CADE 2025 : International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE) 2025

CADE 2025 marks the 11th in the series of conferences.We welcome submissions and participation from academics, practitioners, and policy makers. To support discussion and development of ideas and networks, we encourage submissions that consider social science, technical, and policy issues.

Submissions can be extended abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (6 pages). These should be prepared using the IET template and have the following format: Purpose, Theoretical Background (where appropriate), Findings, Discussion, Managerial Implications (if applicable) and Limitations.

The primary themes for this year's conference focus on the integration of AI in the following sectors: Finance, Digital Identity, Healthcare, Transportation and AgriTech. While we encourage submissions that align with these themes, we welcome contributions exploring other relevant areas such as digital economy, information systems, computer science, cyber security, economics and finance, operations and supply chain management, healthcare and biomedical informatics, and marketing. We would particularly like to encourage submissions from scholars in the wider community, including anthropologists, sociologists, data scientists, and those from design disciplines interested in the digital economy. We do not require empirical work, and welcome abstracts exploring conceptual ideas, and we are actively seeking work in the developmental stages of research.

The conference proceedings will be published by the IET and will be available through the IET Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. The proceedings will be indexed through the major databases.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Building Resilient AI Systems
Building Trust in AI Systems: Ensuring Resilience and Robustness
Cyber Defence Strategies in AI Systems
Cyber Forensics and Incident Response
Designing Robust, Interoperable, and Sustainable Systems Infrastructure
Digital Platforms, Ecosystems, and Market Dynamics
Ethical AI Governance: Addressing Bias, Fairness, and Accountability
Fairness and Bias in AI
Human and Organizational Aspects of Cybersecurity
Human-AI Collaboration
Policy, Regulations, and Compliance Frameworks for AI systems
Practical Applications of AI in Emerging Markets
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Digital Identity Systems
Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Securing Critical Infrastructure
Service Innovation and AI-Enabled Business Models
Societal Impacts of Emerging Technologies (e.g., AI, blockchain & distributed ledger technologies)
Trustworthy AI: Strategies for Transparency and Explainability

Conference Venue

Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, San Vidal 2894, 30124, Venezia, Italy

Conference Format
The conference will have a blended format, with participants being able to present and attend in-person or virtually. The programme with be designed around a number of general sessions and track-specific sessions. Each session will last up to two hours, with three papers per session and a closing Q&A with the authors.

Presentations are synchronous. Authors are expected to submit their slides one week in advance of the conference to allow for their upload prior to the conference. Presentations are to be 15 minutes long, with all participants from each session joining in a Q&A at the end of the session. We intend to identify themes among the submissions and group them into specific sessions to foster discussion from across the presentations during the Q&A.

Important Dates
Submission Round 1:

Submission deadline: 31 January 2025 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Participants notified of review outcome: 17 March 2025
Participants required to submit mandatory changes/camera-ready copy: 31 March 2025
Participants notified of the final decision (acceptance/rejection): 14 April 2025
Submission Round 2:
Submission deadline: 17 March 2025 at 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

Participants notified of review outcome: 21 April 2025

Participants required to submit mandatory changes/camera-ready copy: 05 May 2025

Participants notified of the final decision (acceptance/rejection): 15 May 2025

Registration:

Registration opens: 14 April 2025
Early-bird Registration closes: 23 May 2025

Registration closes: 16 June 2025

Final Programme Announced: 4 July 2025

CADE 2025: 14-16 July 2025

Registration Rates
Physical Participation:

Early bird registration: £325
Early bird PhD registration: £275
Standard registration: £400
PhD registration: £350
Partner lunch and dinner ticket: £225
Virtual Participation:

Early bird virtual registration: £125; £75 for developing nations*
Standard virtual registration: £200; £100 for developing nations*
PhD virtual registration: £125; £75 for early bird
* https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC-List-of-ODA-Recipients-for-reporting-2024-25-flows.pdf

Charge of Extra Pages: The papers longer than 6-page will be asked for £50 extra for each four pages, or the authors can reduce to fit in the page limit for acceptance.

Review Process
The submissions will undergo a single blind review process against the following criteria:

Topic suitability to the conference
Justification of the purpose
Appropriate theoretical background (where appropriate)
Robustness of the research methodology
Alignment between the findings/discussion and the objectives/purpose of the research
Relevance of the contributions to theory and practice
Awards will be given for Best Paper and Best Early-Career Researcher Paper.