Past events

Christopher Calabrese, Vice President for Policy at the Center for Democracy & Technology will discuss the pros and cons of facial recognition technology, how it is changing many aspects of our lives, and how policymakers should address it.

The University of Michigan FinTech Collaboratory, of which the Center on Finance, Law & Policy is part, is collaborating with MCubed to announce new funding opportunities for University of Michigan faculty who are undertaking research, course development, or other educational programming focused on financial technology. 

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson will deliver opening remarks for a panel discussion on "Communities of Interest" and the important role they will play in Michigan's new redistricting process beginning in 2020.

We invite the Ford School community to a seminar with Ambassador Klosson from Save the Children.

Op-eds provide a chance for the writer to lay out an argument directly to the audience, making it a great way to advocate for a policy.

Featuring faculty discussant Fabiana Silva, an assistant professor of public policy at the Ford School. Part of the Ford School's Public Policy and Institutional Discrimination discussion series.

Armchair conversation between Secretary Donald Winter and Mike Barger, Executive Director, Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation at the Ross School of Business.

Interested in community engagement opportunities this year?

This fall, our Symposium team is hosting “Dispossessing Detroit: How the Law Takes Property” on November 9 and 10, 2019.

Greg Landsman, a Cincinnati city council member, will give a talk titled "Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

Interested in a career in Finance or Technology? Learn More From Professor Adrienne Harris!

The Saving for Education, Entrepreneurship and Downpayment (SEED) initiative began in 2003 to test asset-building accounts for children and youth with the goal of providing strategic and practical lessons in how to create an inclusive CSA system. At the SEED impact assessment site in Michigan (MI-SEED), 500 Head Start families were offered Michigan 529 Educational Savings plans. The accounts were opened with an initial contribution of $800 from program funding and a possible $200 match from the State of Michigan. Any subsequent savings by the family were matched 1:1 up to $1200. Another set of similar Head Start families made up a comparison group that was not offered accounts. Most of the participating pre-school children are now old enough to graduate from high school and actually use the accounts to fund post-secondary education. This presentation will offer preliminary longitudinal data on accounts, standardized test scores, and other educational outcomes over time. 

A Michigan Leadership Collaborative (MLC) Event with Michael S. Erwin, Co-author of Lead Yourself First, CEO of the Character & Leadership Center.

Interested in a career in Finance or Technology? Learn More From Professor Adrienne Harris!Adrienne A. Harris is a Professor of the Practice at the University of Michigan, as well as a Gates Foundation Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Finance, Law and Policy at the University. Adrienne also advises fintech companies, incumbent financial institutions, and large venture capital firms. Most recently, Adrienne was the Chief Business Officer and General Counsel a San Francisco-based, insur-tech start-up for which she is now an Advisor. Adrienne was a Special Assistant to President Obama for Economic Policy at the National Economic Council in the Obama White House. She spearheaded the development of the Administration’s fintech strategy, chairing both the Interagency Fintech Working Group and the Administration’s Distributed Ledger Technology Task Force. She came to the White House from the U.S. Department of Treasury where she served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary. Prior to coming to Washington, D.C., Adrienne was an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, where her practice included representing financial institutions in complex regulatory proceedings and M&A transactions. Adrienne earned her M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business with specializations in Economics and Management, her J.D. from Columbia University Law School, and her B.A. from Georgetown University.

Please join us for a Getting Stuff Done workshop with Paul Hillegonds.

Join us for a viewing and stay for a conversation with the documentary’s filmmaker, Shai Gal, and U-M’s director of screenwriting program, Jim Bernstein.

Enjoy one of the most delicious fall traditions in the Midwest: fresh apple cider and donuts. Open exclusively to the Ford School community.

Meet the force of women leading communities in Michigan, engage with municipal issues, and learn more about the management profession in this interactive panel session.

A conversation with Ambassador Dan Shields about the East Asia Summit. 

We invite you to a student session with Congressman Ted Deutch and his Chief of Staff Josh Rogin.

Join us for an information session about the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) graduate certificate!

The Local Voices Network is a community-driven listening network which aims to improve our understanding of one another through communication.  Kathy Cramer, one of the groups' founders, will talk about how it works and what 's coming out of  the chapters in Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, and Alabama.  

This event has been canceled.

A Ford Security Seminar.

Design Jams are fast and fun, with food and prizes. They are not your typical group project.

The University of Michigan's Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project is hosting its first Small Business Showcase. Meet some of the 30 Detroit small business owners who are working with University of Michigan marketing, communications, law, design, and accounting students this fall -- and a few of our superstar alumni businesses, too!