The PGP for Crypto Briefing & Roundtable brings together policy professionals, government officials, regulators, and scholars for an exclusive networking breakfast, followed by keynote briefings and discussions on cryptocurrency policy. Hosted by Project Glitch, this year’s event expands on its traditional roundtable with fireside chats and guided conversations on timely crypto policy topics. Sponsored by Coinbase Institute, Blockchain Association, USC VanEck Digital Assets Initiative, and Electric Coin Co., the event pays homage to Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption, reflecting its deep-rooted influence on privacy and cryptocurrency innovation.

Please join us for the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop, convened by the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. In this session, you'll hear from presenting authors Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, and Emillie de Keulenaar on their recent paper, “Prosocial Media.”

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.

A gathering for 75 key leaders across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are focused on strengthening multistakeholder collaboration around Responsible AI.

Code for America’s annual Summit brings together the entire civic tech ecosystem to break through challenges and celebrate significant wins.

The theme for ETHICS-2025 is “Emerging Technologies, Ethics, and Social Justice.” Emerging technologies, in such areas as artificial intelligence, ubiquitous connectivity, autonomous systems, robotics, self-driving transportation, clean renewable energy, genomics, digital twins, space technology, and healthcare technology, hold great promise for the future while posing significant social and ethical challenges. Ethical issues include data privacy and security, human identity, consumer safety, and moral agency/responsibility. In addition, emerging technologies have significant implications for social justice including the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges; equitable access to technology; algorithmic bias; job displacement; environmental justice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. ETHICS-2025 will explore these issues and potential responses to them from a variety of perspectives drawn from engineering, science, humanities, and social sciences and diverse stakeholders from research, industry, government, and public interest groups

From 24 to 27 June 2025, the 3rd UNESCO Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence will take place in Bangkok, Thailand. The forum in 2025 will highlight achievements in AI ethics since UNESCO’s 2021 Recommendation on the Ethics of AI and underscore the need for continued progress through actionable initiatives. Co-hosted by Thailand, this event serves as a vibrant platform for global dialogue, collaboration, and policy innovation on the ethical dimensions of AI.

All Tech Is Human, a leading Responsible Tech non-profit building a better approach to tackling thorny tech & society issues, will be convening an upcoming curated gathering for 250 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia. Responsible Tech London: Improving Our Online Experience will unite stakeholders for an impactful evening of welcome remarks, two panel discussions, and ample time to network with other individuals committed to creating a better tech future.

ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 brings together a wide range of disciplines to discuss the shared or group intelligence that emerges when individuals work together, often with the help of technology. This year’s theme focuses on Diverse Intelligence. We invite research and perspectives on how we can deeply understand and build systems that incorporate animal, human, machine and hybrid intelligence to achieve a level of problem-solving capability that surpasses the abilities of any single member.

Wikimania 2025, the 20th edition of this annual event, will happen in the city of Nairobi, Kenya with online/ virtual conference setup on 6th to 9th August 2025 and with pre-conference activities on 5th August. It will be hosted by a collaboration among the Wikimedia volunteers and user groups of East Africa (EARTHub) and the Wikimedia Foundation.

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.

NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) is a premier annual conference focused on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience.