Start with people and decisions
Identify whose needs are involved, what decision the work could support, and how success should be evaluated.
Forum · Projects
Program preview
Learn the pathway—not just the pitch.
Interdisciplinary teams will work from stakeholder needs and responsible problem framing toward a realistic minimum viable prototype, research artifact, project plan, or other concrete deliverable.
Project philosophy
Supported prototyping, not a competition.
One day cannot produce a finished real-world system. The project experience is designed to expose the decisions, collaboration, documentation, and tradeoffs involved in moving from an idea toward responsible implementation.
Use realistic scope
A useful artifact might be a prototype, technical plan, data audit, interface concept, or evaluation framework.
Document the pathway
Record assumptions, risks, evidence gaps, partner roles, and realistic next steps—not only the final demo.
Illustrative areas
Starting points, not confirmed projects.
Participants may propose their own topics. The organizing team may also prepare project frames for groups that prefer a ready-made starting point.
Public-service information access
Explore how AI-assisted interfaces might improve access to public information while addressing accuracy, accountability, accessibility, and maintenance.
Concept under developmentAI for natural-hazard decisions
Connect environmental observations and predictive methods with the needs, uncertainty thresholds, and workflows of public agencies and communities.
Concept under developmentBioacoustic monitoring
Investigate time-series and multimodal methods for ecological monitoring, from open data and validation to conservation decision support.
Concept under developmentEvidence for urban planning
Explore responsible combinations of imagery, administrative information, and local knowledge for planning questions and public-interest technology.
Concept under developmentAfter the Forum
Outputs should remain useful.
Selected artifacts may be published here with clear documentation, contributor consent, accessibility review, appropriate licensing, and links to maintained repositories.