TLDR: We are excited to announce that applications are now open for the EAGxPrague!
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We’d love to welcome you back to meet in-person in Europe - to reconnect with friends, meet new people, explore impactful opportunities, and engage with the latest thinking in effective altruism.

Who is this for?

EAGxPrague is ideal for anyone trying to apply  EA principles in their projects, careers, volunteering, or donations.

Unlike global EAG conferences, this event welcomes participants with varying levels of experience—even those newer to effective altruism.

Our primary audience is community members and supporters from Central and Eastern Europe, but we welcome seasoned EA participants from across Europe and neighbouring regions who would like to share their knowledge with newcomers.

What to expect?

 👥 Great Conversations

Past attendees have reported that one-on-one meetings were the most valuable part of the event. To enhance networking, we use a conference app where you can discover other participants and find people who can answer your most pressing questions.

Check out How to Get the Maximum Value Out of Effective Altruism Conferences, and take some time to reflect on your mission in advance.

💼 Opportunities You Won’t Find Elsewhere

While some ways to make an impact are well-known, many impactful careers and projects arise unexpectedly.
At Friday’s Opportunity Fair, you’ll have a chance to connect with multiple organizations and projects in one place—perhaps discovering a cause or collaboration that aligns with your interests.

🧑‍🔬 Experts Addressing Key Questions and Impactful Tools

We’ve invited speakers from around the world to lead talks, workshops, discussions, and meetups. (See below for a list of topics).

Follow your curiosity—join office hours with our speakers or schedule a meeting to explore key topics in depth. Our workshops are designed to equip you with critical thinking tools and practical skills to advance your projects.

📜 Better Resources for Your Next Steps

If you’re passionate about a project, it’s likely that someone has worked on something similar before.
We strive to create a collaborative environment with multiple channels for sharing the latest reports, papers, and expert insights. If you don’t find the right person for a 1:1 meeting, we’ll help connect you with relevant resources.

💆‍♀️ Balanced environment

We recognize that EA conferences can be intense, so we’re committed to promoting ambition, curiosity, and exploration, while also prioritizing balance. 

To support well-being, we’re offering guided tours of Prague, a nap room, a tea room, and other relaxing activities.

Arrive early to explore Prague and connect with the Czech EA community—exciting satellite events are being planned!

Sharpen your tools for impact - Programme

• Featured:
  • Magnus Vinding: Compassionate Purpose: Reducing Suffering in Healthy Ways
• AI Safety and Governance: Delving into the technical and philosophical dimensions of AI safety and governance.
  • Raymond Douglas: AI and Disempowerment
  • Stanislav Fort + Jan Kulveit: How to think about AI (moderated by David Janků)
  • Stanislav Fort: Adversarial attacks are a baby version of A(G)I alignment
• AI & Autocracy: Investigating how AI impacts the balance between democratic ideals and authoritarian regimes.
  • Stephen Clare: Risks from Stable Totalitarianism
  • Marcin Wozniak: Deliberative alignment with collective argument mapping
• Biosecurity: Fortifying global defenses against biological threats.
  • Veronika Klymova: Biological and Chemical Weapons: Compliance, Verification, and New Tech Developments
• Animal Welfare: Tackling the immense suffering of trillions of animals in factory farms.
  • Alex Suchy: The Cognitive Crucible: Why Campaigning is the Hardest Thing My Brain Has Ever Done
  • Jonas Becker: Stop cutting animals eyes off: campaigns for shrimp welfare
  • Martin Smrek + Hanna Kłosińska: Changing EU legislation for billions of animals (moderated by Polina Sucha)
• Global Health & Development:
  • Céline Kamsteeg: Startup to Scale-Up: What I Learned Running a CE-incubated Global Health Charity
  • Kristina Sperkova: From searching for meaning in life to alcohol taxation
• Paths to impact:
  • Spencer Ericson: Asking your friends to donate doesn't have to be weird
  • Dušan D. Nešić: The Power of Ops: Behind-the-scenes impact in EA

We have carefully selected workshops designed to empower you on your path to impact. You can look forward to:

• 🔎  Filip Murár (AIM): Using Theories of Change to Design Impactful Projects and Organizational Strategies
• 🎤  Yulia Ponomarenko: Explaining Complex Things Simply
• 🖋  Sarah Cheng (CEA): Why you should write on the EA Forum
• 📈  Clara Jule Roberts:  Maximizing an organization's impact through evidence-based decision-making

List of all workshops, meetups and organizations confirmed by 27th of April.

Reserve your spot early by booking via Swapcard.

Schedule

Friday, May 9

• 4 pm Registration opens
• 5-8 pm Opportunity Fair - Meet all the organizations!
• 8-10 pm Out Of This Box - AI Safety Musical Screening

Saturday, May 10

• 9 am - 6 pm - 5 tracks of talks, workshops, meetups and office hours

Sunday, May 11

• 9 am - 6 pm - 5 tracks of talks, workshops, meetups and office hours

Prepare for independently organized Pre- and Post- Conference Satellite Events (May 8-14) including self-organized dinners and:

Post-Conference Hackathon (May 12-14)

Extend your stay in Prague for two and half days of work in small teams on impactful projects with knowledgeable mentors and speakers. Anybody can join. Various tracks will be available for both technical and non-technical skills. The perfect way to transform the excitement from the conference into actual impact.

Pricing & Travel Support

The event is free, but we kindly ask for donations based on your financial situation (£0–£300). The standard donation to help cover event costs is £70.

Travel reimbursement

We offer travel support for those who wouldn’t be able to attend otherwise.

Funds are limited, so please only request funding only if necessary. Your funding request won’t affect your application outcome.

For more details, see our travel policy.

Apply now

⏳ Final application deadline: Friday, April 18

Don’t miss this chance to discuss ideas, hear ambitious plans, and make intellectual progress.
We look forward to seeing you at EAGxPrague!

-- Hana, Radek, Richard, Jiri, Szymon, Irena, Linh & others