Events

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, in collaboration with researchers at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI), Cornell University will host the Inaugural Advancing Frontiers Conference (AFC) – a fully virtual event scheduled for March 24, 2026. The conference, themed “Research to Innovation […]

Hosted by Matt Nemesure, PhD, Lead Data Scientist at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3), D^3 Discussions: Making Better Decisions with AI introduces how you can use AI to support clearer thinking, better decisions, and more efficient workflows across many domains. We’ll explore how AI can make sense of your information and data, […]

Unlocking the problem-solving power of generative AI Join Mitch Weiss and Stephen Goldsmith for a conversation on how generative AI is beginning to reshape the practice of city government as a tool for improving performance, decision-making, and imagination. Drawing on Goldsmith’s decades of experience leading data-driven reform incites and Weiss’s work on “possibility government,” this […]

While AI represents the most powerful wave of innovation in a generation, public sentiment toward it is increasingly polarized and weary. Many workers feel that AI is being done to them, not for them. The dominant feeling across much of the American workforce is disenchantment, the sense that they played by the rules, but the […]

Join us for a D^3 Discussions webinar with Sangeet Paul Choudary, best-selling author of Reshuffle, as he invites us to think bigger about AI’s impact on the future. Rather than getting caught up in individual automation or task productivity, Choudary will unpack how AI reshapes organizations and competition, why constraints determine which AI-driven predictions will actually […]

Join Mark Fagan, author of Governing with AI: How the Public Sector Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Performance, for a practical webinar on how leaders can turn today’s AI moment into real public value. With generative AI accelerating, organizations and institutions are facing a critical nexus: exciting tools, high expectations, and very real risks to […]

The Open and User Innovation (OUI) Society and the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard and Harvard Business School cordially invite you to the 23rd Annual International Conference on Open and User Innovation. For over two decades, the OUI Conference has served as a leading forum for research on how users, communities, and open systems […]