Events
Technology Tools for Data Mapping, Analysis, Visualization and Collaboration
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTyler Norris serves as Vice President, Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente. As a long time social entrepreneur, Tyler's mission is improving the health of […]
Demographic Futures: New Projections And Their Use In Climate Change Research
Part of a weekly series of talks in demography by visiting scholars and Berkeley researchers
The Rise of the Modern World in a water perspective. A comparison of water-society systems in Great Britain, China and India
Energy and Resources Group Fall 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
BEVISIBLE: LATINAS IN STARTUPS
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesLatinas 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 […]
Global Social Venture Competition Entry Deadline
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 […]
Bringing AI Out of the Lab and Into People’s Lives
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesMark 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 […]
Bringing AI Out of the Lab and Into People’s Lives
—————– Free and open to the public. Register by the Monday before the talk for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange […]
Jacobs Winter Design Showcase
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
UCSC, Engineering 2, Simularium (E2-180), Santa Cruz, CA 95064, CA, United StatesCITRIS 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 […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Begins at UC Berkeley
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesUC Berkeley Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit January 21st, Thursday 6:00pm - 7:30pm Classroom 250, Sutardja Dai Hall The CITRIS Mobile App […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Begins at UC Merced
Student Services Building, Room 160 UC Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd. , Merced, CA, United StatesUC Merced Mobile App Challenge Info Session + Ideation Summit January 21st, Thursday 6:00pm - 8:00pm Room 160, Student Services Building The CITRIS Mobile App […]
CITRIS Mobile App Challenge Begins at UC Davis
1065 Kemper Hall UC Davis, Davis, United StatesUC 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”
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 […]
John Thackara, “From Biomedicine to Bioregion: The geographies of a care-based economy”
Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleyUC 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 […]
“Connected Critical Care” with Jason Adams, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJason 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 […]
A Wake-up Call for California: Innovations in Earthquake Preparedness
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesRegister 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 […]
“Tackling Urban Challenges with Technology” with Scott Mauvais, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesScott Mauvais is the Director, Technology & Civic Innovation at Microsoft and works with government and civic leaders, and the citizens they serve, to tackle […]
Humanitarian Innovation: Sustainability & Scale
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Room 310, BerkeleyThe 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” with Florian Michahelles, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesWeb of Systems: Seamless collaboration both among machines and between machines and humans Just imagine, every sensor, and every machine has its own IP address. […]
Berkeley Innovators Series: Leila Takayama, Google X
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFriday, 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 […]
“Social media and social justice in Israel: Sounding the voice of the marginalized” by Prof. Amit Schejter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDate: Tuesday, March 1 Time: 12 - 1 pm Location: Room 250, Sutardja Dai Hall Title: "Social media and social justice in Israel: Sounding the […]
Founder of Wolfram Research Stephen Wolfram at the Berkeley Forum
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. […]
2016 Ag Tech Fair at CITRIS UC Merced
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 […]
LAUNCH Festival 2016 – The world’s largest startup event
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, […]
“Artificial Intelligence Arriving for Everyone” with Adam Coates, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAdam Coates is Director of the Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. His research focuses on new AI technologies to reach at least 100 million people […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: Steve Johnson, “Beyond Pixels: The Hidden Traits of Great Designers”
310 Jacobs Hall Berkeley, CA, United StatesDate: 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 […]
“Robot Intelligence in a Cloud-Connected World” James Kuffner, Toyota Research Institute
UC Merced Campus, Student Services Building - Room 120The UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
“Measuring Regenerative Medical Technology” with Jan Nolta, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDr. Jan Nolta is the Director of the Stem Cell Program at UC Davis School of Medicine. Her current research is focused on developing therapies […]
“We are all Makers” Dale Dougherty, Maker Media Inc.
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 […]
“The Future of Travel Demand” with Susan Handy, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAuto use is growing globally, along with the environmental and societal problems it generates, climate change most notably. A recent slowdown in the growth in […]
“Mechanical Computing Redux for the Internet of Things” with Tsu-Jae King Liu, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: Greg Petroff, “Design and the Internet of Important Things”
CAAbout 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 […]
“Platypus Cooperative Robotic Boats: Learning to Balance R&D and Productization” Paul Scerri, Platypus LLC
CAThe UC Merced Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is excited to host the Frontiers in Technology (FIT) Speaker Series […]
“International Petition against Autonomous Weapons” with Stuart Russell, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleyStuart 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
Sutardja Dai Hall, Kvamme Atrium, 3rd floor Berkeley, CA, United StatesCITRIS 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 […]
CITRIS @ UC Santa Cruz Open House
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 […]
The Momentum of Energy Systems Around the World – is the globe a whole energy system or can countries / regions insulate themselves and go it alone?
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Cal Day Seminar and Panel: “Water Sensors, Water Networks” with Prof. Evan Variano & CEE Panel
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThis 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 […]
Cal Day Open House: CITRIS Invention Lab
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 […]
Cal Day at Jacobs Hall
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 […]
“Entrepreneurship and Climate Change” with Sue Carter, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley, BerkeleySue 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
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesInnovation 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
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesBerkeley 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: […]
A Conversation with Lisa Jackson of Apple on 5/3/16
Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union, Tilden Room UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United StatesMay 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 […]
Mobile App Challenge Demo Day 5/3
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesIf 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 […]
DataEDGE 2016: A New Vision for Data Science
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
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesIoT & 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
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA, United StatesUC 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
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAging2.0 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 […]
CITRIS People and Robots Seminar Series: 8/22-12/5/16
250 Sutardja Dai Hall 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
A New Frontier for Communicating Science: Social Media
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 […]
Fall 2016 CITRIS Foundry Info Session, Sept 9
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 […]
Caltrans’ experience of the past leading into the future research work
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 […]
Fall 2016 CITRIS Foundry Info Session, Sept 13
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 […]
Taking Robots from the Lab to the Workforce with Melonee Wise, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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, […]
Jacobs Design Conversations: James Tichenor and Joshua Walton, “Blurring the Physical and the Digital”
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. […]
Design Field Notes: Per Selvaag
Per Selvaag, principal at Montaag design studio, will share insights at Jacobs Hall.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric.
Data Science for Pay-Per-Mile Car Insurance
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 […]
David Levine – Saving the World with OR
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 […]
Beyond Clicktivism
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 […]
Mapping Aquatic Plants Using Airborne Sensors with Susan Ustin, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
Maggi Kelly-Spatial Data Science and the 21st Century Mapping Toolkit
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 […]
“Character Day” Film Screening at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesFilm 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 Character Day Screening
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 […]
Fall 2016 CITRIS Foundry Info Session, Sept 23
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 […]
Cyber Tampering: The More Pernicious Risk… Why We Need to Tamper-Proof Our Society
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 […]
Jane Jacobs and the Digital City
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 […]
Robots in the Harvest with James Ostrowski, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
See and Spray Systems for Robotic Weeding
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 […]
Low Car(bon) Communities: Inspiring car-free and car-lite urban futures
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 […]
Women In Technology: Recognizing Leaders, Inspiring the Next Generation
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
Kenichi Soga, UC Berkeley, CITRIS Research Exchange + Resilience Seminar
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesDesign, 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, “Understanding and Designing for Collective Innovation”
310 Jacobs Hall Berkeley, CA, United StatesJacobs 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 […]
Future of Distributed Energy Resources with Ryan Hanley, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
Developing Large Simulation Models for Real-Time Applications
This seminar will present various issues that had to be addressed regarding the development of a large-scale traffic simulation model.
Technology and Cultural Preservation with Nicola Lercari, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
Richard M. Murray of the California Institute of Technology, CITRIS Research Exchange + Resilience Seminar
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe 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 […]
Specification and Synthesis of Networked Control Systems with Application to Autonomous Vehicles
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, […]
Fred Meyers, Associate Dean for Precision Medicine, UC Davis – CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
“Take Charge of Your Energy: Residential Demand Response” with John Anderson, OhmConnect, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
Minner Distinguished Lecture
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 […]
“Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Photonics for Health Care” with Jes Broeng, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, CITRIS Research Exchange
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesTalk 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 […]
CITRIS Foundry Demo Day 2016
Banatao Auditorium 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesThe CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day on November 16, 2016, to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2015 cohort. The Demo Day will […]