Vision Weekends are the annual festivals of Foresight Institute. Held in two countries, over two weekends, you are invited to burst your tech silos, and plan for flourishing long-term futures. Come for the ideas: join the conference, unconference, mentorship hours, curated 1-1s, tech demos, prize awards and much more. Stay for fun with new friends: join for the satellite gatherings, cyberfuture meets salsa night, beach party, and surprise island adventures.

Each year, RightsCon convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.

Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny? In Boston Review’s recent issue AI Futures, technology writer Evgeny Morozov explores a radically different way of thinking about artificial intelligence by examining its past, and offers a more utopian vision for the role that technology can play in our lives. In this event, Morozov will be joined by free software activist and former digital minister of Taiwan Audrey Tang and computer scientist and AI pioneer Terry Winograd for a discussion on how to build political power and a technological future that serves us all. Moderated by tech journalist Brian Merchant. Cosponsored by the Boston Review, Stanford McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and Stanford HAI. Reception to follow. A free copy of AI Futures will be provided to in-person attendees.

Join in-person on Thursday, February 27 at 4 p.m. ET at Northeastern’s EXP Building, Room 610, 815 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA for The Peacemaking Machine—a conversation with MIT and Deepmind's Michael Henry Tessler and Michiel A. Bakker, to discuss how AI can transform democratic deliberation. They will unveil their groundbreaking "Habermas Machine," tested with over 5,700 UK participants. They will explain how they constructed their experiments to test the role of AI in supporting greater consensus-building, and how the AI-enabled moderation system outperformed human mediators, helping groups reach consensus on controversial issues while safeguarding minority viewpoints. With profound implications for bridging divides in our hyper-partisan era, the research highlights AI's potential to streamline community engagement, enhance fairness, and foster more effective public dialogue.

​Please join us for a showcase on LLMs and Public Discourse, co-hosted by Plurality Institute and The Council on Technology and Social Cohesion on February 27th at 6:30pm PT / 9:30pm ET. ​This event is bringing together pioneering work using LLMs to improve public discourse. Join in to hear about new tools and research in this space. ​​Speakers: ​​David Patterson (UC Berkeley) Beth Goldberg (Jigsaw) Aleksei Loginov (Jigsaw) Kristin Hansen (Civic Health Project) Adnan Jaber and Andrew Konya (Remesh) Rose Bloomin and Jeff Fossett (Plurality Institute & Harvard University) Lisa Schirch and Kristina Radivojevic (Notre Dame University) Julia Kamin (Prosocial Design Network)

ETHDenver is an annual Web3 event that focuses on building and networking on the Ethereum blockchain and hosting hackathons.

As campuses wrestle with heightened tension and polarization, presidents and senior administrators increasingly lack the spaces and opportunities to take risks, make mistakes and learn from them, and expose themselves to constructive criticism. Such an environment makes building bridges across differences for the common good all the more challenging. The convening will feature keynotes and plenary panels addressing polarization and highlighting cooperation models accompanied by two workshop tracks for participants: a Presidents’ track and a Senior Administrators' track. Participants will gain valuable insights and build the capacity to develop comprehensive strategies for modeling pluralism on their campuses.

​Join to explore artificial intelligence and digital infrastructures as tool, expression, and shared resource of the commons. ​How we can fund, govern, and align these transformative technologies to serve as public goods? ​How can we center ethics, accessibility and scientific rigor across development and deployment? ​How can we balance creativity and safety to protect, steward and design digital and human systems? ​On March 15-16, join us at the iconic Internet Archive in San Francisco for Funding the Commons: San Francisco 2025, the 12th edition of our global conference series. This interdisciplinary gathering leaders, researchers, builders, and policymakers for discourse on bold ideas, actionable solutions, and coordinated interventions in funding and governance for open technologies.

National Tech to Gov Virtual Hiring Forum + Job Fair will be hosted by Office of Personnel Management (OPM) through contract with the Tech Talent Project and The Volcker Alliance to connect tech + data talent to new opportunities in the federal government.

The ATmosphere Conference will be a 2 day event, featuring a selection of curated speakers, lightning talks & demos about apps, protocol features, and an unconference for community-organized topics of interest.

On April 10-11, 2025, the Knight Institute will host a symposium to examine the risks that advanced artificial intelligence systems pose to democratic freedoms, to discuss sociotechnical as well as technical interventions to mitigate these risks, and to identify ways in which these systems may be employed to support democracy. The symposium, “Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms,” is a collaboration between the Knight Institute and the Institute’s Senior AI Advisor Seth Lazar. It will take place in person at Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger Forum and will be livestreamed.

The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI takes place in Yokohama, Japan, at the PACIFICO Yokohama from 26 April to 1 May 2025, while also supporting remote attendance. The conference embraces the theme of Ikigai, a Japanese concept referring to what gives a person a sense of purpose, a reason for living. Today’s world, people are facing a multitude of challenges in climate change, growing inequality, technological disruption, global conflict, and health crises. Ikigai concerns the ability of a person to find their purpose and balance their agency, their passion, their capabilities, and the impact they can have. The CHI community consists of people with many passions and talents, people from different disciplines and walks of life.

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 is a global startup event that will be held at Tokyo Big Sight. It features various players such as startups, investors, large corporations, and cities. Speakers at this event include Audrey Tang, as well as other technologists.

Welcome to the PeaceTech Conference 2025! This year's theme is on advancing ethical AI in a diverse world. Join us for a day filled with inspiring speakers, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities. Connect with like-minded thinkers, shapers and innovators passionate about using technology for peace.

WHY2025 is an international non-profit outdoor hacker camp/conference taking place in The Netherlands in the summer of 2025. The camp is built by and for volunteers from across all corners of the international hacker community. Every edition brings together over 3,500 hackers from around the world. At its core, the event thrives on knowledge sharing, technological exploration, hands-on experimentation, and forging connections with fellow hackers.