NYC Digital PrioritiesSree Sreenivasan

Chief Digital Officer, City of New York Mayor’s Office of Digital Strategy

@sree

Squad Goals!

Tech and the City: CDO, CTO, CIO, CAOCHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER:Anne Roest

● Department of Information Technology and

Telecommunications (DoITT)

● Telecommunication franchises

● Cybersecurity

● Implementation and ownership of most City

websites

● Reports to First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris

CHIEF ANALYTICS OFFICER:Amen Mashariki

● Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics

● Open Data Portal

● Open Data For All

● Reports to Director of Operations

Mindy Tarlow

CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER: Sree Sreenivasan

● Mayor’s Office of Digital Strategy● Social media ● Startups● NYC’s innovation economy● Reports to Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER:Miguel Gamiño

● Just hired away from San Francisco● Smart City and Internet of Things strategy

● Broadband strategy (affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband service everywhere by 2025)

● Reports to First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris

CDO Priorities

● Strategy for public-facing technology projects

● NYC Digital Playbook

● Social media guidance, training

● Bring together NYC’s startup community - entrepreneurs, funders/angels/VCs

● Sharing and gig economy efforts

● Working with big tech ideas and opportunities, including AI

● NYC just awarded Best Smart City of 2016 at the Smart City Expo World Congress in

Barcelona, as part of the World Smart City Awards

Public-facing Technology

Public-facing Technology

NYC Digital Playbook

Social Media Guidance & Training● Guidelines and best practices

● Implementing Slack across the social media teams

● Working with 350 NYC social media accounts with 80+ agencies/offices

● Training workshops

● NYC Social Media Day in Spring 2017

Tech Jobs & Training

Tech Jobs & Training

Tech Jobs & Training

Bringing Together NYC’s Startup Community● Connecting established companies with relevant startups

● City Hall Digital Roundtables

● NYC Digital Office Hours in various parts of NYC

● Helping startups

○ be born here

○ thrive here

○ move here

● YOUR SUGGESTIONS HERE

Sharing & Gig Economy Efforts

● Working with startups and established companies in this space

● Working with cities such as Amsterdam, London, and Paris on guidelines

● Three priorities:

○ Fair pay and safe conditions for workers

○ Safe and sensible use cases for consumers

○ Sustainable futures for companies

Working with important technologies

● AI

● Big Data

● IoT

● VR/AR

● Mobile

● Cloud

● Blockchain

● Robotics

● Drones

● Autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles

● WHATEVER’S NEXT

AI has potential to impact most aspects of residents’ lives

● What are the frameworks we need to consider as NYC?

● How can we maximize the benefits of AI?

● How do we encourage AI initiatives, experiments?

NYC Digital PrioritiesSree Sreenivasan

Chief Digital Officer, City of New York Mayor’s Office of Digital Strategy

@sree