Past Events by Stanford Leadership Institute

The 2026 Climate & Environmental Justice Across Borders Conference forms part of the inaugural year of programming for the Stanford Center for Just Environmental Futures, a new interdisciplinary hub dedicated to advancing community-rooted approaches to climate and environmental justice.

The Stanford Conference on Environmental Entrepreneurship brings together researchers and practitioners focused on creating a sustainable world economy through social or commercial entrepreneurship.

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.

Environmental and Energy Economics (EEE) Festival develops new research and builds community between Stanford, Berkeley, and other nearby EEE researchers.

Stanford Graduate School of Business is bringing together academics and industry professionals to share the recent advances in AI in marketing and examine the new risks that may arise.

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.

This environmental justice conference seeks to amplify the voices of Indigenous Peoples in relation to environmental justice.

This conference seeked to bring together leading academic scholars, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs [aka ecopreneurs] and business leaders to share challenges and best practices in scaling sustainability innovation.

We invite you to join us for an exclusive conversation with Juan Manuel Santos, Former President of Colombia and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

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.

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.

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?

Becoming a more sustainable planet will depend on recognizing the inherent value of culture to people, and the need to align cultural and natural resources.

In partnership with Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, this conference is designed to strengthen the community of scholars at the intersection of civil society and sustainability, and advance scholarship and insights on the roles civil society serve in sustainability efforts.

We invite you to join us via livestream for a conversation with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase and GSB Dean Peter DeMarzo.

This conference will bring together renowned economists and finance experts to discuss the intersection of environmental and financial challenges.

This conference will showcase the research at the intersection of politics and the environment because progress on environmental sustainability requires understanding politics.

This conference brings together scholars from across campus and elsewhere who have done work illuminating human thinking and action related to the environment and sustainability.

We will feature research on organizations, and their role in bringing about a more sustainable future.

This conference seeks to bring together leading academic scholars working at the cutting edge of scientific inquiry into the Earth’s climate.

This event fostered conversations and joint exploration on harnessing the research potential of police body-worn cameras to improve interactions between officers and community members.

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.

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.

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.