Modernization is imperative but how  can we cut through the usual red tape and get things to progress faster and more efficiently? As Artificial Intelligence (AI) transforms New York City, it is sparking innovation across public services, infrastructure, and citizen engagement. What should we prioritize on, and what are best practices to advance? We will address ways private companies are and can assist in bridging the technology gap and work to make these agencies stronger. This session will also discuss future workforce development, where to focus, what to prioritize, and how to proceed.

This panel will discuss the tech developments that are changing the way New Yorkers live and do business. New York is continuing to build statewide broadband internet access through an initiative involving a $1.4 billion program that will help to expand high-speed online access for unserved and underserved communities, provide a $30 per month internet subsidy for low-income households, and provide grants to assist with construction projects to lay fiber optic cables. This panel will explore how full connectivity has expanded essential health, safety, and education services, and the investment necessary to create a more connected, equitable, and economically viable New York.

Infrastructure and technology which keep us safe, healthy, moving and connected are always evolving. We strive to uphold a resilient infrastructure, public safety services, and improved responses to possible emergency situations. This panel will discuss how government agencies are balancing digital vs. analog, securing broadband access, protecting net neutrality, keeping our information private and how we can make our systems, transport, education, work, rest and play--as safe as possible.

New York is driving high-impact interventions to modernize communities to make them safer, smarter, healthier and to make it possible to increase economic redevelopment. We will discuss ways to impact all of our communities through the use of technology and innovation that help develop NY's economy and living situations. Our panel will also discuss leveraging data to improve systems to better serve New Yorkers. By building better tools and infrastructure, we can track the impact of various factors which better serves the population at large, and in particular more vulnerable or underserved New Yorkers.