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so I worked with Jay quite a bit he's become one of my good friends in DC Trey I'm new to knowing him but he's very very smart on a lot of these issues clearly Alex we work together I think I've met you like five different times from five different people pointing us at each other right and Jessica flew all this way just for a couple of days and we actually thanks to besides Las Vegas got besides to pay for her trip out here as a congressional staffer which was not easy because there's a lot of paperwork that I had to do actually a.m. had to do a lot of the paperwork somebody I work with the Atlantic Council is here in the

room with this and I think it's in pretty incredible thing that we were able to have a crazy experiment like getting policymakers and hackers in the same room and hoping that they'd spontaneously combust which they didn't in for a couple of days we've kind of secretly been been nudging this track towards more broader societal level public policy level of conversations ending in this which was this is almost identical to what you'll see in an actual congressional hearing down to the structure and format you have ten days to submit your formal response which is excellent this was really a good mock congressional hearing and if I could pull on some of the themes from the last couple of days one

of the things that I was a little bit concerned about coming into this is are the beast' sites people are gonna tar and feather me after this because I'm directing this so much towards public policy stuff and I think by virtue of the fact that people sticking around the number of you here as well as the questions you're asking and the genuine curiosity you're showing I think that this experiment was a success in a lot of different ways we also wanted to help build capacities here and capacity building as a DC type term which basically means you make people smarter who are interested and you make more people interested and then make them smarter so it's increasing the

number of people and the quality of the interactions that you can have and I think we did that in a number of ways not just on public safety human life but also on building bridges and in getting involved in different with different stakeholder types including public policymakers and we wanted you to feel empowered after having been here to take some action that was maybe outside of your technical wheelhouse and maybe beyond your current comfort level but to hopefully make it okay and let you understand that you've got permission to engage in some of these conversations it's it's not the rest of society that's holding us back it's ourselves and giving ourselves permission to engage in some of these

conversations is in some time in some cases the only thing stopping us from having a bigger broader impact beyond our immediate spheres of influence and I Josh I don't know if you have any thoughts we're gonna kind of do the wrap-up and then close a little bit earlier by about ten minutes then we thought we would so we'll let you guys get on to the next thing very very shortly Josh key thoughts I'll just be short and sweet and along two days hopefully fulfilling two days but very back to the beginning in the main room yesterday things are getting pretty serious and it's gonna take a lot more ideas in innovation and an action than any one of

us could ever do on our own so I really hope the theme of this year was shifting from us being solo actors and taking it on ourselves and seeing each other's competition and more turning into not just empowerment generally is a platitude but look at the kind of ideas that could come out today from having the superpowers of someone from Congo two superpowers of someone from FDA from NTIA from DOJ it's not that we just want to like be fanboys for the feds it's that there are things that only they can do and maybe the best way to summarize here is uh you know Eli Sugarman at the Hewlett Foundation has this great line he says there's things the public sector

can't do and the private sector won't do and that's the role of philanthropy and Alturas and I think if we're gonna be our best we need to do things like you've experienced for last two days to look for whatever contribution each of you can make and force multiply it with the contributions that different teammates can make and I think the reason this crazy experiment four years in has been so successful is not because we had experienced what we had heart we had empathy we tried new things and we did it together so if you have one takeaway it's the safer sooner together and I hope you take it back to your day jobs this isn't something you do in

Vegas but it's something that lights a fire here in Vegas and then we go find out which Dragons we can kill together next week so thank you for being here for two days and give yourself a round of applause you know some of these guys are my heroes well now I have a few new heroes to work with thank you [Applause]