Upcoming EA conferences in 2025
We’re already in the second half of 2025 and there are still an incredible number of EAGx and Summit events coming up, as well as the first ever EA Global: New York City. We’re so excited to continue watching the EA community connect and grow.
Below is our conference schedule for the rest of the year. We’re supporting the first EAGx in Brazil, and inaugural EA conferences in France, Vietnam, New Zealand, and Turkey. We hope to reach more people than ever before. Please spread the word, especially for events happening near you!
We are also eager to initiate new events; if you’d like to apply to run an EAGx or Summit in 2026, please fill out this form!
Apply to run an EAGx or EA Summit in 2026Upcoming EA conferences
EA Global
EA Global: New York City (10–12 Oct) | Applications close September 28—apply now!
EAGx
EAGxSãoPaulo (22–24 Aug) | Applications just extended until August 18—apply now!
EAGxBerlin (3–5 Oct) | Applications close September 7
EAGxSingapore (15–16 Nov) Applications close October 20
EAGxAustralasia (28–30 Nov) | Applications close November 9
EAGxAmsterdam (12–14 Dec) | Applications close November 23
EAGxIndia (13–14 Dec) | Applications close November 30
EA Summits
EA Summit: Paris (13 Sep 2025) | Applications close September 9
EA Summit: Vancouver (19–20 Sep) | Applications close September 15
EA Summit: Vietnam (20 Sep) | Applications close September 12
EA Summit: Philippines (27 Sep) | Applications close August 20
EA Summit: New Zealand (27 Sep) | Applications close September 12
EA Summit: South Africa (11 Oct) | Applications close October 4
EA Summit: Istanbul (18 Oct) | Applications close October 18
Tentative events that have not yet been confirmed:
EA Summit: Bogota (Nov)
EA Summit: Los Angeles (22 Nov)
Online Events
EA Connect 2025 (5–7 Dec) | A virtual EA conference! More details to come soon
What is the difference between EA Global, EAGx, and EA Summits?
EA Global (EAG) conferences are for people with a firm grasp of EA principles who are taking, or planning to take, significant action in line with EA. These events are organized by the Centre for Effective Altruism and include people from all over the world. The EAG team at CEA is responsible for carefully curated programming, admissions, and professionally managed production.
EAGx events are community‑organised regional conferences with support from CEA; you can think of them as TEDx equivalents. While CEA provides funding and logistical support, local organisers manage their own content, admissions, and event execution. These events have a regional focus and are primarily for those with a solid understanding of EA, but also welcome attendees with demonstrated professional experience in adjacent fields. They’re a great place to learn more about EA and network with new people!
Introduced by CEA in 2024, EA Summits represent a more exploratory, beginner‑friendly format designed to expand EA’s reach, especially in regions where the movement is newer or underrepresented. These events are lightweight and scalable, with reduced application barriers, a strong emphasis on mentorship, and minimal CEA oversight. The core content focuses more on orientation for newcomers, with less structured networking. Unlike EAG or EAGx, they typically do not require formal applications and use small grants rather than centrally managed budgets. Summits aim to test new community-building approaches, adapt to local contexts, and broaden access to EA discourse and networks
The events listed here are those supported by CEA; if your local group is running any events and would like to promote them here, please feel free to put them in the comments! If you have any questions about an event, you can contact our team by emailing hello@eaglobal.org and we’ll direct you to the right place. We hope to see you at an event soon!
It’s great to see the EA Summits programme working well. I would appreciate a public costings guide for what CEA events team will pay for an EA Summit (adjusted by cost of living etc), in the rough style of how the CEA Groups team notes what it will pay EA groups for. I expect that will allow small-time community organisers to quickly sense-check their ideas and motivate more applications.
It’s a great suggestion to be transparent about how CEA supports Summit and EAGx organizers. Many published event retrospectives include full cost breakdowns, but we haven’t put out anything consolidated and I think you’re right that it would be very helpful for potential organizers to sense check.
The main blocker for presenting this info is that events are all essentially one-offs. We’ve put together standardized resources to help each event team try to estimate their event’s cost, but then we evaluate each event budget proposal independently. Our cross-event comparisons show large swings that depend on things like the city’s cost-of-living and whether there are already financially supported EA community builders working in the region. A single incidental factor, e.g. a student on the organizing team who can book low-cost university space as the venue, can change the projected cost by 30% and be the difference between whether we believe an event will be cost-effective or not.
Some very rough numbers from events in 2024–2025 that might still help people considering applying to run an event:
EAGx event costs ranged from $70,000 to $280,000USD (including organizer pay and travel support). We aim for a paid team of 4–6 to spend up to 1500 total combined hours over 4–8 months. CEA supports these teams with regular check-ins and oversight.
Summit event costs ranged from $10,000 to $30,000USD, and CEA does not currently have the capacity to support them with as much staff time. These events can take between 150 and 400 hours to execute over the span of 2–8 months.
We give significant autonomy to these events; we want everyone to feel fairly compensated and avoid any perception of being pressured to volunteer. But some events have organizers whose personal situation and belief in the event’s potential impact mean they choose to volunteer their time (or a portion of it) and dedicate more of their event funds to the production costs.
More about volunteering, because it’s one of the things I want to communicate most to potential organizers: as someone who personally volunteered significant time to EA community building, I recognize that this helped my own career path and I certainly don’t want to stand in anyone’s way if they want to make that choice. Event organizing is a great way to test one’s fit for EA operations work and make connections in the EA professional network; one of my favorite elements of my job is to see organizers I’ve supported transition from the temporary work of event organization into full time careers in EA.
Being willing to volunteer is a signal of dedication that we take into account, and at the limited amounts we have to support Summits, reduced organizer pay can be the difference between being able to support an event or not. I want to be transparent about that, and also be very clear that we recognize that being able to volunteer is a privilege that most people don’t have. I want to stress our aim that no one feel pressured to volunteer their time. The majority of our event organizers are paid a fair wage, and I want applicants to feel confident that they can apply to run events with the expectation of getting paid if that’s best for them.
Oh and while I’m on here, I’ve applied to run an EA Summit in the UK in the second half of 2026, so if anyone wants on-board with that my inbox is open for any and all speculations. I’m looking for someone who can do content—I can handle logistics myself and I can pull in participant welfare from my non-EA contacts network (but if you’ve a particular knack for EA participant welfare I still want to hear from you).
Hey @Kestrel🔸 , If an event happens in the UK, feel free to send me a message, and if I’m available, then I’d happy to be the community contact/support person for the event. (If that’s what you mean by ‘participant welfare’). Or I can recommend some other people to reach out to if I can’t make it.
Context—I’m on the Community Health team at CEA and have been the contact person for events many times :))
For context: I know a whole bunch of people who work in mental health social care who are happy to come to my stuff and have essentially a free holiday for way less work than their day job, and I invite an appropriate number of them along to stuff I run. EAs (and other communities I organise stuff for) are a lot more autonomous than your average mental health service user.
But for a large EA event I’d definitely want at least one person who can address any EA-specific participant welfare issues (e.g. rumination on extreme suffering or catastrophic risk). So I will keep you in mind :D
Do you have any updates on whether the Los Angeles summit is happening?
Gearing up for announcement now! (Nov 22 on UCLA campus)
Wow what a great list! But what is “New Zealand”?
I think it’s the old way to say Aotearoa. I dunno, seems like a place to have new zeal about things.