ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency


ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency is a peer-reviewed academic conference series about ethics and computing systems. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, this conference focuses on issues such as algorithmic transparency, fairness in machine learning, bias, and ethics from an multi-disciplinary perspective. The conference community includes computer scientists, statisticians, social scientists, scholars of law, and others.
The inaugural conference took place in New York City in 2018, followed by Atlanta in 2019 and Barcelona in 2020. The 2021 edition will take place in Toronto.
The conference is sponsored by companies such as DeepMind, Facebook, and Google, and foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and Luminate. Sponsors contribute to a general fund and have no saying in the selection, substance, or structure of the conference.