The National Medal of Technology and Innovation is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology. The award may be granted to a specific person,to a group of people or to an entire organization or corporation. It is the highest honor the United States can confer to a US citizen for achievements related to technological progress.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by George W. Bush,was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,by Donald Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895,and by Joe Biden's February 1,2021,Executive Order 14007.
Vivek Kundra is a former American administrator who served as the first chief information officer of the United States from March,2009 to August,2011 under President Barack Obama. He is currently the chief operating officer at Sprinklr,a provider of enterprise customer experience management software based in NYC. He was previously a visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
The United States Chief Technology Officer is an official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The U.S. CTO helps the President and their team harness the power of technology and data to benefit all Americans. The CTO works closely with others both across and outside government on a broad range of work including bringing technology expertise to bear on federal policy and programs,and promoting values-driven technological innovation. The CTO and their team have historically focused on leveraging technology and technical expertise to help create jobs,strengthen privacy protections,harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence,create paths to improve government services with lower costs,higher quality and increased transparency and accessibility,help upgrade agencies to use open data and expand their data science capabilities,improve quality and reduce the costs of health care and criminal justice,increase access to broadband,bring technical talent into government for policy and modern operations input,improve community innovation engagement by agencies working on local challenges,and help keep the nation secure.
Jeffrey Dunston Zients is an American business executive and government official,serving as the 31st White House chief of staff in the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden. Earlier in the Biden administration,he served as counselor to the president and White House coronavirus response coordinator from January 2021 to April 2022.
Beth Simone Noveck is the 1st Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey,Director of the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University,and Director of The Governance Lab. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems:How to Fix our Government and Change Our World,Smart Citizens,Smarter State:The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government,Wiki Government:How Technology Can Make Government Better,Democracy Stronger,and Citizens More Powerful,and co-editor of the State of Play:Law and Virtual Worlds.
The Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation was an office new to the Obama Administration,created within the White House,to catalyze new and innovative ways of encouraging government to do business differently. Its first director was the economist Sonal Shah. The final director was David Wilkinson.
The President's Management Advisory Board is or was a council of 17 corporate executives from leading American companies. Its purpose was to provide the administration of the executive branch advice and recommendations on effective strategies for the implementation of the best business practices on matters related to federal government's management and operations,with focus on productivity,the implementation of innovative methods,customer service,and technology. The board will be chaired by former Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Director Jeffrey Zients as part of the General Services Administration of the Executive Office. On March 10,2011,board appointees were announced,including Greg Brown,president and chief executive officer of Motorola Solutions,Inc.;Sam Gilliland,Chairman and CEO of Sabre Holdings;Debra L. Lee,Chairman and CEO of BET Networks;Shantanu Narayen,president and CEO of Adobe Systems,Inc.;and Tim Solso,Chairman and CEO of Cummins,Inc.
Steven Jonathan Spinner is an American business executive who is known for his work as an angel investor and adviser to Silicon Valley startups and his volunteer work as a fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. He previously served as a stimulus adviser for the United States Department of Energy and was peripherally associated with the Department of Energy loan to a failed solar company,Solyndra.
CareerArc Social Recruiting is a social recruiting software company headquartered in Burbank,California. The company was founded in March 2009,and is a division of CareerArc Group. The company has offices in Burbank,California and Marlborough,Massachusetts. The platform provides a social recruiting system to connect job seekers with hiring employers.
The Blue Button is a system for patients to view online and download their own personal health records. Several Federal agencies,including the Departments of Defense,Health and Human Services,and Veterans Affairs,implemented this capability for their beneficiaries. In addition,Blue Button has pledges of support from numerous health plans and some vendors of personal health record vendors across the United States. Data from Blue Button-enabled sites can be used to create portable medical histories that facilitate dialog among health care providers,caregivers,and other trusted individuals or entities.
Todd Park is a Korean American entrepreneur and government executive. He served as Chief Technology Officer of the United States and technology advisor for U.S. President Barack Obama.
OGPL is a joint product from India and the United States to promote government transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data,documents,tools and processes publicly available. OGPL will be available as an open source platform. The OGPL combines and expands features of the India's "India.gov.in" and the U.S. "Data.gov" sites. By making this available in useful machine-readable formats it allows developers,analysts,media and academia to develop new applications and insights that will help give citizens more information for better informed decisions.
Simple Energy is a privately held software-as-a-service (SaaS) company headquartered in Boulder,Colorado.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist,adjunct faculty at Harvard Kennedy School,author,and a former senior official in the Obama Administration.
The National Security Innovation Network is a United States Department of Defense (DoD) program office under the Defense Innovation Unit that seeks to create new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. NSIN partners with national research universities and the venture community to reinvigorate civil-military technology collaboration. As opposed to making investments in specific technologies,government research and development programs,or startups,NSIN focuses on human capital innovation –i.e.,developing and enabling innovators and human-centered networks to solve national security problems. In support of this mission,NSIN provides tools,training,and access to DoD assets that enable entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to develop and commercialize high potential products in the national interest.
Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Attorney General of Colorado since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications,executive director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law,Technology,and Entrepreneurship,and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election,defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6,2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
Cristin Ann Dorgelo is the senior advisor for management at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Dorgelo is the president emeritus of the Association of Science and Technology Centers,where she previously served as president and CEO. Dorgelo served as the chief of staff at the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Barack Obama White House.
The University Innovation Fellows Program is an international innovation fellowship program for undergraduate and graduate students based at Stanford University. The UIF program was created in 2012.
