In this talk, Lauren Collister presents her takeaways from two conferences that she attended in November: OpenEducation 2014 and OpenCon, the Student and Early Career Researcher Conference on Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data. She will share the resources that she learned about at the conferences, including projects from all over the world to advance openness in the academic sphere. Presentation viewable online here: https://prezi.com/ixgaqnpovi9m/dr-collister-goes-to-washington