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Convenings

The Digital Wellness Lab convenes experts across technology, media, mental health, youth development, policy, education, and related fields 2–5 times a year to tackle complex, cross-disciplinary challenges in creating a healthier digital ecosystem for young people. Insights from these convenings are published in public white papers and inform future research. 

In 2025, we are planning or actively working on the following convenings:

  • Leveraging Interactive Media to Foster Social-Emotional Learning: Exploring opportunities to scale social-emotional learning (SEL) by integrating it into interactive media environments.
  • Actionable AI Guidelines for Children’s Digital Futures: Bridging policy, academic research, and product development to create practical guidance for designing healthy AI tools for young children (ages 2–6).
  • Youth Summit on Digital Wellbeing: Bringing together teens and young adults from corporate and nonprofit youth advisory councils to elevate youth perspectives on media literacy, technology policy, and mental health.
  • Best Practices in Healthy AI Development: Convening experts in academia, youth safety, education, and tech to define core developmental principles for AI-enabled features that prioritize mental health and safety.

We actively seek mission-aligned partners to co-host convenings and welcome additional funding support to expand the reach and impact of these critical cross-sector conversations. If your organization is interested in becoming involved as a financial supporter, please email our Executive Director, Cori Stott.


Upcoming Events

june

09jun3:57 pmWelcome to our Summer Interns!

12jun3:58 pmAuthor Event with Dr. Michael Rich

18jun4:19 pmDiscussions on Digital Wellness 2025 Q2

20jun4:21 pmThe Lyceum Project

23jun4:23 pmInteraction Design and Children (IDC) Conference

25jun(jun 25)4:24 pm28(jun 28)4:24 pmAspen Ideas Festival


Past Events

may

29may3:17 pmBoston Children’s Hospital Primary Care CME

22may3:17 pmQuarterly Youth & Interactive Media Coalition Meeting

21may3:16 pmDigital Wellbeing During the Summer Months

17may3:15 pmMassachusetts Medical Society Alliance Annual Meeting

14may(may 14)3:14 pm16(may 16)3:14 pm2025 Teton Youth Mental Health Summit

14may3:12 pmGrandparents Raising Grandchildren Workshop

14may3:06 pmBoston Children’s Hospital League Spring Open Meeting

12may3:03 pmAdolescent Medicine Graduate Course

10may2:58 pmYouth Leaders Summit at Bentley University

08may2:56 pmPAX East

02may2:53 pmMedical Library Association Conference

01may2:05 pm03(may 3)2:05 pmSociety for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2025 Meeting

april

30apr1:37 pmChildren & Screens’ Ask the Experts Webinar Series

29apr1:36 pmGovernor’s Healthy Youth Summit

24apr1:35 pmThe Age of AI: Navigating AI’s Risks and Benefits for Youth

16apr1:34 pmStudent Advisory Council Final Presentations

08apr1:27 pmNurturing a Healthy, Smart and Kind Child in a Sea of Screens…Living Ahead to the Next Normal

03apr1:25 pmThe Wellness Institute’s Youth Mental Health Series