| |
|
EVENT DETAILS |
This event will explore the growing & dynamic intersection of technology & social change
About this event
As the power, speed, & scale of technology continues to grow, many technologists are waking up to a new scope of responsibility - grappling with how their work intersects with civil & human rights, democracy, misinformation, inequality, & society at large. This panel will explore the emerging field of Public Interest Technology - a growing community of technologists, entrepreneurs, activists, regulators, artists, organizers, lawyers, & educators who are working to help ensure that tech advances can create a more prosperous & just future for all.
We will discuss the growing & dynamic intersection of technology & social change, as well as some of the following questions: How can we craft technology that truly serves the public interest? What is the role of the private sector in this work & what are some new approaches? How are folx building technology companies in ways that are more equitable, responsible, & sustainable? How are folx leveraging technology to address systemic problems in healthcare, education, criminal justice, media, & so on? And critically, what is our agency & responsibility as individual technologists entrepreneurs?
About Eli Pariser:
Eli Pariser is the co-director of New_Public, an incubator for better digital public spaces. He's been an author, activist, & entrepreneur focused on how to make technology & media serve democracy. In 2004, at 23, he became Executive Director of MoveOn.org, where he helped pioneer the practice of online citizen engagement. In 2006, he co-founded Avaaz, now the world's largest citizen's organization. His bestselling 2011 book The Filter Bubble introduced the term to the lexicon. And Upworthy, the media startup he co-founded in 2012, reached hundreds of millions of visitors with civically important content. He currently co-directs the New_ Public project with Talia Stroud at the National Conference on Citizenship.
About Roxann Stafford:
Roxann is the Managing Director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund, a +$20-million independent joint venture formed by the Knight Foundation & the Lenfest Institute for Journalism. With a focus on sustainability & equity, The Knight-Lenfest Fund is designed to strengthen local journalism at scale, through supporting journalistic excellence & serving the information needs of communities. The Fund's framing is a mutual aid approach to journalism where news & information are a vehicle for solidarity & increased agency.
She was previously the Director of Program (NYC) for Matter, a startup accelerator & venture capital firm grounded in the principles of design thinking that supports early-stage media entrepreneurs & mission-aligned media institutions building scalable ventures that make society more informed, inclusive, & empathetic.
Roxann works with individuals, organizations, companies, governments & communities on how to thrive in a state of reinvention & reimagination with a particular emphasis on the relationship between self agency & community agency. Roxann earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Product Design from Stanford University & an M.B.A. from Duke University, with concentrations in social entrepreneurship & strategy, & is a member of the Guild of Future Architects.
About Michelle Shevin:
Michelle Shevin is Senior Program Manager of the Public Interest Technology Catalyst Fund at the Ford Foundation. In the spirit of public interest law, the fund aims to build & sustain public-centered institutions, diverse career pathways, & robust networks of aligned organizations expanding the space for justice & accountability. She also teaches critical futures thinking methodologies at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.
About Lyel Resner:
Lyel Resner is a technologist, entrepreneur, educator, & advisor. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer & Head of the Public Interest Technology Studio at Cornell Tech, Cofounder of the Startups & Society Initiative, an Adjunct Professor at NYU, & a Fellow at the MIT Civic Data Lab,
Previously, he co-founded Swayable (YC W18) - a public benefit corporation that uses data science to create more persuasive media for many of the worlds leading advocacy organizations, social + political campaigns, & brands.
He advises a number of tech companies, funders, investors, & NGOs, on responsible tech practices. Through this work, he helps clients build organizations & products that maximize business & public benefit objectives.
Lyel's work has been featured in Fast Company, Wired, Techcrunch, The Financial Times, LA Times, Techonomy, Edweek, Bloomberg, & others. He sits on the boards The Centre for Social Innovation, Sourcemap, Elis, Kibo School, & The Bronx Academy for Software Engineering. He has degrees in Physics & Political Science at MIT, where he was a Burchard Scholar.
Hosted by Yal Eisenstat:
Yal is a Future of Democracy Fellow at Berggruen Institute & a Researcher-in-Residence at Betalab, working at the intersection of tech, democracy, & policy. She focuses on what the public square & open, democratic debate look like in the digital world & how we can change the current incentives to reconcile social media's dominance of these public spaces with democratic principles. She strives to bridge the divide between government & tech, to help foster a healthier information ecosystem.
She has spent 20 years working around the globe on democracy & security issues as a CIA officer, a White House advisor, the Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for political advertising at Facebook, a diplomat, & the head of a global risk firm. As a Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative, she focused on technology's effects on discourse & democracy & taught a multi-university course on Tech, Media & Democracy.
NOTE: Betaworks Studios requires all in-person visitors to be vaccinated, & therefore mask use at Betaworks Studios is optional. To attend this event you will be required to show proof of full vaccination to enter the Club.
Two ways that you can show proof:
Show us your official vaccine card (photo of card NOT accepted) with at least 2 weeks having passed since the date of the last required dose (1 dose for J&J/AstraZeneca, 2 for Pfizer/Moderna)
Present your NY State Excelsior Pass with an active Vaccination pass
|
|
|
|
|
|
