Welcome to the 12th and final day of the NYC PIT Pop Up! Today we wrap up the first ever NYC PIT Pop Up and envision what the future holds for public interest technology. Closing Day Schedule: Daily Demos: 2:00pm-6:00pm Worlds We Carry Your Peer The Reboot: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Worlds We Carry is an interactive installation that invites the public to imagine what we should carry forward into the future, whether into space or here on Earth. Participants are invited to map the places that matter to them – from corner parks to neighborhood restaurants – and share what gives these spaces meaning. Each […]
YourPeer allows service-seekers to find free and low-cost social resources. It’s also a tool to help people assist others who could use those resources. YourPeer helps communities rebuild. Streetlives’ goal is to shorten the time it takes for youth (16-24) to transition from housing instability to being stably housed and thriving. YourPeer and Streetlives are […]
The Reboot is our time to hang out, reflect on the day’s demos, and interact with the online PIT community.
On Friday, January 9th from 12:00pm-6:00pm, the City University of New York Public Interest Technology Lab (CUNY PIT Lab), in partnership with BetaNYC and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), will be hosting an open house announcing the re-launch of the NYC PIT Pop-Up after a highly successful debut in the fall of 2025. […]
Presenter: Sneha Srivastava (Macaulay Honors College) The goal of this project is to visualize the variables included in New York City’s Flood Vulnerability Index dataset. The key visualization is a three-dimensional interactive model, mapping the Flood Susceptibility to Harm and Recovery Index against the median household income of each census tract within the city, in […]
Presenter: Zoe Voss Lee (MIT) In this speculative design workshop, we ask: What if our data infrastructure lived in our neighborhood parks, schools, or community gardens? What if a data center didn’t just store files, but also used its excess heat to warm a public pool in the winter? What if your neighborhood’s digital history […]
Presenter: Apurva Jhamb Centered on Brooklyn, the event will showcase a series of data-driven maps and visual narratives created using NYC Open Data datasets related to housing, land use, landmarks, environmental conditions, and neighborhood change. The session will demonstrate how public data when paired with thoughtful design can move beyond technical analysis to become an […]
Presenter: Nate Cooper (Kingsborough Community College) In this session, learn about the NASA Space Apps Challenge, NASA’s global data hackathon. Each year NASA posts 11 challenges to use its data in unique ways over the course of a weekend. Last year, there were over 100k participants globally. You’ll meet participants from last year’s hackathon including […]
Presenter: Lauri Goldkind (Fordham University) This is a one-day in-person drop-in, office hours style session aimed at human services professionals and similar public sector staff to learn about ways that Open Data and AI might be used to help their organizations, and to share experiences and challenges they currently face. The session will include hands-on […]
Presenters: Kierstin Gray, Dr. Sará King and Katie Rouse MindHeart AI is a liberatory technology company centering the neuroscience of well being as a catalyst for intergenerational planetary healing. We create trauma-informed technologies that allow individuals to cultivate the necessary awareness to design sustainable pathways to well-being across personal, social, professional and collective communities. Utilizing […]
Presenter: Sasha Richardson (CUNY Graduate Center) The Black Knowledge Erasure Dataset (BKED) is a research archive designed to document how AI models like GPT-5 and Gemini distort Black history and culture through specific “hallucinations”. Rather than viewing these errors as random bugs, the project frames them as “epistemic erasure,” where algorithms invent authorities or omit […]