Nick Suplina

Nick brings 20 years of legal and policy experience in the public and private sectors to the role of Senior Vice President for Law and Policy of Everytown for Gun Safety. In this role, he oversees the organizational strategy for federal, state, and local policy, community safety initiatives, research, and investigations. Nick has a proven track record creating products and strategies at the intersection of technology and public policy. As a Senior Advisor and Special Counsel to the New York State Attorney General, he oversaw agency use of data analytics and machine learning to support and generate investigations, including analysis of real estate registry data to reveal abuses in the housing market, online ads to locate sex trafficking operations, and crime gun tracing data to identify discrete illegal gun trafficking patterns. At Everytown, building on his Attorney General tracing work, Nick led the development of the Gun Trafficking Intelligence Portal, which uses algorithms to identify potential straw purchasers and problematic gun dealers using crime gun data, currently deployed by the State of Illinois. 

Plenary Talk Title: "Big Problems, New Solutions: Tackling Society’s Most Intractable Challenges with AI Optimism"