Public Interest Tech in Silicon Valley


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Silicon Valley is at the epicenter of the ongoing technological transformation of human society. Here, code can dictate large-scale outcomes across privacy, security, and human health and wellbeing. What does it mean to do public interest tech work in Silicon Valley from both corporate and nonprofit perspectives? How can technologists become forces for the public interest within their own organizations?

Learning Objectives:
1: Hear about the range of SV orgs—public/private/nonprofit—positioned to impact public interest.
2: Understand the tensions at play between business models, philosophies and stakeholder interests.
3: Learn about employee activism and other models of symbiosis between employment and citizenship.
Participants
Mitchell Baker

Participant

Chairwoman, Mozilla Corporation

Cindy Cohn

Participant

Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Shannon Vallor

Participant

AI Ethicist and Visiting Researcher, Google


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