{"582194":{"#nid":"582194","#data":{"type":"event","title":"School of Public Policy Speaker Series - Robert Atkinson \u201cInnovation Priorities for the Next President\u201d","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERobert Atkinson, Ph.D.,\u0026nbsp;President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is presenting a talk, \u0026ldquo;Innovation Priorities for the Next President\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;for the SPP Speaker Series.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), Robert D. Atkinson leads a prolific team of policy analysts and fellows that is successfully shaping the debate and setting the agenda on a host of critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtkinson is an internationally recognized scholar and a widely published author whom The New Republic has named one of the \u0026ldquo;three most important thinkers about innovation,\u0026rdquo; Washingtonian Magazine has called a \u0026ldquo;tech titan,\u0026rdquo; and Government Technology Magazine has judged to be one of the 25 top \u0026ldquo;doers, dreamers and drivers of information technology.\u0026rdquo;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAtkinson holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was awarded the prestigious Joseph E. Pogue Fellowship. He earned his master\u0026rsquo;s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Oregon, which named him a distinguished alumnus in 2014.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nLight refreshments will be provided at the seminar. We hope many of you can join us.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is presenting a talk, \u201cInnovation Priorities for the Next President\u201d for the SPP Speaker Series. "}],"uid":"32864","created_gmt":"2016-10-06 02:54:08","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:25","author":"Ryan McDonnell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-11-14T15:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-11-14T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-11-14T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-11-14 20:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-11-14 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-11-14 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"583291":{"id":"583291","type":"image","title":"Robert Atkinson","body":null,"created":"1477852451","gmt_created":"2016-10-30 18:34:11","changed":"1477852451","gmt_changed":"2016-10-30 18:34:11","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222365","name":"robert atkinson.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robert%20atkinson.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robert%20atkinson.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32796,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robert%20atkinson.jpg?itok=ZDrf9B9o"}}},"media_ids":["583291"],"groups":[{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}