CADE 2026 marks the 12th edition of our annual conference series, dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Digital Economy. We welcome submissions and participation from academics, practitioners, and policymakers.

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, Supply Chain, 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:

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
Smart Data Pathways-as-Portfolios
Digital Economy Frameworks: Data Valuation Models
Digital Public Infrastructure Finance & Risk
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 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.

Submission Instructions
CADE 2026 offers two submission cycles to provide flexibility for authors at different stages of their research. Papers accepted in either cycle will be presented at the conference and included in the published proceedings. Authors may submit their work to only one cycle; submissions of the same or substantially similar papers to both cycles will be desk-rejected. Both cycles follow the same review standards and confer equal eligibility for publication and presentation at the conference.