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Speaker Information

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America and the former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. Code for America is a national nonprofit that brings the principles and practices of the digital era to the government. White US Deputy CTO at the Obama White House from 2013–14, she founded the United States Digital Services (USDS), which brings world-class technologists and designers to the government to improve digital service delivery. She is the winner of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the David Packard Award, the Oxford Internet Institute’s Technology and Society Award, the National Democratic Institute’s Democracy Award, and was selected by Wired magazine as one of the people who have most shaped technology and society in the past 25 years. Her 2012 TED Talk, “Coding a Better Government,” has been viewed over 1M times. She also serves on the Tech Talent Project advisory board and served on the Defense Innovation Board. She holds fellowships with Ashoka, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Volcker Alliance.