Workshop Series

Use AI to responsibly support hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, and talent management while protecting fairness and human judgment.

Explore how public agencies can help communities navigate data center and other infrastructure developments through meaningful engagement, community agreements, and ongoing accountability.

Explore how public-sector teams can use AI-assisted tools to identify, address, and monitor digital accessibility barriers while maintaining human judgment and accountability.

Learn practical strategies to turn ideas for improving government into action, build support across teams, navigate organizational barriers, and sustain meaningful change.

Learn how analytical skills, lived experience, and community context can work together to connect evidence with public needs, policy decisions, and meaningful outcomes.

Explore how public transportation agencies can use AI to improve planning, operations, safety, and passenger experience while navigating risks and implementing AI responsibly.

A weekly, hands-on practice lab led by public-sector AI leaders, using real prompts and real challenges across platforms to build practical skills.

Examine when using predictive AI can improve public-sector decisions, when it falls short, and what safeguards responsible use requires.

Explore responsible uses of AI in government legal work, including research, drafting, document review, compliance, and policy analysis.

Introduces public health leaders and practitioners to policies, tools, and skills to improve the health and well-being of our communities.

Build practical skills to leverage AI to improve competitiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency in procurement.

Learn how to assess whether AI tools improve outcomes, strengthen services, and deliver public value over time.

Examine the energy and environmental challenges and opportunities of AI-related infrastructure and public-sector uses of AI.

State and local governments increasingly collect large amounts of program, operational, and community data, yet many agencies still struggle to translate that information into continuous improvement, adaptive management, and better public outcomes. At the same time, government leaders and program managers are under growing pressure to demonstrate the ongoing value and worthiness of their programs to elected officials, funders, community stakeholders, and the public, often in rapidly changing political, fiscal, and operational environments.
This three-part series focuses less on technical evaluation methods alone and more on how government leaders and program managers can use data, evidence, community feedback, and AI-supported insights to strengthen decision-making, demonstrate program value and relevance in real time, adapt programs over time, and improve service delivery. The series combines practical frameworks, real-world government examples, and moderated discussions with practitioners using these approaches across state and local government settings.

Public call centers are one of the most important and sometimes overlooked parts of government service delivery.

Addressing displacement, accessibility, energy and the environment — the most requested “tough questions” about AI.

Applying AI to legal work and attorney general functions responsibly and effectively.

Join Anita McGahan for a five-session series designed to help public professionals strengthen the foundations of collaboration so they can work more effectively with colleagues and achieve better outcomes with less friction. Across the sessions, participants will explore practical strategies for building trust, improving coordination, and navigating the interpersonal and organizational challenges that often make teamwork harder than it needs to be.

This three-part UX Practices and Talent series is designed to help city government leaders understand how user experience (UX) practices can improve the way public services are designed and delivered.

The series brings together timely conversations on leadership, technology, service delivery, organizational design, and governance, always grounded in the realities of public sector work. 

Applying AI to enhance benefits delivery, case management, and service design, emphasizing ethical use, equity, and improved outcomes for all.

How to improve data accessibility and interoperability to support responsible AI development while safeguarding privacy, security, and public trust.

Learn when new forms of automation, analysis and prediction work and when they don’t and how to tell the difference. Co-hosted with Princeton CITP.

These workshops highlight leading InnovateUS speakers and provide practical insights, lessons, and core guidance tailored to public sector challenges.

Learn how to design effective and efficient AI-enhanced citizen engagement that translates public input into meaningful outcomes.

Innovating in the Public Interest is a six-part workshop series, in partnership with the Pi-Squared Initiative, focused on helping public sector professionals collaborate effectively with private organizations. Participants learn practical strategies for identifying partners, aligning goals, and building scalable, mission-driven collaborations.

AI for Literacy Achievement AI brings together recorded workshops on how educators, public professionals, communities, and caregivers can use AI to support stronger literacy outcomes. These sessions explore practical ways AI can help expand access to reading support, personalize learning, strengthen educator capacity, and better identify where students need help. Designed for people working to improve literacy achievement, especially for children who have been underserved by traditional systems, this collection offers real examples, clear strategies, and grounded conversations about how to use emerging technology responsibly and effectively.