This page documents notable past events hosted on or related to the Effective Altruism Forum. Each entry links to a public Forum event page with a short description. Events are listed alphabetically, not chronologically.

(If you’d like to help sort these by date, feel free to suggest edits!)

EA Forum Events

1. AMAs

   1. Saloni Dattani, Science Writer and co-founder of Works in Progress

   2. Tom Ough, Author of ‘The Anti-Catastrophe League’, Senior Editor at UnHerd

   3. Pablo Melchor, author of Altruismo Racional and President of Ayuda Efectiva

   4. Ask Career Advisors Anything

2. Debates

   1. AI Pause Debate (2023)

   2. AI Welfare Debate Week (2024)

   3. Animal Welfare vs Global Health Debate Week

   4. DIY Debate Week

   5. Existential Choices Debate Week

3. Annual events

   1. April Fools’ Day

   2. Benjamin Lay Day

   3. Petrov Day

   4. Draft Amnesty

      1. Draft Amnesty Day (2022)

      2. Draft Amnesty Week (2024)

      3. Draft Amnesty Week (2025)

   5. Giving Season

      1. Giving Season (2023)

         1. Donation Election (2023)

      2. Giving Season (2024)

         1. Funding Strategy Week

         2. Marginal Funding Week

         3. Donation Election

         4. Pledge Highlight Week

4. Other events

   1. Career Conversations Week (2023)

   2. Career Conversations Week (2025)

   3. Creative Writing Contest

   4. Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

   5. EA Forum Review

   6. EA Strategy Fortnight

   7. Forum Prize

Forum events not run by the EA Forum

1. Africa EA Forum Competition

2. Ask Me Anything

3. Community Builder Writing Contest

4. GiveWell Change Our Mind Contest

5. Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest