Tech & Society Week 2024

Join us April 8–12, 2024 for our third annual Tech & Society Week—a week of events across campus, exploring various issues at the nexus of technology and society. Whether you’re deeply immersed in these issues, or just curious, there are events for you.

Take a look below for a snapshot of the week. You can also:

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by March 29, 2024 to techandsociety@georgetown.edu or to the individual event hosts.


* Asterisked locations are wheelchair accessible. Please refer to this campus map for list of accessible entrances.

Monday, April 8

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Tech & Society Fest

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Tackling Corruption with AI, Lessons from Latin America with Dr. Gastón Pierri

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Meet the Tech, Ethics & Society Faculty

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Book Talk with Cal Newport: Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

6:45 PM – 7:45 PM | Hot-topics in Tech & Competition Policy Discussion


Tuesday, April 9

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Gnovis Journal Colloquium: Volume 24

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Book Talk: High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs its Economy by Angela Huyue Zhang

1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | CCT Carnival of AI

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | AI & Me: Creativity & Content

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Decade of Impact: The Beeck Center at 10


Wednesday, April 10

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | New Tech, Old Story: How Understanding the History of Worker Surveillance Should Inform Policies and Regulation

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Global Perspectives on AI Governance

4:00 PM – 6:30 PM | Bracing for Impact: AI in the Wild (Distinguished Lecture by danah boyd)


Thursday, April 11

9:30 AM — 10:30 AM | Previewing the Government AI Hire, Use, Buy (HUB) Roundtable Series

11:00 AM — 12:30 PM | Burning Questions: Online Deception and Generative AI

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Putting the AI in “Paid”: How Lawyers Can Use and Advise on AI

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | “Into the Woods with Generative AI: Drawing Pathways to Creative Pedagogy” (Creative Workshop with Ethics Lab)

5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | GUWeCode Coding Party


Friday, April 12

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Fritz Family Fellows Conference

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM | AI Ethics Showcase