We are an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers from the fields of engineering and data science, economics, sociology, and political science. We are exploring how we can go about shaping the world we want in the age of intelligent tools. The challenge, deep and real, is to architect that world, to find ways of working, earning, and learning that support the healthy development of our societies and economies, and the humans that inhabit them.
ORGANIZERS
Ken Goldberg
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
- Singulatity Sensationalism versus Multiplicity
- Cloud Robotics: Learning Tedious Subtasks from Expert Surgeons
- An Antidote to Automation Anxiety: Intelligence Amplification
- The Robot-Human Alliance
Jennifer Granholm
University of California, Berkeley: Distinguished Adjunct Professor at the Law & Goldman School of Public Policy, Senior Research Fellow at the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS); Former Governor of the state of Michigan
Martin Kenney
University of California, Davis: Professor of Human and Community Development
- Distributing Wealth and Mitigating Inequality in our 21st Century Digital Economy
- One Ring to Unite Them All: Convergence, the Smartphone, and the Cloud
- The Rise of the Platform Economy
Bradford DeLong
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Economics
Shankar Sastry
University of California, Berkeley: Dean of Engineering
Costas Spanos
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of EECS, Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute; Berkeley Educational Alliance for Research in Singapore: CTO
Laura Tyson
University of California, Berkeley: Institute for Business & Social Impact Faculty Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies Board of Trustees Chair
- Exploring the Effects of Technology on Income and Wealth Inequality
- Intelligent Machines and Displaced Workers
- Labor Markets in the Age of Automation
- Worker Protection in the Gig Economy
John Zysman - Convener
University of California, Berkeley: Professor Emeritus, BRIE Founder/Director
- Distributing Wealth and Mitigating Inequality in our 21st Century Digital Economy
- The Rise of the Platform Economy
- The Next Phase in the Digital Revolution: Platforms, Automation, Growth, and Employment. Forthcoming February 2018.
- From great power politics to a strategic vacuum: Origins and consequences of the TPP and TTIP
CO-FOUNDERS
Annette Bernhardt
University of California, Berkeley: Director of Low-Wage Work Program at the Center for Labor Research & Education, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
- What Do We Know About Gig Work in California? An Analysis of Independent Contracting?
- Beyond Basic Income: Claiming Our Right to Govern Technology
Olaf Groth
Cambrian.ai: CEO; HULT International Business School: Professor of Global Strategic Management, Innovation & Economics and Director of Disruption Futures; University of California, Berkeley: BRIE Visiting Scholar
- To Live in Harmony with AI We Must Create a Modern Magna Carta
- Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy
- 'Data-Facturing' in the Internet of Things - a Shakeup Ahead?
Kenji Kushida
Stanford University: Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program Research Scholar, Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project Leader
Tara Lemmey
Net Power & Light: CEO and Co-founder; LENS Ventures: Chairperson
Niels Christian Nielsen
World Refugee School: CEO; Wikimedia Endowment: Board Member; Board Director of Multiple Companies; Former President of Danish Technology Institute
Mark Nitzberg
University of California, Berkeley: Executive Director of Center for Human Compatible AI, Head of strategic outreach for Berkeley AI Research
Petri Rouvinen
Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA): Research Director; Etlatieto (a subsidiary of ETLA): Managing Director
Hanne Shapiro
Hanne Shapiro Futures: Business Owner
COLLABORATORS
Alexandre Bayen
University of California, Berkeley: Liao-Cho Innovation Endowed Chair, Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies
Michael Borrus
XSeed Capital: Founding Partner; University of California, Berkeley: BRIE Co-Founder
Jack Citrin
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Political Science, Former Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies
Camille Crittenden
University of California: Deputy Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Director of the CITRIS Connected Communities Initiative, Executive Director of the CITRIS Social Apps Lab
Michael Dowling
University of Regensburg: Professor of Innovation and Technology Management
Barry Eichengreen
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Economics
Stuart Feldman
Schmidt Sciences: Head of Schmidt Sciences
Lee Fleming
University of California, Berkeley: Faculty Director of the Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership, Professor in the Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department
Martin Fleming
Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Economist of IBM
Bjoern Hartmann
University of California, Berkeley: Associate Professor of EECS, Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Brian Kahin
Computer & Communications Industry Association: Senior Fellow; University of Michigan: Research Investigator and Adjunct Professor at School of Information, Special advisor to the Provost's Office
Phil Kaminsky
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations, Associate Dean of the College of Engineering
Stephane Kasriel
Upwork: CEO
Helmut Krcmar
Technische Universitat Munichen: Chair of Computer Science in Economics
Ilkka Lakaniemi
Finland Chamber of Commerce: Vice President in charge of Digitalization & Renewal-national projects; Aalto University: Research Director at the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research
Hank Love
American Jobs Project: Executive Director
Stuart Russell
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Computer Science, Smith Zadeh Professor in Engineering
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
