AI Creative Workflows | What Marketers Need to Know in 2026 | Free Webinar
Join us for a webinar where UW Communication Leadership faculty and industry experts, Jay Howard, Lara Bradshaw, PhD, and Sam Tang will explore how marketers and communications professionals can leverage AI into their daily creative and productivity workflows.
If you or someone you know will benefit from this interactive learning session to learn key AI skills, RSVP and join us at this webinar.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: commlead@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Anyone interested in AI and marketing at UW.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. Campfire Conversation: Climate (iSchool + HCDE)
Join the iSchool and HCDE for an informal, community-oriented conversation with UW faculty on tech and climate at the Ravenna Brewing Co.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: kdanson@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Alum and community members interested in research and conversations on tech and climate.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit discover.uw.edu. CALMA Round Table : Practical Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Library, Archives, and Museum Careers
In-person at the Open Scholarship Commons, Suzzallo Library, UW-Seattle Campus
For more information / RSVP
The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rewriting many professions, including libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs). Students looking to study or enter into these fields are now faced with an unprecedented technological juggernaut, raising concerns, skepticism, and excitement. How have these fields adopted this new and constantly evolving technology? How are LAM professionals navigating the often polarizing rhetoric about AI? How might students approach the emergence of AI while preparing for careers in what museologists Johannes C. Bernhardt and Sonja Thiel in their book AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications call “human intelligence” centered research and work, and what does AI’s growing role in writing, research, and knowledge production mean for the cognitive and relational dimensions of that work?
This panel introduces students to a range of perspectives, both practical…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Suzzallo Library (SUZ). Campus room: Open Scholarship Commons. Accessibility Contact: gt2@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Special Events.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM.
Signals & Society - Can Slop Have Soul?
Society + Technology at UW is pleased to cross-promote the next event in the Signals & Society series, Can Slop Have Soul? an interactive discussion with ethnomusicologist and music historian Gabriel Solis (Music, UW Seattle) on the impact of AI on music, musicians, listeners, and the music industry.
Monday, April 27, 2026, at 5:30 PM
Old Stove Gardens (Ballard)
1550 NW 49th St, Seattle, WA 98107
Topics include:
How AI is already shaping what we hear on streaming platforms
Ways to center human creativity in an AI-saturated landscape
Musicians, listeners, industry professionals, and the AI-curious and AI-skeptical are welcome. This conversation will be an octave above the noise.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
About Gabriel Solis
A professor of music at UW Seattle, Gabriel is an ethnomusicologist and music historian whose work focuses on music, memory, and racialization in the 20th and 21st centuries. He came to the University of Washington in 2022 from the University of Illinois, where…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Anyone interested in conversations on technology and AI in relation to music.
Monday, April 27, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
For more info visit www.societyandtechnology.uw.edu. First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]
What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff.
Monday, May 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. After Hours | So You're Genetically At Risk?
So you’re genetically at risk. Now what?
Join us for an After Hours conversation about what it means to live with genetic risk. If a test suggests a possible future, what should we do with that knowledge? Who gets to use it—and who decides what it means?
Featuring a conversation with anthropologist Lisa Hoffman (Urban Studies, UW Tacoma) and you, the participants to discuss the stakes and the stories we tell about our genetic futures over a drink.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Anyone interested in conversations about genetics and tech.
Monday, May 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM.
Ability Summit 2026: in-person and digital
CREATE Advisory Board member Ed Summers is a featured speaker, joining Jenny Lay-Flurrie and other leaders in accessibility and AI innovation. Note that the online conference is limited to the keynote presentation, a showcase of accessibility products built into Microsoft products and services. Free , In person on the Microsoft Redmond campus - both days , Online - May 19 keynote only, "Engage with disabled experts, accessibility professionals, and technology leaders. Experience product demos and training opportunities that will deepen your knowledge of accessibility across industries.".
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: EventAccess@microsoft.com. Event Types: Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Target Audience: All interested in accessibility‑first, AI‑powered innovation to boost education, jobs, productivity.
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 – Wednesday, May 20, 2026.
Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA.
For more info visit abilitysummit.event.microsoft.com. Open Source Assistive Technology Hackathon
GitHub will celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by hosting the Open Source Assistive Technology Hackathon focused on empowering participants to build skills and make real contributions to the assistive technology tools people rely on every day. Free to participate , Sign up, Who Should Attend People with lived experience who want to innovate on assistive technology , Developers with disabilities , Developers with a desire to help improve and customize assistive technologies , Professionals working in the field of special education, rehabilitation engineering, biomedical engineering, and other fields that can benefit from free open source assistive technology , Open source AT maintainers, New to open source? No problem!
We’ll walk through core GitHub contribution workflows (including NVDA and keyboard-only navigation), so you can practice navigating repositories, issues, pull requests, and code reviews with confidence. Whether you’re new to contributing or ready to level up, you’ll leave with…
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: mlama007@github.com. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Meetings. Special Events. Workshops. Target Audience: Innovators in assistive tech, developers w/ disabilities, pros in special ed, rehab, biomed, ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026 – Friday, May 22, 2026.
GitHub headquarters, 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107.
For more info visit www.eventbrite.com. What Does Law Mean in Crisis? How Crip Feminist Technoscience Will Save Us with Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown
In a world ablaze with crisis, this lecture explores crip feminist technoscience as a tool for survival and resistance—offering disabled wisdom to reimagine justice, regulate AI, and challenge empire, white supremacy, and late-stage capitalism through a disability justice lens.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: lectures@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Diversity Equity Inclusion.
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM.
Town Hall Seattle.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Feminist Technoscience Meet Up with UW Press
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Feminist technoscience scholars and champions at UW.
Friday, May 22, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
CREATE Community Day
CREATE Community Day is an annual half-day forum for discussing the concerns about and approaches to sustainable accessibility research and a showcase of research led by CREATE and HuskyADAPT. Student researchers highlight their work and showcase a variety of individual and team projects.
We are currently making plans for Community Day 2026. Details available in spring.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: Zillow Commons. Accessibility Contact: oliviapb@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Exhibits. Information Sessions. Meetings. Special Events. Target Audience: Anyone interested in research on accessible technology & making the world accessible through tech.
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]
What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff.
Monday, June 1, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. First Monday STSS Reading Group [Online]
What is First Monday?
First Monday is a participant-led, interdisciplinary, online STSS reading group.
When is the meeting?
The first Monday of each month. The meeting time changes quarterly, reach out to the organizers to get the most updated time.
Where is the meeting?
Via Zoom. Email mmjones@uw.edu to request an invitation.
What is the goal of the reading group?
We seek to foster and deepen an intellectual community amongst STS-curious faculty, students, and staff at the University of Washington’s three campuses and the School of Medicine. Anyone at the UW who is STS-curious is welcome to join.
Who hosts the meetings?
Anyone who participates in the group can volunteer to host. We have a rotating host model. Every month, someone new chooses an article, book chapter, or publication in the STS field. In the event no one volunteers, the facilitators may select an article and/or invite a host.
Who facilitates?
The First Monday facilitators are Monika Sengul-Jones, Director of Strategy and Operations for Society…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: mmjones@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Tri-campus science, technology, and society studies faculty, students, researchers, and staff.
Monday, July 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu.