Victoria Houed

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		<title>Background</title>
				
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		<description>VICTORIA HOUEDengineer. policy entrepeneur.
	POLICY
	
	
	SPEAKING
	
	
	ABOUT


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	Victoria is an engineer turned policy
 entrepeneur who previously served as the
Director of AI Policy and Strategy 
in the Office of the Under Secretary for
 Economic Affairs at the U.S.
Department of Commerce. 
Check out the report her team developed on optimizing public data for generative AI!
 

She recently helped create the Recoding America Fund.
	
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		<title>Speaking</title>
				
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Feel free to reach out to her with details at vhoued@gmail.com.

Victoria’s past speaking engagements include:


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Talk Better About Artificial Intelligence:How to Have Informed &#38;amp; Productive ConversationsAspen Institute,
Dec 2023
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UNREAL: Disinformation, Technology Policy, and the Future of GovernanceHarvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center, April 2022


AI &#38;amp; Me: Equity and Representation
Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy, March 2024


Data-Driven Governance: Leveraging Analytics and AI for Informed Decision-Making

ATARC'S 2023 CIO Summit: Leading Tomorrow’s Transformation Summit, Dec 2023
	AI &#38;amp; Democracy: Superheroes and SupervillainsAmerican Democracy Summit, Sep 2023

Healthy Skepticism: New Risk Framework, Bias, Important, at the Government AI 

GovExec, Government &#38;amp; Artificial Intelligence Forum, Sep 2023
How Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility EffortsDepartment of Commerce, Oct 2023


Data Science@WorkStanford University, Dec 2022

Recruiting, Training and Retaining TalentThe Alliance for Digital Innovation, May 2022
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Advocacy/Lobbying for Startups 
Business Incubator Association of New York State, Dec 2023


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Victoria with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
	

	Victoria enjoys supporting scientists and technologists in the development of their policy ideas. 
She can be helpful with strategizing how to:

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Pass your ideas into law

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Make appropriations requests
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Get connected with the right 
government staff and advocacy groups︎
Stakeholder mapping

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Improve policy proposals
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Correspond with federal agencies
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Host policy events (from dinners to conferences)Victoria has taught Policy Entrepeneurship at a handful of universities, nonprofits, philanthropies, and other experts.

If you would like support with your policy idea, please reach out to Victoria at vhoued@gmail.com.


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		<title>About</title>
				
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Victoria Houed is an engineer turned policy entrepreneur 
who has dedicated her career to improving the tech policy ecosystem and government modernization. Victoria is currently the Executive Director of Ready State Labs, a do-tank dedicated to helping the U.S. federal government keep pace with rapidly advancing AI. She recently launched the Recoding America Fund and was the Director of AI Policy and Strategy in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She was previously a manager at Schmidt Futures where she funded key science and technology policy initiatives and educated relevant stakeholders on how to best advocate for their policy ideas in the legislative and executive branches.
Before joining Schmidt Futures, Victoria worked as a TechCongress congressional innovation fellow for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi where she supported Pelosi during the COVID crisis on all things technology (including broadband, disinformation, antitrust and more). She started her career as a software engineer at Cards Against Humanity and founded BlackByte, a nonprofit for Black women in technology.
Victoria lives in Washington, DC but is proudly from Chicago, IL.&#38;nbsp;

︎ &#38;nbsp; ︎ &#38;nbsp;
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Victoria’s Writing + Podcasts


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	Victoria’s Press + Awards

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