Upcoming Events
~ Inaugural Collaboratorium ~
@ Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business
Join us for a 1-day mini-conference designed to spark new connections and accelerate research on how people collaborate in complex, technology-enabled environments.
What to expect
- Keynotes focused on emerging needs and open questions in collaboration science
- 5-minute lightning talks highlighting leading-edge projects and methods
- Interactive roundtables and structured discussion to help participants findcollaborators across disciplines and sectors
Focal topics
- Collaboration and technology (from human-AI collaboration to remote/hybrid work)
- Complex team designs (dynamic membership, distributed teams, cross-boundary collaboration)
- Collaboration skills for the next generation
Who’s attending
CoLab affiliates and researchers across Carnegie Mellon, plus professionals across sectors who want to learn from—and help shape—collaboration science grounded in real-world challenges.
There is no cost to attend; lunch and coffee will be provided.
Past Events
Center Kick-Off Event
November 17, 2025. CoLab's first mixer drew faculty, postdoctorates, and students from across campus. In a display of CMU's deep bench of expertise, rapid research talks ranged in topic from the study of health care teams, to the darkside of collaboration (conflict!), to how AI could help--or hinder--human work on anything from product design to decision making.
Research Seminar
November 5, 2025. CoLab had a great soft launch with Lindsay Larson's talk, titled Teamwork in the Age of AI: How AI Function Shapes Team Effectiveness. As organizations role out "AI teammates," this work-in-progress highlights the need to think carefully about what AI can do, how human's might be receptive to that, or not, and what that means for a teams ability to work effectively.