Now it is my absolute pleasure to introduce our guest speaker. Jennifer pahlka is the founder of code for america, former deputy chief Technology Officer under obama. Her book, recoding america why government is failing in the age and how we can do better was recently called one of the best policy books ive ever read. And the book i wish every policymaker could read by New York Times ezra klein, who, as probably all know, has quite, quite a big reach. Her book, a bold call to reexamine how government operates it goes beyond a call for more money or fancy or technology and into root cause analysis of the improvements that need to be made to end growing bureaucratic dysfunction, governments simply must start better delivering for citizens or populism will be the end result. Youll more about the poor implementation of healthcare. Gov of the federal level and then the appalling 32 billion in fraud losses at californias Employment Development department. Jen importantly is optimistic throug
Government is failing in the age and how we can do better was recently called one of the best policy books ive ever read. And the book i wish every policymaker could read by New York Times ezra klein, who, as probably all know, has quite, quite a big reach. Her book, a bold call to reexamine how government operates it goes beyond a call for more money or fancy or technology and into root cause analysis of the improvements that need to be made to end growing bureaucratic dysfunction, governments simply must start better delivering for citizens or populism will be the end result. Youll more about the poor implementation of healthcare. Gov of the federal level and then the appalling 32 billion in fraud losses at californias Employment Development department. Jen importantly is optimistic throughout the book and dedicates the book to Public Servants everywhere. Dont give up. Thats the intro moderating tonights is d. J patel general partner at great point ventures, former u. S. Chief Data S
Government is failing in the age and how we can do better was recently called one of the best policy books ive ever read. And the book i wish every policymaker could read by New York Times ezra klein, who, as probably all know, has quite, quite a big reach. Her book, a bold call to reexamine how government operates it goes beyond a call for more money or fancy or technology and into root cause analysis of the improvements that need to be made to end growing bureaucratic dysfunction, governments simply must start better delivering for citizens or populism will be the end result. Youll more about the poor implementation of healthcare. Gov of the federal level and then the appalling 32 billion in fraud losses at californias Employment Development department. Jen importantly is optimistic throughout the book and dedicates the book to Public Servants everywhere. Dont give up. Thats the intro moderating tonights is d. J patel general partner at great point ventures, former u. S. Chief Data S
Government is failing in the age and how we can do better was recently called one of the best policy books ive ever read. And the book i wish every policymaker could read by New York Times ezra klein, who, as probably all know, has quite, quite a big reach. Her book, a bold call to reexamine how government operates it goes beyond a call for more money or fancy or technology and into root cause analysis of the improvements that need to be made to end growing bureaucratic dysfunction, governments simply must start better delivering for citizens or populism will be the end result. Youll more about the poor implementation of healthcare. Gov of the federal level and then the appalling 32 billion in fraud losses at californias Employment Development department. Jen importantly is optimistic throughout the book and dedicates the book to Public Servants everywhere. Dont give up. Thats the intro moderating tonights is d. J patel general partner at great point ventures, former u. S. Chief Data S
You view your role as a member of congress as it comes to tech policies . You know i just came from a consumer electronic show. And when you remind of how much the industry is growing and how many new things you see for the first time and people try to explain them to you because it has been a year. Then you realize someone who is not in the industry, you know suzan and i both came out of the industry. We are falling behind. We are doing what we can to stay up but we are causally trying to take that slightly behind technology and relate to people who really have never done much more than just go to best buy. And it is quite a challenge sometimes because the folks want to understand technology. But once they get past will that is data isnt it . You know you realize you have a bit of a challenge. And we are very lucky that we have, not just suzan and myself in a number of members that have done what they can do to stay on the technology. And Suzan Delbene a former microsoft executive how