AAAI 2026 AI in Business Symposium

June 22–June 24, 2026 • Dongguk University • Seoul, South Korea

AI in Business: Intelligent Transformation and Management

AI in Business aims to bring together academics and practitioners to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping businesses. Since its inception, AI is now commonly found in a wide range of business domains, ranging from operations, customer engagement, and innovation. This symposium will provide a platform to explore both the strategic implications of AI as well as the technological implications of AI to focus on topics such as use of AI in Strategic Decision-making and Forecasting, Operations and Intelligent Systems, Innovation, Ethics and Governance, Learning and Human Development, and Healthcare.

Topics

We invite contributions that align with the symposium's theme, including but not limited to: Strategic Planning; Sales/Demand Forecasting; Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Automation and Robotics; Internet of Things (IoT) and AI Integration; Finance and Economics; Marketing; Human Resources and Behavioral Analytics; LLM Agents; Ethics and Governance; Other related topics in AI and business applications.

Format of Symposium

The symposium will feature a diverse program that includes invited keynote speakers, contributed talks, tutorial/workshops, social activities, and panel discussion sessions. Refer to the AAAI 2026 Summer Symposium main webpage for more information.

Attendance

Attendance is open to academics, practitioners, and policymakers working in the fields of AI, machine learning, and data science, as well as graduate students and researchers specializing in AI applications for business or related disciplines.

Submission Requirements

We invite submissions of abstracts (not exceeding 1 page) OR full papers (not exceeding 8 pages, see templates in AAAI-25 Author Kit). Submissions are through the AAAI Official EasyChair platform. Accepted abstracts/papers will be published in the AAAI Proceedings.

Important dates

• Submission Deadline for Full Papers: March 1, 2026 (Extended from February 6, 2026).
• Abstracts will continue to be accepted through the end of March 2026.
• Decision Notification: On a rolling basis starting February 20, 2026.

Symposium Organizing Committee

View Profile Nahid Jafari Associate Professor State University of New York-Farmingdale, USA jnahid@hotmail.com General Chair	View Profile Hyejin Cho Associate Professor State University of New York-Farmingdale, USA choh@farmingdale.edu Co-chair	View Profile Mohammed Quazi Assistant Professor West Virginia University, USA mmquazi@hsc.wvu.edu Co-chair

Symposium Supporting Committee

• Amine Aboussalah, Industry Assistant Professor, New York University, USA, ama10288@nyu.edu
• Bruno Kamdem, Assistant Professor, State University of New York–Farmingdale, USA, kamdemb@farmingdale.edu
• Alladoumbaye Ngueilbaye, Associate Researcher, Shenzhen University, China, angueilbaye@szu.edu.cn
• Helper Zhou, Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, helperzhou@gmail.com
• Swaraj Kate, Supply Chain Analyst, Bell Equipment, Germany, swarajk@bellequipment.com

Keynote Speaker

View Profile Amine Aboussalah Assistant Professor NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA Title: From Data Scarcity to Decision Resilience: A Principled Framework for Generative Modeling in Finance and Operations

Schedule (To be updated)

Hotel Accommodations

View Hotel Four Points by Sheraton Josun Seoul Myeongdong

View Hotel Nine Tree by Parnas Seoul Myeongdong II

View Hotel Pullman Ambassador Seoul

View Hotel The Summit Hotel Seoul Dongdaemun