Kara DeFrias: Data Sharing & Open Source in the White House - All Welcome!
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Kara DeFrias joins us to share her experiences as White House Experience Design Director for Vice President Biden. We'll hear about her UX work on his Cancer Moonshot, an initiative that aims to accomplish ten years worth of cancer advancement in five years' time. The plan includes leveraging vast amounts of data from places like the Dept. of Defense's cancer registry and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Kara will also speak about her work with 18F, one of President Obama's tech squads. Considered a startup within the Federal Government, 18F leverages human-centered design, agile development, and data science to produce Open Source tools (https://github.com/18F/) for Federal agencies. Both of these cutting-edge efforts have challenged conventional wisdom about what it means for something to be "good enough for government."
Come hear about it from someone who directly contributed to the movement!
Thanks again to Amanda @ The Vine for The Irvine Company's generous support hosting our events and parking!!
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