Innovation month in such a exemplary way. And i think were going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. Thank you very much. applause now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. I
Course. [laughter] because thats where my exercise happens. The more i walk on the golf course like i did 18 holes yesterday morning at 6 00 a. M. , the more healthy im going to be in the long run. Its things like that where people dont know there might be an existent location that they dont know about that could be related to their health. And they could have that instantaneously. These are just three of some of, i think, just hoards of examples that when we allow Data Analytics and this is really to me a Technology Geeks really dream, is to have all of this Data Available so that we can mine them in different ways and very creative ways. And i want to say, again, as someone who has worked in government for 23 years, ive been at those departments like dpw and others where we think in one dimension. This is where we clean the streets. This is how often we clean it. This is when we tell the cars to move off. And this is what dpw does and it does it pretty well within that constraint. If
A couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to connect citizens better with government. I ran it for almost nine years. And when i was elected to office four years ago, i was unfortunately more surprised than i wanted to be about how far behind San Francisco government was. This was very 2008, 2009. With you im really proud of the leaps and bounds we have taken as a city. I was proud in 2010 to help move forward legislation to really bring together city departments to work in a coordinated way with our committee on information technology. To help create a chief Information Officer position for the city. I was also proud to work with then mayor newsome in pas
And i think were going to have a lot more to announce before this month is out, including on our way to the world series. Thank you very much. applause now, if i may introduce our partner in crime here, board president david chiu who is also going to be complimenting us with all of his efforts at the board. Come on up, david. applause good morning. I am incredibly excited to be here today for a couple of reasons. First of all, the hatchery is one of my Favorite Places in the city. There is truly a bee hive of activity of the newest innovations that San Francisco will be famous for. I also love the fact that just a couple of blocks from here is where our San Francisco giants are moving on to the world series. But just in this room, all of you are giants and making sure that San Francisco is the World Champion when it comes to innovation. 13 years ago, i like all of you started a company. I started in iti a Technology Company in the 1. 0 world. It was a company that created technology to
And say to everybody in the continue to evolve as a department. Public, to people who wanted to so, love your parks. Download one of these things. Create businesses, wanted to look at the city with kind of and let me introduce yo yashid, an open invitation to involve themselves with what the city a. Let me say to all of you out had. And part of that really neat here keep doing what youre doing. Because with your help you are understanding was that we were holding onto so much of our own really making government better. So, i wanted to say thank you data in our own silos with our to the hatchery and everybody in this room. Yo . Own very focused obligations applause that we had, and not realizing that if we had released that thank you, thank you, mayor data to the public, we could ed lee. Really allow them to help us create even more efficient government, along with some thank you, Phil Ginsberg and the hatchery for hosting us. I use open data. Very Good Entrepreneurial our company was f