AFOG hosts various public events including talks, panels, and workshops, to learn about and discuss relevant topics.
A virtual conference intended to 'meet the moment' by exploring organized technology refusal from historical and contemporary vantage points.
Madeleine Clare Elish, Research Lead and co-founder of the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society
Lucy Suchman, Professor of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Panel discussion with: Henriette Cramer (Principal Research Scientists, Spotify), Josh Lovejoy (Principal Design Manager, Microsoft), Dan Perkel (Director, IDEO), & Emily Witt (UX Researcher, Salesforce)
Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University
Michelle R. Carney, User Experience Researcher, Machine Learning + AI, Google
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England in conversation with Prayag Narula, President and co-founder of LeadGenius and MIMS alum (2012)
Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research.
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Chicago
Virginia Eubanks, University of Albany, SUNY
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Yale University
by invitation only
Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Angèle Christin, Stanford University
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Karen Levy, Cornell University
(co-sponsored with the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology)
Dawn Nafus, Intel Corporation
Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research