At a great, great session already this morning, 7 30 a. M. Who was in there eating breakfast . All right. Welcome to aptas 40th annual legislative conference and our Nations Capital. Yesterday was some great sessions, werent they with the mayor of washington d. C. And some great speakers and thank you all for being here. The conference comes at a momentous time in the industry. We have a lot of things to do this week. We are gearing up for a new surface transportation bill out there. This opening session really set the stage for our discussions over the next few days. In this session, oh well we will hear from the ceo and janet kovanecki with the u. S. Chamber of commerce and pete bruahmn. Our sponsor this morning is ralk fmatch. Help me welcome joseph hills Vice President for Business Development who will share some comments on stage. [applause] thank you, phil. Thank you apta. My name is joe hughes, Vice President for three parts of route map software, product management, Customer Re
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 well, chicago is doing some really interesting stuff. Scary cool stuff. Theyre taking 3 i
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 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
President obama taking steps to fulfill a state of the u. N. Pledge. Announcing federal guidelines aimed at helping the longterm unemployed. Mike vicarra, it looks like common sense. The president is hamstringed by congress, and what hes trying to do today is get congress to pass the longterm benefits. The 1. 3 to the 1. 6 have thrown off those roles. No longer giving benefits beyond 6 months that have been available assistance the beginning of the Great Recession in the mid 2000s. The president announcing an issue to give some of those folks, who are longterm unemployed to get with major corporation. He has more than 300 signed up, del, to reform some of their hiring practices, so the longterm unemployed are not just thrown out their resumes because they have had a job so long. Its backed up by data to show these are frequent occurrences. So the president joining with the department of labor, a 150 million job training program. But the president spoke to this phenomenon. The folks who
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 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 thi