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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot | A Species Between Worlds

Skylight Modern 537 West 27th Street, New York City, NY

System Error exposes the root of our current predicament: how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get. This optimization mindset substitutes what companies care about for the values that we as a democratic society might choose to prioritize. Well-intentioned […]

The Internet is Black | AMP Seeds

Virtual Event

Black people have shaped and curated what we have come to know as American culture. From music to fashion, academia, politics and pop culture it all begins and ends with Black people leading the way. The same can be said about what we know of Internet culture today. Join us for a special screening of […]

Public Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub: An Introduction

Virtual Event

Technology is causing real harm for people in the form of public benefits cuts, denials, and terminations. The new Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub offers practical tools to support immediate fights against harmful benefits tech and is building a community to collectively strategize and change the way that benefits tech is implemented. Join us for a […]

D4BL III – D4BL

Lincoln Center for teh Performing Arts New York City, NY, United States

During our first two conferences, we brought together people to envision a world where data was no longer a weapon but a powerful tool to promote self-determination, build generational wealth, develop resilience and resistance to environmental catastrophe, and anchor a future where Black lives truly do matter. This year, through panel discussions, workshops, live performances […]

Health Data Privacy in the Library | METRO

Virtual Event

This workshop will explore the role libraries play in patron health journeys, which includes the layout of our physical spaces, the way we handle sensitive documents, which resources we share, and more. Privacy advocate Tess Wilson will discuss practical approaches to patron support and ways we might teach patrons about their health data safety. This […]

Opening Reception for *This Is Not A Drill* Exhibition | NYU Tisch School of the Arts

NYU Tisch School of the Arts

*This Is Not A Drill* Exhibition on Technology, Equity, and the Climate Emergency OPENING RECEPTION: September 28, 2022, 5-7pm ET EXHIBITION DATES: September 28, 2022 - December 4, 2022 LOCATION: Bobst Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012 The opening reception for the *This Is Not A Drill* exhibition will celebrate the artworks of the nine […]

Professional Development | Black Women In Data

The Georgia State University College of Law

The Black Women in Data (BWD) Summit 2022 is the two-day forum for Black women leaders to plan their next career move in the data industry by hearing from data expert speakers, expanding their data skills, leveling up in their data career path and more.

Software For Artists Day #7 | Pioneer Works

Pioneer Works is ecstatic to present the 7th annual Software for Artists Day (S4AD), featuring an exciting lineup of artists, writers, and technologists bringing much needed context and form to a new and shifting technological landscape.

Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice | MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LIVESTREAM We are excited to announce the plenary speakers will be live-streamed. Be mindful, the presentations and rich panel discussions between leading academics from all over the world will be in-person only. Those who cannot fully attend in person will be able to view a portion of the conference by live-streaming the speakers. Register here for the […]

Center for Democracy & Technology Tech Prom

901 Wharf St SW, Washington, DC 20024 901 Wharf St SW, DC, United States

CDT's Tech Prom has been around for more than 15 years, and brings together over 1,000 leaders and innovators in tech policy — from government, industry, civil society, and academia. A night of networking, idea sharing, and learning about emerging issues, Tech Prom celebrates our annual progress within the tech policy landscape.

Big Brother Meets Bedlam: Resisting Mental Health Surveillance Tech | Center for Democracy and Technology

Center for Democracy and Technology

In 2017, the FDA approved Abilify MyCite, a psychotropic medication that tracks whether a person has actually taken their pills and can send that data to their doctor. Policymakers routinely advocate for expanding and increasing surveillance over and institutionalisation of people with mental health disabilities. The growing use of predictive policing tools and other surveillance […]

Microsoft Research Summit | Microsoft

This October 18–20, 2022, the global research community gathers to discuss advances that could empower people in new ways and positively impact our world. We explore some of the most pressing questions facing our research community and spark conversations around how to ensure new technologies could have the broadest possible benefit for humanity.

Opening Reception for “Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze” | Annenberg

Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania

Algorithms and computation are driving more and more of our daily decision-making processes than ever before. The digital, in many ways, can almost be considered a filter: guiding the choices we make and the opportunities we are allowed to see, rendering certain practices hypervisible and “natural” while obscuring others. This exhibition features three artists with […]

The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age | The Carr Center for Human Rights | Harvard Kennedy School

Virtual Event

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing […]

Keynote Speakers 2022 ASTRO Annual Meeting | American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

American Society for Radiation Oncology

The Annual Meeting keynote speakers give our membership an opportunity to hear from individuals whose breadth and vision extends beyond the specialty of radiation oncology to inform them about the bigger picture of the rapidly changing health care environment. With their knowledge and expertise, this year’s keynote speakers will continue to highlight the meeting theme […]

85th Annual Meeting | Association for Information Science and Technology

Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Information plays a pivotal role for the good of society. However, we live in an information environment where the lines between true and false, and interest-driven and balanced content are blurred. This, coupled with the constant information overload, places enormous demands on people. With the United Nations having declared the information situation around the Corona […]

The Scarlet E: Balancing Eviction Record Sealing and Data Access | New America

Virtual Event

In the last few years, at least eight states have passed eviction record sealing laws, and eviction sealing legislation is being considered in several other cities and states across the country. These laws protect tenants by limiting the ability of tenant screening companies to access eviction filing data and sell it to landlords, locking tenants - even […]

Fireside Chat: Social Media Governance in Turbulent Times | Berkman Klein Center

Virtual Event

LIVESTREAM HERE: Please RSVP for this hybrid event.  Please join us on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 3:45pm for a discussion between Monika Bickert, Vice President for Content Policy at Meta, and Sue Hendrickson, Berkman Klein Center Executive Director. From the changing scope of content moderation  to platform governance writ large, this chat is designed to […]

