Mark your calendars: CityCamp NYC returns on Saturday, September 19, 2026, at Hunter College!
Hosted by BetaNYC in partnership with the Department of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College, CityCamp NYC returns for its second round as a community-led UNconference where New Yorkers pitch the session topics and lead the day together.
CityCamp brings residents, technologists, advocates, public servants, students, designers, organizers, and community leaders under one roof to exchange ideas, share civic projects, and explore how technology, data, policy, and community organizing can help New York City work better for everyone.
We are excited to gather this year at Hunter College with the Department of Urban Policy and Planning. Hunter UPP prepares students and professionals to understand, plan, and advocate for better cities through urban planning, urban policy, leadership, and urban studies. With a history rooted in human-centered advocacy planning, Hunter UPP is a fitting home for CityCamp NYC 2026 as a day dedicated to civic imagination, public problem-solving, and community-led action.
CityCamp NYC is one small part of the global CityCamp movement facilitated by the Alliance of Civic Technologists, a coalition connecting civic technology communities across the globe. Learn more about the broader movement at CityCamp.com.
Looking Back at CityCamp NYC 2025
Last year at our inaugural CityCamp NYC unconference, participants pitched ideas, set the agenda, and filled breakout rooms with conversations focused on the issues they wanted to solve together.
A few of the community-led sessions included:
- Stop Speeding Drivers! Led by Families for Safe Streets, this two-part session moved from conversation into action. Participants mapped and standardized speeder data from multiple New York agencies, then joined a mini hacking session to prototype a notification system for speed violations using NYC public data.
- Internet for All: Led by the DSA Tech Action Working Group, this session brought together advocates, nonprofits, and government workers to discuss how New York City can build a more accountable public internet, including the role of community networks like NYC Mesh.
- Code, Care, and Community: This civic storytelling session asked a simple but powerful question: What is community? Participants explored belonging, care, collaboration, and the need for human-centered storytelling alongside public datasets.
Other sessions explored housing justice, artificial intelligence in government, tenant organizing, reintegration after incarceration, public data access, and the ways New Yorkers can use shared knowledge to strengthen civic life.
You can revisit these conversations and explore community-generated notes on the CityCamp NYC 2025 Virtual Board. This year, we will once again invite attendees to bring their experiences, projects, questions, and ideas and help build the 2026 unconference day together.
Save the Date!
📅 Saturday, September 19, 2026
📍 Hunter College, Manhattan
🎟️ Registration and participation details are coming soon.