I browsed to this 2018 conference site put on by the National Association of Business Economists last October 2018. The program looked top rated with Economists in Data Science presenting over three days. Truly one of those wish I had been there moments. Next best thing is the addition under the Materials tab of many of the presentations.
i personally enjoyed the presentations by Chamberlain (What Can Crowdsourced Salaries Tell Us About the Labor Market? Chief economist at Glassdoor), Dunn (From Transactions Data to Economic Statistics: Constructing Real-time, High-frequency, Geographic Measures of Consumer Spending, Federal Reserve Board), Groshen (Preparing U.S. Workers & Employers for an Autonomous Vehicle Future, Cornel), Konny (Using BIG Data to Improve the Consumer Price Index, BLS) (wow) the most with two others that are outstanding:
Katheryn Shaw (Management in the Age of AI: An Economist’s Perspective, Stanford) and Hal Varian (Automation v Procreation, Google Chief Economist) is in my humble opinion the overall winner with a presentation on automation and work.
Check it out and enjoy.