Artificial Intelligence for Business
Intelligence (AI4BI) Workshop

Business Intelligence (BI) has quickly emerged as a critical capability for many organizations to differentiate themselves from their competitors and improve decision-making processes from operational and strategic perspectives. Indeed, tasks such as process mining, supply chain monitoring, developing key performance indicators, detecting customer churn/tracking, pricing, demand forecasting, capacity planning, and others have become critically important aspects of BI. In recent years, the quantity of business data (e.g., customer transactions, logs, quarterly reports, social media, sales reports, etc.) that could be leveraged for BI has grown substantially. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled techniques, including deep learning, machine learning, network science, information retrieval, and text mining, could hold significant promise in leveraging these data to enhance or improve existing BI tasks or help facilitate new BI approaches. Consequently, there is growing interest in how modern AI-enabled analytics could be leveraged and adapted for critical BI applications.

This one-day Artificial Intelligence for Business Intelligence (AI4BI) workshop seeks to convene internationally recognized thought leaders to share knowledge about their AI4BI experiences. This AI4BI workshop will feature world-renowned academics with substantial research and education AI4BI experience as well as seasoned industry professionals who have led highly visible and successful multi-year interdisciplinary AI4BI efforts. A key goal of this workshop is to foster discussion and facilitate future AI4BI collaborations. As such, ample time will be provided for discussion and question and answer for the workshop participants. A tentative schedule for the workshop appears below.

Hybrid Mode: Online and In-Person (Subject to change based on Covid-19 situation)

Workshop General Co-Chairs

• Professor Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona
• Professor Shu-Hsing Li, National Taiwan University
• Professor Chih-Ping Wei, National Taiwan University

Workshop Program Co-Chairs

• Professor Sagar Samtani, Indiana University
• Professor Hsin-Min Lu, National Taiwan University
• Professor Chien-Chin Chen, National Taiwan University

Tentative Schedule (All times Taiwan)*
Time**	Session Title	Speaker(s)
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM	Workshop Welcome	Workshop Co-Chairs
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM	Keynote	Dr. Philip Yu, UIC CS
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Industry Session 1	Dr. Chung-Sheng Li, PWC
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Industry Session 2	Emily White, Nike
Break (11:00 AM – 11:30 AM)
11:30 AM – 12:10 PM	Senior Academic AI4BI Perspectives - Session 1	Dr. Hsinchun Chen, UArizona MIS
12:10 PM – 12:50 PM	Senior Academic AI4BI Perspectives - Session 2	Dr. Hsin-Hsi Chen, NTU CS
12:50 PM – 1:30 PM	Senior Academic AI4BI Perspectives - Session 3	TBD
Water Break (1:30 PM – 1:45 PM)
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM	Academic Short Session 1	Dr. Chih-Ping Wei, NTU IM
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM	Academic Short Session 2	Dr. Sagar Samtani, IU ODT (IS)
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM	Academic Short Session 3	Dr. Chien-Chin Chen, NTU IM
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM	Academic Short Session 4	Dr. Hsin-Min Lu, NTU IM
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM	AI4BI Panel	Panelists: Drs. H Chen, CP Wei, Sagar Samtani, HM Lu
Workshop Conclusion

* Schedule is subject to change based on the availability of speakers. Short speaker bios and abstracts will be provided after the speakers are confirmed and the schedule is finalized.
** Total time listed includes a question and answer (Q&A) session.