Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Research and Education: Policies, Procedures, Problems, and Solutions

About CADRE 2026

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Join us for the eighth annual CADRE Conference, a forward-looking gathering exploring the role of artificial intelligence in research and education, with focused discussion on emerging policies, institutional procedures, practical challenges, and potential solutions. This one-day, in-person event will feature invited speakers, panel discussions, and student poster presentations.

A central goal of the CADRE Conference is to foster meaningful interaction and collaboration across disciplines and professional backgrounds. Shared meals and the student poster session are designed to facilitate connections between conference attendees, enabling them to discover partnerships and resources that can facilitate their current and future scholarly endeavors.

Topics covered throughout the day will include:

• Integrating AI in higher education with a pedagogy-first approach
• Exploring options for giving students a choice when deciding to use, or not use, AI tools in classroom settings
• Examining the relationship between gamified learning and AI use
• Investigating tensions between scholarship and AI in publication, sharing, and reuse
• Practical applications of AI including animal identification and wildfire management
• Collaboratively co-creating AI social contracts
• Utilizing AI for metadata auditing
• Working through the business dilemma posed by AI in higher education
• Redesigning assignments and activities with AI
• Assessing LLM-assisted data analysis
• And much more!
  

The event will also include a student poster session with presentation prizes (1st place: $300.00; 2nd place: $200.00; 3rd place: $100.00).

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