Taking the Long View - 10/29/24
Everyone I love is doing beautiful things
Happy week before Election Day in the United States! Before we get into the calendar, Jeff and Katie Dunn have put together a fabulous Trust and Safety Calendar resource that you can get as a Google cal (something I’ve always wanted to do with this calendar but haven’t had the time yet). You can check it out here.
It’s also a big earnings week for many tech companies. Apple, Reddit, and Snap are today. Meta and Microsoft are tomorrow. I wonder if anyone will get asked about the election ….
Calendar
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November 13, 2024 - Likely Senate GOP leadership election (Source: Punchbowl News)
November 13, 2024 - House Republican leadership elections
November 26, 2024 - Freedom: Memoirs 1954 – 2021 by Angela Merkel
August 7-10, 2025 DEF CON
Topics to keep an eye on
Protect Democracy - Mark Your Calendar: The Highest-Risk Election Dates
TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped
January 19, 2025 - Deadline for TikTok to sell. POTUS can extend another 90 days.
Upcoming Dates
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 29, 2024 - EFCSN Conference 2024
October 30, 2024 - New Hampshire Governor debate 4: Joyce Craig (Dem) vs. Kelly Ayotte (Rep)
November 2024 - Centered: Joe Lieberman
November 2024 - Namibia election
November 3, 2024 - Meta must respond to Oversight Board recommendations on Crowdtangle
November 4-12, 2024 - POLITICO: European Parliament’s final schedule for commissioner hearings in November
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 13, 2024 - Likely Senate GOP leadership election (Source: Punchbowl News)
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, 2024 - Renewing Civic Health: National Conference on Citizenship 2024
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, 2025 - CES 2025 @ Las Vegas
January 19, 2025 - Deadline for TikTok to sell. POTUS can extend another 90 days.
January 20, 2025 — U.S. Inauguration
January 20-24, 2025 - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
February 4-6 - Prodacity Conference
February 9, 2025 - Ecuador Election
February 10-11, 2025 - AI Action Summit
February 14-16, 2025 - Munich Security Conference 2025
February 21-22, 2025 - DistrictCon
February 24-27, 2025 - RightsCon, Taiwan
March 4, 2025 - Spells, Strings, and Forgotten Things: A Novel by Breanne Randall
Mar 17-19, 2025 - Raisina Dialogue
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
August 7-10, 2025 DEF CON
September 2025 - Norway Parliamentary Election
October 2025 - Bolivia Election
November 2025 - Honduras Election
November 2025 - Chile Election
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