IWORD 2025 AGENDA
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025: PRE-CONFERENCE RECEPTION & DINNER
Taste of China, 954 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut
6:30 PM Welcome reception & cocktails with dinner seating at 7:00 PM
DAY 1: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast Available & Networking, Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
| 8:45 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks, Luce Hall Room 203 |
| 9:00 AM |
SESSION 1: INFORMATION (Luce Hall Room 203)
- Liz Barry, Metagov
- Tina Eliassi-Rad, Northeastern University & Santa Fe Institute
- Kevin Elliott, Yale University
- Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School
- Riley Wong, Emergent Research & MIT
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| 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break, Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
| 11:00 AM |
SESSION 2: POLICY (Luce Hall Room 203)
- Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Joshua Fairfield, Washington & Lee University School of Law
- Marci Harris, POPVOX Foundation
- Spencer Overton, George Washington University Law School
- Joshua Tan, Public AI & Metagov
- James Wilson, Deusto University
|
| 12:30 PM |
Lunch Break, Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
| 1:30 PM |
SESSION 3: AI (Luce Hall Room 203)
- Niclas Boehmer, Hasso Plattner Institute
- Paul Gölz, Cornell University
- Galen Hines-Pierce, The Minerva Fund
- Ariel Procaccia, Harvard University
- Andrew Sorota, Office of Eric Schmidt
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| 3:00 PM |
Coffee Break, Luce Hall Common Room, 2nd Floor |
| 3:30 PM |
SESSION 4: DELIBERATION (Luce Hall Room 203)
- Michiel Bakker, MIT & Deep Mind
- Andrew Konya, MIT, AI & Democracy Foundation, Remesh
- Hélène Landemore & Gryffin Wilkens-Plumley, Yale University
- Scott Page, University of Michigan
- Théophile Pénigaud de Mourgues, Sciences Po & Yale University
- Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
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| 5:00 PM |
Break / Adjourn for Day 1 |
| 6:30 PM |
CONFERENCE COCKTAIL RECEPTION & DINNER
New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT
5:30-6:30 PM: Cash bar available for anyone arriving early
6:30-7:30 PM: Reception with appetizers and complimentary wine/beer
7:30-9:30 PM: Dinner |
DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2025
Yale Humanities Quadrangle, 320 York Street, New Haven, Connecticut
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast Available & Networking, HQ Room 276 |
| 9:00 AM |
SESSION 5: POLARIZATION & CONSENSUS (HQ Room 276)
- Tyna Eloundou, OpenAI
- Robert Gehorsam, The Highlands Forum
- Francisco Hernández-Cáceres,Country Roads Studios
- Kevin Hsu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Manon Revel, Google DeepMind
- Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| 10:30 AM |
Coffee Break, HQ Room 276 |
| 11:00 AM |
SESSION 6: INSTITUTIONS (HQ Room 276)
- Jon Alexander, Harvard University
- Eric Alston, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Judith Donath, Harvard Berkman-Klein Center
- Ada Palmer, University of Chicago
- Nathan Sanders, Harvard Berkman-Klein Center
- Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder
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| 12:30 PM |
Lunch Break, HQ Room 131 |
| 1:30 PM |
SESSION 7: CONVERSATION & COMMUNITY (HQ Room 276)
- Nick Chedli Carter, Spring Projects & Resilient Democracy
- Ruthanna Emrys, Author
- Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw (Google) & Yale Jackson School
- Nagore Ipiña, Mondragon Unibertsitatea
- Eli Pariser, New Public
- Ryota Sakai, Yale University
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| 3:00 PM |
Coffee Break, HQ Room 276 |
| 3:30 PM |
SESSION 8: THE FUTURE & THE WORLD (HQ Room 276)
- Jon Evans, FutureSearch
- Eugene Fischer, Independent Science Fiction Author
- Naiara Goia, Arantzazulab – Democracy Innovation Lab
- Aditi Juneja, Democracy 2076
- Glen Weyl, Microsoft
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| 5:00 PM |
Workshop Adjourns |
