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POLITICO Decoded Summit: AI & Tech Policy

Hybrid

Join POLITICO in Washington, D.C. for special conversations with policymakers, regulators, industry leaders, investors and innovators crafting the rules of the road for AI and the decisions shaping its future. _____ As the development and deployment of artificial intelligence transforms the economy and society, decisions being made today by policymakers and executives will determine who […]

INMA Media Innovation Week

Hotel Riu Plaza España Gran Vía, 84, Centro, Madrid, Spain

INMA’s Media Innovation Week returns to Madrid in September 2026 — uniting Europe’s most ambitious media leaders at the intersection of data, product, audience, and revenue. Madrid will convene the people setting the pace for Europe’s news industry. Alongside established voices, you’ll hear from the innovators building what comes next — the creators rewriting engagement, […]

CRC Critical Data Autumn School 2026 | Synthetic Social Media: Studying Platform-Embedded AI

University Siegen Herrengarten 3, Siegen, Germany

Social media platforms are increasingly shaped by the integration of generative AI alongside long-standing analytical and predictive models. Today’s algorithmic systems are moving from the background infrastructure to the forefront of digital social life – intervening in the content feeds as conversational agents like xAI’s Grok, reshaping identity through synthetic likenesses of OpenAI’s Sora-2, and […]

The Future of Speech Online 2026: The Death of Online Anonymity?

Virtual

This year’s Future of Speech Online will examine the need for online anonymity, where it should or shouldn’t be compromised, the emerging and growing threats to anonymity online, and how to mitigate them. We will bring together civil society, academics, companies, practitioners and others to demonstrate how anonymity is used, how it is achieved technically, […]

AI x Investigative Journalism Forum at The New York Times | Hacks/Hackers

The New York Times 242 W 41st St, New York, NY, United States

​From document analysis to pattern detection to verification, AI is changing how investigative journalists dive into research and how fast they can move. The question now is how to scale those skills and put them in the hands of reporters to do more accountability journalism under deadline. ​Join Hacks/Hackers at The New York Times for […]

Call for Submissions: Digital Competition Conference 2027

Knight-Georgetown Institute

The rapid diffusion of AI and the emergence of AI agents capable of independently accessing tools, initiating processes, and acting on users’ behalf may fundamentally reshape how information and economic activity are organized online. These developments are raising new questions about market power, entry, innovation, and control across the technology stack. At the same time, […]

AI Hype, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival

De Doelen Kruisplein 40, Rotterdam, Netherlands

The AI Hype, Hope and Humanity (AI HHH) Festival is a space for genuine exchange, where knowledge flows in every direction, and where responsibility is treated not as an abstract principle, but as something negotiated in practice. Over three days, the festival moves through a deliberate arc: Societal challenges and current uses of AI across domains including work, health, education, […]

Measuring Media Use and Effects: Computational Opportunities and Challenges | Annual Conference of the Methods Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)

GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, Köln, Germany

The increasing availability of digital behavioral data and computational tools has transformed how communication researchers study media use, exposure, and effects. These developments offer unprecedented analytical depth – but also introduce new complexities in measurement, theory-building, and ethical practice. This year’s conference of the Methods Division invites contributions that advance and critically engage with computational […]

2026 Trust & Safety Research Conference

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United States

The Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center will host the fifth annual Trust and Safety Research Conference on October 1-2, 2026 at Stanford University. The conference brings together trust and safety researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, civil society, and government to advance research in trust and safety while fostering the exchange of ideas across […]

b° future festival for journalism and constructive dialogue

The next edition of the b° future festival will take place from October 1-3, 2026. The b° future festival creates time and space for anyone and everyone who wants to rethink journalism. It blends an industry conference with a civic festival for a unique three-day event in the heart of Bonn that revolves around one key […]

4S 2026 Toronto: TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures

Hybrid

The 50th Anniversary for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S): calls for presentations, panels, and adjacent gatherings that engage our theme of TechnoPower. Science, technology, and innovation are not neutral; as STS scholars, we understand them as socially, culturally, and economically constructed and deeply entangled with a specific form of technoscientific power. […]