Past Events

Upcoming Events  


2nd Annual Smart Cities and AI Innovations Symposium

May 2, 2024, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This robust program will feature presenters from multiple universities across Texas and beyond, as well as smart mobility professionals working in our cities. Students from the Urban Information Lab at UT Austin will also present their research in this area, further generating discussion on this timely topic.

Event tags: Good Systems

Humanizing Pedagogies: Learning In and Through Water Across Educational Contexts

May 1, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.

Join us for this conversation with educators that operate in diverse pedagogical sites, ranging from using the sacred waters of Texas to understand Indigenous lifeways, theater-based embodied practice for learners to connect with their own bodies, and learning about water management from past societies to link to our current context. 

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series

Community Resource Day

April 27, 2024, All Day

WCWH Community Resource Day

Event tags: Whole Communities–Whole Health, Community Events

Artists and Scientists in Dialog: Reflections on the Way of Water

April 25, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.

In this special edition of Planet Texas 2050’s Resilience Roundtable Series, Environmental and Water Resource Engineering Professors Paola Passalacqua and Matt Bartos will reflect on their experience witnessing the Way of Water: Onion Creek with Artistic Director Allison Orr and Producer Lisa Byrd of Forklift Danceworks.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series

Disinformation Day 2024

April 25 to May 2, 2024, 9 a.m. to noon

this virtual event brings together researchers and thought leaders working across disciplines and sectors, focusing on developing AI tools for use by journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers. The event will feature three keynote talks and a panel discussion covering a wide range of topics. Viewers are encouraged to participate in interactive Q&As following each session.

Event tags: Good Systems

In the Lab and the Bay: Navigating Water Contaminants Along the Texas Coastal Bend

April 17, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.

In this panel, we will discuss how researchers and managers at the Marine Science Institute and the City of Corpus Christi are working to shed light on the interplay between contaminants and aquatic ecosystems, the techniques to trace their presence, the impacts they can have on human and environmental health, as well strategies for their mitigation.

Event tags: Planet Texas 2050, Resilience Roundtable Series

Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedural, Policy, and Privacy Issues

April 3, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.

21st century media pose challenges to preserving the historical record. Collecting institutions need guidance and new strategies in order to save selective cellphone video, GPS data, and video from surveillance cameras, drones, and police bodycams. In this Talk, Howard Besser will discuss how saving this type of material poses procedural, policy, and privacy issues.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Speaker Series

2024 Good Systems Symposium

March 27 to 28, 2024, All Day

Join Good Systems at UT Austin for its fourth annual symposium exploring the future of human-centered, values-driven artificial intelligence. Connect with an interdisciplinary and cross-sector community of faculty leaders, researchers, students, professionals, and civic leaders to discuss the most pressing opportunities and challenges in Ethical AI.

Event tags: Good Systems, Good Systems Symposium