From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in Studying Black Women & Technology | The Critical Digital Studies Group

Virtual Event

The Critical Digital Studies Group is hosting its first guest speaker event with Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland).From the Archive to TikTok: Care and Feeding as Praxis in Studying Black Women & TechnologyThis event is possible thanks to the support of the Gender, Race, Indigeneity, Disability, and Sexuality Studies (GRIDS) initiative and the […]

2022 HAI Fall Conference on AI in the Loop: Humans in Charge | Stanford University

Human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence generally refers to AI where humans are involved at various points throughout the research, design, training, testing or decision making process. During this conference, we hope to challenge participants to rethink this phrase and consider a future where humans remain at the center of all AI technologies. AI should effectively communicate and […]

Wastewater Surveillance Technology: Health, Social, and Ethical Perspectives | Harvard University

Harvard Kennedy School

Can AI be a Force for Global Public Health? From the Covid-19 pandemic to more recent outbreaks of Monkeypox and Poliovirus, wastewater surveillance technologies and their data have demonstrated the potential to become supporting tools used in steering states and governmental efforts worldwide, in predicting and tracking disease outbreaks. These tools are also being used […]

Hidden Harms: How Student Activity Monitoring Increases Risk of Discipline and Police Contact | Center for Democracy and Technology

Virtual Event

Join CDT, CLASP, and I Vote for Me for a conversation on how monitoring programs increase disciplinary action and law enforcement contact. Date: November 17, 2022 Time: 2 PM – 3 PM EST ** Recording here. In recent years, a number of stories have come out related to how student activity monitoring has been used […]

Cuidado Digital: Reproductive Rights, Abortion, and Digital Networks of Care in Latin America | Data & Society 

Virtual Event

Reproductive rights activists in Latin America have long fought for reproductive freedom, including some significant battles won. With the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade in the US, the “green wave” — a color associated with the movement for safe and legal abortion that started in Argentina and spread to the rest of the continent […]

How “Data Cartels” Mine, Commodify, And Sell Our Data: A Talk With Sarah Lamdan | METRO

Virtual Event

Join METRO's Director of Programs and Partnerships, Davis Erin Anderson, for a conversation with Sarah Lamdan about Lamdan's new book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information. About the book:In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Lamdan […]

Facing Gakirah: Lessons on Violence, Loss and Humanity from the Digital Streets of Chicago | The Carr Center for Human Rights | Harvard Kennedy School

Virtual Event

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing […]

INFORMED: Conversations on Democracy in the Digital Age | Knight Foundation

Virtual Event

INFORMED brings together key leaders and experts to engage around the biggest questions at the intersection of technology, media, and democracy. Presented by Knight Foundation, the gathering will be an important opportunity for policymakers, researchers and the private sector to discuss the latest trends and research in this emerging field, while strengthening relationships that lead […]

Lindsey Felt: Art, AI, and Disability Futures | Stanford University

Virtual Event

In this talk, Lindsey D. Felt will introduce a framework that locates disability innovation, artistry, and crip politics as central to the development of AI and technology. From M Eifler’s Prosthetic Memory to Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex, these examples of AI art highlight the erasures of disability from training data and refuse AI’s optimization against disability. Historically, technologies have […]

Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse | The Carr Center for Human Rights | Harvard Kennedy School

Virtual Event

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs, and Philosophy and Sushma Raman, Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Drawing […]

DAIR ‘s 1 Year Anniversary Celebration | Eventbrite

Virtual Event

Join us virtually on December 2nd and 3rd as we celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) with approximately two and a half hours of interactive talks and conversations with DAIR's team members located across North America, Europe and Africa. This anniversary celebration is designed for anyone interested in our work […]

Rhizome Presents: CyberPowWow and Panel Discussion | New Museum

New Musuem New York City, NY, United States

On December 10, 3pm EST at the New Museum, Rhizome will host a CyberPowWow panel discussion featuring artist Skawennati of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC), scholar Mikhel Proulx, and Rhizome Preservation Director, Dragan Espenschied. Launched by the Nation to Nation collective—Skawennati, Ryan Rice, and Eric Robertson—in 1997, CyberPowWow was among the first major online art […]

Responsible Computing Challenge – A Pre-Launch Webinar (United States) | Eventbrite

Virtual Event

Overview: From the news stories we read to accessing information about our personal health, our everyday lives are shaped by technology. Indeed, technology creates new forms of positive connection and creativity, but it also gives rise to new challenges that can negatively affect society and disproportionately impact communities of color and marginalized groups. Today, educators, […]

Media Law and Policy Scholars Conference

Virtual Event

The Media Law & Policy Scholars conference isn’t like the typical big conferences you attend. Instead, it’s designed to be a small workshop where everyone participates in an engaging, intellectual dialogue.

Protecting Civil Rights in the World of Automated Employment Decisions Tickets, Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:00 PM | Eventbrite

Virtual Event

Increasingly, companies are implementing new worker selection procedures at every stage of recruitment and employment, often in ways that can reinforce pre-existing disparities in the job market. But employers and vendors are rarely transparent about how these tools are used, making it difficult to detect how they can discriminate against workers, and to implement the […]

Data Privacy Protection and the Conduct of Applied Research: Methods, Approaches and their Consequences | NBER

Cambridge

Rapid improvements in computational power and coincident increases in the amount of data on individuals and firms that is publicly available or can be purchased at a nominal cost have created new challenges for protecting the privacy of survey responses and administrative data. By combining such data with information from external sources, it is increasingly […]