Awesome Summit

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Agenda

Awesome Summit 2013 will be held at:

Center for Social Innovation The Starett-Lehigh Building 601 West 26th Street, Suite 325 New York City Please register here to attend!

9:00 AM    »   Registration (coffee and pastries served) 9:30 AM    »   Opening Remarks 10:00 AM  »   Session: Infrastructure for the Hustle Economy 11:00 AM  »   Session: Small Money in Politics 12:30 PM  »   LUNCH 1:30 PM    »   Lightning Talks 2:30 PM    »   Session: Designing Change from the Data Up 3:30 PM    »   BREAK 4:00 PM    »   Choose Your Own Conversation 5:00 PM    »   Session: Collaborative Placemaking 6:00 PM    »   Wrap Up/Closing Remarks 7:00 PM    »   Drinks and snacks at the Frying Pan

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Collaborative Placemaking

Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing have become increasing popular ways of engaging the public in planning processes. What kind of infrastructure can we build--at both the institutional or grassroots levels--to allow for responsible, long-term, and meaningful public participation in placemaking?

Presenters:

Archie Lee Coates, partner at PlayLab

Jamie Hand, Director of Planning and Public Involvement at the Trust for Governor's Island

Eric Ho, Made in the Lower East Side

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Small Money in Politics

Traditionally, big money in politics bought you a big voice and big power, but small donors are becoming increasingly impossible to ignore as a force. How can movements and campaigns dependent on small donors be accountable to them while remaining cohesive and effective?

Panelists

Grayson Earle, Organizer for the Illuminator

Mariana Ruiz, Campaign Director for MoveOn.org

Aaron Smith, Organizer for StrikeDebt

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Designing Change from the Data Up

The act of giving generates a lot of data. Who's collecting it, and who should have access to it? How do we manage this delicate personal data respectfully but transparently? What does it mean to design social change from the data up?

Facilitator: Lucy Bernholz, Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University

Presenters:

Chris Barr, head of Prototype Fund at Knight Foundation

Ben Chodoroff, co-founder of The Detroit Ledger

Bob Filbin, Chief Data Scientist at Crisis Textline

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Infrastructure for the Hustle Economy

With recent large influxes of labor, capital, and platforms, the peer economy and the freelancing lifestyle it enables are fast becoming a prominent mode of work. What kinds of advocacy, education, and support systems do we need to develop to make sure this exciting new movement is supportive and responsible to its workforce?

Facilitator: Denise Cheng, MIT Center for Civic Media and Comparative Media Studies @ MIT

Presenters:

Lacey Clarke, assistant director of public policy of  Freelancers Union

Althea Erickson, policy director at Etsy

Alberto Escarlate, venture partner at Collaborative Fund

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The Awesome Summit is an annual, 2-part gathering of the Awesome Foundation and friends.

Connect

On October 21st, we invite the wider community of people interested in new (and old!) forms of funding and civic participation to join us at the Centre for Social Innovation in Chelsea . We'll be discussing topics like developing infrastructure for the collaborative economy, crowdfunding political movements, data and philanthropy, and public placemaking. It's not too late to join us!

Assemble

On October 19-20th, AF trustees and deans from around the world to meet each other and brainstorm, reflect, and work on our movement. It's closed to the public, but here are notes from last year's Assemble.