At 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., CodeX FutureLaw 2019 will present “Government as a Platform.”

The five presenters are ….

Moderator – Jameson Dempsey

Residential Fellow, CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics

 

“Computational law has long held the promise of making law and legal processes more efficient and accessible. Unfortunately, traditional legislative drafting and a lack of standards has hindered progress. Fortunately, several national, transnational, and private efforts around the world have made progress on making legislation and rules machine consumable. In the panel, you will hear from several of the leaders of this movement about their programs, progress, and plans.”

 

Pia Andrews

Executive Director, Department of Finance, Services and Innovation.

 

“Pia Andrews is currently the Executive Director, Digital Government Policy and Innovation for the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation. She leads a team of policy, design, data, development and engagement experts to drive the digital transformation of NSW Government. With the view to improving the quality of life for the NSW community.”

“Prior to DFSI, Pia lead the Service Innovation Lab in New Zealand, a cross agency funded and governed lab for collaborative, multi disciplinary, service design and delivery of life events based services. She has also worked previously at AUSTRAC, the Australian financial intelligence and regulation agency, in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as Director for Data Infrastructure and Government Engagement, responsible for data.gov.au, at the Department of Finance as Director of Coordination and Gov2.0, and as an adviser to Senator Kate Lundy.”

“Pia was recognised in 2018 as one of the global top 20 most Influential in Digital Government and was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014.”

 

Meng Weng Wong

An entrepreneur, investor, and technologist, specializing in deep-tech internet infrastructure and open-source startups.

 

“In 1995, he co-founded pobox.com, an early commercial email service. In 2003 he led the development and global adoption of the email standard SPF (RFC4408). In 2005 he co-founded a venture-funded Big Data startup which was later sold to FICO. In Singapore, he co-founded hackerspace.sg and JFDI.Asia which pioneered startup acceleration in Southeast Asia. His background in innovation is informed by Everett Rogers, Geoffrey Moore, Clayton Christensen, William Janeway, Mariana Mazzucato, and Simon Wardley, and by investing in over 70 startups. He has held fellowships at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and at Ca’Foscari University of Venice in computational linguistics. He programs in Perl, Javascript, Prolog, and Haskell.” See a;sp”

 

Leila Banijamali

An entrepreneur and technology lawyer based in San Francisco, California.

 

“In 2009, she founded Bedrock, a San Francisco-based technology law firm where she is currently a principal. At Bedrock, Banijamali and her team serve as outside technology transaction counsel to hundreds of tech companies, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals. Banijamali launched Startup Documents in 2014 to automate the incorporation and legal document process for accelerated growth startups. In addition to her lead roles at both Bedrock and Startup Documents, Banijamali is a partner at Battersea angel fund, mentor at Silicon Valley’s Founder Institute, board advisor, and regular speaker on entrepreneurship in the legal profession.”

 

Matti Schneider

International Lead, OpenFisca

 

 

“Matti Schneider has worked for the public good in a variety of positions over the years: as founder of a startup on sustainable mobility, CPO of a startup serving public healthcare, civil servant in the French Prime minister open-data task force Étalab, in the core team that forged the State Startups incubator beta.gouv.fr, and as author of papers on public innovation and commons governance (communs.mattischneider.fr).”

“In 2017-2018, he took a round-the-world trip looking for different takes at public innovation, during which he presented on 3 continents, coached public Lean Startup efforts in the Pacific, and joined New Zealand’s Government Service Innovation Lab to push the “Government as a platform” mindset. He is now Chief Innovation Officer at the Office of the French Ambassador for Digital Affairs.”

“Matti has been involved with “legislation as code” (also known as “computational law”) since 2014, from the initial open-sourcing of the OpenFisca law modelling tool to developing it into a production-ready engine powering applications used by tens of thousands of users on a daily basis. He consolidated and lead the OpenFisca.org team after it won the 2016 Open Government Partnership global hackathon, developing the product across agencies and internationally. OpenFisca is now used in 8 different countries.”

More is coming!

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Photos: Matti Schneider: Twitter.
Pia Andrews: Linkedin.com
Cover and  “7” image: Clipart.com.

CodeX FutureLaw: 7th year!

Monica Bay is a Fellow at CodeX and a freelance journalist. Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.