IDIA – Institute of Digital InnovAtion

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The Institute of Digital InnovAtion (IDIA) is George Mason University’s commitment to inclusively shaping the future of our digital society, promoting well-being, security, and prosperity.

IDIA is a sector leader that provides transdisciplinary research, innovation, and next-generation workforce development strategy across the university for scaled, sustainable growth in digital innovation, leverages synergies, strengthening the innovation ecosystem and growing capacities for transdisciplinary research, scholarship, and innovation, supports placemaking, instigating and building research and innovation communities around places and activating and supporting a culture of transdisciplinary research and shared research infrastructure, and amplifies the visibility and awareness of George Mason University as a globally recognized leader for its world-class research, innovation, and economic impact activities, as well as its next-generation students and scholars.

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By: George Mason University Television

Researchers, innovators, and scholars in George Mason’s Institute for Digital InnovAtion (IDIA) engage in cutting edge work to shape the future of our digital society, promoting equality, well-being, security, and prosperity. More than three hundred Mason faculty and their research staff and students are working across three themes:

Technologies: Inventing new algorithms, digital techniques and technologies

Systems: Developing and deploying computing systems to advance fields as diverse as finance, education, built infrastructure, science, economics, agriculture, health, transportation, entertainment, national security, and social justice

Digital Society: Engaging in critical reflection that examines the implications of digital innovation to ensure that innovators are sensitive to designing and innovating responsibly, and that key stakeholders – including users, innovators, policy-makers and the public at large – are informed about technology’s social, ethical, political, and economic impacts

IDIA Industry Day 2025

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Dear Participants,
Thank you for joining us at IDIA Industry Day 2025 at George Mason University’s Institute for Digital Innovation (IDIA). We were delighted to welcome leaders from industry, government, and academia to explore opportunities in innovation, partnership, and emerging technology.
Your engagement, thoughtful questions, and enthusiasm made the day a success.
Presentation Slides & Speaker Contacts
Several of our speakers have kindly granted permission to share their materials with you.
Attached to this email, you will find:

  • PDF copies of presentation slides, and
  • A contact sheet with speaker names, affiliations, and contact information (LinkedIn or email address).

We encourage you to follow up directly if you see opportunities for collaboration or further discussion. We look forward to continuing the momentum from these conversations.

To learn more about IDIA’s work—including research initiatives, upcoming programs, and partnership opportunities—please visit: https://idia.gmu.edu/

If you have any questions or would like to explore ways to partner with IDIA, feel free to reach out to us at idia2@gmu.edu.

Thank you again for being part of IDIA Industry Day 2025. We hope to see you at future events.

PDF copies of presentation slides

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Speaker Contact Information.pdf

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