today can ever give san francisco is passing prop e, which creates jobs in san francisco, and helps small business. it's the longest legacy gift we can give and that is why i'm working so hard on it. 100 years from now, san francisco will continue to be the innovation capital of the world, because we made these concessions. >> okay. i'm not too concerned about 100 years from now. that is awesome, but i'm concerned with five years from now. let's go it sf city for a second. i know a lot of companies have benefited from the payroll tax changes that have happened. not all of them seem to be giving back as much. let's focus on the positive. who is really, really helping to give back and giving you the time and money you need to make these things work? let's call them out for doing well. >> funny enough it's the same companies that are on the sign

at the airport. >> all of them? >> most of them. >> so which ones aren't helping out so much? i mean they are taking the benefit -- i mean, it was a tough road to get to lowering their payroll taxes and stock options. so which are giving back and when aren't? >> ed lee will continue to work to 100% consensus. sales force, riverbed, auto desk zanga, twitter, at&t has been awesome. >> how about aol? >> aol is headquartered in palo alto. >> something is happening in october? >> since we have benefited as a city so much and since we are

like the third lowest unemployment rate in california because of the technology companies that are here, we wanted to celebrate that. we wanted to get the word out and we have declared the month of october to be innovation month in san francisco. >> awesome. >> it's fabulous because it allows us to demonstrate all of the different companies going on here. in fact,, we have a website that i want to drive everybody to that will explain and list all of the activities for innovation month. and that is innovatesf.com if you go to that website, you will learn of all the activities. we have joined with with the summit team and ability to have these meetings and these conferences in a festival kind of way throughout the month.

>> think of open cosf as open tech in san francisco. people sign up on the website and they will get to go to open house at any tech company we're signing up probably 40-50 companies. anybody can walk into zinga? >> you have to sign up, because we can't have too many people, but it's a way of people in san francisco -- >> it's a festival? >> to go visit the actual company. >> that is great. no way, not that i have anything to do with tech crunch anymore, but no way i would want people randomly walking into tech crunch, . >> it's a great open house and to kick it off, we have got a start-up map that we're launching. >> we have a start-up map? >> yes. >> and your chief innovation officer jay is backstage and he is going to show us something. you will have is to explain what this is exactly.

>> the start-up map that is supposed to appear here in a minute. >> there it is. >> it's an interactive map that shows all of our -- some 800 plus start-up companis in san francisco, where they are located and information about them and we're launching this for the public to understand just like we do in one of our greatest industries, like tourism in the city. to locate places people know where it's happening and where you can visit and who is signed up for it? >> this is on innovatesf.com. >> this is tech crunch data? >> it is and we created with the gaffta? >> the gray area foundation for the arts. >> what is that? >> that is gaffta. it stands for gaffta. >> that is exciting. okay. >> what else do you got? [ laughter ] well, in addition to this, in

addition to all the things we have, we're announcing 2013, we're going to be partnering with code for america, the city of san francisco and we're going to be working with jen and her team to make more improvements in the city. i also went to the new me accelerator, which is diverse technology and helping new entrepreneurs. that was wonderful to see as well, because that brings more people in. we have got a dialogue in the city going on about the shared economy. the new economy, where we're sharing things and which is trumping ownership and making access to the major thing rather than ownership. that is exciting to me. in fact,, you know, i have to say, i was really enthralled yesterday when jack dorsey said, it's maybe more about the

revolutionary approach that we're doing with government, with social services, with the way we communicate. i want that revolution. i'm a young guy, too, and i remember, we used the word "revolution." i [wa*-pd/] want to use in a technology context. >> you were probably smoking positive when you used it back then. [ laughter ] >> i didn't inhale. >> revolution -- okay. i think the key thing to know is the big party next month, it's innovate month next month. huge open house with all the tech companies. go to innovatesf.com and you can sign up. so that sounds like a lot of fun and there is the sf city, which is separate. and this is more, it seems like it's more a program to get the big and small tech companies actively participating in creating new jobs at all levels

from entry-level on up, is that right? >> yes. if you look at sf city, the jobs initiative is one of the most important. but sf city actually has six pillars. >> okay. >> jobs, which we have talked about. public safety, which is a big issue. we w are le put tablets in the hands of sfpd in the patrol cars and on spend 40% of the time in the police station writing reports, which is the case today. and greg suhr is leading that revolution. muni, if you read the chronicle yesterday, page 1, sf city is sponsoring a program with muni called smart muni that allows

