Conferences
annual Conferences
2024 Conference
Our eighth annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference will be held at Boston University on October 12-13, 2024, and will be hosted by the BU Questrom Digital Business Institute. The conference theme this year will be “The Quantified Society”. The event will bring together a unique mix of industry leaders, behavioral scientists, technologists, and those in the AI community who are especially interested in creating a healthy psychological future for the increasingly common use of AI in daily life.
Agenda and speaker list coming soon!
2023 conference
Our seventh annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference will be held at the University of Southern California on November 3-4, 2023, and will be hosted by the USC Neeley Center for Ethical Leadership and co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. The conference theme will be “The Psychology of AI Value Alignment” and we plan to convene a unique mix of behavioral scientists, technologists, and leaders in the AI community who are especially interested in creating a healthy future.
2022 conference
The sixth annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference was held at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania on November 11-12, 2022, and was co-hosted by the Wharton Human-Centered Technology Initiative, Neeley Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making, and the Psychology of Technology Institute.
2021 conference
The fifth annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on November 12-13, 2021, and was co-sponsored by UC Santa Barbara's Technology Management Department.
2019 conference
The fourth annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference was held at the UVA Darden Sands Family Grounds outside Washington, D.C. on November 8-9, 2019, and was co-sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
2018 conference
The third annual “New Directions in Research on the Psychology of Technology” conference was held at Stanford Graduate School of Business on October 19th 2018. The conference was sponsored by Stanford’s Department of Communication, Graduate School of Business, and Center for Work, Technology & Organization.
2017 conference
The second New Directions in the Psychology of Technology Research Conference was held at the University California, Berkeley in Berkeley on Nov. 3rd and 4th, 2017. The conference was co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, the National Science Foundation, and The Future of Life Institute.
2016 conference
The inaugural New Directions in the Psychology of Technology Research Conference was held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on October 21st and 22nd, 2016. The event was sponsored by the USC Marshall School of Business, with assistance from the UC Berkeley Center for Cybersecurity and USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies.