9th ANNUAL EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP SERIES
Open to Roundtable Members, Associate Members, Their Guests
and the Public
CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN INTENTIONS AND OUTCOMES
Featuring
JENNIFER PAHLKA
Former U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration
Founder, Code for America
Author, Recoding America
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th // 8:00 – 11:00AM
DoubleTree by Hilton // Emerald Ballroom
870 Williston Rd., So. Burlington, VT
Click Here to Reserve Your Seats by September 22nd
About This Event: The Executive Leadership Series events are designed to be valuable professional development and networking opportunities for CEOs and their key team members and proteges, as well as influential leaders in the private, non-profit and public sectors. Open to the public and an ideal event for you to bring your team, board, clients and interns to.
About This Year’s Keynote Presenter: Jennifer Pahlka is the author of Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center and the Federation of American Scientists. In 2010, she founded Code for America, a national nonprofit that brings the principles and practices of the digital era to government. While US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the Obama White House from 2013-2014, she helped found the United States Digital Service (USDS), which brings world-class technologists and designers to 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 served on the Defense Innovation Board. She holds fellowships with Ashoka, the National Academy of Public Administration, and the Volcker Alliance.
Learn More About Jen Here // Check out Jen’s Substack Here
Event Program:
7:30am Registration Opens
8:00am Networking and Breakfast
9:00am Keynote Presentation
9:30am Q & A
10:00am Vermont Reaction Panel
11:00am Adjourn to Networking
Other Resources:
“A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform” (Substack)
“Reforming Like It’s 1995” (Substack)
“In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails” Interview with Ezra Klien (YouTube)
Recoding America (Book Site, with Core Concepts)
Event Contact: Sherra Bourget sherra@vtroundtable.org or (802) 865-0410 ext 210
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations may be made without penalty for full refund until September 22nd. After that date, we cannot offer a refund.
