Taking the Long View - 4/1/25
Calendar
NEW
April 1, 2025 - House Hearing: Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Need for First Amendment Safeguards at the State Department
April 1, 2025 - House Hearing: America’s AI Moonshot: The Economics of AI, Data Centers, and Power Consumption
April 1, 2025 - Senate Judiciary Hearing: Big Fixes for Big Tech
April 2, 2025 - House Hearing: Artificial Intelligence: Examining Trends in Innovation and Competition
April 15, 2025 - Modern Political Campaigns by Dr. Michael D. Cohen
April 28, 2025 - Canadian Election
June 9, 2025 - WWDC 2025
September 11, 2025 - Responsible Tech Summit
March 12-18, 2026 - SXSW
Topics to keep an eye on
Punchbowl: US Senate Calendar
Advanced Advocacy 2025 Calendar of Association and Organization Events
TV shows about Facebook - Doomsday Machine and second season of Super Pumped
Upcoming Dates
April 1, 2025 - Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen
April 1, 2025 - Wisconsin Supreme Court election
April 1, 2025 - Florida special elections
April 5, 2025 - Extension on TikTok Ban Expires
April 12, 2025 - Gabon Election
April 13 - Ecuador Electoral Runoff
April 15, 2025 - Oakland, California Mayoral election
April 14, 2025 - Meta antitrust case goes to trial
April 23-25, 2025 - Cambridge Disinformation Summit 2025
April 28, 2025 - Canada Election
April 28, 2025 - Trinidad and Tobago Election
April 28-May 1, 2025 - RSA Conference 2025
April 30 - May 1, 2025 - ElecTech
May 2025 - Moldova Legislative Election
May 2025 - Jamaica Election
May 2025 - Nauru Election
May 2025 - World Summit on the Information Society - 20 year review
May 4, 2025 - Romania Election
May 6, 2025 - R Street Real Solutions Summit
May 6-8, 2025 - Stripe Sessions - The Internet Economy Conference (Zuckerberg will be one of the keynotes)
May 11, 2025 - Albania Election
May 12, 2025 - Philippines General Election
May 13-14, 2024 - Copenhagen Democracy Summit
May 14-15, 2025 - IDU Forum, Brussels
May 17, 2025 - Australia Federal Election
May 18, 2025 - Poland Presidential Election
May 18, 2025 - Portugal Election Snap
May 20, 2025 - Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mayoral primaries
May 25, 2025 - Suriname General Election
May 25, 2025 - Venezuela Election
June 2-7, 2025 - SXSW London
June 4-5, 2025 - AI & Big Data Expo (North America)
June 5, 2025 - Burundi Election
June 9, 2025 - WWDC 2025
June 10-11, 2025 - TICTeC 202
June 10, 2025 - New Jersey gubernatorial primary
June 11, 2025 - Albania Parliamentary Election
June 17, 2025 - Virginia gubernatorial primary
June 24, 2025 - New York mayoral primary
June 25-27, 2025 - GlobalFact Conference, Rio de Janeiro
August 5, 2025 - Detroit mayoral primary
July 1-2, 2025 - Call for Papers & Panels - ‘We, the People’ and the Future of Democracy: Interdisciplinary Approaches
July 8, 2025 - 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf
July 21-23, 2025 - TrustCon 2025
July 22, 2025 - White House AI "action plan" due
August 7-10, 2025 DEF CON
August 17, 2025 - Bolivia General Election
August 18-22, 2025 - Leadership Institute Campaign Management School
September 8, 2025 - Norway Election
September 9, 2025 - All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
September 16, 2025 - Malawi Election
September 25-26, 2025 - Trust and Safety Research Conference
September 27, 2025 - Seychelles Election
September 30, 2025 - Emily Baker-White: Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over Tiktok
October 2025 - Czech Parliamentary Election
October 2025 - Qatar Election
October 1-3, 2025 - Athens Democracy Forum
October 5, 2025 - Cameroon Election
October 25, 2025 - Côte D'Ivoire Election
October 26, 2025 - Argentina Election
October 27, 2025 - Ireland Election
October 28, 2025 - Tanzania Election
November 2025 - Honduras Election
November 4, 2025 - Off-year elections in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, Miami, San Antonio and St. Louis amongst others
November 15, 2025 - Haiti Election
November 16, 2025 - Chile Election
November 30, 2025 - Guinea Bissau Election
November 30, 2025 - Honduras Election
November-2025 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Election
December-2025 - Central African Republic Election
2025 - Czech Republic Election
2025 - Cameroon Parliamentary Elections
2025 - Egypt Election
2025 - Guinea Election
2025 - Guyana Election
2025 - Jamaica Election
2025 - Japan Election
2025 - Kyrgyzstan Election
2025 - Moldova Election
2025 - Niger Election
2025 - Singapore Election
2025 - Tonga Election
2026
March 12-18, 2026 - SXSW
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