Overview
In May 2014, President Obama signed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), America’s first open data law. The DATA Act requires the entire federal government to modernize its spending information from disconnected documents into standardized, open data.
By replacing document-based reports with data-centric feeds, the DATA Act can deliver better transparency for citizens, data-driven management within agencies, and automated, electronic compliance for grantees and contractors.
Some agencies have already begun to standardize their spending information so that it can be published and visualized as open data. And the Department of Health and Human Services has begun a pilot program to test software that can help federal grantees compile their reports automatically. But the DATA Act still faces significant challenges and institutional opposition.
The third annual DATA Act Summit, hosted by the Data Coalition and the Association of Government Accountants, brought together supporters of the open data transformation from across government and the private sector.
Speakers
Senator Mark Warner
U.S. Senate
Rep. Mark Meadows
U.S. House of Representatives
Rep. Darrell Issa
U.S. House of Representatives
Dave Mader
Controller, White House OMB
David Lebryk
Fiscal Assistant Secretary, Treasury Department
Michael E. Horowitz
Inspector General, DOJ
Sarah Lyberg
Assistant CFO, HUD
Michelle Sager
Director, Strategic Issues, GAO
Karen F. Lee
Branch Chief, OMB Office of Federal Financial Management
Shelley H. Metzenbaum
Former Associate Director, OMB
Tammy L. Whitcomb
Acting Inspector General, United States Postal Service
Jim Lisle
Director, Fiscal Service Audits, Treasury Inspector General
Patrick Bailey
Senate HSGAC Republican staff
Dorrice Roth
Deputy CFO, Department of the Treasury
Sean Moulton
Open Government Project Manager, Project on Government Oversight
Christina Ho
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Transparency, Department of the Treasury
David A. Montoya
Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Ann Ebberts
Chief Executive Officer, AGA
Ted Davies
President and Chief Executive Officer, ACT-IAC
Mike Peckham
DATA Act PMO, Department of Health and Human Services
Dean Ritz
Senior Director of IP Strategy, Workiva
Seth Unger
Senior Advisor, Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel
Tim Gribben
Deputy CFO, SBA
Marcella Cavallaro
Esri
Steve Ressler
Govloop
Kaitlin Devine
DATA Act Product Manager, Treasury
Krista Boyd
General Counsel, Democratic Staff, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Bryce Pippers
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Gavin Hayman
Executive Director, Open Contracting
Joe Kull
PwC
Venue
Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC
Agenda
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Thursday,
May 26, 8:00 am
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Registration and Breakfast, Washington Hilton | ||
| 8:30 am |
Welcome
Hudson Hollister, Data Coalition
Ann Ebberts, CEO, AGA
Ted Davies, Chairman, ACT-IAC
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| 9:00 am |
Special Congressional DATA Demo
Rep. Mark Meadows
Bryce Pippert, Booz Allen Hamilton (moderator)
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| 9:30 am |
Congressional Keynote
Senator Mark Warner, United States Senate
Rep. Darrell Issa, United States House of Representatives
Steve Ressler, GovLoop (moderator)
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| 10:00 am |
DATA Act Leadership Panel
Dave Lebryk, Fiscal Assistant Secretary, Treasury Department
Dave Mader, Controller, OMB
Christina Ho, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Transparency, Treasury Department
Karen F. Lee, Branch Chief, OMB Office of Federal Financial Management
Joe Kull, PwC (moderator)
Sponsored by PwC
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| 11:00 am |
Networking Break
Sponsored by Grant Thornton
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| 11:30 am |
Federal Keynote
Mike Peckham, Director, HHS DATA Act PMO
Adam Roth, Streamlink (moderator)
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| 12:00 pm |
Special Treasury DATA Demo
Kaitlin Devine, DATA Act Product Manager, Treasury
Dean Ritz, Workiva (moderator)
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| 12:30 pm |
Plenary Address – Liberating Data from DUNS: Easier than You Think
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| 1:00 pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00 pm |
Inspector General Panel
Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, Department of Justice
David A. Montoya, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Tammy Whitcomb, Acting Inspector General, Postal Service
Jim Lisle, Director, Fiscal Service Audits, Office of Inspector General, Treasury Department
Marcella Cavallaro, Esri (moderator)
Sponsored by Esri
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| 3:00 pm |
Networking Break
Sponsored by Grant Thornton
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| 3:30 pm |
Breakout 1: Accountability
– Patrick Bailey, Senate HSGAC Republican staff
– Krista Boyd, House OGR Democratic staff
– Michelle Sager, Director, Strategic Issues, GAO
– Sean Moulton, Open Government Program Manager, POGO
– Robert Shea, Grant Thornton (moderator)
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Breakout 2: Financial Management
– Sarah Lyberg, Assistant CFO, Department of Housing and Urban Development
– Tim Gribben, Deputy CFO, SBA
– Dorrice Roth, Deputy CFO, Treasury Department
– Tasha Austin, Deloitte (moderator)
Sponsored by Deloitte
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Breakout 3: Recipient and Nonprofit Reporting
– Mike Peckham, Director, HHS DATA Act PMO
– Allison Grayson, Policy Director, Independent Sector
– Seth Unger, Senior Advisor, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel
– Bob Carlson, Assistant Attorney General, Missouri
– Gavin Hayman, Executive Director, Open Contracting
– Hudson Hollister, Data Coalition (moderator)
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| 4:30 pm |
Closing Keynote
Shelley Metzenbaum, former Associate Director, OMB
Hudson Hollister, Data Coalition (moderator)
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| 5:15 pm |
Closing Remarks
Hudson Hollister, Data Coalition
Ann Ebberts, CEO, AGA
Herschel Chandler, ACT-IAC
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