Friday and Saturday, September 18 & 19, 2026

500 First Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20001

The Redesigning the Governance Stack Project was a multi-year effort to reinvent the institutions and tools used to govern technology and technology companies. It prioritized public accountability and strong public oversight, seeking to restore and recenter the rule of law within a new institutional framework designed around information-economy needs and failure modes. The project was a “full stack” effort, encompassing the sorts of implementation details that shorter-term projects might propose but also extending down to rethink fundamental principles of regulatory organization and operation.

The project produced papers for six pillars: Regulatory Monitoring, Govtech Provisioning, Policy Mechanisms, Inclusion Mechanisms, Legitimacy and Accountability, and Enforcement. 

During this two-day public symposium, project authors and invited experts will discuss the project’s findings, reflect on its broader implications, and explore future directions for administrative governance of the information economy.

To learn more about the project and its pillars, visit the project’s main website.

Please RSVP by September 16, 2026.

Day 1 (Friday September 18, 2026) 

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM Registration & Morning Refreshments

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM 

Opening Remarks / Welcome

10:00 AM – 11:20 AM 

Panel 1: Public Capacity

Moderator: Howard Shelanski

• Jordan Francis, Woody Hartzog & Neil Richards, “Loyalty as a Value and a Tool in a Redesigned State”
• Deirdre Mulligan and Lauren Chambers, “An Institutional Design Perspective on Rebooting the Governance Stack: Learnings from 15 Years of FTC Technologists”
• Jodi Short, “Redesigning in the Ruins”

11:20 AM – 11:45 AM 

Break

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM 

Panel 2: Public Participation

Moderator: Brenda Dvoskin

• Nina-Simone Edwards, “Community-Responsive Information Literacy”
• Andrew Selbst, “Bootstrapping the Politics of Governance Stack Redesign”
• Daniel Walters, “Regulating the Tech Economy Requires a New Paradigm for Government Communication”
• Aaron Rieke, Co-Founder and Chief Legal Engineer, Privlex, and former Chief of Staff to FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM 

Lunch

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM 

Greeting from Georgetown Law Dean Liz Magill

Keynote: K. Sabeel Rahman

Moderator: Julie Cohen

3:00 PM – 4:15 PM 

Panel 3: Public Infrastructures

Moderator: David Wishnick 

• Hilary Allen, “How States Can Help Administrative Enforcement Bite”
• William Boyd,  “Hazards, Threats, Risks, and Harms: Thinking About Safety in a Redesigned Governance Stack”
• Saule Omarova, “Redesigning the Governance Stack: How Does Finance Fit In?”

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM 

Public Reception

 

Day 2 (Saturday September 19, 2026)

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM 

Breakfast / Coffee

9:30 AM – 10:45 AM 

Panel 4: Public Perils

Moderator: Emily Chertoff

• Hannah Bloch-Wehba, “Lessons for Tech Regulation from Surveillance and National Security”
• Margot Kaminski, “Transparency as Governance”
• Bijal Shah,  “Revamping the Consolidated ‘Umbrella’ Agency”
• Leonard Bailey(This link opens in a new tab), former Head of Cybersecurity Unit and Special Counsel for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice

10:45 AM – 11:05 AM 

Break

11:05 AM – 12:30 PM 

Panel 5: Public Information

Moderator: Paul Ohm

• Margaret Kwoka, “Empowering Information Intermediaries”
• Christopher Morten,  “Does Tech Regulation Require Public Knowledge Production?”
• Ngozi Okidegbe, “Community Participation, Politically Marginalized Communities, and The Redesigning the Governance Stack Project”
• Michael Veale, “Fully-Automated Frictionless Compliance Slop”

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM 

Lunch

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM 

Panel 6: Public Institutions in a Federal System

Moderator: Meg Leta Jones

• Matt Lawrence, “How States Can Audit Big Tech: The Multi-State Meta Settlement Reveals Need for Multistate Tech Commission”
• Catherine Sharkey, “Social Media & AI: Threats to Public Health & Safety”
• Alicia Solow-Niederman, “Governance Up, Down, and Across the Stack”

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM 

Closing Remarks

 

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made to Kiara Kunnes at kk1538@georgetown.edu. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill all requests made.