The ASA – Association for Applied Statistics and the Department of Political Sciences and the Department of Economics of the University of Genoa,

jointly with the following partners (provisional list)

- AICQ-CN – The Italian Association for Quality Culture (north and centre of Italy)
- AISS – The Italian Academy for Six Sigma
- ASSIRM – The Italian Association for Marketing, Social and Opinion Research
- ISTAT – The Italian National Institute of Statistics
- SIS – The Italian Society of Statistics
- Regione Liguria – The Liguria Region
- Comune di Genova – Municipality of Genoa

organise a mixed-mode on-site/web scientific conference to promote new statistical methods and applications to support data-driven decision making. In this context, contributions to enhancing the use of statistics to both policy making in public administrations and decision making in companies are welcome.