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Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the practices and policies around open data, technology, and service design. Hosted by BetaNYC at CUNY School of Law, this year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week 2026 and is the TENTH edition of both SoData and Open Data Week!

Register for tickets: < https://ti.to/betanyc/nycsodata26 >

2026 is bigger than ever with 40+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community!

  • Day 1: the classic NYC School of Data conference, with programming across 12 rooms during 4 session blocks.
  • Day 2: NEW in 2026 – UnSchool of Data! The unconference agenda is created together on the day, with attendee pitches at the top of the day. Select sessions have been pre-seeded by BetaNYC to kick things off.

Our venue is accessible and content is all-ages friendly! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < [email protected] >.

Saturday March 28, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
The Cornell Urban Tech Hub, in partnership with the City of New York, launched the Urban Innovation Fellows program to help spur tech innovation in City agencies and to establish a new model for collaboration across government, academia, and startups.

The Urban Innovation Fellows will host an interactive workshop inviting participants to identify specific Open Data-related problems and projects (and the skillsets needed to accomplish them) that could be the focus of New York City and State government agencies as part of future iterations of the Fellowship and/or in collaboration with Cornell Tech. The workshop is geared towards residents from across the five boroughs as well as City staff, the civic tech community, and individuals from the private sector who are interested in government work and have great ideas and proposals for how to bring them to life. To facilitate the conversation, the Fellows will draw upon their own agency projects and observations about the need for more collaborative and innovative data approaches that support cross-agency work.

The seven Urban Innovation Fellows work directly within NYC government agencies, spanning the areas of housing (NYCHA), transportation (DOT), water (DEP), decarbonization (DCAS), sanitation (DSNY), economic development (EDC), and procurement (MOCS). They help agencies implement urban technology solutions that advance City goals, remove policy roadblocks that prevent scaling successful pilots, and guide promising tech startups through agency processes.
Speakers
avatar for Stephen Albonesi

Stephen Albonesi

Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
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Anh Nguyen

Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
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Catrina Cuadra

Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
avatar for Noelle Francois

Noelle Francois

Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech, embedded for two years at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) working on decarbonization projects.
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Tom Conboy

Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Urban Innovation Fellow, Cornell Tech
Saturday March 28, 2026 3:45pm - 4:45pm EDT
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