NYC School of Data 2025

Join us for our annual community-driven public interest technology conference. Participants come to learn, network, and collaborate around public interest technology, data, and design in New York City. With programming support from the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, our conference convenes city officials, technologists, designers, data analysts, and community members around open data, civic technology, and service design in New York City.

Our conference will be at CUNY School of Law on March 29, 2025, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of International Open Data Day, the 13th anniversary of the City’s transformative Open Data Law, and the conclusion of NYC Open Data Week.

Once again, we will bring you a fascinating, jam-packed day with panels, workshops, demos, talks, presentations, and office hours with NYC agencies. Conversations will cover open data, digital equity, service design and delivery, digital literacy, and data standards, and civic engagement. We want to equip YOU with tools and information to empower you to build a better civic society for ALL New Yorkers.

What is included in my ticket? All tickets include access to a full day of conference sessions, lunch, snacks, and coffee.

Are you a student or looking for a scholarship or volunteer opportunity? There are a select number of scholarship tickets available. Tickets are $35, and we will prioritize traditionally underserved and underrepresented communities. Learn more and apply before Wednesday, 26 March, at 5:00 PM at < https://betanyc.forms.fm/nyc-school-of-data-2025-scholarship-ticket/forms/9979 >.

Do you work for a Government agency / department? If you work for a government agency / department and want to purchase a ($55) general admission ticket via a check or a purchase order (PO), government ticket opportunities close on Wednesday, 26 March, by 5:00 PM. Please email < schoolofdata+govticket@beta.nyc >.

Press and Media, want to cover the event?

Media credentials are available to reporters, editors working as reporters, producers, video camera operators, and still photographers who present valid press identification. If you want to attend to cover a session or the event, email us your valid press identification to < schoolofdata+press@beta.nyc >. We will follow up.

Sponsors, want to support the conference?

We’re looking for mission-aligned sponsors to support conference costs such as meals, coffee, and childcare. Learn more about our opportunities to support by filling out this form.

Come learn and contribute to the next decade of technology, data, and policy — by us, for us!

Thank you 2025 Sponsors!

The following mission-aligned organizations are helping us cover conference costs and enable us to meet in 2025. Thank you!

Reinvent Albany advocates for transparent and accountable New York State government and increased transparency in New York City. We work to strengthen the Freedom of Information Law and put government information online, especially spending, contracting and budget information and we are vocal advocates for open data laws and practices. We also advocate for more accountable and better governed state authorities, including the MTA. We also work for transparent business subsidies and economic development spending rooted in facts and careful analysis. We seek to create a state government that is responsible, responsive and above board and thus we fight for public integrity measures and against laws and practices that increase the risk of corruption and favor the few and well connected over the public interest.

NYC Office of Technology and Innovation’s Office of Data Analytics (ODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and efficiently. Our work takes three main forms: analyzing data to improve City agency operations, operating the NYC Open Data program, and advancing Citywide data analytics, infrastructure, integration, and sharing.

Esri is the global market leader in geographic information systems (GIS) and since 1969 has supported organizations everywhere with the most powerful mapping and spatial analytics technology available, ArcGIS. Governments at all levels have trusted ArcGIS to make their communities smarter, safer, healthier, sustainable, livable and more prosperous. By using this powerful platform to reveal deeper insight into data, Esri customers are creating maps that run their organizations and the world. To learn more, visit: esri.com.