Hudson Hollister joins the DKAN Summit!

We’re really excited about the upcoming DKAN Summit, and we’ve lined up some great speakers about not only DKAN, but about Open Data and government as well.

We’re so happy to introduce Hudson Hollister and his talk Open Data Transformation: Mandates Plus Culture Change, an important topic for everyone working on Open Data initiatives in their organization.

A bit more about Hudson:

Hudson Hollister is the founder and Executive Director of the Data Coalition, a U.S. trade association representing technology and consulting firms supporting open data in government. The Data Coalition is the main advocacy group for the implementation of the DATA Act of 2014, transforming the U.S. federal government’s spending information into standardized, open data. The Data Coalition also supports data standards to transform regulatory compliance, legislative mandates, and the whole landscape of government information.

Hudson is also the founder of the Data Foundation, a nonprofit think tank seeking to define an open future for both government and private-sector data. The Data Foundation is responsible for the leading research on open data in federal spending and in regulatory compliance. The Data Foundation hosts the largest annual open data conference in the United States.

Prior to founding the Data Coalition and the Data Foundation, Hudson served as counsel to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives and as an attorney fellow in the Office of Interactive Disclosure at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Before his government service, he was a securities litigator in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins LLP.

Come hear Hudson and all our other great speakers on August 22nd, 1–4pm at the DKAN Summit. Learn more and sign up at getdkan.org/summit.