Paris, France

In 2024, the second edition of TheorizingAI was hosted at ESSEC Business School in Cergy. This edition further confirmed the interest and the relevance of TheorizingAI within the academic debate on AI and other digital technologies. This edition marked the formal inclusion of Cristina Alaimo, Lauren Waardenburg, Domenico di Prisco and Nelly Dux in the organizing committee of the annual conference, while the LinkedIn group continued to expand, attracting the attention of scholars and academics worldwide.

A notable element of this annual meeting, which received 58 submissions, was the inclusion not only of scholars from diverse disciplines — including economics, information systems, management and organization theory — but also of practitioners in the field of AI, particularly through the participation of Stephen Jin, senior engineering manager of Meta.

The keynote speeches were delivered by Jan Recker, Harris Kyriakou, Melissa Valentine and Elena Esposito, covering a range of themes, including algorithmic management, the relationship between AI and sustainability, digital innovation, classification systems and their impact on organizing, and algorithmic predictions.