tech or innovation? after 13 years of working on this, who realize the spirit of silicon valley is more about innovation than about tech. come to the new tech and see plenty of innovation. the cell phone you are talking about, we will break it apart. you will be able to see the guts of it and constituent parts and see how tech use it to solve problems. whole focus on innovation and tech can be used to solve problems rather than seeing the latest and greatest. >> you have been tech president for about a year now. >> yes. >> was this something that you thought all along when i get to be the president, when i come up to -- or over to silicon valley, this is when i'm going do? did you sit there for a year and say what do we need to do? >> so i didn't think about it all along. i went right back to the mission. the mission is to inspire the innovator in everyone. it is all about inspiring innovation and the question always for me is are we doing something that would be inspiring in this case to inspire the inn

this city too has made an investment in these tech companies. and when we changed our tax system last year, if you look at the over all amount that the tech industry is paying in taxes in san francisco, it's about 5 percent less they are paying today in the system. i think the board of supervisors supported the effort to move away from the payroll tax. any businesses and industry comes with responsibility. the question that i hope we get to see an answer for is what are they doing, not saying, but what are they doing in response to that investment from the city. are we truly getting anything in concrete in return. what i have seen in my neighborhood and district especially mount mission that we have seen a great influx of tech workers. we are happy to see so many people want to come into this neighborhood. but with that influx comes some challenges. resents in the mission have increased dramatically in the last year 1/2 and it's not uncommon to see a one bedroom apartment going for $3,000 in the mission now a days. so the question is, as their w

>> the question was can the tech industrial, alter the software and tech industry. i think that is something that we need to understand as a society and be open to looking at is how do things that are more cultural, such as video games effect our society? and again, that might be something that wouldn't be legislated but it is something that we have to do, that we the people have to do to look at as parents, for example. >> (inaudible) >> well i think what we need to understand, one thing that we want to do is shine a spot light on those cracks. and on those gaps. and on things that are slipping through. identify those. and then we can look to solutions. and the solutions might be changes in legislation and it might be scientific changes and it might be technology changes. so, our main goal at this point is to say, this is something that needs attention and needs focus. here it is. so where are the issues and what can we do to work on that together. and again, we are hoping that this innovation initiative, this is not just about gun safety, this is about mental heal

demystifying the tech industry is really important. about 50 percent of hires come through referrals. any of these events where these kids get to inaccurate -- interact with companies and engineers. another thing that caroline mentioned i think was the lincoln training, one of the programs that they are running. roughly about 25 percent of hires these days and companies going out pro actively ien encompassing with people is a good part of what they are doing. >> do any of the members have any questions? >> you do. supervisor kim. our hearing is running long so i want to appreciate that. i'm actually course -- curious what your program as an employer that you now hired, what are you looking for in training programs. if you have an individual who didn't get a degree in engineering or computer signs, what -- science, what are you looking for in terms of skills? >> i think attitude. i know that's something that kids have possibly going into the program but having the right attitude and particularly in the tech community, it's fast growing

and in tech we love buzz words. so we have three initiatives underneath the sandy hook promise initiative. number one, we have the tech committee to reduce gun violence. the second one is the sandy hook promise investment effort. jim pitco who is going to speak next is going to talk about the tech committee to reduce gun violence and review the sandy hook promise investment effort. but in short, we have gathered 30 of the top angels and vcs in america and their names are in the press kit. who are prioritizing innovation to reduce gun violence. we have a subcommittee that will quickly review those opportunities and then, syndicate investment in those opportunities. we can build some huge companies around this issue. and then, the third effort is the sandy hook innovation challenge which is a prize effort that jim pitco will tell you more about right now. thank you. >> thank you. and i want to thank the individuals and families from sandy hook promise and from our local communities came all the way here today to join

we have 32 participants that are at non-tech companies but nevertheless are tech oriented. in wells fargo and particularly you will find kaiser. while the focus is technology and we definitely want to work with tech companies, we are not leaving out large companies that have huge back office tech opportunities. in the banking industry and the hospital industry are two of those. as you hear from both valley and jay you will hear about those non-tech industries. finally, the partners from an employer perspective as you can see so far, this is a very short list of who we have begun to partner with. we have an active group of over i would say 200 employers that we have talked to, touch base with, met with, gone to v -- visit with. you will hear from a couple of those employers today. and we have partnered with sf city. we do weekly call, our office does as well as my work force staff and sf city, we are on weekly call every friday at 11:00 and one of the core topics is techsf. we started something called nerd under ground zero -- which are networking events. we actually have te

