The Symposium & Short Course program will be updated as the agenda is finalized, so please make sure to check back regularly.

June 19
DAY 0: Arrival
We will post optional sign-up sheets online for self-organizing dinners.

June 20
DAY 1: First-Principles Approaches to Collective Intelligence
The first day of the meeting will feature plenary lectures, group discussions, and debates on first-principles thinking in the study of collective intelligence across scales from adaptive matter to cell biology to neuroscience to animal societies to economic systems to artificial intelligence. How do we know our collective intelligence measures are fundamental rather than nominal? How might such measures be rigorously derived from microscopic, individual-level data or using first-principles approaches?

In the evening, there will be an optional festive whiteboard gathering for talking through ideas with symposium faculty and enjoying beautiful views of Santa Fe. Participants are also welcome to attend Andrea Wulf's free Community Lecture at the Historic Lensic Performing Arts Theater at 7:30 pm.

Breakfast and lunch will be served to all participants.

June 21
DAY 2: The Nature of Intelligences in Brains, Collectives + AI
The second day of the meeting will feature plenary lectures, group discussions, and a panel discussion on the nature of intelligence in collectives, brains, and artificial systems. What are the most promising measures of intelligence in brains, groups, and AI? How does intelligence scale with other collective properties? What is general intelligence?

In the evening there will be a poster session party at La Fonda’s lovely rooftop bar with drinks, conversation, and poster presentations on the latest collective intelligence research. The evening will focus on relaxed, small-group discussions where pre-selected participants will have the opportunity to present their research and connect it to the themes of the meeting. The top three posters will be awarded prizes of $1000, $750 and $500. Poster abstract submission guidelines can be found under the “Apply” tab.

Breakfast and lunch will be served to all participants.

June 22
DAY 3: Dynamics of Collective Intelligence (morning) + Radical Ideas (afternoon).
On the morning of the third day of the meeting we will tackle the dynamics of collective intelligence — what principles underlie group performance when the environment is changing? What measures predict the capacity of a collective to adapt?

The afternoon will feature a radical ideas competition. A pre-selected “short list” of creative individuals and teams from any discipline or enterprise will present outside-the-box ideas (the more radical the better) for how we might harness collective intelligence to solve problems like climate change, pandemic emergence, election design, and poverty, as well as how we might build on technological inventions like Twitter to create a powerful, global “meta brain” to process and organize the vast but thus far largely uncurated knowledge base humans have produced. Radical ideas submission and selection criteria can be found under the “Apply” tab. If any of these radical ideas is deemed particularly creative and worthwhile, the project leader will be offered a scholarship to attend the highly competitive four-week Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School during the following summer, which includes a $1500 travel stipend.

In the evening, we will head to Santa Fe’s Meow Wolf for informal discussion and a final celebration. Round-trip shuttle buses between La Fonda Hotel and Meow Wolf will be provided.

Breakfast and lunch will be served to all participants.

June 23
Day 4: Departure.

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