I think that moment a year ago was a wakeup call for all of us. A lot of soul searching occurred which is good and healthy. Re i think part of the approach weve taken in government youme where you could argue some of the same historic issues have been raised in terms of pipeline. Ou bui you know im very much in the if you build it they will come school, meaning if you send a g if y message from theou beginning of inclusion, if you insist in the hiring process that there be imum o maximum opportunity for ss inclusion, you find a lot more success at inclusion. Our entire tech team happens to m happ be women, including some women of color. Our administration thank you. Our administration as a whole in terms of senior jobs and our administration across all agencies is 53 women in Senior Management roles for the entire set new york city government. So i think it is quite available if the mindset of what is valued changes. I would argue this is not just about social responsibility or art in building a more t inclusive society. I think its smart inig terms of recognition of markets. Who are going to be the biggest mark markets going etforward . The majority of our people are women, obviously. We are in a society that is increasingly people of color and an increasing percentage of our for community. So i thinkev the further integration of the sector is good for everyone and every sense. Were going to trye and do all we can through our public schools, our public universities, our Training Programs to really improve that pipeline. But i think one of the things that people in the Tech Community can do is meet us in that process help us figure out how we can do that well. But then really lean into hiring people that come out of ur the public schools, our public universities and our Training Programs. Youve done this program. When i look at a lot of the over the past several months, and the year ive gotten to know a lot of Different Community so groups and organizations and different parts of the San Francisco bay area. Also, organizations here Like Coalition for queens and theyre often run by dedicated, invested, Wonderful Community leaders. But those graduating seems so ce of small relative to the kind of needs and the skills gaps that these employers have. 10 million seems small in what i Tech Companies are going to t hire if youre going to ask them to hire locally. Of p we continue investing more deeply to ensure that the city tant g University Systemen is a constant ou thi generator of talent for this community. Bo if you think about the impact that mentorship programs would have, internship programs, summer jobs and were going to emphasize we want people in the community to participate in all those, one of the things we wants on to do is we want to constantly see if its working. This is really one of the greatest opportunities to get our people good quality jobs. E is m if we think theres more we investment necessary to a achieve that goal, you know, thats kim going to be something were very open to. How are you looking to get that feedback . Whats the best way that Tech Companies can do that . Certainly the tech Talent Pipeline is an example and the working groups we put together with the community to give us that constant feedback about of tr what kind of training is needed that will actually maximize the likelihood that people going through the training will get to a job. Dia so were thrilled that oush tech team is in constant dialogue with the folks doing the hiring and we want to constantly adjuste the training approach to the literal and specific needs of the community. Im a Firm Believer look at the jobs of today and look at the jobs of tomorrow and reorient. We do a half billion in training. This will give us perspective. We want to do that now. I grew up in the i grew up in the Tech Industry and ive been reporting inn i tech for many many years. I think about when i remember when i started coming in and working in tech journalism, it was about like realtime search and social and every year its literally changed so much. Demand one year its bit coin and the next its the on command economy. I have a hard time understanding how public educational the institutions can be as flexible as, say, some of the vocational schools that have come up like General Assembly or flat iron. How do you think about your hese b allocation of time sxre sources between some of these boot camplike resources . I think its a great point. And i dont pretend that we will always be, you know, at the exact cutting edge. But i think the question is how we are increasingly improving our approach. I think if you look at it in terms of the core skills people need and the connection to the Tech Community they need, that is not necessarily implied oops. That does not necessarily imply that were doing everything perfectly or weve got people calibrated to the exact most recent trend. It does suggest if you turn out generation upon generation of ong an young people with the basic d skills and the orientation of this community and the sense that they belong and the l achiev exposure, which is why i emphasize internships and think mentorships and summer jobs i think that will achieve a lot of the. Outcome. I think within the community itself, what i would call the fine tuning can occur. One of the other things that has been a central piece of your administration is focused on Affordable Housing this incredibly ambitious plan both citie are cities for San Francisco. It is incredibly crazy, crazy housing prices. Can you tell me a little bit about that . Sure. You