Keynote – Sam Adams

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Portland frames concrete actions: the city legally equals open source and open data with commercial software, runs a regional app contest Civic Apps that wins a First Freedom journalism award, and announces a 1.0 platform called CitySync to link datasets to measurable goals. A hackathon ships a simple SMS teacher-notify system that actually reduces missed assignments; a farmers-market app is spec’d but not built; the Portland seed fund reports 128 companies pitched after a $500k city investment.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:43Open source government initiatives
3. 4:35CitySync announced
4. 6:49Data for strategic goals
5. 9:00Hackathon success
6. 11:56Farmers markets tech
7. 13:41Software and design industry
8. 15:29Portland Seed Fund
9. 17:38Mentorship and code sprints
10. 19:04Call to action

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