Past Events

Upcoming Events  


Reclaiming Native Ground: The Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe and the Long Fight to Maintain Sovereignty while Combating Coastal Erosion

May 3, 2023, All Day

Deep down the bayous in Southern Louisiana live several Indigenous communities, among them are the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT). While we often imagine that Native southerners were all forcibly removed from their homelands in the 19th century, PACIT is one of many communities who found strategies that allowed them to remain in their homelands.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series

AI For Intelligent Societies

April 24, 2023, 2 to 3 p.m.

How will Artificial Intelligence make human environments more livable and sustainable? How can we make it easy for municipalities and communities to discover and deploy emerging technologies in ways that support shared values and reduce societal frictions and risks? The AI for Good Foundation has been working with cities, regional governments, national governments, and supranational organizations like the UN and OECD to answer these questions through institutional frameworks, experimentation, and partnerships.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Speaker Series

Whole Communities–Whole Health - Research Showcase 2023

April 21, 2023, 1 to 4 p.m.

The Whole Communities–Whole Health Research Showcase will highlight projects from the past year including advances to passive data collection devices, mobile phone applications, as well as updates from our ongoing community engaged study on Health and Wellness in Del Valle.

Event tags: Whole Communities–Whole Health, Campus Events

Talking About the Weather: A conversation on climate, land, and language

April 19, 2023, All Day

Just as the impacts of climate change vary geographically, so do our conversations and the language we choose to use around climate disasters. This event encourages us to consider how we discuss land, water, nonhuman life, colonialism, the changes impacting each of us, and how language is expressed through our position and location.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series

Ethics Helps Our Society Prosper: What Should We Do About AI?

April 12, 2023, 10 to 11 a.m.

Recent advances in AI, ML, and Robotics have driven increased attention to ethical questions about the impact of technology on society. These include relationships between the value of technology and its safety; surveillance and privacy; fairness and bias; and the future of work and economic inequality, among others. We can take steps toward a unified approach to these questions, drawing on several disciplines including theories of evolution, games, business, cooperation, and trust. In this talk, Benjamin Kuipers will explore that approach and its implications for the deployment and regulation of AI technologies.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Speaker Series

2023 Good Systems Symposium

April 3 to 4, 2023, All Day

Join thought leaders across academic disciplines and industry, government, and nonprofit sectors to learn about opportunities and challenges when it comes to ensuring that AI systems are ethical, values-driven, and beneficial to everyone.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Symposium

Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

March 6, 2023, noon to 1 p.m.

The scope of criminal legal surveillance, from the police to the prisons, has expanded rapidly in recent decades. At the same time, the use of big data has spread across a range of fields, including finance, politics, health, and criminal justice. Drawing on fieldwork conducted within the Los Angeles Police Department, I show how law enforcement uses predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies to allocate resources, identify criminal suspects, and conduct investigations.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Speaker Series

Planet Texas 2050 Symposium – Resilience Research in Action

Feb. 28 to March 2, 2023, 1 to 2 p.m.

Planet Texas 2050’s annual symposium brings together university faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation, and equitable and just transition strategies.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Annual Symposium