Conferences
Professional gatherings offering presentations, conversation, and networking.
Political Communication Summit
The Political Communication Summit is where Europe’s leading voices in political messaging, public affairs, and institutional communications come together.
11th Japan Mini-Publics Research Forum | 第11回 日本ミニ・パブリックス研究フォーラム (Narashino, Japan
無作為に選ばれた市民が公共的な課題について熟議し、その成果を政策形成や更なる議論につなげるミニ・パブリックス（無作為選出型の市民会議）は、近年、世界各地で大きな広がりを見せています。日本でも、自治体や...
Global Democracy Coalition Forum
Each regional forum will bring diverse perspectives to the global conversation on democracy, ensuring that local insights inform international efforts. The discussions will contribute to policy recomm...
CiviCamp
Conference and work sprint for the CiviCRM community
People Powered Convening
Join civil society leaders, public officials, researchers, and funders from around the world to share insights, build skills, and co-create solutions that make democracy work for everyone.
UKGovCamp
UKGovCamp is a free, annual unconference for people who want to make the public sector better.
Urban Tech Summit
The Summit will offer practical insights and examples of how researchers, companies, governments, and communities can continue to drive innovation amid these headwinds—and how urban tech can help citi...
Data Privacy Global Conference
O futuro que queremos agora: profissionais, pesquisadores e tomadores de decisão construindo conexões relevantes e criando caminhos para um ecossistema informacional justo.
Athens Democracy Forum
Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDCC)
Two days of intensive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning for the future of digital public infrastructure.
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Numérique en Commun[s]
Numérique en Commun[s] propose de travailler collectivement les conditions de l’émancipation des citoyens et des citoyennes en contexte numérique, à l’échelle locale et européenne.
AfriPal (Africa Regional Conference on Parliament and Legislation)
Parliaments in Africa: Opportunities and Prospects for Sustainable Development
Tech and Society Summit
First ever tech policy summit in Brussels led entirely by non-profit organisations
Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE)
The HOPE conferences are known for their creativity and diversity, not to mention a whole lot of hacker fun.
Political Party Peer Network
The Political Party Peer Network was established in 2010 to serve as a network of like minded organizations in the field of political party support. Its members include almost all of the world’s most...
OSPOs for Good 2024
Annual symposium celebrating Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs)
European Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness
A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.
Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF)
DRIF is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in the Global South are shaped, policy directions debated and partnerships forged for action.
European Partnership for Democracy Annual Conference: Rebooting Democracy (Brussels)
Come and engage with us in discussions and debates on what comes next with over 200 participants from European institutions, European governments, civil society, media and academia.
Open Hardware Summit (OSHWA)
Since 2010, the Open Source Hardware Association, a 501(c)(3) not for profit charity, has hosted the Open Hardware Summit- a comprehensive conference for the open hardware community and the ever chang...
GovTech Show and Exhibition 2025: Public Sector Innovation and Transformation
Conference of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI)
Participation is by invitation only, based on submission of a statement of interest or proposed talk/poster abstract.
Semana De Inovação
O maior evento de inovação em governo da América Latina
CityCamp.nyc
CityCamp is an unconference with a focus on democracy, civil society, neighbors, government operations, and the intersection between them all.
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)
The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art i...
Deep Learning Indaba
Annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community.
Democracy at a Crossroads: The 2025 Democracy R&D Conference
Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to...
Political Tech Summit
Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.
American Community Survey Data Users Conference
The conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications
Open Source Journalism Conference
Consul Conference (Consulcon)
Open Government Partnership Asia and the Pacific
FOSDEM
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.
Crypto For Good Fund
International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID)
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)
It was conceived in 2007 as an annual gathering to bring together academia, governments, international organisations, civil society, and industry to share the latest insights and experiences in the th...
The East Africa Data Governance Conference
The Data Governance Conference is a pioneering event focused on advancing data governance across the East African Community (EAC).
World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly
Every two years, the World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly brings together hundreds of democracy advocates from around the world to foster new networks for mutual solidarity and support acros...
United Nations World Data Forum
The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable de...
Global DPI Summit
The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the glo...
DWeb Camp
Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a bett...
MetroLab Summit
Responsible Tech Summit
International Observatory for Participatory Democracy Conference
Digital Benefits Conference (BenCon)
La Cumbre Global Sobre Desinformación
Africa Law Tech Festival
The Africa Law Tech Festival is the largest Law and Tech conference in Africa, convening over 2000 delegates from 40+ countries.
LegisTech: The Commonwealth Community of Parliaments
The Commonwealth community of Legislatures is a diverse group of institutions that at the same time hold many institutional similarities, enabling further opportunities for institutional cooperation,...
The e-Governance Conference
Unlocking Digital Success
Take Back Tech II
Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.