Modern Governments Room 203 Birds of a Feather - So You’re Working on: Recruiting and Hiring Outside the Usual Suspects Room 206 Ending the Harassment Among Us Room 210/211 From Policy to Delivery: Implementing the Largest Modern Change to Medicare Room 208 Getting the Work Done Grand Ballroom G & H Helping the Helpers: Data-Driven Support for Community Vulnerabilities Room 201 How Local Communities can Prepare for a Successful 2020 Census Count Grand Ballroom A & B How to Standardize and Open Social Services Data in your City Room 207 Reaching the Last Mile When it Matters Most Room 204 Reshaping the Defense Ecosystem at DIUx (Defense Innovation Unit Experimental) Room 202Colonel Enrique Oti • Raj Shah Safety in the Storm: Economical Defense from Existential Security Threats Junior Ballroom 1 Same team! Same team! How We Built a Successful Government - Contractor Relationship at the VA Junior Ballroom 3

2:30pm PDT

Break -

3:00pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - So You’re Working on: Innovating in a Smaller Locale Room 206 Birds of a Feather - So You’re Working on: Turning IT into Civic Leaders Room 205 Blameless Post-Mortems Room 208 Changing the Government from the Inside Out Room 201 Collaboration in Modern GovTech: The Power of Cross-Sectoral Partnerships Grand Ballroom G & H Data + Policy: Lobbying with Jupyter Notebook Room 202 Designing Open Source Projects that Mobilize Communities Grand Ballroom A & B How Brigade-Government Relationships are Renewing Civic Infrastructure Room 207 How Can You Measure Your Criminal Justice System? All Of It! Room 203 How to Recruit and Hire More Design & Tech Talent Room 204 Industry Standards: What Criteria Should Governments Use When Evaluating Technology Vendors? Room 210/211 Planning for the Cutline: When Agile Meets Deadlines Junior Ballroom 3 The Legacy Infrastructure is Dead, Long Live the Legacy Infrastructure Junior Ballroom 1

4:00pm PDT

Break -

4:30pm PDT

A Conversation on How this Civic Pioneer Modernized from Legacy to Modern to Agile Apps Room 210/211 Birds of a Feather - Group Therapy: For CIO Leadership Room 205 Birds of a Feather - Group Therapy: Haters Gonna Hate or Overcoming Human Obstacles Room 206 Building Preparedness: Data and Communication for Crisis Response Room 203 Diversity and Inclusion Made it to the Mainstream: Now what? Grand Ballroom A & B Local Innovation and National Scale. How can we spread local solutions and increase cross-city collaboration? Room 208 Practical Do’s and Don’ts When Implementing Consumer-Facing Technology Solutions in the Health & Human Services Sector Room 204 Staying in Government During Hard Times: A Group Therapy Session Room 201 The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: Best practices and pitfalls as a government contractor Junior Ballroom 3 Using Discovery Sprints to Change Policy with People-Centered Policymaking Junior Ballroom 1 Working with Survey Data: Semi-Supervised Learning and Biased Data Room 202

5:30pm PDT

Tech Fair Reception Lobby/Atrium

7:30am PDT

Breakfast West Hall

8:30am PDT

Friday Mainstage Talks East Hall

10:45am PDT

Break East Hall

11:10am PDT

Friday Mainstage Talks East Hall

12:30pm PDT

Lunch West Hall

1:30pm PDT

Agile is Dead, Long Live Agile Junior Ballroom 3 Birds of a Feather - This is What Success Looks Like Room 205 Breaking Taboos And The Elephants In The Room: We Need To Talk About The Gov Tech Vendor Ecosystem Room 203 Defying the Limits of Tech, Data & Design: Women of Color Data Scientists Cast An Unbiased Vision of the Future Grand Ballroom A & B Deliberate Community Building Room 207 Difficult Data, Difficult Discussions Room 201 Jumpstart Your Smart Community Efforts Room 202 Keeping Users at the Forefront While Scaling Services Room 204 Only New Mistakes: Starting and Running a Digital Service Room 208 Research and Design for CA Child Welfare: Wins and Challenges from the Field Room 210/211 Using Data + Design to Innovate with Purpose Grand Ballroom G & H Using Hyperledger Blockchain Technologies to Deliver Government Services Junior Ballroom 1

2:45pm PDT

Birds of a Feather - So You’re Working on: Design Literacy Room 206 Building a Sustainable Future for Public Services Junior Ballroom 3 CFA Alumni Q & A Room 205 Cookie Swap: Bring Your Things that Worked Making Digital Service Room 208 Customer Selection and Product Roadmapping for the Government Technology Market Room 202 Delivering Workforce Services in the Digital Age Grand Ballroom G & H Designing Government Platforms for Reliability, Trust and Safety and More Grand Ballroom A & B How Agile Methods Help Non-Technical Government Teams Get Things Done Room 210/211 Lightning Talks: Case Studies From The Network Room 201 Moving From an In-House CMS to Drupal at the City of Bloomington Room 204 Why Would Anyone Want To Work Here? Room 207

4:00pm PDT

Town Hall and Closing Grand Ballroom A & B