Columbia Management, Analytics, and Data Conference

Thanks to the support of the Digital Future Initiative at Columbia Business School, we are delighted to announce the 5th Annual Management, Analytics, and Data Conference. The conference will bring together scholars seeking to understand the role of data and analytics in shaping organizations, management, and firm performance.

This includes, but is not limited to, topics such as AI and data in strategic management, the organizational economics of artificial intelligence, human-AI interaction, people analytics, the role of data and AI in shaping organizational design and evolution, data driven decision making, and the macroeconomic and sociological perspectives on data and society. 

We encourage you to submit a paper to our program. Our conference will take place over a one and a half days event on May 21st and 22nd of 2026, at the new Columbia Business School campus in New York City. Discounted hotel rooms will be available.

To submit a paper, please use this form by Friday, February 6, 2026 (calendar reminder): 

https://mad-conference.org/submit

The conference program will mostly consist of presentations by junior and senior faculty. PhD students and postdocs can submit for a dedicated session. For co-authored papers, the author planning to attend should submit.

For more information about MAD, our homepage is: https://www.mad-conference.org/

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions:  

mad-conference@googlegroups.com.

If you are interested in participating but do not have a paper to present, feel free to complete this form to express interest in attending: 

https://mad-conference.org/participate

Non-presenting audience participants and PhD students are welcome to attend, but we ask you to register to help our planning.