Governmental policy and regulation can be tech’s Achilles heal. It can also create a business model. Love it or hate it if you want to get big you can’t ignore the government. With a new administration (and financial crash) there’s a change happening and we need to pay attention.
At ETech we have a number of talks that focus on policy and what you can expect. ETech is happening March 9-12 in San Jose. Use et09pd30 at checkout for 30% off. Here are just some of the policy-oriented talks:
I Just Don’t Trust You: How the Tech Community Can Reinvent Risk Ratings
Toby Segaran (Metaweb), Jesper Andersen (Open Data Group)
Financial technology - something we all thought was complete - has been upended. Fundamental assumptions have been exposed as faulty. And now we have the opportunity to recreate our finance industry from the bottom up. We have a choice: a path of openness and information sharing, or more opacity and secrecy.
Your Energy Identity and Why You Should Care
Gavin Starks (AMEE)
As we progress to a post-scarcity society, either you’ll measure your consumption or someone else will. More data is becoming accessible than has ever existed. Whether driven by climate change, peak oil or economic change, sustainability is now a fundamental factor of your business and your life. We’ll unpack and map the dramatic changes coming to industry, markets, politics - and you.
Building a New Biology
Drew Endy (Stanford & The BioBricks Foundation (BBF)), David Grewal (Harvard & BBF), Jason Schultz (Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley School of Law)
Three leaders in the technology and law of synthetic biology will present a crisp and accessible briefing on new cooperative efforts to make tens of thousands of open source standardized DNA parts. Discussion to follow.
Mr. Hacker Goes to Washington
Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation)
Want to help fix democracy? Hackers, those crazy Utopian dreamers with DIY attitudes, have begun a sustained assault on government with projects like the Sunlight Foundation, OpenCongress, GovTrack, Watchdog.net, FedSpending, MySociety, and Public.Resource. The goal?
