BEAM 2027International Scientific Conference

When algorithms read human behaviour.

Behavioural Economics, AI & Biometrics in Management

law, governance and money

Three lenses decide whether a behaviour-reading system ever reaches the market: the law that permits it, the governance that implements it, and the money that pays for it. BEAM 2027 puts all three at the same table.

About the conference

A deliberately narrow second edition.

The first edition, MAIA 2026, asked who manages when not everyone on the team is human. BEAM turns the question around: what happens when AI systems start reading people — their decisions, their emotions, their biometric and behavioural data.

Rather than surveying the whole phenomenon, this edition looks at it through three lenses that decide in practice whether a technology reaches the market at all: law, organisational governance and finance. That narrowing is what lets us seat a lawyer, a compliance officer and a banking practitioner at one table, instead of running seven parallel conversations that never meet.

The three sections map onto the declared specialisations of the host unit, the Institute of Law at WSKZ, which is what puts this conference inside the research area of the body that runs it.

Format at a glance

Slot length
20 minutes (15 min paper + 5 min Q&A)
Rooms
Three parallel rooms: LAW, RULES and MONEY
Keynotes
Two plenary keynotes of 30 minutes
Target intake
18 to 24 papers across three sections

A parallel room opens once a section has four or more accepted papers. Below that threshold, LAW and RULES merge into a single Law & Governance stream and MONEY runs as the second.

Research sections

Three parallel tracks

Theoretical, empirical, doctrinal or interdisciplinary papers are all welcome. Pick the section that matches your perspective — all three run in parallel rooms throughout the day.

  • LAW

    Section A

    Law, rights & liability in behavioural AI

    Substantive law and case law: what is permitted, to whom and on what legal basis, and who is liable when a system that reads behaviour causes harm.

    Suggested topics

    • The EU AI Act and prohibited practices (Art. 5): emotion recognition at work and in education, social scoring, biometric categorisation
    • Remote biometric identification in public space: exceptions, procedural safeguards, judicial review
    • Biometric data as a special category (GDPR Art. 9) and lawful bases after the AI Act
    • Liability for harm caused by a behaviour-reading system: contractual and tortious regimes

    Institute fit: Constitutional & administrative law · International & European law · Ethics and human rights

  • RULES

    Section B

    Governance, compliance & standards

    Implementation of those rules inside an organisation: procedures, documentation, audit and technical standards. The same provision can appear in both LAW and RULES; the perspective of the author decides.

    Suggested topics

    • Compliance-by-design: translating AI Act requirements into a product specification
    • FRIA and DPIA for biometric systems: methodology, scope, and the most common mistakes
    • Harmonised standards (CEN-CENELEC JTC 21, ISO/IEC 42001): state of play and practical consequences
    • Algorithmic audit: who audits, against what benchmark, and with what legal effect

    Institute fit: New technologies in law

  • MONEY

    Section C

    Behavioural finance, banking & insurance

    Sector applications, financial supervision and business models, where behavioural reading meets regulated money.

    Suggested topics

    • Behavioural biometrics as an anti-fraud layer: keystroke dynamics, mouse movement, how a phone is held
    • Behavioural scoring and alternative data in creditworthiness assessment: effectiveness against indirect discrimination
    • Nudging in personal finance: auto-enrolment, savings apps, default options in pension schemes
    • Sludge and dark patterns in financial products, from the perspective of the supervisor (UOKiK, KNF, EBA, ESMA)

    Institute fit: Business law

LAW or RULES — which one?

LAW is substantive law and case law: what is permitted, to whom, on what basis, and who is liable for harm. RULES is the implementation of those rules inside an organisation: procedures, documentation, audit, technical standards. The same provision can be a topic in either section — your perspective decides. If you are unsure, submit to the one that matches your method and we will reassign if the reviewers disagree.

Timeline

Key dates

All times CET (UTC+1)

  1. Call for papers opens

    Conference page and call for papers published, with the save-the-date announcement.

  2. Abstract submission deadline

    Submissions close at 23:59 CET, deliberately before the holiday break so that selection is not squeezed into two weeks.

  3. Notification of acceptance

    Final confirmations to speakers, with section and slot assignment.

  4. Programme published

    Programme PDF circulated to registered delegates, with abstracts and room links.

  5. Conference day

    Opening, two keynotes, three parallel rooms and a closing panel, 09:00 to 16:30 CET.

  6. Article submission deadline

    Last day for full articles for the post-conference monograph. Submissions open on 29 January 2027, right after the conference. Review from April, publication by July 2027.

Host institution

Organiser

Instytut Prawa(opens in a new tab)

Institute of Law · Wyższa Szkoła Kształcenia Zawodowego we Wrocławiu

WSKZ

The Institute of Law at WSKZ conducts research in constitutional and administrative law, international and European law, new technologies in law, business law, and legal ethics and human rights. BEAM 2027 sits deliberately inside that remit: three sections, each mapped to one of the declared specialisations of the Institute.

Plac Powstańców Śląskich 1, 53-329 Wrocław, Poland

pawel.raja@wskz.pl

+48 22 602 01 02

Scientific committee

  • KS

    dr Kamil Stępniak

    President, Centre for Constitutional Law and Rule of Law Monitoring

    Constitutional law, Polish–Swiss comparative law, participatory technologies

Organising committee

  • PR

    dr Paweł Raja

    Chair

    Conference organisation and chairing, previously MAIA 2026

  • MS

    dr Marika Szymańska

    Co-Chair

  • NN

    dr Natalia Najgiebauer

    Member

    Civil law, constitutional law, mediation

  • AS

    dr Agnieszka Sobieska

    Member

  • MK

    Marcin Kubera

    Member

With support from

  • CPN

    Centrum Publikacji Naukowych WSKZ

    Post-conference peer-reviewed monograph

  • CWM

    Centrum Współpracy Międzynarodowej WSKZ

    Partner university outreach

  • RI

    Rada Interesariuszy WSKZ

    Bar associations, law firms and local government panellists