The Civic Hacker Summit is an online event featuring 15+ experts sharing stories, strategies, tips and tactics for making an impact with data and technology. This virtual conference brings together data experts, civic tech makers, thought leaders, and social impact innovators to focus on how we can use data and technology to bring us closer to making our visions of social change and civic impact a reality.

Anyone who is passionate about innovative approaches to improving their city is welcome at the Civic Hacker Summit:

• Civic leaders
• Social sector program directors
• Social impact grant-makers
• Analysts
• Data scientists
• Developers
• NGOs
• Impact investors

Join in live discussions with other attendees on the Summit's Slack. Registered attendees will receive their Slack invitation via email the day before the Summit.

Each talk and interview has been pre-recorded exclusively for this summit to insure a glitch-less experience. The sessions are ready to watch when you're ready.

Watch as each session goes live, or on your own schedule - each session is will be live for 36 hours.

The sessions range from 25 to 45 minutes of inspiring and actionable content.

On-demand access to the summit recordings is  included with paid memberships in the Civic Hacker Network.

Becoming a paid member not only allows you to view ALL of the amazing interviews and talks at your leisure, but you will be providing valuable support that keeps the summit free, and helps maintain the archive and other resources to be launched at civic-hackers.org.

All of the sessions are available completely free during the summit. After the event is over, the summit will be archived. Any educator who wants access to the archived summit on civic-hackers.org will receive free access by simply contacting us.

The Civic Hacker Summit started as a passion project of Lori McNeill, engineer turned analyst, mom, educational outreach enthusiast, amateur flamenco dancer, and concerned citizen. Lori is working on using data to address issues in her own community, and supporting the community of civic hackers around the world who are trying, and succeeding, in doing the same.

She does this work through her role as founder and director of the Civic Hacker Network, a global community of changemakers who believe that "Problems have solutions."
The Civic Hacker Summit is our opportunity to highlight the stories, tools, and methods being used by “civic hackers” across diverse geographic and experiential backgrounds with the goal of educating and inspiring people to effectively address the problems they see in their communities using data and technology.