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Events

Upcoming events

Thursday, December 18, 2025, 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm PST

Graduating MIDS students present their data science projects. A panel of judges will select an outstanding project for the Hal R. Varian MIDS Capstone Award.

Thursday, March 5, 2026, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm PST
Thursday, March 12, 2026

Support the I School during Berkeley’s annual fundraising blitz.

Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Honor the class of 2026 with keynote speaker, student speakers, and student awards.

Previous events

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Matt Mitchell is a senior cybersecurity program manager at the Ford Foundation

Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

The world has been on a decades-long series of experiments trying to build successful decentralized systems marked almost entirely by failure.

Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Anushah Hossain considers what values and scripts were privileged in today’s core standards for multilingual digital communication — Unicode, OpenType, and more.

Friday, March 22, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

“Preserving Digital Images and Data” and “Rethinking Antitrust for the Cloud Era”

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:30 pm

Shai Dhaliwal is a cybersecurity consulting manager at Accenture.

Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm

Christine Borgman is a distinguished research professor in information studies at UCLA.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT, – Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT

Support the I School during Berkeley’s 10th annual fundraising blitz.

Friday, March 8, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Javier Cha is a medievalist, digital historian, and technologist and principal investigator of the Big Data Studies Lab.

Thursday, March 7, 2024, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Hear from notable thought leaders and celebrate individuals who have made significant impacts in tech policy governance, journalism, and innovation.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 9:30 am - 11:29 am

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us for a series of events celebrating Women in Data Science at UC Berkeley.

Friday, March 1, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Rob Sanderson is senior director for digital cultural heritage at Yale University, where he works to harmonize and provide access to research quality data, in a human-oriented way.

Friday, February 23, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Coye Cheshire explores the trustworthiness of health information in online environments.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

Jevin West breaks down the threats of scientific disinformation, predatory publishing and pseudoscience, the reproducability crisis, and generative AI.

Friday, February 16, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

Jevin West studies misinformation and how it spreads in science and society.

Thursday, February 15, 2024, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

What implications does widespread biometric identification have on the future of privacy and surveillance?

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm

Join the High Commissioner and the Berkeley Human Rights Center for the official launch of the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations.

Friday, February 9, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The Open Book Collective is a partnership of open access publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, and other non-profit organizations.

Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Derek Manky is the chief security strategist & VP of global threat intelligence at Fortinet.

Friday, February 2, 2024, 3:10 pm - 5:00 pm PST

The concept of relevance is central to information studies but has resisted clear analysis.