Nathan Storey's schedule for NYC School of Data 2026

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] >.

Nathan Storey

Civic AI Tools

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Brooklyn

https://nathanstorey.com/

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Nathan Storey is an urban planner by training, civic technologist by practice, and small-d democracy nerd at heart. He created Civic AI Tools — a personal project connecting AI to live public datasets so people can ask questions in plain English and get real, citeable answers.

Nathan works in New York City government, where he focuses on data governance and digital services at the NYC Office of Data Analytics. He has spent over 10 years in city government working across civic data infrastructure, digital tools and platforms, and experimental interfaces.

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11:00am EDT

Exploring NYC Open Data With AI (Part 1: Civic AI Tools & Open Data MCP) 3-301-A/B CombinedNathan Storey

NYC School of Data 2026

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11:00am EDT

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