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Open Menu Home Speakers Schedule About Team Code of Conduct Data Use Policy Apply Volunteer at PDF Latest Register Home Speakers Schedule About Team Code of Conduct Data Use Policy Apply Volunteer at PDF Latest Register | PDF 2019 Update! #PDF19 will be taking place on June 6th, 2019 at Civic Hall in New York. This year, PDF will be a day-long event as the team turns their attention towards the Civic Hall @ Union Square expansion project. We will scale PDF back up to its historic size once the new space is open. Please visit pdf19.com to see the agenda and buy tickets. If you are interested in suggesting a keynote, lightning talk, or PDFopen session, please describe them in this form . June 7-8, 2018 | New York Law School REGISTER NOW Schedule DAY 1: THURSDAY, JUNE 7 8:00-9:00am Registration and Breakfast 9:00-10:30 Keynotes: Jerry Michalski Relationship Economy Expedition Designing from Trust Pia Mancini Chair of DemocracyEarth Foundation Reimaging Government Beyond the Nation-State 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-1:00 Keynotes: Jan Neutze Director of Cybersecurity at Microsoft Cybersecurity, Democracy and a Digital Geneva Convention Ramya Raghavan News and Civics Programming at Google Security Tools for Activists and Journalists Robyn Swirling Founder of Works in Progress Collective Action to Build an Inclusive Culture Chris Hughes Founder of the Economic Security Project Economic Security and the American Dream Trebor Scholz Founder of Platform Cooperativism Consortium The State of Platform Cooperativism Gina Glantz Founder of GenderAvenger “Oh Crap! What’s She Up To Now?” Matt Stempeck Researcher, Civic Hall Building A Global Guide to Civic Tech Siva Vaidhyanathan Author of Anti-Social Media Anti-Social Media: How Facebook is Undermining Democracy 1:00-2:30 Lunch 2:30-4:00 Keynote Workshops: Cybersecurity and Election 2018 Jan Neutze, Jessica Huseman, Amy Cohen, Shauna Daly, Dave Leichtman (facilitator) This workshop will look at what is hype and what is truly worrisome about the state of election security today, what state election directors are doing to better guard their systems from abuse, and how campaigns and advocacy organizations need to upgrade their own… Read More New Approaches to Democracy in the Digital Age Pia Mancini, Ttcat, Ipa Chiu, Shu Yang-Lin, Fang-Jui Chang, Liz Barry, Miguel Arana Catania, Darshana Narayanan (facilitator) This workshop will delve into current experiments in 21st century digital democracy, including pioneering practices being developed by the g0v civic hacking community in Taiwan (including a hands-on look at how they use virtual reality as part of… Read More What To Do About Facebook: Outside Approaches Siva Vaidhyanathan, Justin Brookman, Katy Pearce, Ben Tarnoff, David Madden, Shireen Mitchell (facilitator) This workshop will focus on a variety of external “fixes” for the problems Facebook has generated for democracy, including much stronger consumer privacy protection, antitrust enforcement, and expanded ways of defending human rights organizers and civil society values on Facebook. And we’ll… Read More Designing From Trust: Case Studies Jerry Michalski, Rosa Zubizarreta, Erin Mazursky, Shanti Nayak, John Kelly (facilitator) This workshop allows participants to try their hand at designing from trust, based off the morning keynote that explains how we went from being citizens to consumers and how this has affected our ability to trust one another and our institutions. By using education… Read More Work, Dignity and Freedom Rakeen Mabud, Ioana Marinescu, Mia Birdsong, Natalie Foster, Taylor Jo Isenberg (facilitator) This workshop will challenge assumptions and beliefs around economic security, stability, “deservedness” and how this plays out across gender and ethnicity. It will also look at a variety of emerging approaches, including a guaranteed income, to solving the challenges presented by automation and… Read More The Platform Cooperativism Movement Trebor Scholz, Camille Kerr, Sylvia Morse, Cerenia Dominguez, Danny Spitzberg (Facilitator) This workshop will dig into the state of this rapidly growing movement for an alternative to the Uber-driven version of the sharing economy, exploring also how platform coops can be created and run, with the help of several leading practitioners. Individual Action, Collective Effect: How the Choices We Make Can Harm or Help our Community Robyn Swirling, Stephen Hicks (co-facilitators) When we witness or hear of harassment, when do we choose to speak up or to stay silent? Participants in this workshop will explore what drives those choices, and the cumulative effects of action and inaction on who feels safe or welcome in our workplaces and communities. Workshop attendees will… Read More 4:00-4:30 Coffee break 4:30-6:00 PDFopen sessions: A Moonshot in Equity and Democracy: 80% Voter Turnout by 2024 Mike Hogan, Natalie Adona, Sarah Audelo, Darrell Scott, Kate Krontiris (facilitator) Can we have 80% of eligible voters in the US voting by 2024? With an electorate looking like the population by demographics? Those are the ambitious questions behind an emerging Democracy Moonshot, facilitated collaboratively by the Democracy Fund, Democracy Works, and Common Cause. The… Read More Reverse Engineering the Tech Platforms to Win Campaigns for Change Erica Portnoy, Annie Sartour, Malous Kossarian, Rich Skrenta, and Ann Lewis (moderator) Learn about the incentive structures of big tech companies from tech industry insiders, and how these incentives are used to make decisions, allocate resources, structure teams, and ultimately broker power. Equipped with this knowledge we’ll brainstorm progressive organizing tactics that can use this… Read More Disrupting the Funding System Julie Menter, Josh Lucido, Nitika Raj, and Jackie Mahendra (moderator) Over the past year, we’ve seen immense disruption in the civic tech space, but funding these innovations is stretching philanthropy in exciting and sometimes uncomfortable ways. Even more transparent and responsive models for funding – from open calls to prototype funds and fellowships – have… Read More Using Data to Improve Police-Community Relations Farhang Heydari, Mecole Jordan, and Michael Simon This panel will focus on the potential and challenges inherent in challenging the status quo in police-community relations. Featuring perspectives from leading community organizers, academics, and tech startups working on this vexing problem. Intersectional Techies: Creating Accessible “Know Your Rights” Technology for Immigrant Communities Adrian Reyna, Cynthia Pompa, Jeanette Whitman-Lee, and Katie Aragon (moderator) In response to an increasingly hostile national and local environment for immigrants, a number of organizations created unique new technology products to empower immigrant community members with accurate information and tools to protect themselves and their loved ones. In this workshop, leading immigrant rights organizations… Read More Product Demos and a Reverse Ragtag Pitch Demos by David Moore, Sonya Reynolds, Keren Flevell, Bitsy Bentley, and Annafi Wahed. Reverse Pitch by Emily Baum. Ragtag represented by Dan Ryan, Niq Johnson and Brady Kriss. Five makers of promising new tools for political organizing and civic engagement will offer short 10-minute demos, followed by a 40-minute reverse pitch session for civic activists… Read More Getting Started in Civic Tech Jared Ford, Kathryn Peters, and Matt Stempeck What is civic tech? How do I navigate all the groups working in it, build a product, start an organization, or find collaborators? Come join three seasoned civic tech veterans who will share a bounty of resources to help you onboard into this space. We’ll provide a brief… Read More Digital Skills for Public Servants (in cooperation with the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council) NYC Councilmember Ben Kallos, Art Chang, Dave Seliger, Alexis Wichowski, and Andrew Rasiej (moderator) This panel will feature several t...