CADE Call for Papers
International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy
CADE 2027
28 - 30 June 2027, Venice, Italy (Blended Format)
Call for Papers
CADE, now in its 13th year, is our annual conference series on the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Digital Economy. We invite submissions and participation from academics, practitioners, and policymakers.
To foster discussion, idea development, and networking, we encourage submissions that address social science, technical, and policy issues.
Submission formats. Submissions may be extended abstracts (2 pages) or full papers (6 pages). Please prepare them using the IET template.
Topics of interest. We also welcome contributions from related areas, including but not limited to:
- Agentic, Multi-Agent & Autonomous Systems
- AI Assurance, Testing, and Evaluation Frameworks, AI Safety, Security, and Red Teaming, Causality, Inference, and Explainability
- Privacy-Enhancing & Secure Machine Learning
- Cyber Defence & Forensics for AI Systems
- AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks: Energy, Compute & Supply Chains
- Designing Robust, Interoperable & Sustainable Systems Infrastructure
- Distributed, Federated & On-Device Learning
- Digital Platforms, Ecosystems, Market Dynamics & Supply Chains
- AI Governance, Global Policy/Standards & Fairness/Bias
- Global AI Regulation, Policy, Standards, and Compliance Frameworks (e.g., EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF)
- Societal, Cross-Cultural & Economic Impacts of AI & Emerging Technologies
- Financial Economics Foundations for the Digital Economy
- Specialised Financial Instruments & Blended Finance for Digital & Supply-Chain Assets
- Digital Public Infrastructure Finance & Risk
Interdisciplinary contributions. We particularly encourage submissions from scholars in the wider community, including anthropologists, sociologists, data scientists, and researchers from design disciplines with an interest in the digital economy. Empirical work is not required. We welcome abstracts that explore conceptual ideas, and we actively seek research at a developmental stage.
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.
Conference Venue
Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi, San Vidal 2894, 30124, Venezia, Italy
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Conference Format
The conference will have a blended format, with participants being able to present and attend in-person or virtually. The programme will 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.
Submission Instructions
All submissions must be anonymised for review. Please do not include author names or affiliations anywhere in the manuscript, including the title page, headers, footers, acknowledgements, and file metadata. Where you cite your own earlier work, please refer to it in the third person.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Important Dates
- Track proposal submission deadline: 25 January 2027
- Responses to track proposals: 11 February 2027
- Full paper (6-page) submission deadline: 01 March 2027
- Extended abstract (2-page) submission deadline: 15 March 2027
- First feedback to authors: 29 March 2027
- Revised submission deadline: 19 April 2027
- Final responses to authors: 03 May 2027
- Final registration deadline: 07 June 2027
- Conference: 28 – 30 June 2027
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
Charge of Extra Pages: Papers longer than 6 pages 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 double-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.