CI’25 has an exciting lineup of workshops available on the first day. Workshops offer a fun and interactive way of co-creating knowledge across CI contexts and networking with fellow researchers and industry professionals. Sign up for a workshop if you are interested in hacking solutions to real-world problems, participating in human-AI teams to save the planet, engaging with AI governance and policy, and simulating futures with prediction markets!
All workshops will be hosted on August 4th, 2025 at the conference venue. We have a mix of full day workshops (W1/W2) and half-day workshops (W3/W4). Each workshop has an online form for people to RSVP ahead of the event. However, to participate in workshops you must also register and pay fees through the CVENT system.
Attendees can add a workshop (or two half-day workshops) to a full conference registration, or they register for workshops only. Fees include light breakfast and lunch during the workshops.
Important Dates:
RSVP and Register by Aug 2, 2025
Participate in workshops: Aug 4, 2025
Note that attendees may RSVP and register up after the early registration deadline. Late registration will require an extra $50 fee (including workshop-only participants) to cover adjustments to catering and other logistics.
W1. CrowdCamp
Full Day Workshop: Aug 4, 8am-5pm
Organizers: Tianyi Li, Vikram Mohanty, Amy Rechkemmer
CrowdCamp is a hackathon for researchers and practitioners interested in collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, human computation, and AI. This is an interdisciplinary and collaborative opportunity that does not constrain participation based on technical skills such as coding. We invite students, researchers, practitioners, and industry researchers from a wide variety of disciplines—social sciences, programming, ethnography, design, and more—to participate and explore wicked problems—complex, interdisciplinary, real-world challenges requiring human-AI collaboration. During CrowdCamp, participants will form teams and collaborate in the weeks leading up to the event, focusing on developing prototypes, study designs, algorithmic concepts, pilot studies, or other innovative outcomes. We encourage the use of lightweight approaches such as vibe coding, Figma prototypes, and creative brainstorming to push the boundaries and initiate meaningful conversations. Participants are welcome to propose and pursue their own wicked problems, but we'll also provide starter ideas for those seeking a challenge to tackle.
The hackathon will culminate in presentations and interactive discussions with feedback from the Collective Intelligence community. Outstanding projects demonstrating creativity, impact, and thoughtful execution as selected by the community will be eligible to win exciting prizes. Unlike past iterations, we do not set the expectation of producing formal paper outcomes; instead, our goal is to stimulate collaborative exploration and practical innovation around challenging problems. The workshop will form an empirical basis for planned research, such as creating a Brookings research report co-authored by workshop participants.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT.
Organizers: Tianyi Li, Vikram Mohanty, Amy Rechkemmer
CrowdCamp is a hackathon for researchers and practitioners interested in collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, human computation, and AI. This is an interdisciplinary and collaborative opportunity that does not constrain participation based on technical skills such as coding. We invite students, researchers, practitioners, and industry researchers from a wide variety of disciplines—social sciences, programming, ethnography, design, and more—to participate and explore wicked problems—complex, interdisciplinary, real-world challenges requiring human-AI collaboration. During CrowdCamp, participants will form teams and collaborate in the weeks leading up to the event, focusing on developing prototypes, study designs, algorithmic concepts, pilot studies, or other innovative outcomes. We encourage the use of lightweight approaches such as vibe coding, Figma prototypes, and creative brainstorming to push the boundaries and initiate meaningful conversations. Participants are welcome to propose and pursue their own wicked problems, but we'll also provide starter ideas for those seeking a challenge to tackle.
The hackathon will culminate in presentations and interactive discussions with feedback from the Collective Intelligence community. Outstanding projects demonstrating creativity, impact, and thoughtful execution as selected by the community will be eligible to win exciting prizes. Unlike past iterations, we do not set the expectation of producing formal paper outcomes; instead, our goal is to stimulate collaborative exploration and practical innovation around challenging problems. The workshop will form an empirical basis for planned research, such as creating a Brookings research report co-authored by workshop participants.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT.
W2. Human-AI Teaming for People and Planet
Full Day Workshop: Aug 4, 8am-5pm
Organizers: Jacob Taylor, Christoph Riedl, Jude Rayan
This full-day workshop is designed as a multiplayer arena connecting practitioners, innovators, researchers, and AI tools to rapidly build, test, and scale CI-informed solutions for the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The world’s toughest challenges—from ending extreme poverty to reversing environmental degradation—are problems that no single actor can solve alone. In practice, progress often boils down to small teams coming together across sectors, disciplines, and geographies to align priorities and collaborate on effective solutions. Collective intelligence (CI), amplified by recent advances in AI, offers powerful insights and tools for this kind of collaborative problem solving. But there is a need for new arenas in which teams can combine and test CI research and AI tools to scale solutions for real-world impact.
