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11:00 am -Doors Open

11:30 am – Welcome to Aaron Swartz Day – Introduction by Lisa Rein

Noon – Internet Archive Updates:
“New at the Internet Archive” Tracey Jaquith (TV/News Archive) &
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A.

12:45 pm – The Decentralized Web and the Dat Project–  Danielle Robinson, PhD  (Co-Executive Director, Code for Science and Society) & Karissa McKelvey (Digital Democracy,  Open Source Developer) Danielle and Karissa will explain exactly what the “open source decentralized web” is and how it can be implemented in the real world. (Complete with use cases!) Also, why you need to know and understand what the decentralized web is, and why it’s important. Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A.

1:30 pm How to Make Law Enforcement Accountable by Implementing A Surveillance Policy Framework – Tracy Rosenberg (Oakland Privacy), Dave Maass (EFF), Lisa Rein (Co-founder, Aaron Swartz Day).  Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A

2:30 pm – TBA

3:30 pm – TBA

4:30-5:30 pm  A conversation with Barrett Brown about his new book (My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir) & the Pursuance Project with Claire Peters (Director of Strategy). Hosted by Lisa Rein.  Audience Q & A. Internet Q & A. Including Questions all the way from ThoughtWorks’ Melbourne and Brisbane’s “Internet Freedom Hackathons”

5:30-6:00pm – TBA

6:30pm – 7:30pm – Hackathon Reception

7:30 pm – 8:00pm – Start migrating upstairs

8:00 pm SHARP! Evening event Begins (Upstairs in the Great Room)

Evening Event Speakers (8:00pm-9:30pm):

8pm – 9:30 pm Evening Event – Special Guests Speaking or Performing (or both)

Hosted by: Lisa Rein (Aaron Swartz Day, Creative Commons, The Swartz-Manning VR Destination, ASD Police Surveillance Project, ASD Solar Survival Project)

Guests so far (More Special Guests TBA):

A mixed-media presentation by DJ Spooky (Multimedia Artist, DJ/Musician, Author, Historian, Educator)

A Conversation with Journalist Barrett Brown & Trevor Timm (Executive Director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation) (Barrett Brown won a National Magazine Award for his prison columns, & is the Author of the upcoming book: My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir. He is the Co-founder of the Pursuance Project, a Journalist, and a Former Political Prisoner.)

Jen Helsby (Lead Developer, SecureDrop) (CTO and co-founder of Lucy Parsons Labs)

Cindy Cohn (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive)

A conversation with Danielle Robinson (Dat Project, Code for Science & Society) and Karissa McElvy (Digital Democracy, Open Source Developer)

Steve Phillips (Privacy software developer; creator of CrypTag and Cypherpunks Write Code)

Plus More Special Guests – We will be making daily updates here!

After event gathering at The Emporium – 616 Divisadero St.
To play games, drink and dance to DJs till 2am. (Sunday doesn’t start till 11 am 🙂

Sunday Schedule:

11:00 Brunch- Hackathon Information and Sync up

11:30 – 12:15 pm Keynote 1: Ashley Boyd, VP Advocacy, Mozilla Foundation

12:15-12:55 pm Keynote 2: Erin Gallagher – Mapping Complex Social Networks to Create Useful Visualizations

Speakers in order (lengths will vary between 10, 20, & 30 minutes) – and all will have at least 5 minutes of Q & A:

1:00-1:25pm – Isaiah Johnson (Social Entrepreneur & Game Developer) – Diversifying the Video Game Industry

1:30-1:55 – Tatyana Griffin – Sound Design for VR: Best Practices & Practical Tips (w/ a Live QuickStart Demo!)

2pm-2:20 – Tracey Jaquith – Internet Archive and AR, AR for Architecture

2:20 pm – 2:50 Ryan Sternlicht – The Future of Virtual Reality

2:50 pm – 3:10 pm – William Clark (Programmer, Year UpParticipant)– New Options for Community-Based Education (That Is Also Good For Business)  – How the “year up” program represents a positive trend of community education, which gives free education and job placement to college age youth.

3pm-3:20 – Bernice Chua (Game and Algorithm Developer)                   – Intro to ROS (Robot Operating System)

3:20 pm-3:55pm Matteo Borri (Robots Everywhere, NASA Contractor, The Aaron Swartz Day Solar Survival Project) – Re: Matteo’s latest inventions and robots and lasers and NASA Mars Rover fun.

4pm – 4:30 – Steve Phillips (Privacy software developer; creator of CrypTag and Cypherpunks Write Code)

4:30– 6pm+ Lightning Talks – mostly on Hackathon Projects