University of California, Berkeley: Edgar L. Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Patrick Scaglia
University of California: Co-Founder of CITRIS Foundry technology incubator program
Steve Vogel
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Political Science
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
Paul Alivisatos
University of California, Berkeley: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Pushkar P. Apte
Director of Strategic Initiatives, UC Berkeley - CITRIS & CREST
Dan Breznitz
University of Toronto: Professor of Global Affairs, Munk Chair of Innovation Studies
Stijn Broecke
OECD Directorate of Employment, Labor and Social Affairs: Labor Market Economist, Employment Analysis and Policy Division
Allessandra Collechia
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry: Head of Economic Analysis and Statistics (EAS) Division
Chiara Criscuolo
OECD Directorate for Science Technology and Innovation: Head of Productivity and Business Dynamics Division
Giovanni Dosi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna: Professor of Economics, Director of Institute of Economics
Chris Edley
University of California, Berkeley: The Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Former Dean of the School of Law; The Opportunity Institute: Co-Founder and President
Stuart W. Elliott
OECD Directorate of Education and Skills: Project Leader for the study on the Future of Skill-biased Technological Change
Marion Fourcade
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Sociology
Montserrat Gomendio
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills: Head of the OECD Centre for Skills (EDU), Deputy Director
Dennis Gorlich
Kiel Institute for the World Economy: Managing Director of the Global Economic Symposium
Robert Grundke
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation: Economist
Mark Huberty
Google: Geospatial and Economic Data Analyst for Google Maps
Stephanie Jamet
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills: Senior Economist
Rob Johnson
Institute for New Economic Thinking: President; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: Senior Fellow and Director
Soren Jorgensen
Innovation Center Denmark Silicon Valley: Executive Director
Mark Kvamme
Drive Capital: Co-founder and Partner
Peter Leyden
Reinvent: Founder and CEO
Susan Lund
Mckinsey & Company: Partner; McKinsey Global Institute: Chairman and Director
- Independent Work: Choice, Necessity in the Gig Economy (MGI, 2016)
- Ten new work orthodoxies for the second machine age, Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017, Insead
- Jobs gained, jobs lost: Workforce transitions in the age of automation, forthcoming November 2017
Luca Marcolin
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation: Economist
Lenny Mendonca
Senior Partner Emeritus; McKinsey & Company
Andreea Minea
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills: Economist
Michelle Moskowitz
University of California, Berkeley: Director of Advocacy and Institutional Relations in the Office of Government and Community Relations
Jonathan Murray
GE Healthcare: Managing Director, Research Circle Technology
Brandie Martin Nonnecke
University of California, Berkeley: Research & Development Manager for CITRIS; University of California, Davis: Program Director for CITRIS
Jeppe Olesen
Innovation Center Denmark Silicon Valley: Science Attache
Tim O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media: CEO
Derek Ozkal
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Program Officer in Entrepreneurship
Viviana Padelli
University of California, Berkeley: Lecturer at Haas School of Business; Confindustria: Senior Policy Adviser in Confindustria Delegation to the EU
Lee Rainie
Pew Research Center: Director of Internet and Technology Research
Sean Randolph
Bay Area Council Economic Institute: Senior Director
Lukas Repa
EU Commission, Directorate General for Competition: Deputy Head of Unit; University of California, Berkeley: Fellow at the Institute of European Studies
Stefano Scarpetta
OECD Directorate for Employment, Labor and Social Affairs: Director
Andreas Schleicher
OECD Directorate for Education and Skills: Director; Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD Secretary-General
Michael Schönstein
German Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs: Senior Advisor, Future of Work and Skilled Labor Supply, Division Icl
Barry Schwartz
Swarthmore College: Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action Emeritus Psychology
MariaGrazia Squicciarini
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation: Senior Economist/Head of Unit
Matthew Stepka
University of California, Berkeley: Visiting Scholar/Executive in Residence at Haas School of Business; Google: Former Vice President of Special Projects
Bruce Stokes
Pew Research Center: Director of Global Economic Attitudes
Robert Strand
University of California, Berkeley: Executive Director of Haas School of Business Center for Responsible Business
Chor-Kiang Tan
National Research Foundation Singapore Strategy Directorate: Assistant Head
Eric Thelen
EIT Digital Silicon Valley Hub: Director
Ryoichi Togashi
Komatsu: General Manager
Claire Tomlin
University of California, Berkeley: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Charles A. Desoer Chair in the College of Engineering
Hal Varian
Google: Chief Economist; University of California, Berkeley: Emeritus Professor in the School of Information, the Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics
Mary Walshok
University of California, San Diego: Dean of the University Extension, Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs, Adjunct Professor in Department of Sociology
Ann Weeby
Salesforce: Director of Workforce Innovation
Andrew Wyckoff
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation: Director
Lan Xue
Tsinghua University: Cheung Kong Chair Professor, Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management
Saadia Zahidi
World Economic Forum: Head of Education, Gender and Work System Initiative, Member of Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Geneva