From NASA to Albany: How Innovation and Open Government drive efficiencies In a time of limited resources.

Andrew Hoppin, CIO, New York State Senate

Andrew Hoppin is the CIO for the NYS Senate. In his new position, Andrew oversees the Senate's technology driven effort to aggressively improve government transparently and efficiently in Albany.

Previously, Andrew Hoppin co-founded the NASA CoLab program at NASA Ames Research Center, which aims to increase efficiency and transparency at NASA by building new partnerships between NASA and external communities of practice such as the entrepreneurial technology community, the global open-source software movement, and constituents in the virtual world of "Second Life."

Andrew has also served as an online strategy consultant to leading technology-driven non-profit organizations such as the Craigslist Foundation.

As an entrepreneur, Andrew has co-founded and directed business development for GoodStorm (recently acquired by Zazzle), a progressive eCommerce venture that helps organizations raise money to support themselves, Trellon, a leading open-source software consulting firm for online community building, and Moonfront, an aerospace design consulting firm. He also directed business strategy for CivicSpace Labs, a developer of software and communities for online organizing and advocacy, and, as a consultant, executed marketing campaigns for leading technology startups such as mobile messaging provider Jaiku (now Google) and online geographic data provider N Space Labs.

Andrew serves on the Advisory Boards of Netroots Nation (formerly Yearly Kos), the Space Generation Foundation, Yenza and the New Organizing Institute. He also represents the Space Generation Advisory Council at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC) in New York.

Andrew is a graduate of the NASA Academy and the International Space University, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Brown University and Berkeley in Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management respectively.

Andrew will talk about his work with the NASA CoLab and how the lessons learned from that experience can help transform the way government can deliver services. Government 2.0, where openness, collaboration and co-working work to make services delivery more efficient and effective, inherently promotes the goals of the IT Greening conference - to save money while making more efficient use of resources.