The ECONDAT 2025 Fall Meeting with the 7th Conference on Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics is taking place on October 15 and 16, 2025 at the Bank of Canada’s Head Office in Ottawa.
About the conference
This year’s conference is hosted by the Bank of Canada and co-organized with Banca d’Italia, the Federal Reserve Board, Sveriges Riksbank, Bank of Japan and the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) in conjunction with the Economics with Nontraditional Data and Analytical Tools (ECONDAT) Program.
This conference provides a platform for advancing research at the intersection of macroeconomics, financial economics and emerging computational methods, with a focus on data science, nontraditional data sources and artificial intelligence techniques, including machine learning and natural language processing.
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About the ECONDAT Program
The ECONDAT Program consolidates efforts by multiple central banks, which currently includes the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, Banca d’Italia, the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Board, Sveriges Riksbank and the Bank of Japan. Together, the aim is to create a community of researchers across diverse fields (including economics, data science, statistics and computer science) and institutions (academic and non-academic).
To grow this community further, the program is organizing regular conferences on nontraditional data and analytical methods in economics. These interactions are targeted at fostering an environment that will spur cutting-edge research and tools of relevance for academics, policymakers and statistical agencies.
Scientific committee
- Christoph Bertsch (Sveriges Riksbank)
- Joshua Brault (Bank of Canada)
- Giuseppe Bruno (Banca d’Italia)
- Tomaz Cajner (Federal Reserve Board)
- James Chapman (Bank of Canada)
- Ricardo Correa (Federal Reserve Board)
- Leland Crane (Federal Reserve Board)
- Ajit Desai (Bank for International Settlements)
- Maryam Haghighi (Bank of Canada)
- Xinfen Han (Bank of Canada)
- Daniel Indacochea (Bank of Canada)
- Andreas Joseph (Bank of England)
- Naoya Kato (Bank of Japan)
- Christopher Kurz (Federal Reserve Board)
- Michele Lenza (European Central Bank)
- Sabina Marchetti (Banca d’Italia)
- Juri Marcucci (Banca d’Italia)
- Masoud Nasari (Bank of Canada)
- Paul Soto (Federal Reserve Board)
- Ettore Savoia (Sveriges Riksbank)
- Tomohiro Sugo (Bank of Japan)
Organizing committee
- James Chapman (Bank of Canada)
- Maryam Haghighi (Bank of Canada)
Content Type(s):
Conferences and workshops