BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Summer of Smart//NONSGML v1.0//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Summer of Smart X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Summer of Smart X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20111006T180000 DTEND:20111006T210000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110928T141923 LAST-MODIFIED:20110928T142142 UID:878@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Summer of Smart Final Mayoral Forum DESCRIPTION: Don't miss a rare opportunity to get face-to-face with all 16 mayoral candidates of San Francisco and hear them address the issues you come face to face with every day: Muni, parks, pensions, open government, the budget and more. After co-hosting the first-ever mayoral forum on open government and technology in June with GovFresh and Change.org, INFORUM and GAFFTA are teaming up to produce this final forum to cap off Summer of Smart's four months of urban innovation - building new, community-sourced solutions to pressing city issues. In this two-hour program, candidates will get up on one stage to discuss the topics San Franciscans are concerned about most. Ask them your own questions, then hear the Summer of Smart’s contest winners present their own innovative ideas to the mayoral candidates on how to address some of San Francisco’s most important issues using technology, open data, and new ways of thinking about the city. An Historical Moment This forum will mark the first time in political history that hackathon teams will present their projects to candidates in the course of an election. Also, building on the first Youtube debate in 2008 where questions to candidates were sourced directly from citizens, this will mark the first time that potential community-sourced solutions for government are presented to candidates by citizens. This supports the Gov 2.0 / open government belief that civic engagement is a two-way street, and that the best solutions come from government and community members working hand-in-hand to build new ideas. You won't want to miss this historical night for open government and 21st century civic engagement! Get your tickets now through the Commonwealth Club: Order tickets now! The Race for Mayor 2011 Jeff Adachi, Public Defender, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Michela Alioto-Pier, Former Supervisor, San Francisco District 2; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Cesar Ascarrunz, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF John Avalos, Supervisor, San Francisco District 11; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Terry Baum, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF David Chiu, Supervisor, President of the Board, San Francisco District 3; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Paul Currier, Community Organizer; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Bevan Dufty, Former Supervisor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Tony Hall, Former Supervisor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Dennis Herrera, City Attorney, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Emil Lawrence, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Ed Lee, Mayor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Wilma Pang, Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Joanna Rees, Entrepreneur; Educator; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Phil Ting, Assessor, San Francisco; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Leland Yee, State Senator, California District 8; Mayoral Candidate 2011, SF Melissa Griffin, Columnist, San Francisco Examiner; Co-Host, Necessary Conversations - Moderator Beth Spotswood, Culture Blogger, SFGate.com; Co-host, Necessary Conversations– MC Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 8 p.m. reception Cost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students (with valid ID) Also know: Photo by Glenn Franco Simmons/Flickr Location  Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club   LOCATION:595 Market, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94105 URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/summer-of-smart-final-mayoral-forum/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110819T170000 DTEND:20110821T200000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110815T100422 LAST-MODIFIED:20110822T095324 UID:50@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Urban Innovation Weekend 3: Public Health, Food, Nutrition, and Urban Agriculture DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third of three Urban Innovation Weekends as part of the Summer of Smart, with 48 hours of rapid civic prototyping and keynotes from Ann Veneman, Esther Dyson, and Dr. Jordan Shlain. Take an idea to change the city as far as you can in 48 hours. Then bring your prototype to government and make it a reality. Welcome to Democracy 3.0. A hackathon for everyone...where your work will be seen by the next mayor, and you can win a research residency, present to nine mayoral candidates, and other prizes! The best solutions always emerge from diverse minds coming together to solve common problems. That's why we're inviting the Bay Area's best urbanists, artists, journalists, scientists, communicators, business and civic minds, and more to join leading developers and designers in prototyping and building ways to improve life for all citizens of San Francisco - and eventually, beyond. (Who Should Attend) List your skillsets and areas of expertise in your registration, and check out what types of people you'll be working with in the attendee list.   Event Registration Online for Urban Innovation Weekend 3: Public Health, Food, and Nutrition powered by Eventbrite Join us for the third of three Urban Innovation Weekends as part of the Summer of Smart, an initiative of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (@GAFFTA) in partnership with San Francisco Department of Technology, Code for America, SPUR, The Bay Citizen, Change.org, GovFresh, Shareable, and many others!  We'll be prototyping solutions to address pressing urban issues, and this third weekend will focus on projects centered around Public Health, Food, Nutrition, and Urban Agriculture. Start with a keynote, hack and create, end with a party. The weekend will begin with an introductory keynote address by Former US Secretary of Agriculture and Former UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman and health innovation investor, entrepreneur, journalist, and thought leader Esther Dyson on Friday evening. Two local community speakers will also speak. Then, teams will be formed after introductions of all attendees, some icebreakers, and sharing of crowdsourced ideas for projects coming from CityCampSF, SFOpen 2011 and #SoSidea.  Teams are welcome to stay and work through the night, as Saturday and Sunday will be full workdays before presentations and discussion on Sunday evening. We'll close things out with a mixer party where we'll discuss the projects developed over the weekend and all things tech, health, food/ag, and Gov 2.0 - anyone is welcome to attend. Public Health, Food, Nutrition, and Urban Agriculture Bonus Attendees of the hackathon get free drinks at the party as well as breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday and Sunday!  Tips and donations are encouraged. Ideas Submit and view ideas for all three SoS weekends here. CityCampSF This weekend, and during our other two innovation weekends this summer, we will help take the transformative ideas generated at CityCampSF and turn them into action. We'll be creating solutions for a better San Francisco through grassroots innovation and participatory hacktivism. Jay Nath, Director of Innovation for the City of San Francisco, will join us Friday night to break down the outcomes of the event and build upon the momentum and ideas it generates. Prizes A key principle behind Summer of Smart is sustainability and recognition for the projects created. - A select number of teams from Summer of Smart will be awarded GAFFTA residencies in the Fall/Winter of 2011 to pursue their work, as well as fundraising assistance and nonprofit fiscal sponsorship (if desired) through GAFFTA's Research Program. - Select projects will receive up to a week of technical, hands-on developer support from Summer of Smart supporter Exygy, a local startup dedicated to building web and mobile applications for social changemakers. - The top five projects from all three Summer of Smart events will have the unique opportunity to present their work directly to all nine major mayoral candidates at our final public forum in October. - All projects created will be featured on The Bay Citizen, Summer of Smart website, GAFFTA's website, and a number of other media outlets, and will be presented to San Francisco mayoral candidates as the summer progresses. Agenda Friday 5-6: Drinks and networking 6-6:15: Community speakers 6:15-7:00: Keynote speakers: Ann Veneman, Esther Dyson, and Dr. Jordan Shlain 7-8: Introductions, icebreakers, idea-sharing, and team formation 8-11 (or overnight): Begin prototyping/hacking/creating Saturday 9:00-12:30: Working, breakfast 12:30-1:30: Working lunch, team check-ins 1:30-7:00: Working 7:00-8:00: Dinner 8-11 (or overnight): Working Sunday 9:00-12:30 pm: Working,  breakfast 12:30-1:30: Working lunch, final team check-ins 1:30-4:00: Finalize prototypes and complete work 4:00-5:30: Team presentations, discussion, and voting 5:30-8:00: Mixer party, drinks, dinner, and relaxing! Who Should Attend - Developers and designers - Architects, engineers, urban planners/designers - Public health professionals and nutritionists - Food system activists/experts and urban agriculture practitioners - Sustainability professionals - Journalists and writers - Video/audio editors and artists of all kinds - Community and public policy activists - Media and social networking gurus - Researchers, thinkers, idea curators - Technology and urban art lovers - Entrepreneurs and business leaders - Students and teachers of any discipline - Anyone who wants to improve their city! About Summer of Smart The Summer of Smart is an intensive, four-month experiment in urban innovation - the new Summer of Love. Over the course of this summer, urbanists of many disciplines – developers, designers, planners, journalists, civic leaders, community activists, and more – will come together to address the most pressing issues facing cities today. In the end, the leading projects will be publicly presented to candidates in the San Francisco mayoral race, along with an esteemed panel of experts, to generate a meaningful dialogue around the potential of new tools to create lasting change. www.summerofsmart.org Sponsors Summer of Smart is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, Adobe Foundation, CraigConnects, Serious Energy, Waze, and Exygy, among others. Partners San Francisco Department of Technology Code For America SPUR Change.org GovFresh The Bay Citizen -- full partner list -- Keynote Speakers Ann Veneman Former Executive Director, UNICEF and Former US Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman has a distinguished career in public service. Most recently she served as Executive Director of UNICEF from May 2005 to April 2010. Previously she was U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 2001 to 2005. While at UNICEF, Veneman worked to advance issues to support child health and nutrition, quality basic education for all, access to clean water and sanitation and the protection of children and women from violence, exploitation and HIV/AIDS. During her UNICEF tenure she traveled to more than seventy countries to review the plight of children, witnessing the progress being made but also the devastation caused by natural disaster, conflict, disease and exploitation. In 2009, Veneman was named to the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women list, ranking 46th. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Davis; a master’s degree in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley; and a juris doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Esther Dyson Esther Dyson is an internationally-renowned journalist, entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. Dyson focuses on emerging technologies, emerging companies, and emerging markets, with a current emphasis on health technology. Among her interests are social software and social networks, registries of people and things, the Internet, wireless applications, identity management, and healthcare and the human genome. She has been a board member and early investor in many startups, including Flickr. She has quickly become a thought leader in the Quantified Self and health tracking movements, where she continues to invest and participate actively in research and entrepreneurship. Community Speakers Dr. Jordan Shlain is a practicing internist and a native of San Francisco. He graduated with honors from UC Berkeley and from Georgetown University Medical School, completing his internal medicine residency in San Francisco. Dr. Shlain is ranked in the Healthspottr’s list of the 100 most important healthcare innovators and actively consults with companies, non‐profits and physician organizations. He founded the Current Health Medical Group in 1997, which operates a full service, office and house-call practice and is actively developing software, HealthLoop, to solve one of the more vexing problems in medicine: how to follow and monitor patients in between visits. He is the president of the national American Academy of Private Physicians and is actively involved in grass roots innovation and local medical politics. In 2010, he was appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco to sit as a commissioner for the Health Services Systems Board, which is responsible for the allocation of over $700M for the healthcare of over 110,000 San Francisco Employee’s and retirees. In 2011, he was named to the physician advisory board of Ingenix, a global leader in health IT analytics and services. LOCATION:998 Market St., San Francisco URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/urban-innovation-weekend-3-public-health-food-and-nutrition/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110810 DTEND:20110811 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110808T230423 LAST-MODIFIED:20110816T025326 UID:684@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Community Wi-Fi Symposium DESCRIPTION: Logistics: Date: Wednesday, August 10th, 2011 Times: 6pm - 8pm Location: GAFFTA, 998 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94131 Registration: Online Ticketing for Community Wi-Fi Symposium powered by Eventbrite Overview: Join us August 10th for a symposium on Community Wi-Fi as part of the Summer of Smart, an initiative of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts(@GAFFTA) in partnership with San Francisco Department of Technology, Code for America, SPUR, The Bay Citizen, Change.org, GovFresh, Shareable, and many others! We’ll hear from thought leaders and launch a volunteer effort to build a free community wifi network in Mid-Market. The symposium will have several speakers including a keynote address by Josh King, Technical Lead for the New America Foundation Open Technology Initiative. The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative (OTI) proposes to build a new type of tool for democratic organizing: an open source “device-as-infrastructure” distributed communications platform that integrates users’ existing cell phones, Wi-Fi-enabled computers, and other WiFi-capable personal devices to create a metro-scale peer-to-peer (mesh) communications network. Prototyping a Community Wi-Fi Network After hearing from community Wi-Fi speakers, a team will be formed to create a free wifi network in the Tenderloin and around Mid-Market. The team will use San Francisco's 1 GB community broadband network and low cost wireless hardware to expand access. We will present our work directly to all nine major mayoral candidates at our final public forum in October. Our goal is to establish a new paradigm where the community co-creates the network with local government. Agenda: 6-7: Drinks and networking 7-7:15: Community speakers: Ralf Muehlen (Internet Archive), Tim Pozar and more TBA. 7:15-7:30: Keynote speaker: Josh King 7:30-8:00 Introductions, icebreakers, idea-sharing, and team formation Feel free to bring your questions, ideas, and research to the open discussion that will ensue after the presentations. Keynote Speaker: As a Technical Lead for the Open Technology Initiative at New America Foundation, Joshua King draws on his years of experience performing technology work at non-profit organizations to develop and implement free and open source software and hardware, keep abreast of emerging technologies and related initiatives throughout the world, evaluate and interpret a wide range of published information on future trends for telecommunications and media, and support the research infrastructure of an open Internet. Before joining New America, Mr. King was a Systems Engineer for OJC Technologies. He served as an Americorps VISTA Leader and was an engineer and board member for both the CUWiN Foundation and Acorn Active Media Foundation. Mr. King volunteered as a lead technology worker within the Indymedia movement in Central Illinois. LOCATION:998 Market St., San Francisco, CA, United States, 94102 URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/community-wi-fi-symposium/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110719T190000 DTEND:20110719T210000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110714T185555 LAST-MODIFIED:20110714T190332 UID:573@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Social Change 3.0: Panel Discussion at Hub SoMa DESCRIPTION: We are delighted to announce this event, hosted by St. Anthony Foundation at Hub SoMa, as part of Summer of Smart's ongoing dialog on how citizens can affect change and build solutions to urban issues. Read below for more info and RSVP today as space is limited! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can social Media really translate into social change? If so, how? Join this exciting conversation with a panel of some of the most innovative Bay Area technology providers, including: - Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist; see also www.craigconnects.org - Sam Birney, Senior Engineer for Kiva.Org, see also http://www.kiva.org/about - Ossama Hassanein, a passionate entrepreneur, mentor, angel investor and venture capitalist; most recently as Chairman of the Rising Tide Fund in Silicon Valley - Jake Levitas, Research Director at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), see also http://www.gaffta.org/ - Megan Trotter, Tenderloin Technology Lab, see also http://tenderlointechlab.org This event is part of Summer of Smart, a four month initiative from GAFFTA, SF Department of Technology, and others to reimagine the role of technology in democracy and civic issues. More info at www.summerofsmart.org Limited seats available so RSVP now to secure your spot and be part of the change! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184570381598016&ref=ts LOCATION:925 Mission St, San Francisco, CA, United States URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/social-change-3-0-panel-discussion-at-the-hub/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110624T180000 DTEND:20110626T140000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110609T100750 LAST-MODIFIED:20110627T182004 UID:42@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Urban Innovation Weekend 1: Community Development and Public Art DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special Summer of Smart weekend of hacking, speakers, discussion, and mixing! A hackathon for everyone...where your work will be seen by the next mayor, and you can win a research residency and other prizes! The best solutions always emerge from diverse minds coming together to solve common problems. That's why we're inviting the Bay Area's best urbanists, artists, journalists, scientists, communicators, business and civic minds, and more to join leading developers and designers in prototyping and building ways to improve life for all citizens of San Francisco - and eventually, beyond. (Who Should Attend) List your skillsets and areas of expertise in your registration, and check out what types of people you'll be working with in the attendee list. Register below now, or at http://sosweekend1.eventbrite.com/ Event management for Urban Innovation Weekend 1: Community Development and Public Art powered by Eventbrite Join us for the first of three Urban Innovation Weekends as part of the Summer of Smart, an initiative of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (@GAFFTA) in partnership with San Francisco Department of Technology, Code for America, SPUR, The Bay Citizen, Change.org, GovFresh, Shareable, and many others!  We'll be prototyping solutions to address pressing urban issues, and this first weekend will focus on projects centered around Community Development and Public Art. Start with a keynote, hack and create, end with a party. The weekend will begin with an introductory keynote address Friday evening by John Gage, 21st employee and former Chief Researcher at Sun Microsystems, and a champion of using technology to help achieve environmental and community goals - he helped coin the term "hackathon" more than 12 years ago. A second keynote by social innovator, activist, and entrepreneur Margarita Quihuis will follow. Two local community speakers will also speak, and then teams will be formed after introductions of all attendees, some icebreakers, and sharing of crowdsourced ideas for applications coming from CityCampSF, SFOpen 2011 and #SoSidea.  Teams are welcome to stay and work through the night, and Saturday will be a dawn-to-dusk workday before presentations and discussion Saturday evening. We'll close things out with a mixer party in the Warfield Building in Downtown San Francisco, where we'll be right in the middle of the SF Pride Parade and its estimated attendance of over 1 million people!  We'll discuss the applications developed over the weekend and all things tech, community, art, and Gov 2.0 - anyone is welcome to attend. Community Development and Public Art Public art becomes especially rich with possibility in an era of ubiquitous mobile devices, gamification, large scale video projection, and rivers of real time data. The dividing line between that which is "aesthetic" and works that changes behavior, provoke insight, or solve problems has become gray (the namesake of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts).  We'll aim to generate public art through new means, catalog and increase exposure to existing art, and help redefine how artistic visions can continue to improve and shape civic life in San Francisco and beyond. Community development challenges us to think about local people and places --- and how to use technology for advocacy, understanding, or crowdsourcing community action. Our event takes place in San Francisco's Mid-Market District community, one that is rapidly evolving, open to ideas, and a remarkable place to experiment.  Last year's Great Urban Hack at GAFFTA helped set the stage for today. Our partner organizations each have diverse local and national community experience and will all bring different perspectives to the table. Bonus Attendees of the hackathon get free admission to the party as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday!  Donations for food are encouraged. Ideas Submit and view ideas for all three SoS weekends here. CityCampSF This weekend, and during our other two innovation weekends this summer, we will help take the transformative ideas generated at CityCampSF and turn them into action. We'll be creating solutions for a better San Francisco through grassroots innovation and participatory hacktivism. Jay Nath, Director of Innovation for the City of San Francisco, will join us Friday night to break down the outcomes of the event and build upon the momentum and ideas it generates. Prizes A key principle behind Summer of Smart is sustainability and recognition for the projects created. - A select number of teams from Summer of Smart will be awarded GAFFTA residencies in the Fall/Winter of 2011 to pursue their work, as well as fundraising assistance and nonprofit fiscal sponsorship (if desired) through GAFFTA's Research Program. - This weekend's applications will feed into the national Apps for Communities Challenge, with $100,000 in prizes. - All applications created will be featured on The Bay Citizen, Summer of Smart website, GAFFTA's website, and a number of other media outlets, and will be presented to San Francisco mayoral candidates as the summer progresses. Agenda Friday 6-6:15: Community speakers: Tenderloin Technology Lab and Burning Man 6:15-6:45: Keynote speakers: John Gage and Margarita Quihuis 6:45-8: Introductions, icebreakers, idea-sharing, and team formation 8-10 (or overnight): Begin prototyping/hacking/creating Saturday 9:00-12:30: Working, breakfast 12:30-1:00: Lunch and keynote speaker: Jen Pahlka 1:00-6:00: Working 6:00-7:00: Presentations, discussion, feedback Sunday 10:00 am-1:00 pm: Idea sharing and mixer party during SF Pride Who Should Attend - Developers and designers - Journalists and writers - Video/audio editors and artists of all kinds - Architects, engineers, urban planners/designers - Community and public policy activists - Media and social networking gurus - Researchers, thinkers, idea curators - Technology and urban art lovers - Entrepreneurs and business leaders - Students of any discipline - Anyone who wants to improve their city! About Summer of Smart The Summer of Smart is an intensive, four-month experiment in urban innovation - the new Summer of Love. Over the course of this summer, urbanists of many disciplines – developers, designers, planners, journalists, civic leaders, community activists, and more – will come together to address the most pressing issues facing cities today. In the end, the leading projects will be publicly presented to candidates in the San Francisco mayoral race, along with an esteemed panel of experts, to generate a meaningful dialogue around the potential of new tools to create lasting change. www.summerofsmart.org Sponsors This event is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, Adobe Foundation, CraigConnects, and Exygy. Partners San Francisco Department of Technology Code For America Change.org GovFresh The Bay Citizen -- full partner list --   Keynote Speakers John Gage As the former Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun, John led scientific, technical, and policy efforts around computing.  During his tenure, he coined the phrase "the network is the computer” and hosted perhaps the world's first-ever "hackathon" in 1999.  He is the co-founder of NetDay, which provides internet access to schools, libraries, and clinics, and a long-time champion of using technology for social good. In 2008, Gage joined Kleiner Perkins as venture capitalist focusing on “green” investments. Today, he sits the board of NetDay and Schools Online, and has been internationally recognized for his work by President Clinton and the Kennedy School of Government, among many others. Gage attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Graduate School of Business.  He received his undergraduate degree from the University California Berkeley, where also continued with his doctoral studies. Margarita Quihuis A social entrepreneur and mentor capitalist, Margarita Quihuis’s career has focused on innovation, technology incubation, access to capital and entrepreneurship. Her accomplishments include directorship of Astia (formerly known as the Women’s Technology Cluster) where her portfolio companies raised $67 million in venture funding, venture capitalist, Reuters Fellow at Stanford, and Director of RI Labs for Ricoh Innovations. She is currently a member of the research team at Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab and directs the Stanford Peace Innovation Lab where she conducts research in Innovation, mass collaboration, persuasive technology & the potential of social networks to change society for the better. Jen Pahlka Jennifer Pahlka is the founder, executive director and