Name: re:public 2019
Start: 2019-11-10T08:00
Location: La Quinta Resort & Club

Overview

Each year, the Center for Digital Government convenes a hand-selected group of visionaries, thought-leaders and doers of deeds. This is an opportunity for attendees to discuss the great opportunities available in our times, discard old mindsets from earlier days and learn new ways to confront and overcome challenges that lay ahead.

re:public 2019 brings together some of today’s finest leaders in public service around the great lessons of history and the great ideas of today – all with a view to creating a future worthy of our heritage and next generation. The group of leaders who attend this invitation-only event reflects a belief that the answer is in the room if the right people are in it.

re:public is the Center for Digital Government’s flagship leadership retreat. It is a nonpartisan event with the aim of kindling the best of public stewardship. Welcome!

Tales from the American Frontier – Then, Now and Next

The uniquely American spirit of curiosity and discovery transcends time, geography and even gravity. In our time together, we’ll explore the legacies of singular individuals from historical frontiers and their exceptional contributions to the American West. We’ll also meet people working on an unseen contemporary frontier – the inner workings of government – with new thinking, approaches and technologies to address old intractable challenges inside public service. We’ll also look forward to what has long been called the final frontier – space. No longer the stuff of science fiction or the exclusive purview of the public sector, the private sector is partnering with government to make space a practical platform for making life and commerce better today for communities here on earth.

Buckle Up and Strap In. We are covering 150 years of Americans at their best in about 36 hours.

A message from our Keynote Speaker

Speakers

Natalya Bailey

Aerospace Engineer / Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Accion Systems

Dr. Natalya Bailey is the CEO and co-founder at Accion Systems. Accion provides in-space propulsion engines for satellites and spacecraft.
An Oregon native, Natalya moved to Cambridge, MA, to complete her doctorate in space propulsion at the Space Propulsion Laboratory at MIT where she helped invent the first working prototype of an ion engine technology for small satellites, which would become the first product at Accion.
Prior to MIT, she assisted with research into a new chemical rocket technology that spun out her M.S. work at Duke University into a space startup. She is an Advisor to Odyne Space and sits on the Board of Youth CITIES, a Boston-based nonprofit that empowers middle and high school students to innovate and drive change in their community.

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Jon Coss

Founder, Pondera

Jon Coss founded Pondera in 2011 with one goal – to fight fraud in healthcare and government programs. Under his leadership, Pondera has become the leader in fraud, waste and abuse data analytics. Jon’s strategy combines the brightest minds in government program integrity with innovative data scientists and developers to create a powerful anti-fraud platform.
Jon has 22 years of technology and data analytics experience, including 9 years at Oracle and 10 years as a technology entrepreneur. In 2006, he founded Finish Line Solutions which was acquired in 2010. Finish Line helped large system integrators capture and deliver government projects in Medicaid, unemployment insurance, child support enforcement and other federal and state programs. While at Finish Line, Jon found the inspiration to create Pondera to address the fraud, waste and abuse he witnessed in these government programs.
Jon is a frequent speaker at healthcare, social services and technology events and conferences, in addition to multiple presentations at Google’s Innovation for the Nation. He was a finalist in the 2019 EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California. Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Master of Business Administration from New York University and a LEAD Certificate in Corporate Innovation from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Jon is also chairman of the local advisory board for College Track Sacramento.

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Clay S. Jenkinson

Humanities Scholar, Author, Historical Interpreter

Clay Jenkinson is a humanities scholar, author and historical interpreter. He is also one of the nation’s leading interpreters of Thomas Jefferson and the voice of Thomas Jefferson on the nationally syndicated NPR program The Thomas Jefferson Hour. He also performs as Theodore Roosevelt, Meriwether Lewis and John Wesley Powell, among others.
Clay is the president of Dakota Sky Education, Inc and the chief consultant for the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, as well as Distinguished Scholar of the Humanities at The University of Mary, in Bismarck, ND. He is president of TJ Hour Tours and leads historical tours and retreats, both nationally and internationally.
He makes his home in Bismarck, ND.

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Tamara Manik-Perlman

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, NextRequest

Tamara Manik-Perlman is CEO and founder of NextRequest, where she leads company strategy and operations. NextRequest is a platform for streamlining access to government information by improving the public records request process. In 2013, she was a fellow at Code for America and, previously, she worked at Azavea where she led the data analysis and UX design teams and managed the development of web and mobile applications for clients ranging from local non-profits to federal agencies.

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Ed O’Keefe

Chief Executive Officer, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation / Former Vice President, CNN’s CNNMoney / Editor-in-Chief, NowThisNews / Former ABC News Executive

Ed O’Keefe recently published “Streaming War Won,” a definitive examination of Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the direct-to-consumer universe as the Shorenstein Center entrepreneurship fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.
As an appointed Harvard fellow, Ed had substantial access to the Houghton Library collection of Theodore Roosevelt papers in Cambridge, discovering never-before-published material that brings a new perspective on Theodore Roosevelt’s relationships with Alice and Edith, his first and second wives; his sisters, Bamie and Conie; and his mother, Mittie. The resulting work — along with extensive research at the Library of Congress, the Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University, the Theodore Roosevelt birthplace in New York City and Sagamore Hill — will be the subject of a forthcoming book, The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt, to be published by Simon & Schuster.
Working for 20 years in media, Ed began his career as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, DC, and his first day as a Capitol Hill reporter was 9/11. His work that day – and a month and a half later when he was exposed to anthrax chasing the story – was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award as part of ABC News team coverage of 9/11.