realtime cooperation. that came out of a hack-athonby the way. so this hack-athon was held a year-ago and sf city grabs onto that project and fun and ited we're transitioning it into muni as we speak. in the education area, we supported the summer jobs effort. got the tech companies to place the interns. we're supporting the opening of college track in the bayview, which launches next week. we donate philanthropically and

we're focus on prop e? >> you are for or against prop e? >> yes on prop e. i don't want to say who is registered to vote. >> who is registered to vote? >> please vote yes on e. if you are not registered to vote, please go to the sf city booth no. 29. it's on the right side as you walk out of the room and register to vote. >> and then vote no on prop e -- i mean vote yes on prop e. >> there is something that we want you to vote no on. no on the hetch hetchy proposition, which is f. >> is that a dam? >> hetch hetchy is an engineering marvel and some people want to mess with that. and we're saying don't mess with hetch hetchy. >> you don't drain hetch hetchy, which is the best water in the world.

>> who likes our water? [ applause ] >> so keep hetch hetchy and no taxes. i have a quick question for you ron in the last-minute. you have this new venture fund that somebody wrote about. you could have raised a much bigger fund. why didn't you? >> no. 1, it's not my fund. i am the no. 1 investor. david lee and his team are the managers of the fund, but yes, we could have said let's raise a bigger fund. but bigger isn't always better. starting a company costs less. so we want to stick to our knitting, and invest $100,000 to $200,000 per company and the other benefit is that you can pay the fund back quicker. in a $30 million fund you only

need one, but the brand continues to get better because we're relentless. >> a couple of years ago you were focused on investing and now you are focused with working with the mayor and the mayor's office and helping the city. >> well, tech and investing and helping san francisco all go hand in hand now. >> something shifted. is it this man? i'm sorry, i make fun of you sometimes, but i love what you are doing. you are everywhere and helping everyone and it's really awesome. it's not ed lee. >> it's not? >> it's the migration of tech companies to san francisco. when pin tryst moved to san francisco a month ago, that was just another reminder of the migration of tech companies to the area. >> and not doing things to screw it up? >> and ed lee likes what he

sees and wants to create jobs and prosperity and he helping us any way he can. >> michael, i'm excited for the city. the technology companies that are moving in are not just moving in for their own selves, but they are also helping me redo a whole central market street. you should see the enliveliness. >> market? >> market street used to be our skid row. >> it still is [ laughter ] >> it's changing. you have to go to where twitter and the congregation of companies and small businesses are located there. >> all right. >> it's changing before our very eyes. the spirit of the city is strong. >> again, i mock a little bit, but i do see a change and these programs, there are a lot of crazy names and websites, there is some really cool stuff going on so i wanted to say thank you on behalf of the community for paying attention to us. >> thank you tech crunch for holding this in san francisco.

[ applause ] >> i'm your host of "culturewire," and today, here at electric works in san francisco. nice to see you today. thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. >> my pleasure. >> how long has electric works been around? >> electric works has been in san francisco since the beginning of 2007. we moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. we do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. >> we will look at all of that

as we walk around. it is incredible to me how many different things you do. how is it you identify that san francisco was in need of all these different services? >> it came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. i wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. it should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. it should have a retail store. in 1972, i wanted to have art sales, point-of-sale at the grocery store. >> so you go through the manifesto. with the bay area should have. you are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. let's take a walk around the facilities. here we are in your gallery space. can you tell me about the current show? >> the current show is jeff

chadsey. he is working on mylar velum, a smooth, beautiful drawing surface. i do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. it is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. >> your gallery represents artists from all over, not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. how to use some of what you look for in artists you represent? >> it is dependent on people are confident with their materials. that is a really important thing. there is enough stuff in the world already. >> you also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. let's go over and take a look at that. here we are in a smaller space. project gallery. >> artists used the parameters

of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. >> i noticed a lot of artists doing really site-specific work. >> this is a pile of balloons, something that is so familiar, like a child's balloon. in this proportion, suddenly, it becomes something out of a dream. >> or a nightmare. >> may be a nightmare. >> this one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. >> this is made out of puffy paint. often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. she has made all these lines of paint. >> for the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of? >> i'm not telling. >> ah, a secret. >> this silver is aluminum foil,

crumbled of aluminum foil. her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. >> this is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. you have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. is that something important to you as well? >> very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. now let's look at other aspects of electric works operation. let's go to the bookstore. >> ok. >> in all seriousness, here we are in your store. this is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. it has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly

curious selection of things. >> this was the project for the berkeley art museum. it was -- this is from william wiley's retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song, 270 people put on the cat. >> it is not just a bookstore. it is a store. can you talk us through some of your favorites? >> these are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. >> these pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. >> we do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater, so there are some pretty funny cartoons. they are probably not for prime time. >> you sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the

store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. >> let's go. >> before we go into the print shop, i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. what are we standing in front of? >> this is william wiley, only one earth. this is a print edition. there are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. this is really an art object. there we go. >> besides the punball machine, what do you produce in limited edition? >> there is the slot machine. if you win the super jackpot,

you have saved the world. >> what about work? >> the right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. the cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. really special. >> let's move on to the print shop. >> ok. the core of what we do is making things. this is an example. this is a print project that will be a fund-raiser for the contemporary music players. we decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. >> so nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell, and the profits, they can keep. >> the return on investment is

usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. this is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. >> you also make prints for the artists that you represent. over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. >> he writes these beautiful things. anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is -- has only appeared through the windows. this is from all over coffee. we are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. >> thank you very much for showing us around today. i really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our "culturewire" team.

he a >> is also my boss, which does not mean those two have anything to do with each other. you will read his biography in the program, so i will not insult you by reading it, but let me point out a few things that it does not explicitly say. he is, by every stretch of the imagination, a scholar, a gentle man, a combat-pror, a dedicated naval officer, and what we have determined, a true visionary leader. it is an honor that i have to work for admiral walsh. it is not the first time we have

had an opportunity to work together, and hopefully it will not be the last. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, the commander of the u.s. pacific fleet, admiral patrick walsh. [applause] he >> thank you. and thank you for the opportunity to join you here today. what a privilege to be able to follow the table top exercise discretion and the presentation of remarks by the governor. as i think about the work that you are embarked on and the type of steps that you would like to take in the continuum of preparation for natural disasters and the response that you would take as responsible officials, think of the next presentation as an opportunity

for a case study. think about the questions that leaders need to answer in times of crisis. what will be unique and different about our discussion in this operation was that this was not one singular event. it was a series of cascading crises, aggravated by hundreds and then eventually thousands of aftershocks. it is continually challenged those who were in positions of responsibility in ways -- in complex areas that were very, very hard to anticipate. i think one question that is important to ask is how do leaders prepare themselves for a crisis situation, and i think

what you heard here this morning is that whether or not you are prepared is one question, but you should assume that you are going to have to deal with situations in time-critical crisis response scenarios. next slide, please. i am here today to represent the u.s. pacific fleet, a fleet that has about 120,000 people, 180 ships, two dozen aircraft, 44 submarines, six carrier strikers, and we will talk about how we have organized our selves to respond to the crisis in japan. in the course of the previous two years of this assignment, we have been involved in a six humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. super typhoons in the philippines, vietnam, taiwan.

earthquakes in samoa, christchurch, new zealand, chile, operation in japan. on average, what we are seeing in the ring of fire is about every six to eight weeks, a calamity, a natural disaster. in the case of operation tomodache, the reference point that i it would be very helpful for those who want to study this is to go back and look at what nova and the public broadcasting service has done in terms of collecting now scientific measurable data, and one of the points that comes out in that 60-minute documentary is that in terms of instrumentation, scientists now know exactly what happened, where it happened. and then, in your case study sort of approach, you can now test the earthquake response

plan that you have with the sort of scenarios and the variables that we were having to contend with in this crisis. the account weren't signs of the fleet were represented by the pictures, and typically we focus on the right-hand side of the charge, but what is embedded inside this group is an organization that has learned how to sustain itself at sewa for extended time spans. embedded in that is an understanding of how to work logistics, and understanding to how to respond to lift requirements, and understanding of command and control. the plea today -- the fleet today has people who have strong technical competence in being able to respond and answer those sorts of questions. the fleet today is more mature

and more seasoned because of the forward-deployed in nature of our operations. and we can apply that in the lessons that we have learned, and i think what you'll recognize is a very adaptable force. so this is what japan looked like before 2:00 p.m. on march 11, 2011. what you see at the top of the chart is the question the dai- ichi power plant -- the fukushima power plant. on the left-hand side is sendai airport. on the other side, any japan.

this is a bird's-eye view of what the tsunami looked like --