Santa Barbara Forums
Santa Barbara Forums
The Santa Barbara Forums bring together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes. Discussion and deliberation-focused panels, expert workshops, and design charrettes examine cutting-edge trends and long-term social transformations resulting from the use of information technologies, as well as exploring how to improve engineering with social insights.
Digital Transitions
The Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions was first held on April 9-10, 2006. The "SB Forum" offers a place to meet, discuss, and learn about social dimensions of the digital communications revolution in a workshop-style setting. The Forum brings together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes.
To visit the 2006 SB Forum website, click here.
Expert Workshops
Expert Workshops at CITS are opportunities for leading thinkers with common interests to explore new approaches in a workshop setting.
Learn more about Expert Workshops at CITS here.
Design Charrettes
Santa Barbara Social Innovation Design Charrettes are a new way to tackle problems collaboratively. These day-long, intensive design workshops bridge problems faced by business leaders with the knowledge of university experts. Participants, who come from select firms and from a diverse range of academic departments, work together for a day in a structured process of problem definition, emergent and competitive solution-generation, and proposal vetting. The goal is to use a highly facilitated, multi-disciplinary approach to unpack problems, generate alternatives, consider unintended consequences, and equip participants to make informed decisions about how to apply the results in their own organizations.
To learn more about CITS Design Charrettes, click here.
