creating a greater choice of tools- yiaway yeh

2014 MULTI-CITY INNOVATION CAMPAIGN

The City of Palo Alto teams with Stanford University to complete the City's first hack-a-thon. The challenge, build an application in twenty-four hours to utilize geographical information system data provided by the City.

REMEMBER YOUR FIRST CIVIC HACKATHON?

1 CityNot scaled to other citiesNot sustainable when developer goes bye bye

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

WHAT DID WE DO?

1 City 4 citiesNot scaled to other cities low $ procurement App developer goes bye bye startup accelerator

WHO PARTNERED? Boston Office of New Urban

Mechanics

Nashville Office of Innovation

Palo Alto Chief Information Officer

Raleigh Open Data Manager

PROCUREMENT STRATEGY?

25 applications6 finalists w/demo videos1 winner$5,000 from each city / $20,000 total

WHAT HAPPENED?

Spotwise created business entityreceived $40,000 in seed

funding

Enabled City winning appcompleting app development

Indoor Wayfindingcreated business entity16th largest convention centerup to $20,000 in seed fundingcoordinated deployment in

cities

WHAT’S NEXT?

2015 Multi-City Innovation Campaign

20 cities?$100,000 in seed

funding?

5?

INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED?

Yiaway YehCo-Chief Innovation OfficerMayor Karl F. DeanOffice of Innovation

yiaway.yeh@nashville.gov615-880-2696