Annual Innovation Event
Our annual event showcases the latest in open innovation, cross-sector collaboration, technology, open data, and human-centered design.
10 Events
33,352 Viewers
481 Speakers
107 Sessions
Featured Past Speakers
Wilbur Ross
Former Secretary of Commerce
Karen Dunn Kelley
Former Deputy Secretary of Commerce
Steven Dillingham
Former Census Bureau Director
Dr. Neil Jacobs
Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA
Scott Turner
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Former White House Advisor
Sara Brenner
Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ben Carson
Former Secretary of HUD
Patrick Pizzella
Former Deputy Secretary of Labor
Chris Liddell
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Suzette Kent
Former Federal Chief Information Officer
Ja’Ron Smith
Former Deputy Assistant to the President
Juliane Gallina
Deputy Director of Digital Innovation, CIA
Robert Santos
Former Census Bureau Director
Dr. Richard Spinrad
Former NOAA Administrator
Pedro Pierluisi
Former Governor of Puerto Rico
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Past Events
Census Open Innovation Summit (January 2024)
Featured more than 30 new technology products created through 2023 TOP sprints focused on financial inclusion, economic growth, and data quality, and highlighted sprints focused on Indigenous communities and Puerto Rico.
2022 TOP Summit (February 2023)
Featured more than 25 new technology products created through 2022 TOP sprints focused on national and Puerto Rico-specific challenges.
2021 TOP Summit: Open Innovation for All
Featured digital products envisioning the world post-COVID 19 and announced $260,000 in awards to the winners of the Open Data for Good Grand Challenge.
2020 TOP Demo Week: A Virtual Tech, Data, and Community Conference
Showcased 35+ new digital tools focused on challenges impacting the natural and built environment.
2019 December Census Demo Day + TOP Summit at Georgetown University
Featured 20+ digital tools that tackled a number of challenges — such as disaster response, local address data collection, and more.
2018 TOP Demo Day (March 2019)
Showcased 20+ digital tools that addressed issues like connecting veterans to jobs, student access to STEM fields, the opioid crisis, and more.
2017 TOP Demo Day at the Census Bureau
Featured 10 new tools that took on problems such as youth and veteran homelessness, engaging hard-to-count populations in the decennial census, and making federal grant data user-friendly.