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Laura Schewel

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, StreetLight Data

Laura Schewel is co-founder and CEO of StreetLight Data, a transportation analytics provider. As CEO of StreetLight, she has helped hundreds of transportation agencies, engineering firms and private transportation companies put big data to work. Prior to founding StreetLight, Laura worked at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute on vehicle electrification and other transportation sustainability topics.

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Agenda

Sunday, November 10
9:00 am Pacific	Golf Tee times begin at 9:36 a.m. Additional golf details.
6:30 pm Pacific	Welcome Reception

Monday, November 11
8:00 am Pacific	Registration / Breakfast
9:00 am Pacific	Welcome / Participant Introductions
9:30 am Pacific	Water in the West: A Sesquicentennial This year marks the 150th anniversary — or sesquicentennial — of the historic expedition that John Wesley Powell and his nine-man crew undertook to explore the Green and Colorado rivers in an epic story of western discovery. John Wesley Powell — teacher, Civil War major, statesman and, above all, scientist — planned to enter the great unknown, take scientific measurements, chart the region and complete our nation’s maps. Of the ten men who began the expedition into the then-new frontier, only Powell and five others completed the journey. You are invited to ask Powell about the promise and pitfalls of the scientific quest for water in the west in the person of one of the nation’s leading historical interpreters, Clay Jenkinson. Guest: Clay S. Jenkinson, Humanities Scholar / Author / Creator and Voice of Thomas Jefferson on the Nationally Syndicated Public Radio Program The Thomas Jefferson Hour Conversationalist: Dennis McKenna, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, e.Republic
10:45 am Pacific	Break
11:15 am Pacific	Small Satellites: Big Implications for Local Communities California will finally get its “own damn satellite” to track climate change. With funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the initiative he says will ensure California meets the environmental targets set by his predecessors. Last year, former California Gov. Jerry Brown famously repeated his pledge that California would launch its “own damn satellite” to track climate change in defiance of the Trump administration. Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable organization founded by climate activist and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, pledged to spend an undisclosed sum to help the state use satellite data to track the emission of greenhouse gases. That is but one of a myriad of emerging use cases for govtech in space that are becoming more real for state and local agencies. Every year, state and local governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars licensing high-resolution imagery used in a variety of applications — from floodplain reclamation to understanding transportation patterns — imagery that is vital to decision-making in the public sector. New companies and technologies are reinventing the remote imagery market, drastically lowering costs and creating new types of imagery/data from space. In addition to imagery, the rise of internet satellite arrays will also help strengthen connectivity infrastructure and support rising Internet of Things (IoT) applications that will continue to emerge in the next few years. Enter Accion Systems, which provides in-space propulsion engines for satellites and spacecraft. The genesis of the company came from founder Natalya Bailey’s doctoral work in space propulsion at MIT where she helped invent the first working prototype of an ion engine technology for small satellites. Guest: Dr. Natalya Bailey, Aerospace Engineer / Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Accion Systems Conversationalist: Phil Bertolini, Co-Director, Center for Digital Government
12:30 pm Pacific	Lunch
1:45 pm Pacific	Teddy and North Dakota: The Spirit Endures Theodore Roosevelt told biographers that, if not for his experience in North Dakota, he never would have been president. It is fitting then that Roosevelt is memorialized as one of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore. Teddy came to embody what it means to be an American. Yet, he still has no Presidential Library. But that is changing. The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation is building one for him and . . . it will be the first fully-digital presidential archive at that. Two of the driving forces behind its creation discuss its genesis, its milestones and why it matters. Guest: Ed O’Keefe, Chief Executive Officer, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation / Former Vice President, CNN’s CNNMoney / Editor-in-Chief, NowThisNews / Former ABC News Executive Conversationalist: Cathilea Robinett, President, e.Republic / Chair of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation / Host, In The Arena Podcast
3:00 pm Pacific	Break
3:30 pm Pacific	Extreme Volleyball Revisited It’s been awhile since we’ve enjoyed volleyball at re:public and we’re bringing it back! We’ll have an extreme sports break before dinner to allow you to flex your muscles and your competitive spirit. So, change your clothes and come on out for some volleyball fun. And, if you don’t want to play, come cheer for your favorite team. What will the teams be? Public vs private? Men vs women? West coast vs east coast? State vs local? Only tournament director Cathilea Robinett knows for sure.
6:00 pm Pacific	Reception and Dinner

Tuesday, November 12
8:00 am Pacific	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Pacific	The GovTech Displacement Movement In 1955, the same year and same legislation that created the interstate highway system also called for systems that would connect government agencies with a combination of hardware, software and a network – the rudimentary structure of an integrated information technology system. In the intervening six decades, the advances have been breathtaking yet many of the interests within and without government have tended to become entrenched. Not satisfied with the status quo, the last decade has seen a new generation of entrepreneurs experimenting at the edges of what would become the govtech market to see if they could find a better, faster, easier and cheaper way of doing things. It was, in many ways, civic tech with a business model. In many cases, these experiments have matured from pilots to production and have scaled into enterprise-level going concerns. Select govtTech founders from our GovTech100 index are here to take a victory lap and answer the vital question: What have we learned from this frontier found within government? Guests Jon Coss, Founder, Pondera Tamara Manik-Perlman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, NextRequest Laura Schewel, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, StreetLight Data Conversationalist: Dustin Haisler, Chief Innovation Officer, e.Republic / Eisenhower Fellow / Co-Host, GovTech360 Podcast
10:30 am Pacific	Closing Remarks A special announcement about the next frontier for Governing as it pivots toward the future of states and localities.
11:00 am Pacific	re:public 2019 Officially Adjourned Conference times, agenda and speakers are subject to change.