The Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) is accepting registrants for its first annual conference on June 18, 2015, at the Harvard Club in New York. Please note that space at the conference will be very limited. Priority at this conference and future conferences will be given to presenters, BSPA Board Members, and BSPA members according to the length of their tenure in the Association (so join BSPA now).
For details and to register for the conference, please visit the conference website.
BSPA's inaugural conference will feature a conversation between Dick Thaler (University of Chicago) and David Brooks (New York Times), as well as keynotes from Cass Sunstein (Harvard), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard), Chip Heath (Stanford), Kevin Volpp (University of Pennsylvania), Elke Weber (Columbia), Ron Haskins (Brookings Institution), Dean Karlan (Yale), Max Bazerman (Harvard), and Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania). Plenary panelists will include David Gergen (Harvard and CNN), Laszlo Bock (SVP of People Operations at Google), Maya Shankar (Director of the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team), Josh Wright (Executive Director of ideas42) and Elspeth Kirkman (Head of BIT North America). The conference also will include lighting talks by leading academics and practitioners, receptions to facilitate networking, and an opportunity to help shape BSPA's agenda.
BSPA (http://behavioralpolicy.org) is an international membership organization that promotes the application of rigorous behavioral science research to public- and private-sector policy and practice by facilitating collaboration between behavioral scientists and practitioners. BSPA also publishes Behavioral Science & Policy, an international, peer-reviewed journal that features short, accessible articles describing actionable policy applications of behavioral scientific research that serves the public interest.
Conference Organizers: Craig Fox (UCLA), Katherine Milkman (UPenn), and Sim Sitkin (Duke)