We seek high-quality research and practice-oriented papers on how AI is reinventing organizations, work, and human judgment. Below are indicative themes of the six tracks of the conference:

Track 1: Strategy, Innovation & Organizational Reinvention

• AI and new sources of competitive advantage
• AI-enabled digital transformation and organizational intervention
• Business and operating models of AI-native organizations
• Agentic AI, delegation, and organizational (re)design
• Building organizational capabilities for AI at scale
• Defining and measuring AI value
• AI-enabled business model innovation and value creation
• AI and the transformation of innovation, R&D, and new product development
• AI-enabled platforms, ecosystems, and new forms of interorganizational coordination
• AI sourcing strategies: build, buy, partner, and dependence on foundation-model providers
• AI-enabled collaboration across stakeholders

Track 2: Leadership, Human Judgment & the Future of Work

• Leading human–AI teams
• Job and workflow redesign for human–AI collaboration
• Human agency, autonomy, identity, motivation and well-being
• Algorithmic management and monitoring
• AI, virtual work and changing work-life boundaries
• Upskilling and reskilling: needs & challenges
• Developing early-career talent when AI performs entry-level work
• AI and the redefinition of the professions
• AI, job polarization and workplace tension
• Accountability under AI-shaped judgment
• HR practices in the AI era
• Employee resistance and repurposing of AI

Track 3: Decision Intelligence: Analytics, Optimization & AI-Enabled Operations

• Integrating ML, generative AI and optimization
• Developments in predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Decision making under deep uncertainty
• AI in supply chains, health, energy, mobility and public systems
• Operational resilience and disruption
• Coordinating human and AI decision-makers
• Model drift, monitoring, and evaluation
• Digital twins
• From accurate predictions to better decisions: measuring decision value

Track 4: AI in Markets: Customers, Marketing & Finance

• Marketing in the new AI-enabled ecosystem
• AI and customer search, choice, persuasion
• Consumer response to AI content
• Generative AI in branding and advertising
• AI for customer intelligence: pricing, targeting and demand forecasting
• AI, customer experience and service transformation
• AI in financial intermediation: credit, lending, and insurance
• AI in capital markets: trading, liquidity, and market dynamics
• Risk management with foundation models
• Fintech, DeFi, and digital currencies
• Fraud detection, compliance, inclusion
• Governing AI for financial stability

Track 5: Responsible AI, Governance & Societal Value

• Distributing responsibility across the AI value chain
• Auditing and monitoring AI systems
• Transparency and performance
• Balancing regulation, innovation, and organizational agility
• Bias, fairness, and discrimination in AI-enabled decisions
• AI for public value and public services
• AI geopolitics, security, governance
• AI, sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Goals
• Generative AI, misinformation, authenticity and public trust
• Regulatory challenges and global firms
• Inequality and digital exclusion
• Verification, assurance and security of AI systems

Track 6: Reinventing Management & Business Education

• Developing capabilities for future managers
• Embedding AI across the curriculum
• Enhancing teaching with AI tools
• AI literacy, managerial judgment and ethics
• Rethinking assessment of student learning
• Facilitating learning with AI
• Developing critical thinking and human agency with AI
• Academic integrity, authorship and responsible AI use
• Changing faculty roles and faculty upskilling
• Experiential and project-based learning
• Executive and lifelong learning for AI
• Degrees, microcredentials, and the changing value proposition of business education
• Transforming business schools for the AI era

An academic extension of the conference is scheduled for June 20–22, 2027, on the island of Syros. Participants will have the chance to attend a Research Colloquium with original research presentations, take part in professional development workshops, network for potential research collaborations, join a Doctoral Consortium, and participate in cultural activities. The sessions will take place at the Hermes hotel, overlooking the deep blue water of the Aegean Sea, with the historic city center in the background. Early reservation is advisable to take advantage of special prices for conference participants; more details on the website.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
LMDE offers doctoral students the opportunity to participate in the Doctoral Consortium. This one-day event allows doctoral students to present their work, receive feedback, and network with international faculty about research collaborations and career opportunities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
An important feature of the conference is the Professional Development Workshops offered to faculty and doctoral students attending the Syros component of LMDE. This year's workshops will be announced shortly.

1. Submission of extended abstracts

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract (800–1500 words) of their paper to EasyChair for peer review by December 30, 2026. Authors will be notified about acceptance for presentation by February 28, 2027.

Please follow the guidelines found here when preparing your extended abstract. All accepted abstracts will be published in an eBook.

2. Submission of proposals for Doctoral Presentations, Panel Discussions, and PDWs

Additionally, the conference accepts proposals for Doctoral research, Panel roundtables, and Professional Development Workshops (PDWs). If interested in these proposals, please email us at submissions@lmde.net with a brief description of your proposal by March 5, 2027. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their proposals by March 30, 2027.

Submission of proposals for doctoral presentations

We welcome presentations of doctoral candidates who will present their research to an international audience of faculty and receive feedback. Doctoral presentations will take place in Syros on June 22, 2027. If you are interested to make a doctoral presentation, please submit a proposal by March 5, 2027 to submissions@lmde.net including title of your work, your name, university, supervisor, and a brief (approximately 400-500 words) description of the research, methodology, findings.

Submission of proposals for panel discussions

We welcome proposals for panel discussions on important and timely topics related to the themes of the conference. Ideally, panel participants should include industry professionals, who will bring in the industry perspective, together with academics for the academic perspective. Panel discussions will take place in Athens (June 18-19, 2027). If you are interested to host a panel discussion, please submit a proposal by March 5, 2027 to submissions@lmde.net including topic of the discussion, your name and the names of the participants, and a brief (approximately 400-500 words) description of the topic and the key issues to be addressed.

Submission of proposals for Professional Development Workshops

We welcome proposals for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs). These workshops are addressed to faculty and doctoral students, and this year’s theme is AI Tools to Enhance Teaching and Research. PDWs will take place in Syros (June 21, 2027). If you are interested to run a PDW, please submit a proposal by March 5, 2027 to submissions@lmde.net including title of the workshop, your name, and a brief description of the content and the learning outcomes.