Events
Upcoming Events
Chicago Data Night: Gaston Messineo (EY – Parthenon)
Wednesday, January 21
Alongside the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, we invite you to attend Chicago Data Night as we explore the rapid evolution of AI in the insurance industrywith Gaston Messineo, Partner, Americas FS Strategy & Execution Leader, EY-Parthenon. Connect with practitioners, academics, and aficionados in the Chicago area to be part of a community at the intersection of industry and academia, with a shared enthusiasm for data.
Recent Events
BoothHacks 2025
Friday, November 14th
Booth’s first-ever vibe-coding hackathon! Hosted by the Booth Technology Group, the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club, and AI Group, BoothHacks connected technologists and creatives to build, and pitch next-gen AI solutions.
SMP and CAAI Fireside Chat
Monday, November 10
An engaging fireside chat featuring Alex Singla, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and global co-leader of QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, alongside Sanjog Misra, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing at Chicago Booth.
CAAI Faculty Series Kickoff
Monday, October 13
The new CAAI Faculty Series is a student-focused program to connect Booth students with leading faculty in Applied AI. It will explore how AI is shaping research, teaching, and practice across disciplines, and what that means for students.
2025 Conference on Frontiers in Machine Learning and Economics
Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and CAAI hosted this annual conference with the goal of bringing together leading researchers across fields that work at the intersection of machine learning and the social sciences.
2025 AI in Social Science Conference
Thursday, September 25 and Friday, September 26
How is artificial intelligence going to change social science? How is social science going to change how AI is used? This two-day cross-disciplinary event reshaped and pushed the boundaries of applied knowledge across disciplines and fields.
Chicago Data Night - Benchmarking Predictive Intelligence with Prophet Arena
Wednesday, September 24
Our fall session featured Haifeng Xu, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Data Science and Director of the SIGMA Lab as he introduced Prophet Arena, a live benchmark for evaluating forecasting capabilities of LLMs.