# Causal Data Science Meeting 2026 Source: https://causalscience.org/ Our Annual Conference. ## Causal data science, where research meets practice. 4–5 November 2026 / online Two days of talks and discussion on causal data science, machine learning and AI, with researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. Join 500+ pre-registered participants. Free to attend. [Programme & speakers](https://causalscience.org/programme-2026.html) [Register for free](https://forms.gle/Vqto1FF4c8grtscs8) [Looking ahead / 2027 In-person satellite event in Germany](https://causalscience.org/#meeting-2027) Our university sponsors Maastricht University Technical University of Munich Copenhagen Business School Rotterdam School of Management 5 November 2026 / Keynote ### Teppo Felin University of Utah David Eccles School of Business Meet the keynote [View page](https://causalscience.org/programme-2026.html#keynote) 4 November 2026 / Debate ### In debate. Nick Huntington-Klein Seattle University Vasilis Syrgkanis Stanford University Meet the debaters [View page](https://causalscience.org/programme-2026.html#debate) 4–5 November / Online ### Programme 2026 Talks, research and discussion. Programme & speakers [View page](https://causalscience.org/programme-2026.html) ### Who you’ll meet. Researchers, students and practitioners meeting online to discuss their work and learn from each other. #### Students & researchers Discuss new methods and their use in causal inference and machine learning. #### Industry professionals Share applications of causal methods, from product experiments to business decisions. #### Policy makers Discuss how causal methods can support explainability and help assess fairness and discrimination. #### Participants worldwide More than 6,100 people have taken part since the first meeting in 2020. Photography / Unsplash - Students & researchers: [Vitaly Gariev / Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/diverse-group-of-students-gathered-around-a-laptop-EA0-iajPYFE) - Industry professionals: [Vitaly Gariev / Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/two-people-looking-at-data-on-a-laptop-screen-t3RACFVYRlk) - Policy makers: [Vitaly Gariev / Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/three-professionals-discussing-documents-at-a-table-Qzw2nMdXMMQ) - Participants worldwide: [Surface / Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/three-coworkers-talking-on-zoom-with-someone-on-their-surface-laptop-XdWkFaHI97c) ### A meeting of experts in academia and industry. Researchers and practitioners who have spoken at previous meetings. #### Judea Pearl UCLA #### Silvia Chiappa Google DeepMind #### Guido Imbens Stanford University #### Sara Magliacane Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab #### Elias Bareinboim Columbia University #### Sean Taylor OpenAI #### Dominik Janzing Amazon Research #### Susan Athey Stanford University #### Stefan Feuerriegel LMU Munich [Speakers and programmes by year](https://causalscience.org/archive.html) ### Participants across industry. Participants join from technology, healthcare, retail, finance and consulting, alongside university researchers. They bring questions from their day-to-day work: how to design better experiments, understand cause and effect, and use causal methods in practice. Here are some of the organisations represented at past meetings. Albert Heijn Airbnb Amazon Accenture Apple Boehringer Ingelheim Novartis CNN Google Booking.com Intel Lyft NVIDIA Netflix McLaren Microsoft LinkedIn McKinsey Pfizer Sony Spotify Bosch Salesforce Uber Total Visa Walmart BCG trivago Zalando ### About the meeting. CDSM began in 2020 as a workshop planned for 50 attendees. We received 900 pre-registrations that year and have held the meeting annually since. Sharing and advancing causal methods in research and practice is at the heart of CDSM. We bring researchers and practitioners together in a casual setting to present their work, exchange ideas and ask questions. CDSM is a non-profit event. Sponsorship supports operating expenses and PhD research. 6,100+ participants since 2020 52% industry participants since 2020 206 research presentations since 2020 28% presentation acceptance rate ### Voices from the meeting. Comments from speakers and participants at previous meetings. “I am thrilled to see people from different disciplines come together.” Guido Imbens Stanford University 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences [Read the source](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/causal-data-science-meeting-2021) “… data science is the science of interpreting reality, not of summarizing data.” Judea Pearl UCLA / Turing Award recipient Author of The Book of Why [Read the source](https://www.causalscience.org/) “This has been one of my favorite virtual events since the first iteration in 2020” Meeting participant CDSM 2023 “… interesting and important presentations uniting experts from both academia and industry.” Meeting participant CDSM 2025 “Thank you for organizing this wonderful event and the invitation” Aleksander Molak Causal Bandits Podcast / CDSM 2025 [Read the post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aleksandermolak_cdsm2025-activity-7395045349998075905-Hr0z) CDSM is recognised alongside [ACIC](https://sci-info.org/) , [EuroCIM](https://eurocim.org/) and [CLeaR](https://www.cclear.cc/) as an annual conference devoted to causal inference. Cinelli et al. Causal inference research [Read the paper ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17099) Causal Bandits Podcast ### Listen to Causal Bandits. Conversations on causal inference, causal AI and machine learning, hosted by Aleksander Molak. Featured episode at CDSM 2025 #### Do Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Exist? With Stephen Senn and Richard Hahn Recorded during the 2025 meeting, on 12 November. [Watch the episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V801RQTBpp4) [Explore the podcast](https://causalbanditspodcast.com/) ### The people behind CDSM. Jointly organised by researchers at Maastricht University, Rotterdam School of Management and the Technical University of Munich. #### Paul Hünermund Professor — TUM Campus Heilbronn [Website](https://www.professoren.tum.de/en/huenermund-paul) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hunermund/) #### Jermain Kaminski Assistant Professor — Maastricht University [Website](https://jermainkaminski.com/) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jermainkaminski/) #### Beyers Louw Assistant Professor — Rotterdam School of Management [Website](https://www.rsm.nl/people/beyers-louw/) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/beyerslouw/) #### Kranthi K. TUM Campus Heilbronn [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kranthikumar) #### Henry Schoeller TUM Campus Heilbronn [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-schoeller) #### Vera Wilde TUM Campus Heilbronn [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vera-wilde) #### Dominik Pöltl TUM Campus Heilbronn ### Questions, answered. Practical information about the meeting. Is the 2026 meeting online? Yes. CDSM 2026 takes place online on 4–5 November. A link to the online meeting will be provided to registered attendees. Can I still submit a paper? The call for papers is closed. For questions about an existing submission, contact [submission@causalscience.org](mailto:submission@causalscience.org) . Is attendance free? Yes. The 2026 online meeting is free to attend, thanks to our sponsors. 2027 / In-person satellite event Germany ### Meet in Germany. An in-person CDSM satellite event in Germany, planned for 2027. The annual online meeting will continue alongside it. [Get 2027 updates](https://buttondown.com/causalscience) Dates and location to be announced.