BIDS Events

Join us in 2026-27

July 2, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: UC Davis hosts with a focus on POSE

July 28-31, 2026
Agentic AI for Science (AAI4Science) Developer Summit

August 6, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: UC Santa Barbara hosts "How AI is changing open source workflows"

September 3, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: September

September 18, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Aarthi Vadde
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Aarthi Vadde

October 1, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: October

October 9, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Maria Antoniak
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Maria Antoniak

October 30, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen

November 5, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: November

November 9, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Meredith Martin & Wouter Haverals
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Meredith Martin & Wouter Haverals

December 3, 2026
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: December

January 7, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: January

February 4, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: February

March 4, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: March

April 1, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: April

May 6, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: May

June 3, 2027
OSPO Monthly All-Campus Virtual Meetup: June

January 22, 2026
The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability

February 10, 2026
STRUDEL Contributor Event

February 13, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Michaela Mahlberg

February 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open science as a process, not a product

February 25-26, 2026
Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder

March 5, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder Share Out

March 6, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Bob L. T. Sturm "I am Troubled"
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Bob L. T. Sturm

March 15-16, 2026
Spatial Data Science Summit

March 18, 2026
CRELS speaker series with Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa"

March 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open source and open data powering multimodal models for the study of culture

March 17-20, 2026
Cultural Analytics series workshop week: "Multimodal Models for the Study of Culture"

March 17, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Peter Broadwell "Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the Performing Arts"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with James Abello & Haoyang Zhang "Graph Cities and their Applications"

March 18, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Workshop with Lauren Tilton
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Taylor Arnold "Computational Approaches to Pacing and Style in Television Comedy"

March 19, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Noah Askin "The Social Foundations of Creative Influence"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Peter Leonard "The Three Obstructions: Improvements in Analysis & Interface for Multimodal Retrieval"

March 20, 2026
Talk and discussion with Gaël Varoquaux: "Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Miguel Escobar Varela "What Dance Scholars can Learn from Warehouse Surveillance: Emic Approaches to Temporal Action Segmentation"
Cultural Analytics Workshop Week: Conclusion & Reflections with Tim Tangherlini

March 31, 2026
JupyterHub Security Workshop

April 10, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Kyle Booten "Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry"
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Kyle Booten

April 13-15, 2026
Building Open Connected Scientific Data Products for the Cryosphere hackdays

April 21, 2026
CRELS speaker series with Simone Zhang: "Scoring Justice: Risk Assessment Tools, Court Practices, and Fairness Perceptions"

April 22-23, 2026
UC Open Source Summit 2026

If you'd like to see BIDS events from 2025 and earlier, please visit the Past Events page here.