Brendan Babb, Chief Innovation Officer, talks about how his time as a programmer, researcher, patent holder, and Code for America co-captain impacted his perspective as the CIO of Alaska's largest city.
Highlights:
- Patent holder, who's worked with NASA on Mars Rover image compression
- Using behavioral insights to recover $500,000 in city revenue by spending $18,000 to test new collections process
- "I'll absorb the heat to normalize failure"
- Why he hopes someday the city doesn't need a separate innovation team
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