openai-events.xml Events from the OpenAI Forum (upcoming and past) http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification python-feedgen en Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:05:00 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/hybrid-event-using-ai-to-fast-track-scientific-breakthroughs-m0skhd2et8 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** December 15 🕐 **Time:** 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 📍 **Location:** Online In Person: 11:30-2pm PT In this Forum session, OpenAI’s VP of Science Kevin Weil and Brian Spears, Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s AI Innovation Incubator (AI3), will explore how advanced AI systems are beginning to make direct, measurable contributions to scientific research. The discussion will highlight the OpenAI–LLNL partnership and what it looks like when frontier reasoning models are embedded in real scientific workflows—from accelerating hypothesis generation and analyzing complex datasets to uncovering connections that were previously out of reach. Weil will share the vision behind OpenAI for Science, including the ambition to “compress 25 years of scientific progress into 5,” by giving researchers powerful new instruments for discovery. Spears will offer the lab-level perspective on how AI is already expanding the pace, scale, and ambition of work across fields like energy, materials science, and high-performance computing. By bringing frontier AI into some of the nation’s most capable—and most secure—research institutions, OpenAI and the national labs are working together to build a more rapid, reliable, and resilient model for turning scientific insight into real-world impact. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/hybrid-event-using-ai-to-fast-track-scientific-breakthroughs-m0skhd2et8 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:05:00 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/using-ai-to-navigate-health-a-conversation-with-kate-rouch-nate-gross-and-james-hairston-kh8610ra8y **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** January 15 📍 **Location:** Online Health is one of the most common ways people already use ChatGPT to make sense of information that matters deeply to them. In this OpenAI Forum conversation, Kate Rouch, Chief Marketing Officer at OpenAI, and Nate Gross, who leads healthcare initiatives at OpenAI, will discuss the launch ofChatGPT Health. Our Forum guests will walk through how ChatGPT Health helps people feel more informed, prepared, and confident as they navigate their health, from understanding test results to preparing for conversations with their doctors. Kate will also share how her own experiences using AI to manage health questions shaped the way this product was built. Kate Rouch is the Chief Marketing Officer at OpenAI. She believes AI is the most transformative technology of our time and is focused on helping people to learn about its potential for society and also to get real value from it in their everyday lives. Previously, she was CMO at Coinbase, where she led global marketing as crypto went mainstream. Her work included the viral bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad, one of the most talked-about ads in Super Bowl history. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/using-ai-to-navigate-health-a-conversation-with-kate-rouch-nate-gross-and-james-hairston-kh8610ra8y Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:59 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/hybrid-event-understanding-animals-ai-helps-scientists-interpret-language-across-species-s3dgmg67a2 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** January 29 🕐 **Time:** 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM 📍 **Location:** San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) This OpenAI Forum will unfold in 2 parts. During our OpenAI Forum, we’ll feature two distinct but related talks. First, we’ll hear from linguist Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley and Project CETI), whose research explores language, cognition, and non-human intelligence, and who has recently used OpenAI’s model o1 in an exploratory research role. Building on prior work showing that o1 demonstrates strong metalinguistic capabilities—such as handling recursion and ambiguity—Beguš’s team applied AI models to a new domain: sperm whale communication. Instead of testing a predefined hypothesis, models were used to learn whale data and surface patterns that had not been part of traditional analyses. This approach led researchers at Project CETI to identify vowel- and diphthong-like sound structures in whale codas, challenging existing assumptions about the limits of non-human communication. AI did not replace scientific judgment in this process; rather, it helped direct human attention toward promising signals that were then validated using established linguistic methods. We are hosting this event to showcase a concrete example of AI-enabled interpretability and discovery, and to contribute to broader conversations about intelligence, language, and what may or may not be uniquely human.Here's the paper. It was covered in Quanta, IEEE Spectrum, German DIE ZEIT, etc. Second, we’ll invite VP of OpenAI for science, Kevin Weil, to the stage for a fireside chat with Gašper Beguš. Weil and Bergus will discuss OpenAI’s goal of compressing 25 years of scientific progress into 5 by weaving AI into scientific workflows. They’ll highlight real scientific workflows enabling new forms of discovery and share their thoughts on the future of scientific applications. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/hybrid-event-understanding-animals-ai-helps-scientists-interpret-language-across-species-s3dgmg67a2 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:58 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/get-hired-using-chatgpt-tips-from-openais-head-of-recruiter-programs-dfh107b0y9 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** February 05 📍 **Location:** Online 🎤 **Speakers:** Selena Ma, Natalie Cone This talk demonstrates how ChatGPT can be a practical, supportive tool to help people get a job—from figuring out what to apply for, to telling their story clearly, to preparing for interviews and offers. In a job market where first impressions are made quickly, it can be hard to know how to stand out to would-be employers. We’ll walk through how AI can help you see what employers are looking for, highlight your real strengths in your resume and cover letter, rehearse for your interviews, and focus your time on what actually moves the needle. At its core, this is about using AI to expand opportunity by giving more people the tools, clarity, and confidence to take the next step in their careers. Our goal is simple: help you turn AI into a real advantage as you take your next career step — alongside a community that’s rooting for you. Selena Ma leads Recruiting Programs at OpenAI, where she is responsible for building and scaling the company’s top-of-funnel talent pipelines, including the Internship and Research Residency programs. Her work focuses on identifying, attracting, and developing exceptional early-career talent to support OpenAI’s rapidly growing engineering and research teams.Selena began her career through an unconventional path. After studying International Relations at the University of California, Irvine, she applied for a finance internship and was instead encouraged by a recruiter to explore a future in recruiting. That moment proved pivotal. What began as an unpaid internship became the foundation of a career dedicated to discovering and developing high-potential talent.She went on to build early-career and campus recruiting programs at Google and Facebook, and later at an early-stage startup founded by former Facebook leaders. Across these roles, Selena developed a deep expertise in designing programs that give candidates access to high-impact opportunities at the world’s leading technology companies.Throughout her career, Selena has remained f https://forum.openai.com/public/events/get-hired-using-chatgpt-tips-from-openais-head-of-recruiter-programs-dfh107b0y9 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:57 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/using-ai-to-protect-children-online-in-conversation-with-thorn-wyjxpwllqt **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** February 11 📍 **Location:** Online This event covers sensitive topics related to online child safety, including child sexual abuse and exploitation, which may be difficult for some audiences. Thornis a nonprofit organization that transforms the way children are protected from sexual abuse and exploitation in the digital age. As kids spend more of their lives online, keeping them safe in online spaces matters more than ever. In this OpenAI Forum conversation, Thorn CEO Julie Cordua will share how AI is being used to detect and prioritize harmful content, support investigators in identifying victims faster, and inform safer online experiences for children.. We’ll also discuss how partners like OpenAI are working with Thorn to support this critical mission. Julie Cordua is CEO of Thorn, a nonprofit that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Since Julie joined the organization over a decade ago, Thorn has become a pivotal force in creating safer online environments for children, developing tools and solutions for digital platforms to help them prevent and address child sexual abuse and exploitation, and implementing solutions for law enforcement that have led to the identification and rescue of thousands of child victims on a global scale. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/using-ai-to-protect-children-online-in-conversation-with-thorn-wyjxpwllqt Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:56 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-openais-chief-futurist-on-agi-and-whats-next-rlwmuialym **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** February 26 📍 **Location:** Online Josh Achiam, OpenAI’s Chief Futurist, will join the OpenAI Forum for a conversation about how we prepare the world for rapid AI-driven change. Drawing on his background as an AI researcher at OpenAI, Josh will share how rigorous research, hands-on experimentation, and clear communication can inform better public understanding and policy. The discussion will explore how these approaches come together to help policymakers and the broader public navigate what’s ahead—and what it means to engage with AI thoughtfully as its impact continues to grow. To participate in 1:1 networking from the 'Match' tab on the left, or via the agenda. When you are ready to participate, you will navigate to the 'Match' tab and select the 'Join Match' button. Note that you must be logged in on a laptop or computer browser to engage over video in 'Match'. We also suggest you use Google Chrome or Safari browsers for the best experience. Once you have configured your camera and microphone, you will be put in a queue until another attendee has joined. The system pairs you at random for a quick chat, and will not pair you with someone you have already met with during this event. Each party must approve the match, but if you decline a match with a suggested member, they will not be informed. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-openais-chief-futurist-on-agi-and-whats-next-rlwmuialym Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:55 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/accelerating-math-and-theoretical-physics-with-ai-openai-ucla-institute-for-pure-and-applied-math-36g2dwti17 📅 **Date:** March 04 📍 **Location:** Online OpenAI × UCLA IPAM Convening on AI, Mathematics, and Theoretical Physics OpenAI is collaborating with UCLA’s Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) on a full-day convening of leading mathematicians, theoretical physicists, and AI researchers to explore how frontier reasoning models are beginning to accelerate discovery in highly abstract scientific domains. Through focused lectures, disciplinary deep dives, and panel discussions, the program will highlight innovative applications of AI and illuminate the emerging era in which AI meaningfully accelerates progress on the hardest scientific problems. Midway through the program, a fireside conversation betweenTerence TaoandMark Chenwill revisit last year's landmark dialogue on the evolving role of AI in mathematical discovery and update the community on the past year of progress. The event is designed to give top researchers a front-row view of cutting-edge advances in AI-driven mathematics and physics while catalyzing new interdisciplinary collaboration. As Tao noted during last year’s conversation, “In the future, you could collaborate with scientists in domains where you have no expertise. The AI could serve as a universal translator, helping mathematicians get up to speed quickly and enabling unprecedented interdisciplinary work.” This convening aims to bring that future closer: to educate, inspire, and connect researchers across fields in service of accelerating discovery and solving humanity’s most complex challenges. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/accelerating-math-and-theoretical-physics-with-ai-openai-ucla-institute-for-pure-and-applied-math-36g2dwti17 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:54 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/in-person-event-ai-in-news-organizations-responsible-innovation-and-the-future-of-journalism-8gu06vnb99 📅 **Date:** March 12 AI is increasingly part of how journalists research, analyze, and tell stories. In this Forum conversation, journalists, editors, and technologists come together to talk about how AI is being used in news organizations today, what responsible integration looks like in practice, and how guidance and shared learnings can help ensure these tools strengthen high-quality journalism and serve the public interest. Immediately following the Forum talk, anOpenAI Academy workshopwill feature concrete demos and workflows fromScott Smallwood,founder ofOpen Campus, a nonprofit newsroom covering higher education and fromEvan Hirsch, who led AI integration at NBC News Now. Jim VandeHei- Jim VandeHei is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Axios, one of the most celebrated digital media success stories of the past decade. Before founding Axios, VandeHei co-founded and was CEO of Politico. Prior to this, VandeHei spent more than a decade as a reporter, covering the Presidency and Congress for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He was named National Editor of the Year in 2016. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/in-person-event-ai-in-news-organizations-responsible-innovation-and-the-future-of-journalism-8gu06vnb99 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:53 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/sxsw-san-antonio-spurs-x-openai-9e6djkso3z 📅 **Date:** March 14 This session is part of SXSW programming, and a valid SXSW badge is required for entry. How do you scale AI without losing the human touch? In this session, leaders from the San Antonio Spurs and OpenAI share how they’re using AI to create more meaningful experiences for fans, partners, and communities. From personalized fan engagement and family-focused experiences to internal productivity and decision-making, the Spurs offer a real-world look at how purpose-built AI tools are being used on and off the court. Attendees will walk away with practical lessons on responsible AI adoption, concrete use cases from a global sports franchise, and a blueprint for putting people first while bringing cutting-edge technology to the courtside. Patricia Mejiais the Chief Impact & Inclusion Officer for Spurs Sports & Entertainment where she oversees youth programming, community leadership development and sets philanthropic strategy for the organization across all franchises. She leads the strategy for place-based community and civic engagement through collaboration with community and the entire SS&E organization to be champions, by building leaders and legacies where we live, learn, work and play. Previously as the Vice President of Community Engagement and Impact at the San Antonio Area Foundation, with 1 billion dollars in assets, she led transformational organizational change to more intentionally target investments to create more equitable communities, creating a national model for other philanthropic organizations. Patricia has been afforded her the opportunity to step into some of this region’s most defining moments of crisis through COVID-19 and the tragedy in Uvalde, where she led her team in securing and channeling resources to families most in need. Patricia’s 20 plus years as an executive in both the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors allow her to center community voice in the leadership of her teams to implement trust-based practices and authentic engagement. This a https://forum.openai.com/public/events/sxsw-san-antonio-spurs-x-openai-9e6djkso3z Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:52 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-from-terminal-to-turnaround-how-gitlabs-co-founder-leveraged-chatgpt-in-his-cancer-fight-k3m7gks1bt **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** March 18 📍 **Location:** Online When GitLab co-founder Sid Sijbrandij was diagnosed with bone cancer, he brought his engineering mindset to the fight. After almost two years of exploring everything that standard medicine could offer, Sid had reached the end of what doctors could offer him. That’s when he began to channel his career to fight back, by using AI to help him analyze cancer not as a static disease, but a fast-adapting system. Sid used ChatGPT to help track and understand his cancer and health data. He inputted scans, blood tests, and tissue samples to build a personal research and development loop that let him connect the dots, spot changes, and explore new potential treatments alongside his medical team. The result helped him move faster, ask sharper questions, and coordinate care across a complex landscape. In this OpenAI Forum talk, Sid and geneticist Jacob Stern share what it means to turn AI into a partner in health research. Sid Sijbrandij (pronounced “see-brandy”) is the Co-founder and Executive Chair of GitLab Inc., the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform. GitLab’s single application helps organizations deliver software faster and more efficiently while strengthening their security and compliance. Sid also served as CEO from 2012-2024. He also co-founded Kilo Code in March, the open AI coding platform. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-from-terminal-to-turnaround-how-gitlabs-co-founder-leveraged-chatgpt-in-his-cancer-fight-k3m7gks1bt Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:51 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-reimagining-cultural-heritage-with-openai-sanskriti-foundation-and-ask-mona-4m5cef68ap **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** January 20 📍 **Location:** Online This session is a replay of a recorded OpenAI Forum event originally held in India. The program brought together OpenAI, Ask Mona, and the Sanskriti Foundation, one of India’s leading cultural institutions, to explore how AI could transform the way people experience museums. The event began with opening remarks fromLily Pandeya, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, who reflected on the importance of using new technologies to expand access to cultural heritage. Hosted at Travancore Palace in New Delhi, the program featured an exhibition of ancient terracotta sculptures from the Sanskriti Museum, where visitors scanned QR codes to engage with a multilingual AI-powered docent and ask questions in real time. Rather than replacing curators or scholars, the experience introduced a new layer of interpretation that helped visitors follow their curiosity and connect with cultural heritage in a more personal and accessible way. The program concluded with a panel discussion featuringRonnie Chatterji, Marion Carré, Varun Jain, and Amish Tripathi. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-reimagining-cultural-heritage-with-openai-sanskriti-foundation-and-ask-mona-4m5cef68ap Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:50 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/openai-the-san-antonio-spurs-and-positive-coaching-alliance-empower-parent-communities-in-texas-wi-r5o5hg6esn **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** March 29 The San Antonio Spurs Community Impact organization, OpenAI Academy and the Positive Coaching Alliance teamed up to bring together coaches, parents, and community leaders on Sunday to explore how AI can support learning, coaching, and youth engagement—on and off the court. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/openai-the-san-antonio-spurs-and-positive-coaching-alliance-empower-parent-communities-in-texas-wi-r5o5hg6esn Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:49 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-ai-in-news-organizations-responsible-innovation-and-the-future-of-journalism-es2bay0env **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** April 02 📍 **Location:** Online AI is increasingly part of how journalists research, analyze, and tell stories. In this OpenAI Forum session, we will replay a previously recorded in-person conversation from our gathering in Washington D.C. earlier in March, followed by a live Q&A and demo. The conversation brings together journalists, editors, and technologists to discuss how AI is being used across news organizations today, what responsible integration looks like in practice, and how shared guidance and learnings can help ensure these tools strengthen high-quality journalism and serve the public interest. Featured speakers include Kayla Tausche (Moderator), Jim VandeHei (Co-founder, CEO and Chairman, Axios), Sarabeth Berman (CEO, American Journalism Project), and Shira T. Center (VP of Innovation & Strategic Initiatives, Boston Globe Media Partners). Immediately following the Forum replay, Evan Hirsch, Senior Producer & AI Strategist will demo what he built for newsrooms and join us for a live Q&A. Jim VandeHei- Jim VandeHei is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Axios, one of the most celebrated digital media success stories of the past decade. Before founding Axios, VandeHei co-founded and was CEO of Politico. Prior to this, VandeHei spent more than a decade as a reporter, covering the Presidency and Congress for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He was named National Editor of the Year in 2016. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-ai-in-news-organizations-responsible-innovation-and-the-future-of-journalism-es2bay0env Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:48 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-sam-altman-on-building-the-future-of-ai-j0h1igxg1q **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** April 06 📍 **Location:** Online As AI capabilities accelerate, so does public interest in how these systems are built, deployed, and governed. In this OpenAI Forum conversation, Sam Altman is joined by Chief Futurist Josh Achiam and researcher Adrien Ecoffet to discuss how OpenAI is approaching the next phase of AI. This conversation focuses on what comes next: how society keeps pace with rapid technological change, how more people can actively shape the trajectory of AI, and how we build systems that are not just powerful, but widely beneficial, resilient, and aligned with the public interest. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-sam-altman-on-building-the-future-of-ai-j0h1igxg1q Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:47 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/the-ai-pit-crew-nascars-legacy-of-innovation-meets-the-age-of-ai-mt77uaxrvg **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** April 08 📍 **Location:** Online What does AI look like inside one of the world’s fastest and most data-driven sports? Join the OpenAI Forum for a conversation with NASCAR’s Rich Bowman, AI Operations Specialist, and Derek Thomas, Managing Director of Analytics, for a discussion on how the organization is bringing AI into its day-to-day work, including analytics, operations, and workforce enablement. In racing, safety and performance go hand in hand. NASCAR has applied that philosophy to technology for more than 80 years and AI is no different. The organization is moving quickly to explore new capabilities while building the training and guardrails that help teams use these tools responsibly. We’ll also explore how organizations empower employees with the tools and guidance they need to succeed with AI, and how early adopters inside teams can become leaders who turn experimentation into repeatable workflows that scale innovation across the entire organization. Richard Bowman operationalizes AI at scale, translating strategy into secure, adoptable workflows that deliver real business outcomes. At NASCAR, Rich leads governance, policy, and day-to-day enablement for enterprise AI tools, including ChatGPT Enterprise, partnering with Strategy, IT, Legal, and business teams to accelerate responsible adoption. His focus is on clear guardrails, practical training, measurable ROI, and a repeatable operating model that helps people work smarter, on and off the track. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/the-ai-pit-crew-nascars-legacy-of-innovation-meets-the-age-of-ai-mt77uaxrvg Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:46 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-understanding-the-labor-market-through-real-world-usage-data-znewubf1vb **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** April 15 📍 **Location:** Online Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday life, shaping how people work, learn, and solve problems. But alongside its growing adoption, questions remain about how to measure its economic and broader social impacts. Join OpenAI's Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji, Alex Martin Richmond, Labor Economist on the Economic Research team at OpenAI, Gregor Schubert, Assistant Professor Of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management and Daniel Rock, Assistant Professor at The Wharton School for a conversation on what OpenAI’susage datareveals about where the labor market is today and what it means for the future. The conversation will draw on how people use OpenAI usage data and broader research to explore how AI is already being integrated into everyday tasks, workplaces, and learning environments. Stay tuned for ongoing releases of additional data, research, and reports as part of the OpenAI Economic Research team’s ongoing effort to share insights on how AI is being used around the world. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-understanding-the-labor-market-through-real-world-usage-data-znewubf1vb Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:45 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-decoding-biological-intelligence-building-ai-agents-for-the-brain-genome-kjkrro59eo **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** April 22 📍 **Location:** Online Grace Zheng, co-founder of PerturbAI, and Xin Jin, co-founder of PerturbAI, and Professor of Scripps/HHMI, will show how we’re moving from mapping the brain to predicting how it works. In partnership with OpenAI, they’ve built one of the largest brain datasets ever created, capturing activity across 8 million cells, and are using AI to uncover the rules that drive biology. The result: a new era of biology and medicine that is more predictive, more precise, and far more effective. Zheng and Jin will also demonstrate how AI is transforming science itself, replacing complex, manual workflows with systems that let researchers explore data using everyday language, to help accelerate discovery and open the door to many more contributors. They’ll even introduce the idea of a “digital brain”, a simulation that could allow scientists to test treatments virtually, understand disease at its root, and bring life-saving therapies to patients faster than ever before. Xin Jinis a neuroscientist and molecular biologist whose work lies at the intersection of in vivo functional genomics and disease biology. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and the Dorris Neuroscience Center at Scripps Research, and an HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholar. Her lab develops scalable in vivo genomic technologies to uncover how genetic programs shape brain circuits across development, homeostasis, and disease. She recently co-founded PerturbAI to help bring this vision into therapeutic discovery. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/virtual-event-decoding-biological-intelligence-building-ai-agents-for-the-brain-genome-kjkrro59eo Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:44 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/how-chatgpt-helped-an-olympian-balance-work-life-and-training-6zrvqtphqa **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** May 05 📍 **Location:** Online AI can make a real difference in helping solve problems that slowly stack up: saving enough time to train, making a date easier to plan, or creating room to show up for work, personal life and elite training all at once. For Olympic gold medalist Liam Corrigan, ChatGPT was useful because it helped him keep the rest of his life moving while he prepared for Paris and won a gold medal. In this OpenAI Forum conversation, Liam joins Natalie Staudacher, his fiancee and a former OpenAI staff member, for a candid discussion about how they used ChatGPT across training, work, and everyday life. They will talk about researching nutrition and supplements, staying effective at work while training at an Olympic level, and using ChatGPT for the ordinary but meaningful logistics of a relationship. At a time when many people are still asking whether AI's benefits are real, Liam's story offers a grounded answer. ChatGPT did not do the rowing, make the relationship, or replace human judgment. It helped Liam and Natalie make better plans, protect time, reduce friction, and keep finding wins outside a single Olympic outcome. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/how-chatgpt-helped-an-olympian-balance-work-life-and-training-6zrvqtphqa Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:43 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/the-infrastructure-race-american-competitiveness-in-the-ai-era-o49bl2orw1 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** May 07 🕐 **Time:** 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM AI is quickly becoming a strategic advantage for nations. For the United States to stay ahead we need to broaden the conversation beyond software, to include the physical infrastructure that powers AI, including advanced chips, energy, data centers, and the compute needed to train and run increasingly capable systems. Join the OpenAI Forum for a timely conversation about why AI infrastructure matters to U.S. competitiveness, economic growth, and national resilience. We’ll explore how investments in computing capacity and related infrastructure can help drive breakthroughs in areas like healthcare, can support innovation in new industries, and ensure the United States remains a global leader in the next era of technology. The discussion will also examine what it takes to build this future responsibly in partnership with local communities, balancing speed, security, sustainability, and broad access so the benefits of AI reach more people. Whether you’re interested in technology, policy, business, or the future of the economy, this conversation will offer a clear and practical look at one of the most important issues shaping the AI era. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/the-infrastructure-race-american-competitiveness-in-the-ai-era-o49bl2orw1 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:42 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/codex-is-for-everyone-why-codex-matters-beyond-code-fa40puy7wi **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** May 13 📍 **Location:** Online Codex started as a coding tool for developers, but is quickly becoming an indispensable tool for everyone who does work on a computer. In this OpenAI Forum session, Thibault Sottiaux, Head of Codex, will join us for a conversation and audience Q&A on how Codex is evolving, what the team is learning from users, and why agentic tools matter beyond software engineering. This session is for anyone who wants to work smarter, evolve their professional skills in the era of AI, and create more space for the professional and personal activities that bring fulfillment. We’ll share how Codex can help leaders, researchers, educators, small business owners, and other professionals break down complex tasks, produce useful first drafts, and create more time for other parts of their work and lives. Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux is a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where he leads Codex, OpenAI’s software engineering agent. His work focuses on building AI systems that can help developers understand codebases, complete real engineering tasks, and collaborate more effectively across the software development lifecycle. Before OpenAI, Tibo was at Google DeepMind, where he led human data work for Gemini and built AI/ML workflow infrastructure for DeepMind research. Earlier in his career, he worked as a software engineer at Google and in applied research roles across decision-making, predictive modeling, and database systems. He holds degrees in computer science, computational mathematics, and applied mathematics from Université catholique de Louvain. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/codex-is-for-everyone-why-codex-matters-beyond-code-fa40puy7wi Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:41 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/how-ai-could-detect-and-prevent-the-next-pandemic-p198on5ia2 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** May 26 📍 **Location:** Online What does it take to move from reacting to disease outbreaks to predicting and preventing them? Join Geoffrey Mosoti, Senior Technical Product Manager, AI at the Gates Foundation, for a conversation on how AI and computational modeling are beginning to reshape global health decision-making. Drawing from work that supports policymakers and health systems in resource-constrained settings, Geoffrey will explore how AI can help researchers model disease spread, improve resource allocation, and translate complex analysis into practical action. The discussion will also examine what it looks like to build AI tools that are not only technically powerful, but genuinely useful to the people and institutions working on the front lines of care. Geoffrey Mosoti Nyakiongora is a Kenyan product manager, graduate architect, researcher, and technologist whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, architecture, and global health infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he brings a combination of computational design expertise, epidemiological research experience, and a deep ethical commitment to equity and access. Background & Education Geoffrey holds degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Nairobi. His academic formation spans design thinking, applied AI, urban systems, sustainable design, simulation, architectural history, and entrepreneurship and innovation. Research & Recognition His thesis research at MIT, Bridging the Health Divide: Achieving Equitable Healthcare Access in Rural Kenya Through AI, explores how large language models trained on Kenyan cultural and healthcare data can transform hospital design in underserved regions integrating telemedicine capabilities, prioritizing efficient space utilization, adaptability, and cultural appropriateness. This work earned him a place at the 2025 Venice Biennale, one of the world's most prestigious architectural exhibitions, marking only the secon https://forum.openai.com/public/events/how-ai-could-detect-and-prevent-the-next-pandemic-p198on5ia2 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:40 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/openais-cfo-presents-the-future-of-finance-with-university-of-californias-chief-investment-officer-c9x9nn0lx0 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** December 20 📍 **Location:** Online What more can finance professionals do with AI? Join Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, and Jagdeep Singh Bachher, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President of Investments at the University of California, for a fireside chat about how AI can augment human skills in finance. The conversation will focus on why UC invested in AI, how finance professionals can use AI to take on more complex work, and why strategic thinking and analysis are becoming increasingly important. Sarah Friar, Chief Financial Officer @ OpenAI Sarah Friar is the CFO of OpenAI, overseeing financial strategy and operations. Previously, she was CEO of Nextdoor from December 2018 to May 2024, where she took the company public and tripled its user base. Before Nextdoor, Sarah was CFO at Square, leading its IPO and increasing its market capitalization by $30 billion. She also held senior roles at Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey. Sarah serves on the boards of Walmart, Consensys, as well as the Stanford Board of Trustees, and several advisory boards. She co-founded Ladies Who Launch, and earned degrees from Oxford and Stanford. She holds an OBE for services to entrepreneurship. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/openais-cfo-presents-the-future-of-finance-with-university-of-californias-chief-investment-officer-c9x9nn0lx0 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:39 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/enterprise-ai-adoption-moving-from-experimentation-to-transformation-with-bain-and-company-id9miiqyns **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** June 04 📍 **Location:** Online Many enterprises are experimenting with AI across different use cases and working to translate that activity into measurable business transformation. Join OpenAI and Bain & Company for a conversation on their recentHBR article, How to Move from AI Experimentation to AI Transformation. Arjun Dutt and Gene Rapoport, partners at Bain & Company, and Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist at OpenAI, will discuss the article’s framework for enterprise AI transformation, what leading companies are doing differently, and how leaders can turn AI adoption into organization-wide impact. Gene Rapoport, Partner @ Bain & Company Gene Rapoport leads our global Generative AI initiatives for the Private Equity practice. He is also a member of our Advanced Analytics, Strategy, and Technology practices.In his role, Gene advises financial investor clients on developing AI-driven investment strategies, evaluating AI risks and opportunities during commercial due diligence, and identifying and executing actionable ways portfolio companies can leverage AI to drive enterprise value. Gene has also played a role in the development and scaling of various GenAI-enabled tools that our consultants use daily. He has 15 years of consulting experience. Gene earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from DePaul University. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/enterprise-ai-adoption-moving-from-experimentation-to-transformation-with-bain-and-company-id9miiqyns Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:38 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/building-an-ai-powered-workforce-at-brooklyn-sports-and-entertainment-1eqbtbuw3h **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** June 09 📍 **Location:** Online Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, home to the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty, and Barclays Center, built its AI Lab around a simple idea: the people closest to the work are often the best positioned to reimagine it with AI. Join the OpenAI Forum for a conversation with Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment leaders and some of its AI Lab participants about how employees across the organization are turning real business problems into useful AI tools, from ticket marketing copy generators to player milestone trackers and data insight engines. We’ll explore how Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment structured the program, what makes safe experimentation possible, and how early ideas move from prototype to production. David Simbandumweis Vice President, Artificial Intelligence at Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment, where he leads the enterprise AI program. Before joining Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment, David spent more than a decade driving digital transformation and AI strategy in financial services and insurance. Most recently, he was at Chubb, where he led the development of a generative AI solution focused on transaction automation. Prior to Chubb, David spent nearly six years at MassMutual, a global life insurance and investments company, where he led digital portfolios for MassMutual.com, Strategic Distributions, and Institutional Solutions. He helped found and lead MassMutual's digital research and development rotational program, which gave employees opportunities to work on emerging technology and develop new skills. Earlier in his career, David was a technology manager at Deloitte, advising clients on digital transformation and emerging technology adoption. David holds an MS in Data Science, a BS in Computer Engineering, and a BBA in Finance. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/building-an-ai-powered-workforce-at-brooklyn-sports-and-entertainment-1eqbtbuw3h Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:37 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/youth-wellbeing-and-empowerment-in-the-age-of-ai-x95m4log1c **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** June 15 AI can be a powerful tool for young people. It can help students understand a difficult concept, practice a new language, prepare for a job interview, explore creative ideas, or learn a new skill. Because the potential benefits are so significant, it is essential that young people can access AI in ways that are safe, age-appropriate, and supportive of healthy development. Held alongside the G7 gathering in France, this OpenAI Forum conversation will bring together leaders from government, civil society, education, and industry to discuss youth safety in the AI era, and where global coordination can help. Featuring Clara Chappaz, France’s Ambassador for Digital Affairs and AI; Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s Chief Global Affairs Officer; Bruce Reed, Head of AI Safety Initiatives at Common Sense Media; Justin Vaïsse of the Paris Peace Forum; and Dr. Mathilde Cerioli of everyone.ai, the discussion will explore age-appropriate AI experiences, privacy-preserving age assurance, transparent under-18 protections, family tools, AI literacy, and support for parents, educators, and other trusted adults. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/youth-wellbeing-and-empowerment-in-the-age-of-ai-x95m4log1c Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:36 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/building-the-future-of-ai-wlhbj361ev **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** June 17 In person event | Invite-only convening | Request invite via the OpenAI Forum Frontier AI is moving quickly, but many institutions are still figuring out how to turn that progress into real-world results. This forum is about closing that gap: bringing together leaders across science, health, national security, policy, civil society, and AI to ask what today's systems could help us do, and what it would take to do it responsibly and at scale. We'll focus on areas where the stakes are high and the upside is real: biology and medicine, national security, public good and philanthropic applications, scientific research, and the other economic and human factors that shape how new tools are used. Through a mix of discussion and working sessions, participants will identify ambitious challenges frontier AI could help address, then work through the practical questions behind them: compute, model access, data, tools, funding, governance, trust, and the partnerships needed to move from promise to progress. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/building-the-future-of-ai-wlhbj361ev Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:35 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/inside-openais-investigation-into-foreign-influence-on-u-s-ai-debates-ybj5vx7df6 **Status:** 📺 Past Event - Replay Available 📅 **Date:** June 20 📍 **Location:** Online Join the OpenAI Forum for a conversation with members of OpenAI's Intelligence and Investigations (I2) team about their latest report on PRC-linked influence operations targeting AI debates in the U.S. The discussion will unpack findings from OpenAI's June 2026 Threat Report, including two clusters of accounts that used ChatGPT to generate social media content about data center buildouts, tariffs, and U.S.-China technology competition. Speakers will also explain how OpenAI’s I2 team detects and disrupts coordinated misuse of AI beyond this report. Albert Zhangis a member of OpenAI’s Intelligence & Investigations Staff. He focuses on identifying and disrupting the misuse of artificial intelligence by threats actors in the PRC. Before joining OpenAI, Albert was an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute where he led influential research on the national security implications of emerging technology. Ben Nimmois Principal Investigator on OpenAI’s Intelligence and Investigations team. He was a co-founder of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and later served as Graphika’s first head of investigations, and as global lead of threat intelligence at Meta. He has helped to expose foreign election interference in the United States, United Kingdom and France; documented troll operations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas; and been declared dead by an army of Twitter bots. A graduate of Cambridge University, he speaks French, German, Russian, and Latvian, among other languages. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/inside-openais-investigation-into-foreign-influence-on-u-s-ai-debates-ybj5vx7df6 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:34 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/inside-openai-how-openai-teams-use-codex-to-do-more-2nwtsngr81 **Status:** 🟢 Upcoming - Registration Open 📅 **Date:** July 14 📍 **Location:** Online OpenAI Forum is hosting a Codex showcase on how teams across OpenAI are using Codex in their own work. We will begin with Ronnie Chatterji, OpenAI's Chief Economist, to discuss his recent research onhow agentic AI is changing work both inside and outside of OpenAI.Then, teams from across OpenAI will share short demos of how they use Codex internally to increase their impact and productivity. Ronnie Chatterji, Chief Economist @ OpenAI Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji, Ph.D., is OpenAI’s first Chief Economist. He is also the Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor at Duke University, working at the intersection of academia, policy, and business. He served in the Biden Administration as White House CHIPS coordinator and Acting Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, shaping industrial policy, manufacturing, and supply chains. Before that, he was Chief Economist at the Department of Commerce and a Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is on leave as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously taught at Harvard Business School. Earlier in his career, he worked at Goldman Sachs and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chatterji holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Economics from Cornell University. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/inside-openai-how-openai-teams-use-codex-to-do-more-2nwtsngr81 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:33 +0000 https://forum.openai.com/public/events/artists-and-ai-expanding-the-creative-process-nwgpnh2708 **Status:** 🟢 Upcoming - Registration Open 📅 **Date:** July 09 📍 **Location:** Online AI is changing creative work in more interesting ways than the usual automation story allows. Join OpenAI Forum for a conversation with Eric Zhou, PhD candidate at Boston University, about what happens when artists can move from idea to artifact with less friction. We’ll talk about where AI can give creators more room to experiment, where human taste and judgment still matter most, and what it would take for new tools to widen participation without flattening creative voices. Eric B. Zhou is a social scientist studying how generative AI reshapes human behaviors and labor market dynamics in the creative economy and the efficacy of platform policy interventions regarding AI usage and data governance. His research aims to identify prescriptive solutions that address the structural and regulatory challenges of AI disruption in the arts. He recently earned a PhD from Boston University, holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, and has Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a machine learning contractor and in marketing analytics. https://forum.openai.com/public/events/artists-and-ai-expanding-the-creative-process-nwgpnh2708 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:04:32 +0000