Name: TOP Summit 2023
Start: 2023-02-22T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-02-24T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Virtual

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Evelyn Hernandez

Community Organizer

Fun Dept.

Frank Colleen

Community Organizer

Fun Dept.

4:00–4:10pm

Arrival & Check-In

Speakers

12 pm

Welcome and Introductions

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

12 pm

Welcome and Introductions

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

12 pm

Welcome and Introductions

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

12 pm

Welcome and Introductions

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

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Thank you for attending TOP Summit 2023!
Watch recordings of all the sessions on the U.S. Census Bureau's YouTube channel.

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TOP Summit 2023

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February 22 - 24, 2023

12:00 - 5:00 P.M. ET

The Census Bureau and partners are thrilled to invite you to The Opportunity Project (TOP) Summit 2023, a third-annual innovation conference showcasing technology built with open data, government innovation, cross-sector collaboration, and federal-community partnership.

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3 Days of Interactive, Inclusive, & Enlightening Sessions

Join us virtually on YouTube Live and Zoom to view the new products and many more innovations from the TOP community!

DAY 1 on YOUTUBE LIVE

12 p.m. ET

Opening Keynote with Commerce CDO Oliver Wise

Oliver Wise, Chief Data Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce

12:30 p.m. ET

Product Demos & Community Reactions: Equitable Access to Infrastructure Grants

Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP), General Assembly, Cityfi, GrantVEST and Xcell share their new TOP products.

Then experts from government and nonprofit organizations reflect on how these new products can be deployed in their communities, their potential impact on targeted end users, and next steps.

1:30 p.m. ET

Product Demos: Developing Community-Informed, National Level Wellbeing Indicators

ALICE, Full Frame Initiative and Social Progress Imperative share their new TOP products.

Then experts from nonprofit organizations reflect on how these new products can be deployed in their communities, their potential impact on targeted end users, and next steps.

2:00 p.m. ET

Impact Spotlights, Featuring Experts from the TOP Advisor Network

Build Your Minimum Viable Community: with Exygy Senior Project Manager Isabel Shaw and Product Manager, Bloom Housing Izzie Hirschy

Get Your Products Into Government: with digital healthcare leader Aja Hardy

2:30 p.m. ET

Product Demos and Community Reactions: Climate Change Resilience & Transit Systems

Esri, GeoSolutions, Forerunner, Blyncsy, National League of Cities, Grid Matrix and Data Clinic share their TOP sprint products.

Then experts from government and nonprofit organizations reflect on how these new products can be deployed in their communities, their potential impact on targeted end users, and next steps.

3:50 p.m. ET

Voices from the LGBTQIA+ Community: Exploring the Complexity of Data Quality

Join us for a featured deep dive session on data and the LGBTQIA+ community. People with lived experience as individuals, advocates, and policymakers will discuss the success stories, less told stories about challenges and possible harms, and what’s next for data to serve this community.

4:30 p.m. ET

Closing Keynote with Census Bureau Deputy Director Ron Jarmin

Dr. Ron Jarmin, Deputy Director & COO, U.S. Census Bureau

DAY 2 on youtube live

12 p.m. ET

Opening Keynote with Census Bureau Director Rob Santos

Robert Santos, Director, U.S. Census Bureau

12:30 p.m. ET

Keynote: Puerto Rico Governor Pedro Pierluisi

TOP PR Product Demos & Stakeholder Reactions: Renewable Energy & Local Addressing Infrastructure

Forever Flight, Nueva Vida, WindyFi, Orange Sparkle Ball, Esri and Social Solutions share new TOP products. .

Then community leaders and sprint participants share their take on the products and the challenges and advantages of a tech sprint in hurricane season.

1:45 p.m. ET

Impact Spotlights: TOP Tech Teams & TOPcities

Hear from past TOP tech teams about the growth of their products since their sprints, and a spotlight on TOPcities making waves in communities nationwide.

Featuring mySidewalk CEO Stephen Hardy, and TOPcities program leader Harold Moore from the Beeck Center for Social Impact.

2:20 p.m. ET

Intro Talk & Product Demos: Building Social Infrastructure in PR – Youth Resilience & Workforce Development

First HHS senior leader Jennifer Cannistra will introduce the importance of these sprint topics.

Then, University of Puerto Rico, the City University of New York, Women’s Campaign International, Softek, and Cloudleap will share new digital and analog TOP products.

3:15 pm

Big Ideas Discussion with Government & Industry Leaders

Following the TOP PR product demos, join a fireside chat on what's next for community-driven tech innovation, investment, and access to data in Puerto Rico. Featuring Lorena Molina-Irizarry (U.S. Department of Commerce), Mei Lin Fung (People Centered Internet), Carlos Garcia (Trip Ventures), and Debra Johnson (ACF/HHS).

3:50 p.m. ET

How Data Equity Can Help the Asian American and Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander Community
(Co-Hosted by TDW+Co)

Join a featured deep dive conversation on the Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community’s data needs and challenges, with community, technology, and government leaders.

4:30 p.m. ET

Closing Keynote with US Chief Data Scientist & TOP Co-Founder Denice Ross

Denice Ross, U.S. Chief Data Scientist, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Day 3

youtube live

12 p.m. ET

Opening Keynote with Natalie Evans Harris

Natalie Evans Harris, Executive Director, Black Wealth Data Center

12:30 p.m. ET

Student Takeover: University Team Product Demos & Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Spotlight

Join us as all-things-students take the stage! This jam-packed super session will feature chats with students who participated in 2022 TOP sprints, and highlight how cross-sector partners co-created a Minority-Serving Institution Engagement to help MSI students thrive in their sprints.

