Explore our past events to see how leading thinkers and changemakers are tackling today’s most complex challenges and preparing leaders with insights for the future.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026
8:00am – 6:30pm
On Campus
This event will convene thought leaders for constructive dialogue on the complex changes reshaping our world, from the technological to the geopolitical, economic to environmental. The Forum is designed to spark new thinking, surface timely questions, and help leaders bring these insights into their work.
Monday, March 09, 2026 – Tuesday, March 10, 2026
On Campus
The Stanford Conference on Environmental Entrepreneurship brings together researchers and practitioners focused on creating a sustainable world economy through social or commercial entrepreneurship.
Monday, February 09, 2026 – Tuesday, February 10, 2026
On Campus
This two-day symposium brings together geologists, geophysicists, marine scientists, technology developers, and research institutions from the Monterey Bay and adjacent central California coast regions to showcase cutting-edge research in seafloor processes and explore new pathways for collaboration.
Friday, December 12, 2025
12:00am – 11:59pm
On Campus
Environmental and Energy Economics (EEE) Festival develops new research and builds community between Stanford, Berkeley, and other nearby EEE researchers.
Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00pm – 1:15pm
On Campus
Stanford
CA
US
This event is hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Energy, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at the Hoover Institution.
Monday, April 07, 2025 – Tuesday, April 08, 2025
On Campus
Sensors - deployed using satellite, airborne, land/water-based systems - can transform the approach to addressing critical issues related to climate change and sustainability by providing the essential measurements needed, with the spatial and temporal sampling needed, to advance understanding and support the implementation of solutions at local to global scales.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
8:30am – 6:00pm
On Campus
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is convening an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers, industry practitioners, and thought leaders to tackle the pressing challenges, solutions, and opportunities related to AI alignment.
Friday, March 21, 2025
8:30am – 7:00pm
On Campus
The Hoover Institution’s Center for Revitalizing American Institutions and Stanford Graduate School of Business are convening researchers to discuss the question: how can we make AI more trustworthy to people across the political spectrum in a polarized world?
Thursday, February 27, 2025
12:00am – 11:59pm
Online
We invite you to join us via livestream for a conversation with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase and GSB Dean Peter DeMarzo.
Thursday, February 27, 2025 – Friday, February 28, 2025
On Campus
This conference will bring together renowned economists and finance experts to discuss the intersection of environmental and financial challenges.
Thursday, February 06, 2025 – Friday, February 07, 2025
On Campus
This conference will showcase the research at the intersection of politics and the environment because progress on environmental sustainability requires understanding politics.
Thursday, November 07, 2024 – Friday, November 08, 2024
On Campus
We will feature research on organizations, and their role in bringing about a more sustainable future.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Friday, October 11, 2024
On Campus
This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars working at the cutting edge of scientific inquiry into the Earth’s climate.
Monday, July 08, 2024 – Tuesday, July 09, 2024
On Campus
The Stanford Sustainability Summit (S-Cubed), in its inaugural debut, is designed to increase interactions between sustainability innovators from all over the world and the Stanford community by bringing them together at the Stanford campus to share their experiences.
Tuesday, June 04, 2024 – Wednesday, June 05, 2024
On Campus
Solving the world’s greatest sustainability challenges depends on active engagement by civil society actors. Nonprofits, philanthropies, and advocacy groups play an important role in shaping the sustainable development agenda and contributing to innovative solutions to address problems like climate change.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
9:00am – 6:00pm
On Campus
The event was co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, focusing on Promoting Competition in Artificial Intelligence.
Monday, May 20, 2024 – Tuesday, May 21, 2024
On Campus
Current models of industrialization and consumption are degrading the environment and polluting the world, causing 9 million premature deaths per year. In this conference, we challenged the Stanford community and external partners to brainstorm solutions for three major sources of pollution while emphasizing their effects on human health: coal-fired industry, wildfires, and plastic. Jumping off from successful interdisciplinary work underway in each area, we put forward a solutions-oriented interdisciplinary research agenda to foster a healthier and more sustainable future.
Friday, May 17, 2024
12:00am – 11:59pm
On Campus
This conference brought together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders working on and interested in scaling sustainability innovation to share their perspectives and experiences.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 – Friday, March 15, 2024
On Campus
Stanford
CA
US
The Pacific Ocean connects us and binds us to a common future as we rise to meet the challenges of climate change and provide for communities across island and coastal nations in a sustainable way. During this conference we explored these connections and define pathways for working together to promote resilience and shape a sustainable future for all.
Thursday, February 22, 2024 – Friday, February 23, 2024
On Campus
This conference brought together scholars from across campus and elsewhere who have done work illuminating human thinking and action related to the environment and sustainability.
Monday, December 11, 2023
12:00am – 11:59pm
On Campus
US
The Watershed Restoration Conference showcased cutting-edge research associated with watershed research, presented by some of the leading researchers on restoration in California, but with global relevance. The conference aimed to synthesize biological, geological, hydrological, and most importantly, Indigenous sciences on watershed restoration toward a socially and environmentally sustainable future.
Thursday, November 30, 2023 – Friday, December 01, 2023
On Campus
US
As society struggles to better align behavior with sustainability goals, there is an increased role for marketing to encourage behavioral change. This can be accomplished by influencing both public perceptions of sustainability and promoting the development and marketability of products and services that work toward social goals but reduce strong consumer preference tradeoffs that might come with some sustainability solutions.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
9:00am – 5:00pm
On Campus
Stanford
CA
US
The purpose of this conference is to identify promising ideas that support on-the-ground disruption and outstanding challenges for AI researchers seeking to advance the operational needs of businesses and organizations, to explain the state of the art, and to distinguish fantasy from reality. An important goal is to foster meaningful engagement between scholars and practitioners in AI for operations, such as customer service, marketing, sales, logistics, healthcare, workflows, and human resources, and operations for AI, such as risk assessment and governance for the ecosystem of software, hardware, and human-generated content.
Monday, November 13, 2023 – Tuesday, November 14, 2023
On Campus
Stanford
CA
US
At this conference, we convened sessions to address carbon capture and storage challenges and solutions.
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