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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Worlds We Carry is a participatory mapping project framed through the metaphor of space travel, asking: if we were to leave Earth, what would we bring with us? New Yorkers are invited to reflect on the places they would carry into the future by contributing personal stories tied to meaningful locations across NYC. Using NYC Open Data datasets ( including the Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) dataset and the Parks Properties Map ), the project layers lived experience onto public space data to create a collective map of care, memory, and value, revealing emotional and cultural dimensions often absent from traditional maps.
This activation is located on the Second Floor at CUNY School of Law near the Cafe.
Worlds We Carry is a collaboration between Aurélie Barbier (Space To the People) and Anna Zhang Aurélie Barbier is a city planner and designer using digital mapping to nurture civic imagination. She has led urban planning and data projects for the World Bank and presented visualizations at Data Through Design (DxD) that reveal the poetic potential of data. Anna Zhang is an artist and creative technologist exploring our relationship with technology. Currently an artist-in-residence at NEW INC, her award-winning work has been featured in Forbes and exhibited at the National Museum of American History and Gray Area.
