Welcome to NYC School of Data — a community conference that demystifies the practices and policies around open data, technology, and service design. Hosted by BetaNYC at CUNY School of Law, this year’s conference concludes NYC’s Open Data Week 2026 and is the TENTH edition of both SoData and Open Data Week!
2026 is bigger than ever with 40+ sessions organized by NYC’s civic technology, data, and design community!
Day 1: the classic NYC School of Data conference, with programming across 12 rooms during 4 session blocks.
Day 2: NEW in 2026 – UnSchool of Data! The unconference agenda is created together on the day, with attendee pitches at the top of the day. Select sessions have been pre-seeded by BetaNYC to kick things off.
Our venue is accessible and content is all-ages friendly! If you have accessibility questions or needs, please email us at < [email protected] >.
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The 2023 NYS Legislature passed a provision in the budget to expand Automated Camera Enforcement, or ACE. The ACE program is a bus-mounted camera system that issues violations to vehicles occupying bus lanes, to double parked vehicles along bus routes, and to vehicles blocking bus stops. The program is administered in partnership between the MTA, the New York City Department of Finance (DOF) and the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT).
The goal of ACE is to make bus service faster and more reliable by keeping bus lanes and bus stops clear. Join Data Science Specialist Rahnuma Tarannum and Bus Technology Analyst Aanchal Hingorani to learn the details about how this program operates and how the open data shows that the program is working!
