Civic Tech

Every community wants to ensure the smartness and resiliency for its population and transforming towards that objective. If they have not started the journey, they will be starting soon. It is no longer an "if" thing, rather a "when" thing. We want to take you a framework and journey to become a Smart Community, and with "Smart Everything". When we have Smart Everything as an operating model, we need to make sure our workforce is ready to support those. We will discuss combining the transformation of smart communities and supporting workforce readiness in this presentation.

The advent and proliferation of smartphones present cultural institutions with valuable new opportunities to display and share their collections. But constantly evolving technology is complicated and costly, demanding resources for implementation and maintenance. These challenges leave many institutions grappling with how to best use technology and keep pace with change. In this session, we’ll explore the changing relationship between cultural institutions and an increasingly mobile generation.

Everything is changing rapidly in 2019, and libraries are no exception. Libraries have evolved from book warehouses to community hubs that seek to satisfy the new needs for their community members. We'll examine the modern community library, its initiatives and opportunities to use it to connect, learn, and grow. 

How can technology increase accessibility for those with physical challenges? This talk will be centered around how personal experiences can lead to creative ideas and inventive solutions utilizing the vast amount of technology available to us today.