Gov 2.0 Events :  Gov 2.0 Expo  •  Gov 2.0 Summit
Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Website | @timoreilly | Attendee Directory Profile

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. O’Reilly’s Make: magazine and Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. Tim’s blog, O’Reilly Radar, “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online.

Sessions

8:30am Wednesday, 05/26/2010
Government as a Platform for Greatness
Agile Government, Emerging Topics, Open Data and Web Services
 Location: Ballroom A
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Tim O'Reilly will deliver a vision of "government as a platform," on which people coalesce and create better services as communities, for communities. Read more.
8:50am Wednesday, 05/26/2010
Cloud Computing Services: Finding a Solution for Over Budget, Understaffed Agencies
Agile Government, Cloud Computing
 Location: Ballroom A
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Dave Girouard (Google Enterprise), Randi Levin (City of Los Angeles)
The City of Los Angeles is leading one of the most exciting and potentially disruptive SaaS deployments within government. In choosing Google’s enterprise solution, CTO Randi Levin is embracing the next-generation of IT services. Read more.
11:00am Wednesday, 05/26/2010
Gov Tech Clinic: Bring Us Your Problems
Emerging Topics, Open Data and Web Services
 Location: Expo Hall
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America), Matthew Burton (The Open Source ACH Project, competinghypotheses.org), Philip Ashlock (OpenPlans)
Govvies increasingly face technical problems without the right resource to help solve them. But sometimes all you need is a few geeks to give you some solid, practical advice and suggest some approaches. This non-traditional session format is not a lecture, but a venue for government folks to pitch their technical problems and ask advice from a cross-section of helpful technologists. Read more.
1:00pm Wednesday, 05/26/2010
Gov Tech Clinic: Bring Us Your Problems
Emerging Topics, Open Data and Web Services
 Location: Expo Hall
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America), Matthew Burton (The Open Source ACH Project, competinghypotheses.org), Philip Ashlock (OpenPlans)
Govvies increasingly face technical problems without the right resource to help solve them. But sometimes all you need is a few geeks to give you some solid, practical advice and suggest some approaches. This non-traditional session format is not a lecture, but a venue for government folks to pitch their technical problems and ask advice from a cross-section of helpful technologists. Read more.
8:30am Thursday, 05/27/2010
How to Run an Effective Developer Program
Agile Government, Emerging Topics
 Location: Room 202 B
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative)
When Apple rolled out the iPhone platform, they showed off cool third party applications at the launch. If government agencies are going to get serious about treating open data as a platform, they need to learn the secrets of developer evangelism: how to attract, retain, and promote people who are going to take what you do, and multiply your efforts a hundredfold. Read more.
O'Reilly Media Logo techweb
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • ESRI
  • Microsoft
  • Palantir Technologies
  • Google
  • Oracle
  • EffectiveUI
  • EveryBlock
  • Intuit QuickBase
  • JackBe
  • MarkLogic
  • NetApp
  • NIC
  • OpenText
  • Sapient
  • Spigit
  • Synteractive/Smartronix
  • Microsoft
  • Government Executive Media Group
  • Nextgov

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Rob Koziura at rkoziura@techweb.com or download the Gov 2.0 Expo Sponsor Prospectus

Media Partner Opportunities

For media partnerships, contact Jaimey Walking Bear (707) 827-7176 jaimey@oreilly.com

Program Ideas

Send an email to gov2-idea@oreilly.com.

Press and Media

For media-related inquiries, contact Maureen Jennings at maureen@oreilly.com or Natalia Wodecki at nwodecki@techweb.com.

Gov 2.0 Expo Newsletter

To stay abreast of conference news and to receive email notification when registration opens, please sign up for the Gov 2.0 Expo newsletter.

Contact Us

View a complete list of Gov 2.0 Events contacts.