IPA led a learning lunch table during USAIDs Digital Development Forum on the 17th of July 2017 in Lusaka.This action-packed event focused on innovative and effective digital development solutions in Zambia for improving education, health, and agriculture and featured local technology firms, USAID implementing partners, and multiple donors.

On July 6, IPA PI Dean Yang gave a presentation "Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S.Immigration" at the University of the Philippines School of Economics' Philippine Center for Economic Development.

On 5 July 2017, the Asian Development Bank Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department hosted a seminar for Dean Yang to present on results of his studies on migration.