Events

Here are some upcoming events that we think will be of interest to our readers. If you would like to submit an event to be listed here, please contact us.

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Workshop at IDC 2025: Grasping Data: Exploring interdisciplinary approaches for investigating children’s interactions with their personal data

On Monday, June 23, 2025, Cooney Center Post Doctoral Fellow for Co-Design Liza Gak will participate in a hybrid workshop at IDC. Unlike any previous generation, children’s lives are now highly datafied, tracked, and digitally monitored. They are increasingly vulnerable to data collection from seemingly innocuous toys and devices with cameras, sensors, voice recognition, and
Learn More & Register

Workshop at IDC 2025: Designing AI for Children’s Well-Being

This hybrid workshop aims to convene an interdisciplinary community of researchers, industry professionals, and experts in AI and child well-being to pave the way for future research and practice that seeks to design AI technologies with children’s well-being in mind. We invite participants from various disciplines and backgrounds to join us in shaping the future
Learn More & Register
IDC 2025

Panel at IDC 2025: Innovating Digital Play: Partnership for research-driven industry impact

The goal of this panel is to present a research and industry design deployment collaboration, in designing digital play for children’s well-being. The panel will share processes, learnings, and ideas moving forward, as they are experienced in the Responsible Innovation in Technology (RITEC) project, led by UNICEF and The LEGO group. Details: Shuli Gilutz (UNICEF) will present UNICEF’s
Learn More & Register

Playing with Well-Being By Design at Games for Change 2025

Join the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Games for Change 2025 Festival on Friday, June 27 for a workshop on creating games that promote children’s well-being. Hear how Fred Rogers Productions, Killer Snails, University of Oregon, Tiny Docs and Quest Craft are incorporating well-being by design into their games. Participants will then have a
Learn More & Register
ISTE x Whiteboard Advisors Solutions Summit

ISTE x Whiteboard Advisors Solutions Summit Breakout Session: What is Co-Design in EdTech?

Dive into the practice of co-design as a powerful method for developing impactful EdTech rooted in real classroom needs. Through hands-on activities and practical frameworks, participants will learn how to collaborate effectively with educators, students, and schools to build inclusive, research-informed products that drive meaningful learning outcomes. Allisyn Levy, Senior Manager of Partnerships & Planning,
Learn More & Register

digital media and developing minds logo

Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress

The 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress is an interdisciplinary convening that will bring together researchers, clinicians, educators, government agency representatives, and others with expertise in child development, psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, pediatrics, communications, social work, public health, education, human-computer interaction and more to explore how digital media use impacts the social, psychological, cognitive,
Learn More & Register
Voice of the Child webinar

Webinar: Launching the Voice of the Child

The Voice of the Child toolkit is an evidence-based resource designed for researchers, service providers, clinicians and others keen to involve children and young people in their work – whether they are just starting out or looking to expand their skills. The Centre for Community Child Health’s upcoming webinar will formally launch the toolkit, explore
Learn More & Register

Sandbox for Literacy Innovations Info Sessions

We’re thrilled to announce that the Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sandbox for Literacy Innovations call for applications is now officially open through August 29, 2025. Supported by the Walton Family Foundation, the Sandbox supports the development of cutting-edge educational technology and media, grounded in rigorous research and children’s lived experiences. The Sandbox is already showing
Learn More & Register

Well-Being by Design 2026 Fellowship: Office Hours

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center’s Well-Being by Design Fellowship is a professional development program for designers and producers of interactive kids’ technology and media. This is a free program supported by Pinterest with no fee or cost to participate. We are thrilled to announce a call for applications for our third year of the Well-being
Learn More & Register

Empowering Our Youth to Thrive in a Digital World: Axios House at Climate Week & UNGA 2025

Axios’ Empowering Our Youth to Thrive in a Digital WorldSeptember 23, 2025 | 3:00PM – 4:30PM ET Join Axios House for an event convening leading voices in tech, policy and youth advocacy for conversations examining strategies empowering young people to build healthy habits, meaningful connections and digital boundaries. We’ll look at ways families, educators, and
Learn More & Register

Connected Learning Summit 2025

The Seventh Annual Connected Learning Summit will take place October 5–10, 2025 as a hybrid event. CLS will feature Research Papers and Showcases that focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning. The event includes an online program
Learn More & Register

Edtech Week 2025: The Emerging Intersection of AI and K–12 Literacy

The Emerging Intersection of AI and K–12 Literacy: Lessons Learned and the Path Ahead How can AI meaningfully support literacy development in today’s classrooms—and what must we get right to ensure it does? In this thought-provoking conversation, education and technology leaders will explore how AI is being used to enhance literacy instruction across diverse K–12
Learn More & Register

Growing Readers in a World of Screens and AI

Designing the Next Decade of Literacy Innovations while Reflecting on 10 Years of Rapid Change Ten years ago, Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens brought together voices from the fields of early childhood, developmental science, literacy, media, and technology to offer guidance on helping children learn to read in a digital age. This
Learn More & Register

What does AI Owe Children? at Paris Peace Forum with iRaise Alliance

What does AI owe children? is the guiding question for this Paris Peace Forum conversation and  iRAISE Alliance stakeholders, which include policymakers, international organizations, researchers, and representatives of the industry. It will highlight the necessity of anchoring AI design and discussions in a broader commitment to children’s rights and their cognitive and socioemotional development. Grounded
Learn More & Register

More Content To Explore

Publications

2025 Well-Being by Design Fellowship Case Studies

by JGCC Team | July 28, 2025
Initiatives

Here Comes the Fun Challenge