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SUMMARY:Venture Challenge Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years\, Brown has sponsored a “Media Track” for this competition. This is designed for students\, recent alumni and faculty who are interested in starting a new venture. These might be for-profit or non-profit and should involve journalism\, media and technology in some way. \nJoin us for an information session on Tuesday\, January 23 to learn more about this opportunity! Submissions for the venture challenge are due February 9\, 2024.\n \nYou can also join this information session virtually on Zoom. \nMaybe you have an idea about how AI can help reporters in small newsrooms\nMaybe you’re interested in encouraging new forms of collaboration between reporters\nMaybe you want to make working with data on your beat easier\nMaybe tools for the verification of images is important\nMaybe you’re imagining a single-subject news site\, or maybe it’s a tool or platform\, or maybe is a consultancy \nThe Media Track of Startup Columbia consists of two rounds of “pitch sessions” in which you prepare a short presentation about your idea and deliver it to a group of judges. After your first interaction\, you refine your pitch (maybe sharpen your idea) and have the chance to present for a second round. After that\, in mid-March\, we name three winners who receive cash prizes. The winners also receive scholarships for the Brown Institute’s 2024 Summer Entrepreneurship Program where they really work through their ideas. At the end of the summer we will have one final competition for the three challenge winners\, this one possibly ending in a grant for up to $100k! \nAh but you will not go it alone. We have four Entrepreneurs in Residence who can help you refine your idea. And the Brown Institute staff is always around to lend a hand! Good luck!
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/venture-challenge-information-session/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exploring AI Threats to Electoral Integrity
DESCRIPTION:2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First\, more than a quarter of the countries in the world\, representing a third of global population\, and comprising several of the largest democracies\, including Indonesia\, India\, and the United States\, will cast ballots. Second\, this will be the first large election cycle since the release of a new suite of advanced AI tools and systems that enable the generation of text\, images\, sound and video\, and will potentially change the landscape of political communication and behavior in profound ways\, including through so-called hallucinations\, deep fakes and voice cloning. In the face of these challenges\, we have deep information asymmetries and a critical need for transparent broad-scale testing of AI in real-world scenarios. This panel will explore known and unknown threats to election integrity and introduce a new initiative\, the AI Democracy Projects\, that aims to publicly benchmark the performance of AI chatbots that are becoming a popular source of public information. \nJoin AI Democracy Projects founders–award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and Alondra Nelson\, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study\, who led the development of the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights\, and the Honorable Francisco V. Aguilar\, Nevada Secretary of State\, for a conversation with SIPA Lecturer Camille François about the potential risks and benefits to the US election ecosystem presented by AI\, and how policymakers\, AI experts\, and journalists can begin to test AI tools for electoral-information integrity in a way that provides education\, information\, and accountability to the public. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School \nAbout the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA \nThe Institute of Global Politics (IGP) convenes leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. IGP brings together experts—from the public and private sectors and across the political spectrum—to foster civil discourse and create evidence-based policy strategies for local to global impact. \nAbout the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School \nEstablished in 2012\, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute is a collaboration between Columbia and Stanford Universities\, designed to encourage and support new endeavors in media innovation. Our partnership operates as an academic venture forum focusing on three distinct areas: granting\, offering over $1M in grants each year to support innovative media projects by students\, faculty\, and alums; research and teaching\, providing technical instruction to students and to the community; and research and development\, where our Local News Lab develops AI-powered tools to assist local newsrooms. \nSpeakers: \n\nJulia Angwin\, award-winning investigative journalist; founder of Proof News; best-selling author; contributing writer\, New York Times Opinion; and Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School.\nAlondra Nelson\, Harold F. Linder Professor\, Institute for Advanced Study; Distinguished Fellow\, Center for American Progress; former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden and Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy\nFrancisco “Cisco” V. Aguilar\, Nevada Secretary of State; former General Counsel for Agassi Graf and the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education; former Special Counsel to the Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education.\n\nModerator:  \nCamille François\, IGP Affiliated Faculty \n_____ \nPlease note: \nCheck-in begins 30 minutes before the event and early arrival is strongly recommended\, as this registration does not guarantee a seat. IDs and CUIDs will be checked at registration. We will release seats to the waitlist at the start of the event. \nRecording and photography: \nThis event will be photographed and filmed. By being present\, you consent to Columbia University using such photographs and video for educational and promotional purposes. \nGuests with disabilities: \nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Guests with disabilities can request assistance from the Office of Disability Services at (212) 854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/exploring-ai-threats-to-electoral-integrity/
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SUMMARY:Queer Data: Who Counts?
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on “Queer Data”. Guyan\, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh\, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step in so many reporting projects is a data set\, and even our own US Census Bureau has proposed asking questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on the American Community Survey. What is different about Queer Data? How has it been collected and why? What has been the impact on Queer communities? \nKevin Guyan will touch on these and other questions in his lunchtime talk “Queer Data: Who Counts?”. This is the first speaker in the Computational Journalism Class taught this spring by Mark Hansen and Gina Chua. (We will occasionally open our talks to the whole school.) The Office of the CJS Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion is co-sponsoring this event. \nLunch will be served\, but please register for the talk so we know how much to order. \nQueer Data: Who Counts? \n[Register here to reserve a lunch] \nBlurb: Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined\, collected and used. But who counts in the collection\, analysis and application of data? Join Kevin Guyan to discuss themes from his book Queer Data: Using Gender\, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury Academic) including the relationship between data and visibility\, the politics of who and how to count\, and the intersection of queer lives and everyday data practices and systems. \nBio: Dr Kevin Guyan is a researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Queer Data (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2022) and is currently writing his second book\, which explores queer encounters with different classification systems in the UK\, from hate crime reporting to dating apps. In March 2024\, Kevin joins the University of Edinburgh Business School as a Chancellor’s Fellow.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/queer-data-who-counts/
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SUMMARY:Venture Challenge Information Session
DESCRIPTION:The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years\, Brown has sponsored a “Media Track” for this competition. This is designed for students\, recent alumni and faculty who are interested in starting a new venture. These might be for-profit or non-profit and should involve journalism\, media and technology in some way. \nJoin us for an information session on Wednesday\, January 31 to learn more about this opportunity! Breakfast will be served!\n \nThe session will also be broadcast on Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85884818713?pwd=VWd1azc0VVdWV3VWQ3JtR1hkb3ZNUT09) \nMaybe you have an idea about how AI can help reporters in small newsrooms\nMaybe you’re interested in encouraging new forms of collaboration between reporters\nMaybe you want to make working with data on your beat easier\nMaybe tools for the verification of images is important\nMaybe you’re imagining a single-subject news site\, or maybe it’s a tool or platform\, or maybe is a consultancy \nThe Media Track of Startup Columbia consists of two rounds of “pitch sessions” in which you prepare a short presentation about your idea and deliver it to a group of judges. After your first interaction\, you refine your pitch (maybe sharpen your idea) and have the chance to present for a second round. After that\, in mid-March\, we name three winners who receive cash prizes. The winners also receive scholarships for the Brown Institute’s 2024 Summer Entrepreneurship Program where they really work through their ideas. At the end of the summer we will have one final competition for the three challenge winners\, this one possibly ending in a grant for up to $100k! Submissions for the venture challenge are due February 9\, 2024. \nAh but you will not go it alone. We have four Entrepreneurs in Residence who can help you refine your idea. And the Brown Institute staff is always around to lend a hand! Good luck!
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/venture-challenge-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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