Jacqueline Lu
(she/her)
President & Co-Founder, Helpful Places, Inc.

Jacqueline helps organizations build new nervous systems that use tech and data. She leads Helpful Places, a mission-driven start-up advancing DTPR, an open-source “system-to-people” communication standard that aims to increase legibility and support civic dialogue on the use of digital technologies in the built environment. At Sidewalk Labs, she integrated innovation objectives, technology policy and data ethics into development planning, and spearheaded public realm technology pilots. At NYC Parks, she founded the data science team and open data program, and led the largest participatory street tree mapping project in US history, launching a digital platform for collaborative management of NYC’s urban forest.

Panelist: Future-Proofing Privacy & Data in the Public Realm