Causal Data Science Meeting 2026
The Causal Data Science Meeting 2026 takes place online on 4–5 November 2026: two days of talks and discussion on causal data science, machine learning and AI, with researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Attendance is free, and more than 600 participants have already registered.
Debate with Nick Huntington-Klein and Vasilis Syrgkanis on 4 November. Keynote by Teppo Felin on 5 November.
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The program
The full program is online: 36 research presentations in ten sessions, selected from this year's submissions with a 28% acceptance rate.
Debate · 4 November
Nick Huntington-Klein (Seattle University) and Vasilis Syrgkanis (Stanford University) debate the role of agentic AI in causal inference.
Keynote · 5 November
We’re honored to welcome Prof. Teppo Felin (University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business) as our 2026 keynote speaker. Teppo Felin is one of the leading voices connecting causal reasoning, entrepreneurship, strategy, and AI. His recent research challenges purely predictive approaches to decision-making and argues that progress in science, entrepreneurship, and innovation depends on theory-driven causal reasoning, experimentation, and intervention.
About the meeting
Causality has long been an important topic in various disciplines including computer science, economics, the social sciences, epidemiology, and philosophy. In recent years, interest has also grown in the business sector with both experimental (such as A/B testing, reinforcement learning, business experimentation) and observational causal inference methods (such as causal discovery, root-cause analysis, quasi-experimental methods) being increasingly applied by practitioners.
Since its launch in 2020, the Causal Data Science Meeting has connected a global audience of causality experts from academia and industry, with more than 6,100 participants so far. The meeting is organized as a workshop to facilitate discussion and disseminate ideas; no conference proceedings are published.
Looking ahead: Germany 2027
In 2027, we will add a small, invite-only in-person satellite event in Germany. The annual online meeting continues as always, open to everyone.
If your organization would like to sponsor the event, please contact us at contact@causalscience.org. More at causalscience.org.