AIBA Conference Overview

“Over five billion people worldwide actively engage with AI, Metaverse, bots, machine-to-machine connected solutions, 5G, AR/VR, cryptocurrency, and blockchain. This conference will explore how digital, social, and mobile technologies affect business models, customer behavior, management strategies, public policy, and social changes at large. Exemplar topics include:

AI automation augmentation/ Metaverse/ Cryptocurrency/ Robotics AI adoption and user behavior/AI voice-mining for promo and recommendations/ AIML with social media data/ Multi-modal algorithms for images, voice, and video data/ Bot trading and AI advisor in financial markets/AI for ad creatives and publishers/ AI applications in worker training, hiring, supervising, HR management, business strategies/ ML applications in fintech, pharma, and e-commerce/ Deepfake algorithms, privacy and ethics of new technologies/ Data breach and security/ Blockchain applications/ Future of work and unemployment/ Big data IoT, 5G, AR, and VR applications/ Public policy and regulation of AI technologies/ AI algorithm bias, interpretable ML/ Machine learning for causal inference/ ML and deep learning for statistics methods/ Machine learning for empirical IO/ Deep reinforcement learning for microeconomics theory / Healthcare applications of ML/ Multi-armed bandits for online advertising and pricing/ Contextual MAB for personalized dynamic recommendations/ AIML in B2C and B2B markets, COVID detection/prevention/treatment”

Confirmed Keynote Speakers (tentative): Anocha Aribarg (UMich), Hemant Bhargava (UCD), Ryan Dew (Wharton), Dean Eckles (MIT), Kartik Hosanagar (Wharton), Lan Luo (USC), Xueming Luo (Temple), Puneet Manchanda (UMitch), Nitin Mehta (UT), Carl Mela (Duke), Daniel Rock (Wharton), Navdeep Sahni (Stanford), Jiwoong Shin (Yale), Andrey Simonov (Columbia), K Sudhir (Yale), Olivier Toubia (Columbia), Prasanna Tambe (Wharton), Dennis Zhang (WUSL) 

Submission Logistics: Submit either a 3-page abstract, full paper, or 10 PPT slides to [click-for-email], [click-for-email]

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2023. Acceptance notification date: November 1, 2023 (Acceptance of submission requires one co-author to register and present at the conference)  

Please Note: TBD

What’s Included:

Full conference registration includes all sessions on Friday, Dec 1, with breakfast, coffee, lunch, and dinner in the evening; and all sessions on Saturday, Dec 2, with breakfast, coffee, lunch, and appetizers in the evening.

A one-day corporate registration includes all events and meals on the day registered.

Cancellations, Changes & Refunds:

Cancellations, substitutions or other changes may be made online on or before Nov 15, 2023. To cancel or make a change after that date, please send an email to Xueming.Luo@temple.edu.

Cancellations received in writing on or before Nov 15 (11:59pm EST) will be refunded, minus an $85 processing fee. After this date, no refunds will be granted. All refunds will be made in US dollars and issued to the card used to make the original payment.

LODGING

TRAVEL & DIRECTIONS

Event Location Address & Phone

• 1801 Liacouras Walk, Alter Hall, 7^th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122
• 215-204-8111

Campus Map

Please click on the following link for a downloadable pdf map of the campus: Temple University, Main Campus Map

Traveling By Air

If you are planning to travel by air, you will be flying into Philadelphia International Airport (code PHL). Temple University is about a 30-minute taxi ride from the airport. Taxis and trains are available directly from the airport.

Traveling By Car

From PHL Philadelphia International Airport

• Airport address: 8000 Essington Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19153

From Center City/Rittenhouse Square

From West Philadelphia

Parking

Parking in the Liacouras Parking Garage (Visitor Parking) will cost $20/day. If you are presenting during the conference, please reach out to Dr. Xueming Luo ([click-for-email]) at least 7 days in advance of your arrival for your complimentary parking QR code.

Taxis

Our most reliable sources of car transport are:

• Uber
• Lyft

Please note that standard cab companies are often unreliable when ordering pickups at Temple University.

Traveling by Train

For train transport, you will want to arrive at either 30^th Street Station or Temple University Station. 30^th Street is a large, interstate station and will likely be offered for arrival to Philadelphia by train from outside of PA. Station addresses are listed below. 

• 30^th Street: 2955 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
• Temple U Station: 927 W Berks St, Philadelphia, PA 19122