board chair of Code for America. Previously, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O’Reilly Media, and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo. Before that, she spent eight years at CMP Media where she ran the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com; there she also launched the Independent Games Festival and served as Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association. Jennifer’s early career was spent in the non-profit sector. She is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Oakland, California with her daughter and six chickens. LOCATION:998 Market St., San Francisco, 94102 URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/urban-innovation-weekend-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110722T180000 DTEND:20110724T180000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110609T100642 LAST-MODIFIED:20110726T183850 UID:49@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:Urban Innovation Weekend 2: Sustainability, Energy, and Transportation DESCRIPTION:A hackathon for everyone...where your work will be seen by the next mayor, and you can win a research residency and other prizes! The best solutions always emerge from diverse minds coming together to solve common problems. That's why we're inviting the Bay Area's best urbanists, artists, journalists, scientists, communicators, business and civic minds, and more to join leading developers and designers in prototyping and building ways to improve life for all citizens of San Francisco - and eventually, beyond. (Who Should Attend) List your skillsets and areas of expertise in your registration, and check out what types of people you'll be working with in the attendee list. Event Registration Online for Urban Innovation Weekend 2: Sustainability, Transportation, and Energy powered by Eventbrite Join us for the second of three Urban Innovation Weekends as part of the Summer of Smart, an initiative of Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (@GAFFTA) in partnership with San Francisco Department of Technology, Code for America, SPUR, The Bay Citizen, Change.org, GovFresh, Shareable, and many others!  We'll be prototyping solutions to address pressing urban issues, and this second weekend will focus on projects centered around Sustainability, Transportation, and Energy. Start with a keynote, hack and create, end with a party. The weekend will begin with introductory keynote addresses by Di-Ann Eisnor and Christine Outram on Friday evening. Two local community speakers will also speak - Matthew Passmore of Rebar Group and Morgan Fitzgibbons of The Wigg Party. Then, teams will be formed after introductions of all attendees, some icebreakers, and sharing of crowdsourced ideas for projects coming from CityCampSF, SFOpen 2011 and #SoSidea.  Teams are welcome to stay and work through the night, as Saturday and Sunday will be full workdays before presentations and discussion on Sunday evening. We'll close things out with a mixer party where we'll discuss the projects developed over the weekend and all things tech, sustainability, and Gov 2.0 - anyone is welcome to attend. Sustainability, Transportation, and Energy Ensuring the sustainability of our global society and economy may be the biggest challenge of our time. Population increases, urbanization, industrialization, and technological convergence will continue to drive demand for natural resources and increase our collective environmental impact. It has become clear that a holistic approach - governments, communities, businesses, and individuals working together - is the most effective way to achieve these goals - they cannot be accomplished by any single sector or group alone. One of the benefits of digital technologies, open data, and on-demand information is their ability to improve public and private services that reduce our impact on the planet and save money at the same time. They have created new transportation networks for cities, made it easier for individuals and companies to save energy, and produced entire activism platforms which help citizens create change in both the public and private sectors.  Self-reporting, real time data and embedded sensors provide a supporting infrastructure of information that can alleviate congestion (reducing the estimated $115 billion in extra gas and lost time that this costs citizens), give us a more detailed understanding of the impact of transportation on a city's sustainability goals, or reduce the fuel wasted when drivers circle the block for a park. Meanwhile, according to the US Department of Energy, it is America’s buildings that account for approximately 40% of total US energy consumption, and it is also estimated that 30% of that energy is wasted. To tackle this issue, advances are already being made in the material sciences (think LED lighting, low energy materials and solar panels), policy changes (one-quarter of all cities have already set targets for the use of renewable energy) and in the construction of real-time energy management systems. However, this problem also challenges us to think about how movements such as mobile technologies, gamification, and self-reporting can support behavior change, transparency and awareness from the ground up, and help citizens, neighborhoods, and cities live and function in a more sustainable manner. Publicly-sourced, bottom-up solutions -- our "hacks" and prototypes -- have the potential to play a key role in this effort by showing governments and companies what is possible when diverse people come together to innovate. We're looking forward to building together! Bonus Attendees of the hackathon get free drinks at the party as well as breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday and Sunday!  Tips and donations are encouraged. Ideas Submit and view ideas for all three SoS weekends here. CityCampSF This weekend, and during our other two innovation weekends this summer, we will help take the transformative ideas generated at CityCampSF and turn them into action. We'll be creating solutions for a better San Francisco through grassroots innovation and participatory hacktivism. Jay Nath, Director of Innovation for the City of San Francisco, will join us Friday night to break down the outcomes of the event and build upon the momentum and ideas it generates. Prizes A key principle behind Summer of Smart is sustainability and recognition for the projects created. - A select number of teams from Summer of Smart will be awarded GAFFTA residencies in the Fall/Winter of 2011 to pursue their work, as well as fundraising assistance and nonprofit fiscal sponsorship (if desired) through GAFFTA's Research Program. - All projects created will be featured on The Bay Citizen, Summer of Smart website, GAFFTA's website, and a number of other media outlets, and will be presented to San Francisco mayoral candidates as the summer progresses. Agenda Friday 6-6:15: Community speakers: Rebar Group and the Wigg Party 6:15-6:45: Keynote speaker: Di-Ann Eisnor and Christine Outram 6:45-8: Introductions, icebreakers, idea-sharing, and team formation 8-10 (or overnight): Begin prototyping/hacking/creating Saturday 9:00-12:30: Working, breakfast 12:30-1:30: Working lunch, team check-ins 1:30-7:00: Working 7:00-8:00: Dinner 8-10 (or overnight): Working Sunday 9:00-12:30 pm: Working,  breakfast 12:30-1:30: Working lunch, final team check-ins 1:30-4:00: Finalize prototypes and complete work 4:00-5:30: Team presentations, discussion, and voting 5:30-8:00: Mixer party, drinks, dinner, and relaxing! Who Should Attend - Developers and designers - Architects, engineers, urban planners/designers - Sustainability consultants, transportation planners, energy analysts - Journalists and writers - Video/audio editors and artists of all kinds - Community and public policy activists - Media and social networking gurus - Researchers, thinkers, idea curators - Technology and urban art lovers - Entrepreneurs and business leaders - Students and teachers of any discipline - Anyone who wants to improve their city! About Summer of Smart The Summer of Smart is an intensive, four-month experiment in urban innovation - the new Summer of Love. Over the course of this summer, urbanists of many disciplines – developers, designers, planners, journalists, civic leaders, community activists, and more – will come together to address the most pressing issues facing cities today. In the end, the leading projects will be publicly presented to candidates in the San Francisco mayoral race, along with an esteemed panel of experts, to generate a meaningful dialogue around the potential of new tools to create lasting change. www.summerofsmart.org Sponsors Summer of Smart is made possible by the generous support of the San Francisco Foundation, Adobe Foundation, CraigConnects, and Exygy. Innovation Weekend Sponsor The sponsor for this second weekend on Sustainability, Transportation, and Energy is Serious Energy. Serious Energy, Inc. increases the value of buildings for both owners and occupants with a platform of products and services that combine real-time, connected building analytics and control with material science innovations. Serious Energy is addressing the enormous opportunity to unleash the value in buildings with its suite of energy software services and advanced building products designed to increase the value of America’s buildings, for both owners and occupants. For building owners, the goal is to increase net operating income. For occupants, the goal is to increase comfort, productivity and health at lower operating cost. Partners San Francisco Department of Technology Code For America SPUR Change.org GovFresh The Bay Citizen -- full partner list -- Keynote Speakers Dr. Brandon Tinianov Dr. Tinianov is a recognized expert in building science and in the creation and patenting of novel construction materials to support global sustainability initiatives. A registered Professional Engineer and LEED Accredited Professional, and consistent Bay Area bike commuter, Dr. Tinianov is devoted to implementing globally sustainable practices in both his professional and personal life. Through his influential participation in the Green Building Initiative (GBI), Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) and as founding chairman of the Silicon Valley Branch of the US Green Building Council (USGBC). Dr. Tinianov has been recognized as a leading voice in the green construction innovation realm. As an inventor, Dr. Tinianov has 16 issued patents and holds more than twenty pending applications. He has a Ph.D. in Engineering Systems from the Colorado School of Mines; a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Texas, Austin; and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tulane University. Di-Ann Eisnor Di-Ann Eisnor , VP Platform and Partnerships, runs US operations and is crafting the cartography of “live mapping” for the crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic start-up, Waze. Diann is also founder and chairman of Platial, and founded Eisnor Interactive which was bought by Omnicom back in 2001. Di-Ann is a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur employing all means to increase the world’s citizen mappers. Diann has spoken at BigThink, MIT, SXSW, TEDxSiliconValley, LeWeb, MWC, Signal, AppNation, State of the Map, Web 2.0, & Where 2.0. Christine Outram Christine Outram's