Name: Public / Private tech partnerships in a post-DOGE Government
Start: 2026-03-29T12:15:00-0400
End: 2026-03-29T13:15:00-0400

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] >.

Public / Private tech partnerships in a post-DOGE Government

Sunday March 29, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT

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NYC's tech ecosystem is held in many hands. Tech workers as civic volunteers including open source contributors and maintainers bring tools and best practices. Public sector technologists, and embedded consultants, hold dependencies and expertise in building digital systems through bureaucracy and nuanced rules. But we know that the NYC public tech ecosystem could be more interconnected, private, secure, and seamless for residents.

This conversation and brainstorm session is for civil servants, public interested technologists, tech consultants and vendors, and open source enthusiasts to discuss: what are the best practices and processes that have facilitated successful public technology projects? What are some small practices that make for more effective skills and knowledge sharing, in service of more efficient and sustainable systems?

Speakers

Rebecca Widom

BI Developer / Data Engineer, Housing Preservation and Development (HPD NYC)

Talk to me about data for good, data warehousing, open source data tools, civil service, bread baking, disability justice, how awesome Brooklyn is, etc etc etc.

I'd love to see you at this unconference session! Currently (2/24/2026) scheduled for Sunday March 29, 2026 12:15pm - 1... Read More →

Sunday March 29, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT
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Day 2 - UnSchool of Data

NYC School of Data 2026

Rebecca Widom

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