Conferences
Professional gatherings offering presentations, conversation, and networking.
AI Palace
Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, busines...
Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL)
Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela
FedGeoDay
FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capa...
FormFest
We’re focused on the future: forms with function.
Government Innovation California conference
Public Sector Network’s second Government Innovation California in-person event will bring together public sector leaders across all levels of government from across the State and region to share thei...
Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and...
Democracy Festivals Association
Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.
Brussels Urban Summit
The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for...
Copenhagen Democracy Summit
The Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the world’s democracies.
Failed yet successful: Learning from discontinued civic tech initiatives
Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany
BARI Conference
BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.
Data Justice Conference
Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online
The World Ethical Data Forum
The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.
JournalismAI Festival
Using AI to make journalism better. Together.
Transforming Local Government Conference
by the Alliance for Innovation
Civic Design (2022 conference)
A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.
Frontiers of Digital Development Forum
Event: A critical look at the future of emerging tech
Doing Better Work Together
Doing Better Work Together is an online learning and collaboration event for organisational innovators.
Nonprofit Software Development Summit
2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit
Closing The Gap Conference
The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategie...
Innovation Exchange
Initiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue
State of GovTech
A dynamic in-person conference on the people, technologies, policies, and cultures that make up the govtech ecosystem — brought to you by CivStart and e.Republic
Public Interest Technology Convening
Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terro...
Black Women In Data
the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals
Creative Bureaucracy Festival
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.
Civic Tech Forum
Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
SRCCon
A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.
AbreLatam
AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos...
Allied Media Conference
We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.
AI for Good Summit
Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to per...
AlaveteliCon
A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety
Code for All Summit 2021
This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lightin...
The Metagovernance Seminar
The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.
Developing Caribbean
DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provid...
International Observatory on Participatory Democracy (IOPD) Conference
The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years
Code for Japan Summit
It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
A Better Tech Public Interest Technology Convention and Career Fair
The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technolog...
TransportationCamp
Brings together thinkers and doers in the fields of transportation & technology
Code for All Summit
It is time for a new league of heroes to take charge.
Citizen Lab Summer Institute
The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing...
Govtech Summit
Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how n...
Knight Media Forum
Gathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.
International Open Data Conference
d.go
16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
Boston Civic Media
Boston Civic Media is a faculty-led network that aims to advance the transdisciplinary domain of civic media research and pedagogy in the Greater Boston Area.
Misinfocon
MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.
Aspiration Developers Summit
Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and da...