​The far right in the West have been succeeding at populist storytelling, and a large reason is in their framings of economics and how to resolve the cost of living, social mobility and a crisis of belonging. ​What can leftist movements and organisations do to respond? ​This is a workshop series we’re planning to understand and reframe commonly referenced economic anecdotes, in the aim of building a robust resource for organisations to respond. We’ll be exploring stories from the spectrum of “globalism is a problem, therefore we need tariffs to Make America Great Again” / “Immigrants are lazy, they will always rely on handouts” to “Degrowth leads to recession, capitalism is needed to fuel innovation.” ​Who is this for? ​We’re inviting people who specialize in a topic or have friends/family in proximity to the right to collect stories, sense make, reframe and speak about strategies for how people and organisations can respond. ​Not only that, but we are in touch with some organisations who want to work with us for reframing these stories in a strategic design and narrative context.

​​​​The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions. ​​​​The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.

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 200 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia. Safety by Design: Making Impact and Mobilizing Change, 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.

In this session, presenting author Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School, will discuss her recent paper, “Sovereigns and Subjects in the Digital Age.” Commentator Allison Stanger, Senior Fellow at the Allen Lab, will join Jasanoff.

​In the midst of decades of collapsing local news, there are some new trusted sources and messengers on the scene. Instead of a local newspaper, you might find out what’s happening from a hyperlocal creator on TikTok, an email newsletter about the school board, or a local digital space — an online group for your town or neighborhood on a social media platform. ​How are people finding local information and accumulating the knowledge they need about their towns and neighborhoods, and where do local media institutions fit in? ​Join a panel of practitioners and experts, including local leaders on the ground in their communities, as we take on the changing local information ecosystem — as well as the people, platforms, practices that can make the difference between news desert and thriving community.

Join for a day of hacking the web! Collaborate, create, and compete for two awards while bringing your ideas to life!

After a successful first hack - join us for our follow up hack day session! ​WhatsApp isn't just a messaging app – it's where communities live, organise, and grow, especially in the UK. From neighbourhood groups to national movements, WhatsApp is the backbone of modern organising. But are we using it to its full potential? ​Join us for a hackday exploring how the Matrix ecosystem can leverage WhatsApp's capabilities to strengthen our movements and communities. ​Every day, organisers manage multiple WhatsApp groups, coordinate actions, share resources, and build community on their phones. We know the challenges: managing overwhelming message volumes, keeping track of important information, coordinating across multiple groups, and maintaining meaningful connections with community members. What if we could make these tasks easier? What if we could build tools that work the way organisers actually use WhatsApp? ​WhatsApp intentionally make it difficult to build automations, but it’s possible using a bridge to Matrix, an open source messaging protocol. We’ll be joined by representatives from the Matrix Foundation, and also John Evans, creator of Spacetube. Spacetube is a great example of an innovative community tool built on Matrix, which tries to solve the problem of how one group can speak to another group. ​Join Space4, Newspeak House and Campaign Lab for a Matrix hackday, we'll bring together community organisers, developers, and activists to create practical solutions for real-world organizing challenges

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.

​The Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) will host their Spring 2025 Celebration of the end of the semester with students, researchers & the community. A highlight of the event will be the Advanced LLM Agents Project Poster Session by Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the course.

The side event will address the growing influence of AI-driven companies and platforms on access to information and media pluralism. Powered by complex algorithms, these platforms often prioritize content driven by their interests over diverse, unbiased information. The dominance of a few powerful players in the AI and media sectors raises significant concerns about the concentration of media power, undermining pluralism and limiting democratic discourse. The discussion will explore regulatory measures and alternative solutions to enhance diversity, ensuring that all voices are heard, and that the public has access to information that reflects the complexity and breadth of society. For in-person participation, registration is required before 30 April 2025: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2zWeD09UYE-9zF6kFubccKQt2YItJXlLvqBb86C1tQxUNjhZNVcxSTNHS0lDMDY4Q1hIWDBLTkREQy4u

Where are we in the responsible tech movement? What's working, and what needs work? Join for "Meeting the Moment: The Road Ahead for the Responsible Tech Movement," a discussion exploring what it means to drive responsible technology causes in uncertain times. This webinar will bring together cross-sector leaders, builders, and advocates in responsible tech to reflect on the road ahead and what's urgently needed to cement our efforts' long-term impact.

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.

Conference showcasing new research focused on DeFi, its underlying infrastructure, and governance.

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.

Civic tech is happening in San Francisco. See how you fit in. While you can’t control the world, you can participate in it. Learn about what you can do, leveraging technology skills and practices to engage with the evolving civic world around us all.

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.

This conference aims to inspire technical professionals, build strong networks within technical AI governance, and catalyze impactful work on pressing technical AI governance challenges.

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

As digital, social, and institutional systems face increasing stress, the need for infrastructure that can adapt and be shaped by those that rely on it has never been clearer. 🌐 ​Infrastructures of Resilience is a two-day forum bringing together technologists, researchers, artists, and organizers to explore how we design systems that hold up under pressure and serve the public over time. ​The focus is on how coordination happens at scale, how trust is built into systems, and how public tools—digital and otherwise—can be governed and sustained by the communities that rely on them.

Join Seattle University’s Technology Ethics Initiative at the third annual Ethics & Tech Conference to explore the evolving legal and policy landscape governing AI.

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.

The Digital Government Summit is an event that brings together public sector leaders and technology professionals to explore innovative solutions to solve government problems. Key themes include cybersecurity, digital transformation, AI implementation, data governance, and fostering collaboration across multiple stakeholders.

All Tech Is Human will be holding its annual Responsible Tech Summit on September 11, 2025. This is a highly-curated gathering for 265 individuals across civil society, government, industry, and academia who are focused on tackling thorny tech & society issues and co-creating a tech future aligned with the public interest.

As AI reshapes our worlds, who decides its future—and who gets left behind? Welcome to Cooperative AI, the first global conference on cooperatives and artificial intelligence, staged during the United Nations’ International Year of Cooperatives. Throughout history, societies have grappled with how to balance technology with social equity. In the early 19th century, the Luddites resisted industrial machines—not out of opposition to technology itself, but in protest against how it was used to undermine workers’ livelihoods and concentrate power in the hands of factory owners. A few decades later, the Rochdale Pioneers laid the foundation for cooperative enterprise, offering a model for democratic ownership in a speedily industrializing world. Now, at another turning point, with artificial intelligence advancing in ways that are both pervasive and uneven, this conference asks: Will AI be governed by a few, or can worker-led models inspire its development to serve the many?

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