Upcoming conference with support of the British Data Science Society (BDSS):
Upcoming ECDA2026 deadline: Standard registration 15th August 2026.
Speakers and topics at recent meetings of the British Data Science Society (BDSS):
Panel discussion on AI at the Crossroads - The Dual Nature of Innovation: Navigating the Technical, Ethical, and Societal Crossroads of AI. Invited panelists: Lampros Stergioulas (The Hague University of Applied Sciences), Aline Villavicencio (University of Exeter), Mark Lycett (Royal Holloway, University of London), Eleonore Vissol-Gaudin (Fujitsu Research of Europe), Mahendra Singh Rajpoot (AI professional, University of Essex).
Antonio Cordella (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)): Beyond the Algorithm: Navigating Values in AI Development. BDSS Annual Lecture 2026 at Essex Business School (EBS), University of Essex, Colchester.
Dragos Gavrilut (University of Iasi, and Vice-President of the Threat Research Lab at Bitdefender): Applied Machine Learning in Cybersecurity seminar at Birkbeck, University of London
Daniel Stahl (King’s College London): Predicting psychosis in high-risk patients: An overview of current work at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) seminar at Goldsmith, University of London
Julia Handl (University of Manchester) Pareto optimization in applied data science – formalizing the exploration of optimal trade-offs meeting at Network Building, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), University of Essex, Colchester
Sabrine Mallek (ICN Business School, Nancy Cedex) The power of AI recommendations: from consumer decisions to industrial safeguards
Boris Mirkin (NRU HSE Moscow RF, University London UK) Anomalous clustering at various data formats
Cristina Orso (University of Insubria) Temporary GPs and the effects on patients' health outcomes
The British Data Science Society (BDSS, formerly British Classification Society) exists to encourage the co-operation and exchange of views and information among those interested in the principles, methods and practice of the discipline Data Science in as wide a range of applications as possible in academia, government, industry and society. Its membership includes anthropologists, archaeologists, astronomers, biologists, business analysts, business designers, chemists, computer scientists, data scientists, econometricians, forensic scientists, geologists, information specialists, librarians, mathematicians, psychologists, soil scientists and statisticians.
The BDSS is a founding member of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS). Recent biannual conferences IFCS2022, Porto, Portugal, 19-23 July 2022: Classification and Data Science in the Digital Age, IFCS2024, San Jose, Costa Rica, 15-19 July 2024: Data Science, Classification and Artificial Intelligence for Modelling Decision Making and IFCS2026, Classification, Machine Learning and Statistical Methods: from Data to Discovery, Milan, Italy, 14–16 July 2026.