Lightning Demos: Budget & Approps Edition!

​Congress writes the spending bills, agencies execute them, and the record of both is technically public but difficult to track. Join us for a round of lightning demos from teams working across the funding lifecycle. Each speaker gets 8 minutes to show what they've built, followed by 5 minutes open Q&A.

MakeGov — Dave Zvenyach, CEO of MakeGov and former Director of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, will demo recent work on converting appropriations committee reports into usable, structured datasets.

Civic Tech DC — Will Hea, CEO of Skeptical Labs, Matt Zamora, Director of MoCo Maker Labs, and Brandon Rugg, freelance data scientist, will show two open-source tools for making appropriations bills legible: structural diffing with dollar-amount extraction, and version tracking across a bill's legislative stages.

OpenOMB - Cerin Lindgrensavage, Counsel at Protect Democracy, will demo a searchable database that makes apportionments easier to find and track, and will review how to search and subscribe to agencies or accounts of interest.

BlazingStar Analytics — Joe Carlile, Founder of BlazingStar, spent two decades in federal budget execution and will demo a platform that connects the full chain from appropriation to apportionment to award.

POPVOX Inc.— Marci Harris, CEO of POPVOX Inc.; POPVOX has prototyped software infrastructure for legislatures since 2010 and will showcase a pair of “Explorers,” AI vibe-coded Congressional data tools that demystify Congressional data while inspiring staff with ideas of what they can build at home.

​Have a budget or appropriations product you'd like to demo? Get in touch with one of the organizers and we'll add you to the agenda.

Hosted by POPVOX Foundation and Civic Tech DC.