The 2026 ADA Conference will feature the following keynotes and panels:

  • Aaron “Ronnie” Chatterji (Chief Economist-OpenAI & Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess Distinguished Professor of Business and Public Policy, Duke University)
    AI and the Future of Decision Making
  • Craig Fox (Harold Williams Chair and Professor of Management; Behavioral Decision Making Area Chair, UCLA)
    Partition dependence: A challenge for decision analysts, an opportunity for choice architects
  • Selva Nadarajah (Associate Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences
  • Bielinski Family Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois Chicago)
    The Energy-Computing Nexus: Self-Adapting Approximations for Energy Investment and Operations Decisions
  • Panel in Honor of Bob Winkler (Professor Emeritus, Duke University)
    Former PhD students and faculty colleagues will celebrate Bob’s career. Moderated by Yael Grushka-Cockayne (University of Virginia).