The future of work isn’t arriving, it’s being invented. The Cognitive Innovation Conference (CognoCon) unites researchers, creators, and industry leaders who are shaping what comes next. From emerging markets and intelligent enterprises to human-AI collaboration, CognoCon is where academic insight meets real-world experimentation. Our goal is to bridge academia, industry, and government to engage with and explore the evolution of business, work, and society in the age of artificial intelligence and spark the ideas that will define tomorrow.
These are the proceedings of KSU's Cognitive Innovation Conference.
Submissions from 2026
Creating IT Capabilities in Workflow Automation with Unstructured Data, Gary J. Braswell
Hierarchical Multi-Level LLM Agent Swarms for Financial Research Synthesis and Trading Decision Support in Multi Strategy Hedge Funds, Puneet Gandhi and Rishab Gulati
Insights from AI Tutors in Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Courses, Billy Kihei, Sheila Hill, and Sumit Chakravarty
Agentic Implementation in Business Processes with Guardrails, Kunal Kumar
When Humans Stop Thinking: Cognitive Offloading, Atrophy Risk, and the Design of Human-AI Intelligence, Pravinya Mandalapu, Adriane B. Randolph, and Andrea Taylor
From Configuration to Cognition: A Self-Configuring Agentic CRM Architecture for Small-Scale Retail Enterprises, Praveen Manimangalam
Human-like or System-like Trust? A Comparison of Trust Measures for Intelligent Assistants, Denise McWilliams and Adriane B. Randolph
LLMs Are Not the Answer Relevant AI for Business Transformation, Christopher Simpkins
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, AI Applications, AI Business Transformation, Reza Vaezi
The Paradox of Perfection: Hidden Risks of High-Performing AI in Human-in-the-Loop Governance, Chen Zhong, Alper Yayla, and Xueping Liang