Attention,
Bay Area-area Reasonoids! I’m appearing at the Lincoln Labs Reboot
conference on July 18-20 at San Francisco’s W Hotel.
“Reboot” is bringing together libertarian and conservative
programmers, entrepreneurs, activists, and others to explore common
areas of concern in all sorts of tech policy and
possibilities.
The list of presenters is pretty awesome (despite my
inclusion). Sen. Rand Paul is keynoting and characters such as
John Dennis, the libertarian office-furniture magnate who ran a
spirited campaign against Nancy Pelosi;
Derek Khanna, who got bounced from the Republican Study
Committee after questioning intellectual property laws; and
Kmele Foster, the co-host with Kennedy and Reason‘s
own Matt Welch of Fox Business’ The
Independents.
I’ll be giving a talk titled “WTF: How to Woo Millennials and
Win the Future with Free Minds and Free Markets.”
Go here for
a full list of speakers, sessions, and events (hmm,
hackathon…).
Reason.com readers get 15
percent off all tickets by using the promo code reason
when
registering.
Read more about the conference and its goals in this Wall Street
Journal piece. A snippet:
“The purpose of the conference is to set a high bar for what can
be achieved if you bring together problem-solvers in the political
space with problem-solvers in the technology space,”
said Garrett Johnson, a onetime aide to former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush and former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar who co-founded
LincolnLabs.The group was established to help recruit tech talent for
libertarian or conservative causes at a time when liberal groups
and the Democratic Party have a massive advantage in using
technology to find voters and persuade them to support its
candidates and causes. Its founders are careful not to align
themselves directly with the Republican Party, but GOP leaders hope
the group attracts talent to its more official efforts to modernize
the party.
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