CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
Latinas in Startups BeVisible in partnership with FEM Tech and CITRIS December 2, 2015, 6:30-8:30pm Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Interested in the tech […]
The Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) is back for its 17th year of turning ideas into impact! Are you a young startup aiming to make […]
Mark Palatucci is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Anki. He is passionate about creating products that truly surprise and excite people. Prior to […]
—————– Free and open to the public. Register by the Monday before the talk for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange […]
On Wednesday, December 9, and Thursday, December 10, join the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation for a showcase of student work in Jacobs Hall, Berkeley’s […]
CITRIS Seed Funding Workshop Tuesday, January 5, 2016 2:00pm-4:00pm (PST) CITRIS Simularium UCSC, Engineering 2, Simularium (E2-180) 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064 The […]
UC Berkeley Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit January 21st, Thursday 6:00pm - 7:30pm Classroom 250, Sutardja Dai Hall The CITRIS Mobile App […]
UC Merced Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit January 21st, Thursday 6:00pm - 8:00pm Room 160, Student Services Building The CITRIS Mobile App […]
UC Davis Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit January 22nd, Friday 11:30am - 12:30pm Room 1065, Kemper Hall UC Davis The CITRIS Mobile […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: Carla Diana, "Robotics in our Everyday Lives: A Product Designer's Perspective" Friday, January 29 | 12-1pm | 310 Jacobs Hall Register to […]
UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dean's Speaker Series 2015-2016 John Thackara, Founder and director, The Doors of Perception From biomedicine to bioregion: the geographies of a […]
Jason Adams is a Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UC Davis Health System. His research is focused on host-pathogen genomics and clinical […]
Register to Attend No one likes to be reminded that there’s a 99.7% chance that California will experience a major earthquake in the next 30 […]
Scott Mauvais is the Director, Technology & Civic Innovation at Microsoft and works with government and civic leaders, and the citizens they serve, to tackle […]
The Human Rights and Business Initiative at the Center for Responsible Business, CITRIS, Article One Advisors, and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs hosted a public […]
Web of Systems: Seamless collaboration both among machines and between machines and humans Just imagine, every sensor, and every machine has its own IP address. […]
Friday, February 26, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall UC Berkeley Leila Takayama, a thought leader in the field of human […]
Date: Tuesday, March 1 Time: 12 - 1 pm Location: Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall Title: "Social media and social justice in Israel: Sounding the […]
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and most recently the Wolfram Language, as well as the author of A New Kind of Science. […]
During UC Merced’s 2016 Research Week, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) will be hosting an Agricultural Technology Fair to […]
The CITRIS Foundry is thrilled to be a LAUNCH Media partner! The LAUNCH Festival is the greatest startup conference in the world, with 15,000 attendees, […]
Adam Coates is Director of the Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. His research focuses on new AI technologies to reach at least 100 million people […]
Date: 3/4/2016 Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm Location: 310 Jacobs Hall, Berkeley, CA Register to Attend About Jacobs Design Conversations: Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for […]
The UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
Dr. Jan Nolta is the Director of the Stem Cell Program at UC Davis School of Medicine. Her current research is focused on developing therapies […]
The UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
Auto use is growing globally, along with the environmental and societal problems it generates, climate change most notably. A recent slowdown in the growth in […]
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption […]
About Jacobs Design Conversations Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation invites leading designers and makers to Berkeley to speak as part of the Jacobs Design […]
The UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
Stuart Russell is currently a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at […]
CITRIS Big Ideas poster session Presentation | April 7, 2016 | 3-4 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Register to Attend CITRIS is delighted […]
Join us for an Open House! Event will include information on CITRIS and its research initiatives, as well as funding opportunities, programs, and resources available […]
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
This event is open to the public as part of Cal Day 2016. Date: 4/16/16 Time: 10:00am-12:00pm Location: 310 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
This event is open to the public as part of Cal Day 2016. Join the CITRIS Invention Lab is holding for Open House on Cal […]
Join us for Jacobs Hall’s first-ever Cal Day! As part of the campuswide event, Jacobs Hall will feature an open house, student panel, and hands-on […]
Sue Carter earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a postdoctoral fellow and IBM Almaden Research Center […]
Innovation in Diabetes Prevention & Management Date: April 28 & April 29 Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Join us on April 28th […]
Berkeley Builds: Social Impact Designathon April 30-May 1 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register Now< Innovate, Collaborate, And Create For The Following Nonprofits: […]
May 3 | 9:30-11 a.m. | Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room Featured Speaker: Lisa Jackson, Vice President, Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, Apple […]
If you're looking for inspiration on app development or are curious about joining the Mobile App Challenge next year, come out to Demo Day 2016 […]
May 5, 2016, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Reception to follow and May 6, 2016, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai […]
IoT & Sustainability: Practice, Policy and Promise When: May 12 from 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Reception to follow Where: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register: http://iotandsustainability.eventbrite.com […]
UC Carbon Slam Event When: Monday, May 23, 2016 Venue: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94304 More Info […]
Aging2.0 Global Startup Search | Berkeley Aging2.0 is searching the world for the best aging-focused startups. If you are developing a product for aging, or […]
The CITRIS People and Robots Initiative hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and […]
Technological advances enable, today and in the future, opportunities for individual scientists to communicate in new and more effective ways. Scientists must take advantage of […]
Want to learn about the CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program? Register for a live 30 minute online info session to meet program staff. We’ll discuss […]
In this seminar an overview of the lessons learned in the past earthquakes and ongoing technical improvements in the design of bridges in California will […]
Want to learn about the CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program? Register for a live 30 minute online info session to meet program staff. We’ll discuss […]
Talk Title: Taking Robots from the Lab to the Workforce Speaker: Melonee Wise Date: September 14, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, […]
Each semester, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation invites leading designers and makers to Berkeley to speak as part of the Jacobs Design Conversations series. […]
Per Selvaag, principal at Montaag design studio, will share insights at Jacobs Hall.
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.
In this talk, we will provide an overview of pay-per-mile car insurance, a type of usage-based insurance policy where a driver’s rate variably changes with […]
Operations research has broadened from focusing on factories and queuing to health care, finance, and other fields. This talk argues that another opportunity for exciting […]
The rapid expansion of digital connectivity and tools poses new challenges and opportunities for organizations like Amnesty International. Although researchers working to expose human rights […]
Talk Title: Mapping Aquatic Plants Using Airborne Sensors Speaker: Susan Ustin Date: September 21, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Susan […]
The past decade has been one of astonishing innovation in the world of spatial data, analysis and visualization. I’m going to talk about all the […]
Film Screening | September 22, 2016 | 12:30-2:30 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium On September 22, 2016, join hundreds of thousands of people […]
CITRIS will co-sponsor a a screening of the films The Adaptable Mind and The Science of Character, and Ken Goldeberg will discuss some of his […]
Want to learn about the CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program? Register for a live 30 minute online info session to meet program staff. We’ll discuss […]
The CLTC Tuesday Lunch Seminar will be on Tuesday, September 27, as we will welcome Chris Finan, CEO and Co-Founder of Manifold Technology, a Silicon […]
In his otherwise dismissive New Yorker review of Jane Jacobs’ 1962 Death and Life of Great American Cities (“Mother Jacobs’ Home Remedies”), Lewis Mumford allowed […]
Talk Title: Robots in the Harvest Speaker: James Ostrowski Date: September 28, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Jim Ostrowski is […]
Jim Ostrowski is the VP of Engineering at Blue River Technology, which serves farmers with computer-vision based robotics that unlock greater yield potential. ——————————- Free […]
In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and the United States that aim explicitly to reduce […]
Join us for the first annual Women in Technology Symposium! Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 11:30am-6:00pm Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Register now > Gender […]
Design, construction, maintenance and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labor. This can be achieved by […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: Elizabeth Gerber 10/13/2016 12:00pm - 1:00pm Liz Gerber, associate professor of design at Northwestern University Location: 310, Jacobs Hall About Jacobs Design […]
Talk Title: Future of Distributed Energy Resources Speaker: Ryan Hanley Date: October 19, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Ryan […]
This seminar will present various issues that had to be addressed regarding the development of a large-scale traffic simulation model.
Talk Title: Technology and Cultural Preservation Speaker: Nicola Lercari Date: October 26, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Nicola Lercari […]
The emergence of wireless sensors and smartphones have created opportunities to understand and better manage —in real-time— the behavior of critical infrastructures, including their response […]
One of the major challenges in design of complex networked control systems –such as those arising in aerospace, computing, robotics, critical infrastructure and manufacturing systems, […]
Speaker: Fred Meyers, Associate Dean for Precision Medicine, UC Davis Date: November 2, 2016, Wednesday Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Precision medicine and […]
Talk Title: Take Charge of Your Energy: Residential Demand Response Speaker: John Anderson Date: November 09, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
Join author John Bloom and panelists Dan Colussy, Ray Leopold and Dorothy Robyn for a lively conversation about Iridium–the world’s most complex satellite system–and its […]
Talk Title: Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Photonics for Health Care Speaker: Jes Broeng Date: November 16, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC […]
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day on November 16, 2016, to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2015 cohort. The Demo Day will […]