1:50 p.m. ET

Launch of the TOPx Toolkit

Join us for a live demo of the game-changing new TOPx Toolkit for federal agencies, which opens the TOP playbook to innovators government wide. We'll also announce the themes for TOP this year and how to get involved.

day 3

Zoom sessions

2:20 - 3:30 p.m. ET

Interactive Session: Live Q&A on the TOPx Toolkit and Introducing the TOP Collective
RSVPs for this session are now closed.

Get a first-ever look at the game-changing new TOPx Toolkit. Learn how to use it and how to join a new community of practice — The TOP Collective — to run a sprint in 2023.

3:45 - 5:00 p.m. ET

Masterclass: Unlocking the Power of Data for Storytelling
RSVPs for this session are now closed.

Learn from leading experts in journalism, grant writing, and more. Learn how they create compelling stories with data. Leave with critical skills to apply in your own work.

More on TOP Summit

TOP Summit 2023 will showcase more than 25 new sprint products built by hundreds of participants in the past year’s 10 TOP sprints. TOP is a leading federal innovation model that brings cross-sector partners together to solve problems for people nationwide, using federal open data.

This past year’s sprints focused on key national and Puerto Rico-specific challenges, and were led by:

• 8 federal agencies – the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Health & Human Services, Housing & Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture, and Energy, FEMA, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

• 3 Puerto Rico government agencies – PR Energy Bureau, PR Department of Economic Development and Commerce, and PR Department of Education

• 2 Nonprofits – New America and Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud

Sprints focused on building solutions to serve communities across the United States and Puerto Rico.

Join us virtually on YouTube Live and Zoom to view the new products and many more innovations from the TOP community!

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Speakers

Ája Hardy, MBA, MPH/IHSM

Digital Health Specialist, Digital Health Center of Excellence,

Food and Drug Administration

Alessandra Hartkopf

Senior Design Strategist, Census Open Innovation Labs,

U.S. Census Bureau

Alivia Ross

Student,

Bowie State University

Brent Dykes

Founder and Chief Data Storyteller,
AnalyticsHero

Carlos Garcia

Founder,
Puerto Rico Innovation Growth Fund & CEO,
Trip Ventures

David Schneider

Acting Deputy Associate Administrator of the FTA Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation,

U.S. Department of Transportation

Debra Johnson

Deputy Assistant Secretary of External Affairs,
The Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Denice Ross

U.S. Chief Data Scientist,
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Dominica Zhu

Head of Human-Centered Innovation, Census Open Innovation Labs,

U.S. Census Bureau

Drew Zachary

Managing Director, Census Open Innovation Labs, U.S. Census Bureau & Deputy Chief Data Officer for Innovation,

U.S. Department of Commerce

Eduardo Bhatia

John L Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer in Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University

Elizabeth Garlow

Fellow, New Practice Lab,

New America

Haley Ashcom-Miller

Deputy Director, The Opportunity Project, Census Open Innovation Labs,

U.S. Census Bureau

Harold Moore

Program Director,
TOPcities & Senior Technical Advisor, Beeck Center for Social Impact

Haya El Nasser

America Counts Editor,
U.S. Census Bureau

Irene Tang

Program Director,
StartOut

Isabel Shaw

Senior Project Manager,

Exygy

Izzie Hirschy

Product Manager,

Exygy

Jason Muka

Student,
Philander Smith College

Jennifer Cannistra

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Administration for Children and Families,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Jessi Murray

Former Co-Chair,

Seattle LGBTQ Commission

John Aeto

President,
The Kalaimoku Group

Dr. John Porter

Professor,

Morehouse College

Jon Weer

Lead Technologist &
Data Systems Architect,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Julie Lee

CEO,

TDW+Co

Justin Cole

Presidential Innovation Fellow,
GSA 10x

Kate Burns

Executive Director,

MetroLab Network

Kaushal Bhayani

Student,

Suffolk University

Lam Thuy Vo

Freelance Data Journalist

Lauren Behsudi

Senior Advisor, ACF,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Lorena Molina-Irizarry

Senior Advisor for Puerto Rico,

U.S. Department of Commerce

Maria Malagon

Chief, Office of Strategic Alliances,
U.S. Census Bureau

Meera Patel

Student,

American University

Mei Lin Fung

Co-Founder,

People-Centered Internet

Natalie Evans Harris

Executive Director,

Black Wealth Data Center

Nathaniel Weber

Program Manager, Office of Innovation,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Neil Ruiz

Associate Director, Race and Ethnicity Research,
Pew Research Center

Oliver Wise

Chief Data Officer,

U.S. Department of Commerce

Pedro Pierluisi

Governor,
Puerto Rico

Philip Deng

CEO,

Grantable

Piyushimita Thakuriah

Distinguished Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University & Director,

Rutgers Urban and Civic Informatics Lab

Quentin Cummings

Climate Analyst,

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Raul Santiago Bartolomei

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Planning,
University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras

Reilly Martin

Senior Program Manager, U.S.,

Open Contracting Partnership

Robert Santos

Director,

U.S. Census Bureau

Dr. Ron Jarmin

Deputy Director & Chief Operating Officer,

U.S. Census Bureau

Ryan Dolan

Director, Data and Analytics Centers of Excellence,
General Services Administration

Salena Ashton

Student,

University of Arizona

Shannon Arvizu

Senior Advisor to the Chief Data Officer,
U.S. Department of Commerce

Somanna Meriyanda

Student,

Rutgers University

Stephen Hardy

CEO,

MySidewalk

Thu Nguyen

Executive Director,
OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates

Tony Guidotti

JHD Fellow, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics,

Harvard University

Vanessa Yip

UX Designer, Census Open Innovation Labs,

U.S. Census Bureau

Velma Latson

Professor,

Bowie State University

Victoria Fine

Senior Advisor, Census Open Innovation Labs,

U.S. Census Bureau

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