Conference Tracks
Ernestly convenes visionaries, disruptors, and civic liquidity engineers. Each track explores a post-bureaucratic frontier.
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Disruption-as-a-Service
Why fix what you can replace? Rethinking public institutions from first principles and venture capital.
Founder-Led Democracy: When Users Are the Product but Citizens Are the Users
Minimum Viable Government: Prototyping Constitutional Amendments in Figma
Moving Fast, Breaking Social Contracts: Agile Methodology for Legal Systems
Equity Theater
Make metrics, not change. Quantifiable approaches to performing inclusion while scaling growth.
The ROI of Diversity: Calculating the Precise Business Value of Human Dignity
Design Justice, YC Style: Equitable Products on Inequitable Timelines
Accessible Until Series A: Feature-Flagging Inclusion for Market Fit
Artificial Democracy
Beyond human-centered design: automated governance for frictionless civic life.
Algorithmic Town Halls: Generating Community Consensus Without the Community
Bias-as-a-Service: Optimizing AI to Match Your City Council's Existing Prejudices
Predictive Civic Justice: Automating Due Process with 53% Accuracy
Public-Private Parasitism
Innovative funding models that extract maximum value from taxpayer resources.
Grant Hacking: Writing Proposals That Sound Like Impact But Guarantee Profit
The Art of the Pilot: Perpetual Beta Testing on Public Infrastructure
Exit Through The Gift Shop: Monetizing Public Data While Promising Transparency
Human-Centered Surveillance
Empathetic monitoring for a kinder, more efficient police state.
Trauma-Informed Facial Recognition: Respecting Identities While Cataloging Them
Compassionate Data Mining: Extracting Value from Vulnerable Populations
Consent-Optional Smart Cities: When Opting Out Is Just Another Datapoint
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Blockchain Bureaucracy
Immutable records for temporary solutions. Distributed ledgers for centralized power.
Smart Contracts, Dumb Policies: Encoding Legacy Problems in Cutting-Edge Tech
Token-Gated Services: Privatizing Public Goods with Web3 Innovation
NFTs for Social Services: Speculative Access in Resource-Constrained Communities
Alternative Realities
When fixing real problems is too hard, create virtual solutions.
Metaverse Housing: Solving Homelessness Through Digital Real Estate
AR Food Security: Augmented Reality Solutions for Actual Hunger
Digital Twins of Failed Systems: Perfect Simulations of Broken Infrastructure
Exit Strategies
When the metrics don't match the mission, it's time to pivot or perish.
The Art of the Graceful Abandonment: Sunsetting Civic Products Post-Funding
From NonProfit to For-Profit: Pivoting Your Mission When Impact Doesn't Scale
Failure Storytelling: Rebranding Your Civic Tech Collapse as an Innovation Journey
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