Panel Discussion: Design in Government & Policy

Andrew Hoppin is a civic tech entrepreneur and impact investor, and former government CIO and NASA scientist passionate about building a less centralized and more egalitarian society.

Andrew is CEO of CoverUS, helping healthcare patients in the USA to gain control of their health data and fill financial gaps in their life.

Previously, he built the DKAN open government data platform, and exited the enterprise open source company that supports it.

Andrew served as New York Senate CIO and was named 2010 New York State CIO of the Year.

Andrew is a New Zealand Edmund Hillary Fellow, and serves on the Boards of Global Integrity and Humanity in Action.

Marco Steinberg is the Founder and CEO of Snowcone & Haystack, a Helsinki based strategic design practice focused on helping governments and leaders innovate.

For Marco, this means helping institutions better respond to the increasingly ambiguous and complex context in which they operate in.

Prior to that Marco was Director of Strategic Design at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund where he established the fund’s strategic design capability. While there, his team launched a portfolio of initiatives to address the acute need for strategic improvement in the public sector (www.helsinkidesignlab.org).

From 1999-2009 Marco served as Associate Professor at the Harvard Design School leading several significant research & innovation efforts including work on healthcare and stroke care reform.

In Marco’s other responsibilities, he is a faculty member of NESTA’s States of Change program, and was Board Member of Design Driven City (a greater Helsinki innovation fund); member of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Public Sector Reform for Northern Ireland; and advisor to many public, private, and academic organizations. He co-authored “Fostering Innovation in the Public Sector” published by the OECD: and has published extensively on design, innovation and public sector transformation. Recent books include “Legible Practises: Six stories about the craft of stewardship” (2013) and “In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change” (2011).

A civic hacker and Taiwan's Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation.

Audrey is known for revitalizing the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.

In the public sector, Audrey served on Taiwan national development council’s open data committee and K-12 curriculum committee; and led the country’s first e-Rulemaking project.

In the private sector, Audrey worked as a consultant with Apple on computational linguistics, with Oxford University Press on crowd lexicography, and with Socialtext on social interaction design. In the voluntary sector, Audrey contributed to Taiwan’s g0v ("gov-zero"), a vibrant community focusing on creating tools for the civil society, with the call to "fork the government".