Upcoming Events
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Italian Tech Resistance
3 October, 2025
Turin, Italy
Italian Tech Resistance (ITR) is a counter-festival running in Turin from October 1–3, parallel to Italian Tech Week. Backed by groups like Si Cobas, Stop Riarmo, Osservatorio CPR, Torino per Gaza, Confluenza, and HackLab, ITR challenges Big Tech’s narrative with talks and workshops on “social hackers,” bottom-up (civic) AI, digital self-defense, and alternatives to platform monopolies. Organizers criticize the concentration of power, mass surveillance, data centers’ environmental toll, and widening inequalities. The aim is not a one-off event but a permanent hub: drafting a manifesto and building campaigns, labs, and alliances for a rights-protecting, community-led tech model. [Italian only.]
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7th Digital Citizen Summit (DCS) 2025
14-15 November, 2025
Hyderabad, India
Organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), the 7th Digital Citizen Summit (DCS) 2025 will be themed ‘People & Platforms: Let’s Talk Accountability’ and will explore how platforms shape power and responsibility in digital societies. At AIPJ, we will participate in a panel and host a workshop in the Just AI – Data & Algorithms for Communities track.
Past Events
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From Mines to Markets: Building Transparent & Safe Supply Chains
25 September, 2025
Rome, Italy
We participated in a high-level roundtable at the Canadian Embassy in Rome, discussing the planetary justice implications and impacts driven by rising demand for critical minerals key to AI development.
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Sustainable AI Conference 2025: "Shaping Sustainable AI and its Futures"
16 - 18 September, 2025
Bonn, Germany
Organized by the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab and the Institute for Science and Ethics at Universität Bonn, this conference brings together interdisciplinary voices to critically reflect on the concept and practice of Sustainable AI. We will participate to present our abstract: “Reframing Sustainable AI through Degrowth and Planetary Justice”.
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18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference
24 - 27 June, 2025
Oslo, Norway
We’re excited to present our work at the upcoming ISEE-Degrowth Joint Conference 2025 at the University of Oslo. Our abstract presentation, “Toward a Degrowth Theory of AI,” explores how artificial intelligence systems—often framed as solutions to climate challenges—are deeply shaped by growth imperatives that drive environmental degradation, social inequity, and epistemic injustice.
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Data for Public Goals: The Social Impact of Data-Driven Approaches
9 June, 2025 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm CEST
Online
Organized by Politecnico di Milano, this event explores how data can be leveraged to generate societal value through responsible sharing and use. Our contribution will focus on the planetary justice implications of data use and reuse in AI systems, with particular attention to the model training and deployment stages of the AI supply chain.
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Altri Mondi, Altri Modi Festival
11 April, 2025 - 6:00 pm CEST
Turin, Italy
In April 2025, we’ll have the pleasure of participating in Altri Mondi, Altri Modi, a festival dedicated to political imagination and alternative futures, taking place in Turin, Italy. We’ll join the debate:
“Energy-Technological Transition: Artificial Intelligence, Exploitation, and the Human-Machine Relationship”
The conversation will explore the material dimensions of AI and how these intersect with broader technological and environmental transitions.
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Mapping Data Work Workshop
19 - 20 March, 2025
Bengaluru, India
In March 2025, we had the opportunity to present our Epistemic Justice in AI Datasets project at the Mapping Data Work Workshop in Bengaluru, co-organized by the University of Amsterdam, Aapti Institute, and Tattle. This multi-stakeholder gathering brought together researchers, activists, data workers, and designers to collectively explore the often-ignored human and planetary costs of AI.