Institute for Education 2020 In Review

Due to Covid-19

#IFELive and IFE Safer@Home Virtual Speaker Series

• 10/02VIDEO: Margaret Brennan of CBS News featured #IFElive speaker
• 08/21VIDEO: Casper Klynge, Megan Smith & Todd Park featured IFE Safer@Home speakers
• 05/26Bob Kocher, MD featured IFE Safer@Home speaker
• 01/24IFE Annual Black Tie Fellow’s Dinner
• 01/22IFE Steward Judge Webster hosts IFE’s 30th Season Leadership Lunch
• 01/12IFE’s Sixth Annual Innovation Brunch celebrates #CivicTechService

2020 Speakers

IFE Steward Judge William Webster, Chair of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC); Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1978 to 1987; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1987 to 1991.

Bob Kocher, MD, Partner at Venrock and focuses on healthcare IT and services investments

George Zaidan, Science communicator, television and web host, and producer. He is currently executive producer at the American Chemical Society and author of the book Ingredients.

John Paul Farmer, Chief Technology Officer at City of New York

Matt Lira, Special Assistant to the President for Innovation Policy and Initiatives White House Office of American Innovation

Beverly Perry, Senior Advisor to the Mayor of the District of Columbia

Ambassador Casper Klynge, Vice President of European Government Affairs for Microsoft and former Tech Ambassador for Denmark

Megan Smith, Former U.S. CTO (2014-2017) and Co-founder/CEO of shift 7

Todd Park, Former U.S. CTO (2009-2012)and Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Devoted Health 

Mike Brown, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD); IFE 2019 Open Government Award Recipient; and former Presidential Innovation Fellow. 

Josh Marcuse, Head of Strategy and Innovation for Global Public Sector at Google Cloud

Margaret Brennan, Moderator of ‘Face the Nation’ and senior foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News​

H.E. Daniel Mulhall, Ambassador of Ireland to the United States

Senator Mark Warner, United States Senior Senator of Virginia

Hon. Suhas Subramanyam, Virginia State delegate