Unlocking Digital Success

• Govtech
• Conferences

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.

• Meet the others
• Conferences

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, business models, and institutions for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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 capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Meet the others

We’re focused on the future: forms with function.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Forms

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 their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects.

• state

• Govtech
• Conferences

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 civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

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.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

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 Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

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.

• Conferences

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Using AI to make journalism better. Together.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences

by the Alliance for Innovation

• Govtech
• Conferences

A conference for people who work in the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Conferences
• Design

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

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 strategies.

• Conferences
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Predecessors

Event: A critical look at the future of emerging tech

• Conferences
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Doing Better Work Together is an online learning and collaboration event for organisational innovators.

• Group decision making
• Conferences

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

• Peer networks
• Conferences

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

• Govtech
• Conferences

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

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 terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Peer networks
• Conferences

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Conferences

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

A participant-led conference from OpenNews for journalists who want to transform their work, their organizations, and their communities.

• Media
• Conferences

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.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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 perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

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 tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

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 provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs

• Conferences

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

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 technology.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Conferences

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

OuiShare Fest is an international event that gathers entrepreneurs and social innovators, non-profit and business leaders, grassroots activists and public officials each May in Paris.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Code for All Global Summit

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Global Laboratory of Future Mobility

• cities
• mobility

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference in SEE and seeks to be a platform for civil society that encourages the use of new technologies – tool for education about the use of new technologies and social networks; forum for exchange of views and experiences; incubator for the development of ideas, projects and strategies; virtual place for networking and informing socially conscious Internet users; as well as a social network for exploring and searching for partners and associates and building coalitions.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings