Collective Intelligence 2025 was a smashing success!
ACM CI’25, on Aug 4-6 2025 in La Jolla California, brought together researchers, practitioners, and innovators from around the world to share insights on collective problem solving. The event was a true embodiment of this year’s theme, diverse intelligence, celebrating the many perspectives on intelligence and the coordinated activity between intelligent agents—whether biological or technological. Attendees shared their insights, pushing the boundaries of what collective intelligence can achieve.
By the numbers:
• 174 registrations
• 11 plenary speakers
• 24 full papers in the ACM digital archive
• 15 extended abstracts
• 22 posters & demos
• 4 interactive workshops
• 8 doctoral colloquium participants
Check out these moments from the conference:
Special thanks go to the organizing committee and student volunteers—especially Steven Dow, Joshua Becker, Besmira Nushi, Lisa O’Bryan, Saiph Savage, Anita Williams Woolley, Geoff Mulgan, Jeffrey Nickerson, Tianyi Li, Vikram Mohanty, Tanja Aitamurto, Steven Rick, Jude Rayan, Michelle Anna Vaccaro, Christianah Oyewale, Samuel Kobina Gyasi, Cindy Zhou, Tony Li, Ruoxi Shang, Wesley Deng, Howard Han, Jeongeon Park, Sirui Tao, Mingyi Li, Cole Biehle, Ayah Ibrahim, Thomas Harding, Akshay Nagarajan, and Enrique Lázaro Gauna, as well as the program committee, reviewers, and steering committee—without whom the event would not have been possible.
Thanks to our plenary speakers: Deborah Gordon, Federico Rossano, Deb Roy, Niki Kittur, Lilly Irani, Melissa Valentine, Kate Starbird, Adam Tauman Kalai, Glen Weyl, Cory Doctorow and Michael Levin for collectively blowing our collective minds.
Thanks also to the sponsors: Bloomberg Engineering, Toyota Research Institute, UC San Diego’s School of Social Science and Department of Cognitive Science, the UC San Diego Design Lab, SIGCHI, and ACM for their generous support of this research community.