Conference News: All Things Open – AI; Healthcare Conf is Back!; Circularity CFP
Keeping the Door Open – for AI: After wrapping up their 2024 conference, the team behind All Things Open announced that they would be hosting the inaugural All Things Open AI Conference in Durham, NC from 17 – 18 March 2025. More information will be available within the next month or so and the CFP just opened this week with a 6 December deadline.
A (Live) Site for Sore Eyes: Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care. Their Global Health & Innovation Conference (GHIC) will host its 22nd edition on 26 – 27 April in 2025. And after several years holding the conference virtually they will be bringing back a live gathering! The 2025 GHIC will be hosted on a nature conservancy in North Haven (north of New Haven, CT). According to the conference organizers, “the venue will be Slate Upper School, a new building of sustainably harvested wood that has vast windows overlooking a 40-acre nature conservancy.is an annual event that dives deep into bold ideas, transformative innovation, and responsible global engagement.”
Submission Opportunity: Earlier this year, sustainability media and events group GreenBiz rebranded as the Trellis Group to better reflect the myriad social, political and economic issues that are linked with environmental ones. While the name has changed, Trellis continues to offer its signature conferences, including the springtime Circularity – held 29 April-1 May 2025 in Denver. Now until 22 November, interested speakers can submit a topic, challenge, or solution to address across six content tracks on the Circularity agenda, with design, climate, justice, and collaboration as cross-cutting themes. Above all else, Circularity values session topics that are grounded in real-world examples with tangible takeaways and presented by leadership from diverse backgrounds.
Lunchtime Learning: Money 2020 just wrapped up its US show at the end of October. If you were not one of the more than 10,000 fintech entrepreneurs, bankers and investors from over 90 countries who attended, you can still see what happened at one of the biggest fintech events of the year. Hear from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Director Rohit Chopra; Find out what Max Neukirchen, Co-Head of Global Payments at J.P. Morgan, Daniel Brusilovsky, Vice President of Technology at the Golden State Warriors, and Delphine Herve, CFO of Sephora North America had to say about The Future of Shopping. Listen to Daniela Amodei the President of Anthropic discuss Trusted GenAI in Finance and Dave Wolf Head of Global Payments & FinTech Partnerships at Meta on the Future of Embedded Finance & Payments.
Coming Up Next Week: Cerebral Valley AI Summit returns to San Francisco this fall on 20 November, an invitation-only event co-hosted by Newcomer and Volley that promises “an opportunity for the people building the next generation of AI to meet each other.” Forbes’ 22nd annual Global CEO Conference kicks off 20 November at an undisclosed location in Bangkok to explore the many ways that leadership, business and entrepreneurship are impacted by new storms of transformations: new administrations and elections worldwide, geopolitical and trade tensions, volatile economic conditions, energy transitions, and wildly accelerating tech. At the Alexander Group Executive Annual Forum (20-22 November in Palm Beach), organizers expect 250 executives across industries to explore how EX and CX convergence accelerates growth and creates an enduring organization. Microsoft Ignite – held 18-22 November in Chicago – is the tech giant’s ecosystem event geared toward sharing solutions to modernize and manage intelligent apps, safeguard data, and accelerate productivity. And from 18-19 November in Dubai, the Horasis Asia Meeting gathers executives and political leaders from Asia to stimulate discussions of the region’s economic future. This year’s Horasis Asia Meeting is part of the Global Freight Summit.