spotlights & events

bspa hosts a range of annual events aimed at fostering networking within the behavioral science and policy communities. Spotlight workshops bring policymakers, practitioners and scientists together to brainstorm various research ‘best-practices’ and topic areas

2024 BSPA Online Conference
MAY 2-3, 2024

The theme for this year’s conference is: Technology & Society, and we have a star-studded line-up led by our conference chair, Anuj Shah (University of Chicago) and co-chairs, Michael Hallsworth (BIT) and Carolina Toth (BIT).

Highlights include:
  • ​Fireside Chat: Better Government in the Digital Age (Jennifer Pahlka & Wendy De La Rosa)
  • ​Keynote: Algorithms: The Next Frontier for Choice Architecture (Sendhil Mullainathan)
  • Panel Discussion: How Can Behavioral Science Inform AI Regulation (Ronnie Chatterji, Kris Hammond, Paula Goldman)
  • Panel Discussions (Nicholas Chesterley, Irene González, Laura Smart, Beth Blauer, Lindsay Moore, Piyush Tantia, Ruth Schmidt, Ravi Gurumurthy )
  • Book Panel: How Technology Shapes Society  (Dolly Chugh, Jean Twenge, Sander van der Linden, Simon Johnson)
  • Topic-focused Sessions (Tatiana Homonoff, Jeannie Annan, Elke Weber, Adam Waytz, Keith Chen, David Yeager)
  • BSPA Award: (Hal Hershfield)

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Spotlight Workshops

Our Spotlight workshops bring policymakers, practitioners and scientists together to brainstorm various research ‘best-practices’ and topic areas in a local setting. Topics such as energy, pre-K education, health and financial decision making can drive the agenda; alternatively, these working groups can coalesce around local government priorities in order to facilitate actionable insights being put into practice on a state or municipal level.

Does your research institution have a pressing research priority that would welcome a behavioral science lens? We can help! BSPA convenes ‘spotlight’ sessions where we help support your agenda while providing a vehicle for publication.
Whether in the public sector or a government division, we welcome the opportunity to partner. Let us know what spotlights you are interested in pursuing and together we can help support your agenda
From the private sector and interested in co-hosting a spotlight workshop with us? Get in touch! We’re always interested in a fresh perspective on issues that you care about, as you seek to develop a behavioral science capability in your organization
Want to set a research agenda for behavioral science? Send us ideas for partnership to [email protected]!
Have an idea for a spotlight proposal? Download our RFP to find out more about our work in this space!
Upcoming spotlights include ‘Safe Driving’ with the University of Kansas, and Health Equity with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Have a research interest in either of these topics? Let us know so that we can be sure to include you in the invitation and call for papers

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