Opening Data for AI Innovation

Opening Data for AI Innovation

About the Series

Opening Data for AI Innovation is a four-part series for public professionals exploring how to make data more accessible and interoperable to support responsible AI development, while protecting privacy, security, and public trust.

As AI tools increasingly rely on shared and connected datasets, governments face growing pressure to open data in ways that enable innovation without creating new risks. This series helps public sector teams understand how open data can serve as critical infrastructure for AI, and what it takes to design, govern, and apply data systems that are usable, secure, and accountable.
This series is offered in collaboration with the Govlab and  The Data Stewards Academy

 

Workshops

Building AI-Ready Open Data

April 15, 2026

2:00 PM ET

60 minutes

Open Data as a Foundation for AI Innovation
Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder of The GovLab, Co-Founder and Principal Scientific Advisor of The DataTank
Using AI to Make Open Data Useful: Lessons from the City of Boston
Santiago Garces, Chief Information Officer, City of Boston
Srihari Rahman, Ai for Impact Fellow