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Tech@State: Real-Time Awareness - Agenda
Day One
8:00 – 8:45 AM |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
8:45 – 9:00 AM |
Introduction |
9:00 – 9:15 AM |
Welcoming Remarks
Janice Jacobs, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State |
9:15 – 10:00 AM |
Keynote Address |
10:00 – 10:30 AM |
Break |
10:30 – 11:50 AM |
Plenary Panel: Real-Time Awareness in Different Contexts What Is Our Current Experience? Presentation and discussion of how various organizations are using social media and other internet-enabled data to create real-time awareness.
Dr. Linton Wells, Director, Center for Technology & National Security Policy, National Defense University
Robert Bectel, Chief Technology Officer, Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Department of Energy
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11:50 AM – 12:00 PM |
Break |
12:00 – 12:30 PM |
Clay Johnson – Information Diet Adam Beaugh - PolitEar
Katie Baucom – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Will Law – Netvibes |
12:30 – 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
1:30 – 3:00 PM |
Breakout Sessions Real-time information, made available via social media and other internet-enabled tools, is growing exponentially, resulting in huge masses of data in different languages, various formats and no clearly defined structure. This panel will look at the impact of the explosion of data and the strategies and techniques that are being employed to deal with the ever increasing volume of data and what can be done to organize and categorize it in meaningful ways. Panel Discussion 2: What Does It Tell Us? Analyzing the vast amount of readily accessible data that flows constantly across the internet uncovers details, information and relationships that were unavailable a few years ago. This panel will examine methods and practices to glean sentiment from words and text, look at using this data to predict the future and discuss what information social networks can reveal - all accomplished with no limitation on language and on a real-time or near real-time basis. Panel Discussion 3: Conveying Real-Time Information Complex analyses of complex systems create complicated results. But in a real-time context, decision-makers need to respond quickly and decisively. They need displays that portray refined information clearly and concisely. This panel will explore the latest advances in portraying complex information in a meaningful and descriptive way, including geospatial techniques to plot the information on maps. Panel Discussion 4: Citizen Engagement The tremendous increase of data coming from citizens with direct access to specific information has had a profound on impact on how governments at all levels interact with citizens. This panel will consider how government response to citizens has changed and will continue to evolve based on readily available on-scene information that flows mostly via social media. |
3:00 – 3:30 PM |
Break |
3:30 – 4:30 PM |
Plenary Panel: Looking to the Future Where is all this headed? What will social media look like in five to ten years and what will we do with all of the data? Knowing that the data stream can only increase in size, what can we do now to prepare and prevent being overwhelming by the sheer volume of data? MODERATOR: Lou Martinage, Microstrategy Rand Waltzman, DARPA
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4:30 – 5:00 pm |
Closing Keynote |
Day Two
Unconference
9:00 AM |
Doors Open – Light Breakfast |
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Morning Session Starts |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
1:30 PM – 4:00 PM |
Afternoon Sessions |
4:00 PM |
Unconference Ends |
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