Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob
There is water and coffee in the back so feel free to partake. The restrooms at the end of the hall. If you leave the building you can come back in but you will have to go through security. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you. You do need to turn them on when you are about to talk. I think theres a button that says talk. Turn it on, the red light will come on which will tell you the microphone is active. Were not speaking, please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you probably prefer we dont hear any private conversations as well. Those were speaking, we appreciate you being here. We ask that you keep your arm remarks to about ten minutes but i will be sitting with the secretary and try not to be obnoxious but i may waive or give you an indication if youre getting close to the ten minutes and asked that you wrap up quickly when that happens. We are looking forward to a great conversation talking about innovation in k12
We showed it today to introduce you to cspan cities tour. For five years, we have traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visit that cspan. Org cities tour. That is grand rapids. And the grand river which divides the city. And in many ways, defines the city. There is a good chance that most people over the course of any given day will see or interact with a piece of french are made in grand rapids. We were the first city to ever receive a grant from the endowment to be used specifically to commission an original work of art for a civic site. This weekend, the cspan cities tour will explore the literary life and history of red rapids, michigan. That is on book tv on cspan2. The author of the book, thin ice will talk about that the book people who grew up in grand methods grand rapids. Then we will hear how Richard Smith works and his newest biography on gerald for. An author gordon enters talks about the life of attorne
Us on facebook at the spent history cspan history. History tv is joining our Cable Partners to showcase the history of grand rapids, michigan. To learn more about the cities on the tour, visit cspan. Org cities to work. We continue to look at the history of grand rapids. We are at the Gerald R Ford Residential Museum in grand rapids, michigan. He is beginning his professional career. It is not clear even to him, because at the same time that he is establishing hislop rectus he is applying to become a field agent for the f ei. He wants to be a gman. He is writing letters and toward the end of 1941, trying to figure out what the status of his application is. Himself, along with america, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bond pearl harbor. There after he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer area he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy but april 1942 and he joins the navy. Annapolis down to cap where he goes thr
Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on this panel or this conversation were going to talk a bit about how joyce at the usda and department of energy, co