We seek high quality research papers in AI and data-driven analytics for improved leadership and decision making. Contributions should address one or more of the four overarching tracks of the conference, as shown below:

Track 1: LEADERSHIP, GOVERNANCE AND AI

• Leadership, governance and ethics in the digital era
• Responsible AI
• Managing AI
• Fairness, bias, explainability and interpretability in AI
• DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) in the digital era
• Teamwork and collaboration in the digital era
• Changing roles and skills in the digital era
• Digital leadership competencies in AI-driven organizations
• HR challenges in the digital era
• Leadership development in the age of AI
• Trust and transparency in AI-based decision making
• Labor market transformation in the AI era
• Network effects in AI platform governance
• Ethics of synthetic data and simulation models
• Responsible and sustainable business in the digital era
• Regulation and compliance in the presence of strategic ambiguity

Track 2: AI AND DATA ANALYTICS FOR IMPROVED OPERATIONS

• Predictive and prescriptive analytics in supply chain management
• AI in service operations management
• Generative AI and machine learning applications
• HR analytics
• Marketing analytics
• Leveraging AI and data analytics to improve customer engagement
• Digital twins and operational excellence
• Transforming the sports industry with data analytics
• NLP and LLM applications in business
• Causal inference, uncertainty quantification and model bias reduction
• Nowcasting and Forecasting: real-time business intelligence for strategic decision making
• Multi-modal AI fusion: techniques and business applications
• Fraud and anomaly detection
• Fintech, decentralized finance (DeFi) and digital currencies
• Credit risk and insurance analytics
• Financial analytics, risk management

Track 3: STRATEGY, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE AI ERA

• Innovation in the digital era
• Technology transfer
• Impact investing
• Open innovation and digital transformation
• The changing competitive dynamics in the digital era
• Impact of LLMs in business
• Corporate entrepreneurship
• Business strategies for competitive technology advantage
• AI startups: success factors and challenges
• Scaling AI solutions: from pilot to market success
• The changing role of competition
• Nurturing innovation in the AI era
• Navigating the innovation ecosystem
• Managing talent in AI organizations
• The changing landscape of venture financing
• Startup valuation in the digital age

Track 4: TRANSFORMING BUSINESS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR THE AI ERA

• Co-teaching with LLMs and AI chatbots
• Research with AI technologies
• Innovations with GenAI
• Mentoring and coaching in the digital era
• Redesigning the management curricula for the digital era
• Preparing for the new mindset in the digital era
• Ethics education for AI-driven business
• Promoting academic entrepreneurship
• Addressing the digital gap among faculty
• AI competences for business faculty
• Best practices for upskilling professionals in data analytics and AI
• Overcoming resistance to data-driven culture
• Executive and continuous education in the digital era

The Syros academic extension of the Athens conference includes a Research Colloquium and a Doctoral Consortium that will take place at the island of Syros. This academic extension will take place on June 15-17, following the main conference, and will be centered around the same themes as above.

For the Research Colloquium, we are seeking presentations of funded projects around the themes of the conference. Projects funded by national or international government organizations, as well as projects funded by industry or foundations are welcome. In addition, we welcome participation from industry experts (e.g., consulting, finance, tourism, manufacturing, shipping) presenting novel challenges that require groundbreaking research or development or entrepreneurial activities, as well as panels to discuss current and/or future research agenda for a discipline or a sector. The objective is to create a forum where participants could meet faculty or consultants who are active in funded research collaborations, and engage in stimulating collaborative sessions, in which active researchers will exchange views, challenge opinions and work together towards joint research activities, within a creative and rejuvenating environment.

For the Doctoral Consortium, we invite doctoral students to present their doctoral research, get feedback from faculty experts, receive guidance from editors about publications in journals, network with other doctoral students for developing follow-up joint research, and engaging in fretful discussions about possible careers in academia.

Submission of extended abstracts

The conference solicits research papers in English. Authors of papers are invited to submit to EasyChair an extended abstract (800-1500 words) of their paper for peer review by January 26, 2025. Authors will be notified about the acceptance for presentation of their paper at the conference by February 28, 2025.

Additionally, the conference accepts proposals for panel roundtables, presentations of funded research projects and doctoral research. If interested in these proposals, please email us with a brief description of your proposal by March 16, 2025. Further submission guidelines for these proposals will be published on the conference web site. All accepted abstracts will be published in an eBook with an ISBN number.

The extended abstracts of all presented papers will be published in an eBook with an ISBN number. Additionally, we are in the process of discussing a collaboration with journals to dedicate a special issue on selected papers of the conference.