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
Government. And right now its primarily focused on information with a little bit of reservations but its going to be able to do so much more over time as we continue to evolve as a department. So, love your parks. Download one of these things. And let me introduce yo yashid, a. Let me say to all of you out here keep doing what youre doing. Because with your help you are really making government better. So, i wanted to say thank you to the hatchery and everybody in this room. Yo . applause thank you, thank you, mayor ed lee. Thank you, Phil Ginsberg and the hatchery for hosting us. I use open data. Our company was founded three years ago using open data. We are one of the First Sustainable companies to use open data and be sustainable innovation, meaning we can generate revenue and keep mobile applications for government going. We are really excited to be here today. This is our official launch of appleliscious. I would like to thank our team, kevin, rick robbins, moment of all [speaker
Well launch in about a month or two. Thank you very much. Were really happy to be here. applause cool, were going to do a short panel talking about the state of open data and sort of what specifically some of these companies are doing which youve gotten a brief peek on. Again, youre probably familiar with, already know who a lot of these people are. Really quick go down and have everyone introduce them self. Hello,ishv. My name is ian kalen, hottved by the department of energy and i support thuous us chief Technology Officer todd park who is not the cto, but assistant to the president. And im peter hirschberg, run publicly a dozen hackathon, [speaker not understood], build apps and explore whats possible. Im chris, the cofounder and ceo of 100plus and we use data from many different sources to try to help people be more healthy in their daily life. Hi. [speaker not understood]. Were a mapping and locationbased analytics platform. And we are working with open data and trying to see how
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 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 goi
About the work that you specifically are doing and sort of, you know, how the department of energy when it became interested in open data, what is available right now . There is so much available for startups right now. Its hard to choose a few favorites. Wow, i can tell you what some of the best ones that people have told me are the most popular so that will be like many other things in the startup world, its not the government that is going to come up with the answer. Its partners working together to find the solution. So, one data set that comes to mind, i want to do a show of hands. I get this question a lot in terms of how much of the work is getting out there. How many of you have ever heard of the green button, a green button . Most of the panelists and audience members. Its a good thing were here. It is a initiative launched by the white house but industry led. You should be able to get your own energy data in a machine readable format you can then give to companies, organizati