know, San Francisco obviously had to deal with some of these challenges ahead of us and we have learned from some ofave the struggles, we have the most the hi ambitious Affordable Housing program in the history of any city. 200,000 units build and n the preserved over the next ten years. Thats enough for about half a Million People. Very yeah. So far, were actually very much on schedule to achieve reat r that. Its wildly ambitious, but were finding is were getting a great response from the private sector meeting us and also our investments as were going to show in a few days are going to ou continue to increase to support that plan. You think if you find enough housing for half a Million People in the five bouroughs, gr its one for keeping the city for every kind of economic group. But the work, in effect, never end because we need a lot more market rate housing, as well which were working on. And one of the challenges is we o have to make sure the highest percen percentage possible is for folksto at the lowest income level because of a substantial quantity of people in this city ty lev are living below theel poverty levelop and we needti to ensure they have Affordable Housing options. But, again id like to get them out of poverty which is why our one nyc plan just published literally puts a goal to that. We say we want 800,000 people e mini out of poverty in the next ten years. It will require a substantial increase in the minimum wanl which i think is long overdue ms, and i think theplus state needs to progra work aggressively on that front. Plus the Affordable Housing programs, you a whole host of afford things. But as a singcity, we are committed reduct not only toio building Affordable Housing, but to matching it with a specific Poverty Reduction goal. Inclusionary housing is that kim i a key opponent of your platform its lass practice that we have in San Francisco and were always debating about what is le the appropriate share that we say is devoted, you know, to booel being permanently affordable. But, you know, it seems to me i get wher e were doing it. Theres just not as rch federal or state funding for Affordable Housing as there used to be. But it seems to ex atser as bait the trend of the middle class. When you do inclusionary, the cost gets passed on to the market rate buyers. It just feels like theres a rancis tension thercoe and were grappling it. Ges, w should we do 12 , 25 , 35 , and what does that do to our Housing Stock . These are real issues, but id say given the economic and equality cry sess, one of the statistics i site is effectively since the kwot unquote end of the Great Recession its being bega deeply felt by so many americans. Since the recovery began thats the majority of the game. We have to approach om inclusionary. E the highest income buyers i dont think that is an issue with federal funding. I agree with you. W a soci in washington, right now you peo know, a society that stops working for middle clat class people and for hard working lower income people, that nowh Society Stops working people literally have nowhere to go its just not a healthy society. Can be we think that the Affordable Housing efforts done aggressively can be a profound part of the solution. Its the number one expense in peoples lives. We think we have to address it aggressively. Last thing. So earlier today we were talking about ways that the techved in industry can get involved and how they can work with local government and do you have specific recommendations for the Tech Industry here . I sure do. Thanks for having. Well, i really appreciate what fred wilson has done particularly in terms of education. Im a pn bigy fan of ron conway and i appreciate that they are think putting forward realit models for this community and real communitywide levels of commit that they think makes sense. I think thats healthy. That shows an engagement. If you think in terms of economic sectors, that shows us a level, if you will of enlightenment and engagement from the Tech Community. We dont see from every sector of our community, so i think nter f its very very healthy. But i would say this. Two things. Ife we have our center for Youth Employment as part of the is mayors fund to advance new york city, which my wife chairs. The idea is to, over the next 100 few years, by 2020 reach a level of 100,000 High School Inter students each year who are either in a summer job or an internship or a mentorship program. You a d 100,000 each year. We want to start that aggressively this summer and well give you a quick deadline no time of may 15th. Were asking no time like the present we want to start that this summer reaching towards that bigger goal. But this summer were asking everyone in this room to do and everyone who is watching to do if is y if you can, create a summer job for a young person. M if you can create an internship or a mentorship effort, we want you to start doing that now so we can plug in a lot of our young people this summer and build out over the next few years. Thats one. The second, in terms of our tech pipeline and all the efforts to train young people and not prop necessarily young people for thering the opportunity, we beseech you to work into working with the maximum number of people in those efforts. On so were adding training nd we resources. We really want to push people, engage us on how they do it muc best, but be focused on hiring those who come through this hank training and those educational efforts. