The Center for Data Science and the Engineering & Architecture Division of the Athens Institute will hold its 6th Annual International Conference on AI and Data Science, 30 June & 1-3 July 2025, Athens, Greece sponsored by the Athens Journal of Technology & Engineering. As the global societies evolve in the 4th Industrial Revolution, ‘data science’ is emerging as an essential research discipline for academicians and practitioners that transcends the mathematical, statistical, and computational sciences. Data science incorporates the studies of artificial intelligence, big data, data mining, data fusion, data quality management, etc. (‘Industrie 4.0.’), and is a shared belief for success in our global societies, business, and institutional sectors. Many have cited that only 10% of data science research by academia is assimilated by the private and institutional sectors.