National Archives Sunshine Week Celebration Recording - March 12, 2018

Tentative Agenda*
Monday, March 12, 2018
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
William G. McGowan Theater

1:00: Welcome by the Archivist of the United States

1:10: Championing the Public’s Right to Know

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
1:30: Innovation: Transforming Government of and by the People

Jim Thompson, Director of Innovation, Department of State
Pam Wright, Chief Innovation Officer, National Archives
Kate Zwaard, Chief of National Digital Initiatives, Library of Congress
Miriam Nisbet, former Director of the Office of Government Information Services (moderator)
Other panelists to be announced
2:30: Break

2:45: Making Sense of Public Comments: Lessons Learned in Congress

Seamus Kraft, Executive Director, OpenGov Foundation
Jessica Seale, Digital Director, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Jessica Presley, Minority Staff, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Daniel Schuman, Policy Director, Demand Progress (moderator)
Other panelists to be announced
3:45: The Open Data Roadmap

Hudson Hollister, Executive Director, Data Coalition
Laura Manley, Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships & Programs, Center for Open Data Enterprise
Sunmin Kim, Technology Policy Advisor, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Alex Howard, Deputy Director, Sunlight Foundation (moderator)
Other panelists to be announced
* We will issue a final Agenda as soon as our entire program is finalized.

Don’t miss the National Archives’ other Sunshine Week celebrations, including:

a week-long transcription challenge using the Citizen Archivist Dashboard to focus on transcription of the Pentagon Papers; and
Access and Transparency—Records Held at the National Archives, an event on Wednesday, March 14 to teach users how we can help you request and access the restricted and non-restricted Federal records held at the National Archives. A panel of staff experts will discuss and answer questions about their work in making records available from our executive, legislative, and Presidential holdings. You can join the event live in the William G. McGowan Theater or catch it on YouTube.