Taking the Long View - 10/01/24

Courage is speaking up and sitting down to listen

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• October 7, 2024 - Call for AI Projects to be featured at AI Action Summit due

• October 29, 2024 - The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

• November 15, 2024 - Consultations for AI Action Summit due

• November 20-21, 2024 - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken Announce Inaugural Convening of International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco 

• December 9, 2024 - Findings presentation from consultation period for AI Action Summit

• December 20, 2024 - U.S. government funding runs out

• February 10-11, 2025 - AI Action Summit

Topics to keep an eye on:

• Protect Democracy - Mark Your Calendar: The Highest-Risk Election Dates 

• Facebook 2020 election research 

  • 5/16 have been published

• TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped

• FEC decision on proposed rulemaking on AI

• January 19, 2025 - Deadline for TikTok to sell. POTUS can extend another 90 days.

Upcoming Dates

• October 1, 2024 - October 1, 2024 - Walz/Vance VP Debate

• October 1, 2024 - Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

• October 1, 2024 - Tarot for Creativity: A Guide for Igniting Your Creative Practice by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi

• October 1-2, 2024 - AI & Big Data Expo (Europe)

• October 1-3, 2024 - Athens Democracy Forum 

• October 2-3, 2024 - Reuters MOMENTUM AI London 2024

• October 5, 2024 - CNN - Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid Documentary

• By October 6, 2024 - Lithuania parliamentary election

• October 6, 2024 - Brazil Municipal Elections

• October 6-24, 2024 – Tunisia election

• October 7, 2024 - TSPA APAC Summit

• October 7, 2024 - Call for AI Projects to be featured at AI Action Summit due 

• October 9, 2024 – Mozambique election 

• October 9, 2024 - Third presidential debate, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

• October 16-18, 2024 - AI Accelerator Institute: AIAI Boston

• October 20, 2024 - Indonesian Presidential Inauguration

• October 20, 2024 – Moldova election 

• October 22, 2024 - Patriot by Alexei Navalny

• October 22-23, 2024 - Trust Conference

• October 26, 2024 - Georgia election 

• October 27, 2024 – Uruguay election 

• October 28-30 - TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

• October 29, 2024 - Platformland: An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public Services by Richard Pope

• October 29, 2024 - The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party

• October 30, 2024 – Botswana election 

• November 2024 - Centered: Joe Lieberman 

• November 2024 - Namibia election

• November 3, 2024 - Meta must respond to Oversight Board recommendations on Crowdtangle

• November 5, 2024 – United States of America election 

• November 5 - December 11, 2024 - US Election: Ballot Tabulation and Certification starts (Dates vary by state)

• November 6, 2024 - SCOTUS arguments in Facebook, Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank

• November 11-14, 2024 - Lisbon Web Summit

• November 12 - 15, 2024 - International Association of Political Consultants, Athens, GA

• November 12, 2024 – Palau election 

• November 15, 2024 - Consultations for AI Action Summit due

• November 20-21, 2024 - U.S. Secretary of Commerce Raimondo and U.S. Secretary of State Blinken Announce Inaugural Convening of International Network of AI Safety Institutes in San Francisco 

• November 24, 2024 – Guinea Bissau election 

• November 24, 2024 - Romania Presidential Election

• November 30, 2024 - Mauritius election 

• By December 2024 - Uzbekistan election

• December 1, 2024 - Romania Parliamentary Election

• December 3 - 5, 2024 - IDU Winter Forum, Washington, DC

• December 4, 2024 - Bipartisan Policy Center’s 2024 Elections Summit

• December 7, 2024 - Ghana election 

• December 9, 2024 - Findings presentation from consultation period for AI Action Summit

• December 10-11 - Reuters Next: Leadership Summit & Global Broadcast

• December 11, 2024 — U.S. deadline for issuing and sending Certificates of Ascertainment

• December 15, 2024 - Senegal Election (Rescheduled from February)

• December 17, 2024 — U.S. State Electors vote

• December 20, 2024 - U.S. government funding runs out

• December 22, 2024 – South Sudan election

2025

• January 6, 2025 — U.S. Congress counts electoral votes

• January 7-10 - CES Conference

• January 19, 2025 - Deadline for TikTok to sell. POTUS can extend another 90 days.

• January 20, 2025 — U.S. Inauguration

• February 4-6 - Prodacity Conference

• February 9, 2025 - Ecuador Election

• February 10-11, 2025 - AI Action Summit

• February 21-22, 2025 - DistrictCon 

• February 24-27, 2025 - RightsCon, Taiwan

• March 4, 2025 - Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things: A Novel by Breanne Randall

• April 23-25, 2025 - Cambridge Disinformation Summit 2025

• April 28-May 1, 2025 - RSA Conference 2025

• May 2025 - World Summit on the Information Society - 20 year review

• May 12, 2025 - Philippines Election

• May 13-14, 2024 - Copenhagen Democracy Summit

• June 4-5, 2025 - AI & Big Data Expo (North America)

• July 21-23, 2025 - TrustCon 2025

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