Using the Brookings/Rockefeller 17 Rooms methodology—a globally recognized approach to collaborative problem solving for the SDGs—and a suite of tailored AI tools, multidisciplinary teams (or ‘Rooms,’) will develop approaches that can make a tangible difference to one or more SDG outcome. Following initial Room-level problem solving, teams will visit other teams to share approaches before all teams assemble for a "rapid report-out" of solutions and discussion of process learnings. The workshop will form an empirical basis for planned research, such as creating a Brookings research report co-authored by workshop participants.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT.
Organizers: Jacob Taylor, Christoph Riedl, Jude Rayan
This full-day workshop is designed as a multiplayer arena connecting practitioners, innovators, researchers, and AI tools to rapidly build, test, and scale CI-informed solutions for the world’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The world’s toughest challenges—from ending extreme poverty to reversing environmental degradation—are problems that no single actor can solve alone. In practice, progress often boils down to small teams coming together across sectors, disciplines, and geographies to align priorities and collaborate on effective solutions. Collective intelligence (CI), amplified by recent advances in AI, offers powerful insights and tools for this kind of collaborative problem solving. But there is a need for new arenas in which teams can combine and test CI research and AI tools to scale solutions for real-world impact.
Using the Brookings/Rockefeller 17 Rooms methodology—a globally recognized approach to collaborative problem solving for the SDGs—and a suite of tailored AI tools, multidisciplinary teams (or ‘Rooms,’) will develop approaches that can make a tangible difference to one or more SDG outcome. Following initial Room-level problem solving, teams will visit other teams to share approaches before all teams assemble for a "rapid report-out" of solutions and discussion of process learnings. The workshop will form an empirical basis for planned research, such as creating a Brookings research report co-authored by workshop participants.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT.
W3. Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy
Half Day Workshop: Aug 4, 8am-Noon
Organizers: Jason Burton, Joseph Bak-Coleman, and Luke Thorburn
Tech(nology) policy involves creating regulations and guidelines to ensure that technological innovation benefits society and systemic risks are mitigated. Contemporary tech policy issues include how to regulate and reform social media platforms, and how to responsibly develop and govern advanced artificial intelligence. Successfully handling such issues demands an understanding of how micro-level interactions and network dynamics translate into collective, macro-level outcomes. This suggests that the collective intelligence research community—with its grounding in notions of complexity and scalability—is uniquely well-positioned to contribute to tech policy. In this half-day, interactive workshop, participants will recognize how collective intelligence research is pertinent to current tech policy issues, and identify how failures to incorporate complexity can undermine consensus formation and evidence-based policy. In addition, participants will collaboratively identify collective-intelligence-inspired policy recommendations and learn about the policy levers through which they can engage with policymakers.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT
Organizers: Jason Burton, Joseph Bak-Coleman, and Luke Thorburn
Tech(nology) policy involves creating regulations and guidelines to ensure that technological innovation benefits society and systemic risks are mitigated. Contemporary tech policy issues include how to regulate and reform social media platforms, and how to responsibly develop and govern advanced artificial intelligence. Successfully handling such issues demands an understanding of how micro-level interactions and network dynamics translate into collective, macro-level outcomes. This suggests that the collective intelligence research community—with its grounding in notions of complexity and scalability—is uniquely well-positioned to contribute to tech policy. In this half-day, interactive workshop, participants will recognize how collective intelligence research is pertinent to current tech policy issues, and identify how failures to incorporate complexity can undermine consensus formation and evidence-based policy. In addition, participants will collaboratively identify collective-intelligence-inspired policy recommendations and learn about the policy levers through which they can engage with policymakers.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT
W4. Simulating Futarchy: Using Real Prediction Markets for Collective Decision-Making and Governance
Half Day Workshop: Aug 4, 1pm-5pm
Organizers: Robin Hanson, Clément Lesaege and Maurice Bransfield
This is a half-day workshop at the ACM Collective Intelligence conference to explain the fundamentals of prediction markets while participants trade on a real market platform in a simulated environment. Participants will be exposed to different prediction market types, including “scalar” and “conditional markets.” The workshop will include simulations of “futarchy,” using prediction markets for governance and decision-making. The session is led by Robin Hanson, the creator of futarchy and leading expert on prediction markets, along with Clément Lesaege and Maurice Bransfield. Prior experience with prediction markets is not required.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT
Organizers: Robin Hanson, Clément Lesaege and Maurice Bransfield
This is a half-day workshop at the ACM Collective Intelligence conference to explain the fundamentals of prediction markets while participants trade on a real market platform in a simulated environment. Participants will be exposed to different prediction market types, including “scalar” and “conditional markets.” The workshop will include simulations of “futarchy,” using prediction markets for governance and decision-making. The session is led by Robin Hanson, the creator of futarchy and leading expert on prediction markets, along with Clément Lesaege and Maurice Bransfield. Prior experience with prediction markets is not required.
RSVP here to express interest, and register through CVENT