practice and research focuses on tackling problems of sustainability and livability in urban areas through harnessing the power of emerging technologies and distributed computing (GPS, cell-phones, sensor systems etc). She runs her own practice (based in Los Angeles) and is also a Research Associate at MIT's SENSEable City Lab. At MIT, she orchestrated the award-winning project 'The Copenhagen Wheel' - a wheel that turns ordinary bikes into electric hybrids with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities and where the aim is to make cycling more pleasurable and get more people on bikes. This work debuted at the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference during December 2009 and it is currently in the final prototyping/commercialization phase. Prior to Christine's role at SENSEable City Lab, she received her SMArchS Architecture and Urbanism degree at MIT and her Masters of Architecture degree in Sydney, Australia. She has practiced in both architectural and urban design offices. Community Speakers   Matthew Passmore is an artist and a principal at Rebar, an art and design studio based in San Francisco. His principal areas of interest include the relationship between forms of codified and customary regulations and how those regulations are deployed to organize, categorize and valuate elements of the physical and cultural landscape. As a principal at Rebar, Matthew has exhibited work and lectured worldwide, including at the Venice Architecture Biennale, ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam, ISEA 2009 Dublin, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Harvard GSD, Parsons School of Design, U.C. Berkeley, the Univ. of Michigan, the Univ. of Mass. Amherst and many others. He is the recipient of a 2010 Creative Work Fund Grant. Morgan Fitzgibbons is the co-founder and program director for the Wigg Party, an organization working to make the community that lives around the San Francisco bicycle route the Wiggle a leader in the transformation to sustainability and resilience. Prior to this work, Morgan studied philosophy and religion, earning a Masters degree in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness from the California Institute of Integral Studies. You can follow him on Twitter at @morganicsf and you can find the Wigg Party on Facebook at facebook.com/wiggparty. LOCATION:998 Market St., San Francisco URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/urban-innovation-weekend-2-sustainability-energy-and-transportation/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110616T170000 DTEND:20110616T210000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110609T100019 LAST-MODIFIED:20110621T014217 UID:56@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:SFOpen 2011: Mayoral Candidates Debate Tech + Open Government DESCRIPTION:SFOpen 2011 brings together nine of the 2011 San Francisco Mayoral candidates for a discussion on open government, civic engagement, technology and innovation.  A post-event reception in the same space will be produced by GAFFTA in partnership with GovFresh and Change.Org. We are very excited to announce SFOpen 2011 as the first official Summer of Smart event, kicking off an historic summer of innovation in urban issues and the political process. *Because of space limitations, the debate event is invite only.  However, the event will be broadcast on livestream via summerofsmart.org and other media outlets, and the cocktail reception afterward is open to all. Agenda 5-5:30 - Drinks, discussion, and networking 5:30-5:50 - Introductory remarks from GovFresh, Change.Org, GAFFTA, and others 5:50-7:30 - Candidates debate 7:30-9:00 - Post-event reception, drinks, networking, and discussion at Automattic Participating candidates Michela Alioto-Pier David Chiu Bevan Dufty Tony Hall Dennis Herrera Joanna Rees Phil Ting Leland Yee http://sf.govfresh.com/sfopen2011/ Moderator Mitchell Kapor Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of the personal computing revolution and has been at the forefront of information technology for 30 years as an entrepreneur, software designer, angel investor, and activist. He is widely known as founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the “killer application” which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s.   LOCATION:Pier 38, San Francisco URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/sfopen11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20110618T090000 DTEND:20110618T160000 DTSTAMP:20130526T082723 CREATED:20110526T173255 LAST-MODIFIED:20110609T052509 UID:43@http://www.summerofsmart.org SUMMARY:CityCampSF 2011: Unconference on Civic Action DESCRIPTION:CityCampSF is an unconference focused on innovation for San Francisco Bay Area governments and community organizations.  It is municipal employees, journalists, developers and neighborhood leaders working on solutions for better communities and government. The free unconference will last all day from 9-4, and ideas generated here will feed directly into our first Urban Innovation Weekend / hackathon for Summer of Smart. There is no set agenda, and ideas for sessions will be generated in real time in person, and immediately prior to the event online. Developers, designers, and urban-minded people of all types are encouraged to attend!   Register here: http://ccsf2011.eventbrite.com/ SF Dept of Technology Atrium 1 So. Van Ness Second Floor San Francisco CA 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, free   LOCATION:1 South Van Ness, 2nd Floor Atrium, San Francisco, CA, United States URL:http://www.summerofsmart.org/events/citycampsf-2011/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR