Southern Maine AI and Digital Science Conference

Location: McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success

Time: TBA

Date: December 12, 2025

The second annual SMAIDS Conference welcomes work on AI, data science, computing, and digital science. This one-day event promotes student work within Maine and connects students with the industry.

Important Deadlines:

  • Call for papers open: September 17, 2025. Please use this submission portal link.
  • Deadline for abstract/lightning talk submission: October 31, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2025
  • Conference registration closes: TBA
  • Conference date: December 12, 2024

SMAIDS welcomes one-page abstracts in the following and related topics:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Deep Neural Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Optimization
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Processing Algorithms

The full conference schedule from the 2024 conference is available, as well as photos.

For more information email Dr. Ashanthi Maxworth at ashanthi.maxworth@maine.edu.

We would like to give an enormous thank you to all of our generous sponsors!

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.