Thursday, April 23, 2020

Introducing eQMS: European Quant Marketing Seminar

In normal days, the conference season would now be in full swing, and many schools would host their regular research seminar series. This year is different, with all seminars and all conferences being cancelled.
To compensate this a bit and to provide a platform for research discsussions and exchange, we have started eQMS (European Quant Marketing Seminar: A European Marketing Research Online Seminar Supported by EMAC).

We will host weekly free Zoom webinars for all researchers who are interested in a quantitative approach to marketing research. While this seminar form is likely going to attract a much larger crowd than a usual research seminar, two things will be absent: (1) the back and forth of a good and intense discussion. We will try to make up for that by challenging the presenter with questions that the hosts curate from the Q&A. (2) The social interaction before and after talks. This we cannot really compensate. 

I would not be surprised if - once we are back to something that resembles our normal lives - we may stick to these online formats, at least partially. But for now, I am looking forward to a series of interesting talks, and I am proud to be able to contribute to this initiative. 

Talks will start today (April 23) at noon CEST with Anja Lambrecht (London Business School) with a paper on Apparent Algorithmic Bias and Algorithmic Learning. Enjoy!