i see very few african americans, i see very few latinos when you walk into a tech company. i know it's not the world that they live in so their out reaching to their friends to jobs and it's not a criticism. i just think that if we are talking about how we can improve our city an i get e-mails a lot of times from tech companies in how do we make the neighborhoods safer, how do ideal with homelessness issues. we have to be very real about what it is to really create economic opportunities in our community so they have access to those jobs and employment. that is part of making our neighborhood safer. if we are going to make tenderloin safer, we have to hire people in that neighborhood to figure out what the job opportunities are. i'm sorry we went 2 1/2 hours. i think an important issue. thank you for your time and cosponsoring this. thank you supervisor kim. >> supervisor campos. final words. >> thank you. i'm not going to repeat everything that's been said. i want to thank everyone for the prrgs -- presentation and all the work that has been done and i really appreciate th

they don't see themselves in the tech center. they are not going to be motivated to come to an open house and get a recommendation from their parent or guardians or teacher and what i want to ask is what can we do to give you more support to reach those young folks. it's really hard to get some people there. supervisor breed and i were both youth organizers at one point. you have to do a lot of work to get the young people to really get to that program. not just the folks that are going to sign up themselves. i guess i hope that's some of the work that we can do in the next three years of the grant cycle. >> thank you for that. this is an opportunity for us to get feedback. i hear you and in all of our academies we have learned where we can do better. i think to get to the deep outreach, you need people power, you need a lot to your point around the engagement process is very relational. it varies throughout your district. it's not a one size fits all model. as we talk about this and as i'm able to come back and give you updates,

we receive about $3 million in assistance to our tech academy. the other 2 million goes to west ed to provide in incumbent workers that are working already but need a certain amount of skill grades and that's folks working in ibm and at&t companies. that's the $5 million. the $3 million which came later is something called the work force innovation fund grant. that was a grant to help us look at how we can use technology to integrate it into work force in a more creative way. $2.4 million of that fund comes to us. the other $600,000 goes to our other partner to do evaluation as well. so while the total was $8 million the city did not receive all the $8 million. that was the way the grant was focused when it was received. so both grants essentially through dol requirements have a very at the end extensive evaluation that we are going through and we'll have at the end of both of these grants. >> can you tell us what year are we in this grant cycle. >> we are in the first year of both these grants. so the width grants is 3 years and the hb grant is

one of the most beautiful places with the best whrr and -- [inaudible] company that is going to for tech assistance on your software and you get somebody in india well they are actually -- because oakland they are putting a call center in oakland to get a quicker turn around and -- in many languages and that is an innovation because of the diversity and depth of the talent in the bay area. >> prop 30 doesn't make economic development harder or is that an issue >>> well it may be a challenge for certain types of companies but i do think that our investments as mayor khan said increasing the quality of life here for the talented employees that is being sought for these companies is a good part of the answer and housing and transportation systems and infrastructures that support these systems we have to be business firsthandly and recognize that if they are here, we have to think through with them as we did with our change in our payroll tax eliminating that to a gross receipts tax but doing it in a way that every industry of our city, is entitiled diswietd to come in and tell us how do the

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the tech museum in san jose is the site of the 26th annual tech challenge going on this weekend. more than 3,000 students are participating and re-enforcing science and engineering with hands on project and this year's theme, asteroids and space masks. that is right in the heart of downtown san jose. >> and surveillance cameras and cell phone images were key when it came to identifying the suspects of the boston bombers. >> could they play a greater role of safety in the bay area and we talked about the increased use of technology and whether that is come camera phones come in trying to prevent them. >> and this is what we have to say. >> and that is how they caught them. how important is it after the fact anything -- going through social media and some security cameras? >> that is the gift in giving and on top of dna. the juries want to so and prosecutors want to have and defense attorneys dread. >> and in san francisco, given our situation, would we have had that evidence? would we have gotten it in time to go get out? >> we have had great success. sometimes it's not there at a

or should they study issue those. >> i'll not depend upon one industry to solve all of our plummet tech growth is very visible and dominate right now and as i stated earlier, 1800 technology companies employ 42,000 people is huge but having said that there are other industry that is just as important to pay attention to our healthcare industry by-the-way, scene .7 billion industry today employees 400,000 people and it continues to glow and that is why to get the campus to be built at ucsc. general hospital, st. lukes mission bay, they are building and they will be finished in probably a year and-a-half and a couple of years and these are incredible anchors to the healthcare industry along with the what regents and others are doing in the pharmaceutical research and design areas and we are going in the healthcare pharmaceutical health design area very rapidly and the tourism these incredible international events that we host whether it's blue grass or america's cup or world series we are going to continue to try to get those huge hereto and the super bowl that is a bay area play poshly w

if you take a look at tech. you really got to divide it into a very large cap, mega cap which haven't worked with the exception of probably an ibm even though that stalled out quite a bit. and the ones that have more growth opportunities in problem of them. the ones that i like, despite it being a big stock and big company and perhaps being in the middle of a nuclear war, the samsung. they are selling at seven times earnings, historical range has been seven to 11 tooims aimes a are clearly a leading innovator. their phones are going to move dramatically. you have to trade around quarter quarterers. they blew the last quarter, not an uncommon circumstance, but the management came in and bought a boatload of stock added to their holdings napts going to be a consolidating business at one point. >> down 15% year to date. >> absolutely, which is why i like it and i bought it after it came down. one out of every four retail transactions happens on a smart phone. that's not what the infrastructure was built for. so the

as one of the centers of high powered computer tech. these eight has had their thinkers in all sorts of pies for example they're equipped to print their own circuit boards and even dabbled in cluster computing solutions but most interesting for our purposes is their work in the field of supercomputers they're the head organisation in an international partnership to bigger and better processing machines to the name skiff program systems institute works with around two dozen other institutes and research centers in russia and belarus over the past decade and that partnership has resulted in increasingly sophisticated generations of supercomputers including at least making it into the top five hundred by annual raking but its technological capabilities have progressed old concerns have become more serious and require new solutions and if you reduce any electronic device in size it means that all the heat produced by it will no longer dissipate in a large area instead be constrained by a very limited space as a result you have a huge amount

for virginia tech, it's been six years. >> at the u.s. capitol, peggy fox, wusa9. >> the virginia tech massacre left 33 people dead and 27 others injured. >>> coping with disasters can be traumatic to say the least. our social media editor snapped these photos of people trying to comfort each other near the finish line today. we ask you to weigh in on our wusa9 facebook page about how your talking with your children about the bombings. you can stay connected with us when we're not on the air through facebook and twitter. it is your best way to stay on top of the big stories 24 hours a day. >> now we have a warning for maryland's department of natural resources. stay away from the bears. they are emerging from winter hibernation and bound to be cranky, so just stay away. you can also try to keep them from coming to you by keeping your garbage inside until trash day or rinsing your garbage can with ammonia to eliminate those food odors. allegheny, garrett, frederick counties. >> you are west of i-81, be on the lookout. >> unwanted visitors.

of a well known silicon valley tech c=e=o kron 4's tech reporter gabe slate tracked down the company behind the ad. (cheers & applause) gabe slate tech report >> reporter: >one of the most expensive places to get a billboard is right here at the fourth street exit at harrison and the private st. traffic usually gets very slow here. during rush hour and the billboard get a lot of abuse and this is getting a lot of buzz. and this text... if you work in the tech community you to know that this is aimed at the c e zero of yahoo. and it is addressing the issue of not being able to work home -- the ceo.. of the ahu. >> this is instant messaging for employees to chat, internally. chat rooms for different projects or entire project to communicate at the same time >> reporter: this can help companies.. to communicate. they could not tell me the exact cost of the billboard was a lot of money. it is a huge risk but it seems to be paying off. >> we have had a lot of activity on twitter. it would be a lot of work to get above that noise is just take risks. do not think like a big company because