Andrew Hoppin was appointed as the first ever Chief Information Officer for the New York State Senate in February 2009 with a mission to dramatically improve government transparency, citizen participation, and operational efficiency for the Senate through technology. The CIO's Office works in three main realms: opening up the Senate's legislative and administrative data for public access (for transparency), overhauling the Senate's internal communications and collaboration infrastructure (for efficiency), and launching new Web 2.0 / social media technologies for the Senate (public participation). He was also elected by his peers to serve on the New York State CIO Leadership Council, and selected by GovTech as the 2010 New York State Public Sector CIO of the Year.

Previously, Andrew co-founded the NASA CoLab program at NASA Ames Research Center, which increased efficiency and transparency at NASA by building new partnerships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community, the global open-source software movement, and constituents in the virtual world
of "Second Life."

Andrew has also founded several startup technology companies and has served as a strategy consultant, Advisor, or Board member for leading technology and political organizations such as the Craigslist Foundation, Netroots Nation, the Space Generation Advisory Council, the New Organizing Institute, and Civicspace Labs.

He got his start in online politics through organizing the New York for Clark movement in 2004, and then helping to manage the national Clark for President campaign's data and web applications.

Full bio and contact information at: http://globehoppin.com/about

Ben is the Chief Disruption Officer and Co-Founder at SeeClickFix.com - a platform for citizens and their governments to connect around geo-specific issues that need improving in the public space. SeeClickFix is responsible for many innovations in the civic web space including geo-dyanmic smartphone reporting applications, watch areas that send alerts by geo boundaries and social voting on civic problems.
Ben is an avid New Haven lover, makes t-shirts for things he loves/supports and plants trees with his neighborhood association in his free time. He can be found doing absolutely nothing at a Farmer's Market he helped found on Saturdays in New Haven.

John Wonderlich is the Policy Director for the Sunlight Foundation and one of the nation's foremost advocates for open government. John spearheads Sunlight's goal of changing the culture of the federal government by opening up key data sources and expanding the use of new media tools by elected officials in order to make them more accountable to their constituents. He is one of the foremost authorities on lobbying reform, franking and social media use in Congress as well as efforts to shed light on the congressional legislative process.

Carolyn is a thought leader and innovator, pioneering open data, crowd-sourcing and cloud computing in the public sector. She has been described as one of the most highly respected and unconventional IT leaders in government. As a winner of the prestigious Information Week 500 Award, she is considered an industry leader in both the public and private sectors. In 2007 she won the prestigious Best of California award from the Center for Digital Government, 2009, she was named by Information Week among the top ten Innovators in Government and 2010 Govfresh honored her as one of the 100+ Women in Government Technology. She speaks nationally on a variety of issues related open data and government implementation of technology.
She sits on several Boards including:

*Board of Directors, Fortune School of Education (established as Project Pipeline in 1989) http://www.projectpipeline.org 

*Advisory Board, InformationWeek http://www.informationweek.com

*Advisory Board, Code for America http://codeforamerica.org

Day job? Director, eServices State of California