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. Thank you. Come here. Homeland security secretary jay johnson talks about efforts to protect Online Government networks wednesday at the center for strategic and international studies. You can see his comments at 1 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Thursday the Senate Armed Services committee holds a confirmation hearing for the president s choice to be the next chair of the joint chiefs. Marine corps general joseph dumburg will replace Martin Dempsey who is retiring from the military after 40 plus years. That is live at 9 30 a. M. Herein here on cspan3. This week on first ladies influence and image, we learn about lecretia garfield and mary el roy. Lecretia was an educated woman and a believer in womens rights. When her husband president garfield, was assassinated, she returned to ohio and ensured his legacy by making their home into an early version of the president ial library. Chefrt arthur, a widower becomes president and his sister Mary Arthur Mcelroy fills the role of first lady and establishes white house social etiquette used by future first ladies. Thats this sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Examining the women who filled the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. From Martha Washington to commercial obama. Sundays at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History today on cspan cspan3 cspan3. Next the discussion of the u. S. Patent system and the impact on innovation and the economy. Patent and Trademark Office director michelle lee joins representatives of the Business Software alliance and others at this event for strategic and internal studies. Its 90 minutes. A well, good afternoon. My name is jim lewis. Ewis welcome to csis. We are very lucky today to have with us michelle lee, the undersecretary who is responsible for the u. S. Patent and Trademark Office. U. S. Bto. And with her, also, a very ma distinguished panel of experts. The format for today is michellewill giv will give opening remarks and p then the other panelists will join us up here. Intera well have an interactive the session and then well turn to you, the audience, for questions. So i am looking forwarwed to this event. I think we can have a pretty good discussion on a timely topic. We have bios available on the website. But ill do a brief o a introduction. Bri as i said, michelle lee is the undersecretary for commerce. For intellectual property and director of the u. S. P. T. O. Which i didnt realize it was 12,000 employees. Thats quite a lot. More than 12,000. Its grown. And she directs its day do day operations, right. Her background is really interesting in some ways. On and its kind of unique. Unique in washington. Maybe its not unique in silicone valley because she was at m. I. T. , worked at what we would know as the Artificial Intelligence lab and then was p. T. O. s the first director dir of p. T. O. s Silicon Valley office and worked add google on patent issues and then came back i after getting a law degree, wil which i probably got the order wrong, but youll just have to live with it came back and is now came to washington on therodu east coast and is now the director of the patent office. Let me turn it over to michelle now. Thank you. E. Thank you, jim. Good afternoon, everyone. And its a real pleasure to be here. To talk about as subject that is all extremely important to me and i a think to all of you, as well, pic o thats the topic of innovation. I would like for us to consider the Critical Role that the u. S. Patent system plays in making the American Economy competitive in todays increasingly Global Innovation economy. To give you a little historical go p perspective, it wasnt so long ago that patent law was considered a niche topic. The most valuable assets of a company were oftentimes tangible. So plants, warehouses and inventory. But today the most valuable co assets of our leading companies are the intangible assets. The inventions the algorithms, the processes, the designs and t the brands of a company. What we like to call cause intellectual property or i. P. And because these tangible assets are more easily copied, y the protecting them is t important for investment and american competitiveness. Re an i patents proi protect Market Exclusivity for a limited period of time are important forms of that protection. At o its a fact that our economic competitors recognize, my appreciate and mention often in my meetings with them. Last may, i traveled to beijing,minister china, for meetings with the ministers and vice ministers of chinas trade, patents, copyrights and Trademark Offices. Ith i began my trip with a meeting with one of the most senior officials in the chinese government. That is vice premier wong yong. During that meeting he emphasized chinas desire to strengthen its ip protections and enforcement systems. Not just because its trading partners were asking for these changes, but because china views it as necessary in thsh sdooind desired transformation to an innovation based economy with technologies developed in china to provide products and Services Higher up the value change. Na chain. Put another way, china wants an ur economy more like ours in which intangible assets play a greater role. And to get there, they recognize the need for a patent system more like ours. From that meeting in china and many other encounters ive had with leaders around thend world, i repeatedly hear that the United States is a Global Leader when mes it comes to protecting and enforcing intellectual property desp rights. Cu despite all of our discussions e and debates here at home, our i. T. System is frequently what many