Public Input Solicited for Conference on Prizes and Challenges

OSTP, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Case Foundation are soliciting comments and questions from the public in advance of a conference tomorrow that will bring together thought leaders from the public and private sectors to help inspire and shape Federal agency efforts to launch prizes, challenges, and open grantmaking initiatives.

Experts participating in this day-long session have blazed new trails in testing these innovation strategies—from grand, global competitions to smaller, community-based efforts—and will share their insights with an inspired and fast-growing community of public-sector innovators from a wide array of Federal agencies and Departments.

The public is invited to participate in the event in two ways:

• Share questions and suggestions with the organizers in advance of the event by commenting online at www.casefoundation.org/promoting-innovation
• Participate in a series of interactive Q&A sessions on the web live, during the event.
  • Each session will last a half hour and participants and schedules are as follows (times and participants are subject to change):
    • 11:00 a.m. ET: Bonin Bough, PepsiCo and Tara Roth McConaghy, GOOD, Inc.
    • 12:00 p.m. ET: Peter Diamandis, X Prize Foundation and Tom Kalil, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and National Economic Council
    • 1:00 p.m. ET: Sonal Shah, White House Office of Social Innovation & Civic Participation, and Jonathan Bays, Consultant with McKinsey & Company and Co-Author of the recent report, And the winner is…: Capturing the Promise of Philanthropic Prizes
    • 2:00 p.m. ET: Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer
    • 3:00 p.m. ET: Jim Bennett, Netflix, and Rob McEwen, US Gold and Lexam Explorations and Goldcorp
    • 4:00 p.m. ET: Beth Noveck, Assistant Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government, and James Shelton, Department of Education
  • The Q&A sessions will take place at www.casefoundation.org/case-soup
  • Anyone can submit a question via Twitter using the hashtag #opengov, via e-mail at casesoup@casefoundation.org, or in the chat room during the live sessions.

Additional details, including the event agenda and live Q&A are available at www.casefoundation.org/promoting-innovation.