The way we live and work and play in the city. And we look forward to great events like a super bowl host or Something Like that, were going to be able to give people a really rich amount of programs that they could access from here to santa clara to san jose. We can act regionally with our data and we can join and continue to be in the great city of San Francisco. So, i want to thank all of the people, all of the different starting up companies here and those that are inventing with us, thank them for celebrating 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 hat
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
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 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 surp
A little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data . I should be clear. When San Francisco is third, we have a pact. Ill add to that actually. Whats great in San Francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. There is also the office of civic innovation. Jays team, shannons team. By having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. Because you cant just open up the data. You have to do things like this, where you get the Community Together or you have people actually talking about it because the demand side, as we were talking about it, will be there because there is going to be someone there. There have to be people working with it who are getting out there. I think this is what this city is going to be really powerful. In terms of other cities doing as
Government to engage entrepreneurs and innovators across all the different sectors. For those of you familiar with the history of the Health Data Initiative launched by then the hhs health and Human Services chief Technology Officer todd park, we sought to have a Health Data Palooza proceeded by health data jambs or modeling sessions, jams sounded more fun, we can invite entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created Real Products within a few months. That is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u. S. Aid, other agencies as well. These programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. I think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. Were excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. Future. So, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how San Francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. More broadly how do you think San Francisco com