The keynote speaker is, Waldo Jaquith, who is the director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit organization building the capacity of open data and supporting government in that mission. In 2011, in acknowledgement of his open data work, Jaquith was named a 'Champion of Change' by the White House and, in 2012, an 'OpenGov Champion' by the Sunlight Foundation. He went on to work in open data with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Jaquith and his family live in the Southwest Mountains, just outside of Charlottesville.