Wednesday, June 11

5:00 PM — Reception
Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Allison Dining Room

6:00 PM — Dinner
Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Nye A, B, and C

7:00 PM — Keynote
Taubman Building, 5th Floor, Nye A, B, and C
Opening remarks by Jeremy Weinstein, Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Keynote address by Jens Ludwig, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago; Director, Crime Lab; Co-Director, Education Lab

Thursday, June 12

Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner Building, 4th Floor

8:00 AM — Breakfast

8:45 AM — Welcoming Remarks
Avi Green, Working Group on Public Solutions R&D

9:00–9:45 AM — Project Session 1
Speaker: Marcella Alsan, Harvard Kennedy School
Paper: The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

9:45–10:05 AM — Meta-Challenge Talk
Speaker: Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School
What enables engaged public solutions research projects to succeed rather than fail?

10:05–10:50 AM — Meta-Challenge Breakout Groups

10:50–11:00 AM — Break

11:00–11:45 AM — Project Session 2
Speaker: Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University
Paper: Challenges to Hospital Fraud Control in Government Health Insurance

11:45 AM–12:30 PM — Project Session 3
Speaker: Amy Lerman, UC Berkeley
Paper: Civic Engagement at Scale: Co-Governance for California’s Climate Future

12:30 PM — Lunch

1:30–2:15 PM — Project Session 4
Speaker: Seth Zimmerman, Yale University
Paper: Parents’ Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten

2:15–2:45 PM — Meta-Challenge Talk
Elizabeth Linos, Harvard Kennedy School – Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Jonah Edelman, Stand for Children

2:45–3:30 PM — Meta-Challenge Breakout Groups

3:30–3:40 PM — Break

3:40–4:25 PM — Project Session 5
Speaker: Stefanie DeLuca, Johns Hopkins Universityy
Paper: Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

4:25–4:40 PM — Break

4:40–5:25 PM — Project Session 6
Speaker: Daniel E. Ho, Stanford University
Paper: AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Racial Covenants and Code Reform

6:00 PM — Reception
Charles Hotel, Kennedy Room, Ground Floor. May be hosted outdoors if weather permits.

7:00 PM — Working Dinner: How Do We Achieve Transformational Innovation?
Facilitated table discussions across new networks exploring short-term high-impact initiatives

Friday, June 13

Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner Building, 4th Floor

8:00 AM — Breakfast

9:00–10:00 AM — Meta-Challenge: Building a Movement for Public Solutions R&D

Speakers:

• Sarah Oppenheimer, Opportunity Insights, Harvard

• Derek Kilmer, Rockefeller Foundation

• Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan

• Jeremy Weinstein, Harvard Kennedy School

10:00–11:00 AM — Meta-Challenge Breakout Groups

11:00 AM–12:00 PM — Readouts, Takeaways, and Next Steps
Avi Green, Working Group on Public Solutions R&D

12:00–2:30 PM — Working Group Debrief & Governance Meeting
Working Group Members Only