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Kesone Phimmasone (she/her)

Chief Digital Strategy Officer, Office of Technology and Innovation

Kesone Phimmasone serves as Chief Digital Strategy Officer for New York City. She is known for gleefully navigating bureaucracies, rallying cross functional teams, and connecting design and technology to create ethical products that deliver measurable results for New Yorkers.

Previously, she was Vice President Global Online Analytics Platforms at Estée Lauder Companies building its first real-time enterprise data platform and expanded E-Commerce to 250+ websites across 43+ countries. Kesone mastered how to build high quality and effective products by delivering hundreds of digital products for global brands like Apple, Estée Lauder, and Warner Media.

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FWD50

How to make government work in our hybrid reality

July 6, 20269:30 AM EDT – 9:55 AM EDT
PORT STAGE
English
Our governments were created in an analog era and we are seeing them struggle to govern in our hybrid reality. Kesone Phimmasone, an American technologist who has worked in the incredibly successful and bureaucratic organizations in the world, shares practical advice on how to create government policy and technology to meet the needs of our technology-saturated era. See More.